• 5 Posts
  • 26 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

help-circle









  • And when they disable the download because “game is old” or “we want to remake it” or “servers are too expensive” then what?

    You don’t own the game and you don’t sell the game. You own a temporary license to play the game and sell that license.

    Just like on Steam or any digital store front.

    Sure the advantage is that you can resell your license, but let’s see if those cards still do anything in thirty years, like games from thirty years ago do now.

    They made a really shitty situation (not owning your games) a little less shitty.

    p.s.

    Obviously we are also in this mess because convenience trumps ownership, that’s why Steam and business models like these grew so popular.


  • As an aside, I love the irony of that speech. Musk tells the wannabe Nazis that they can forget about the sins of their (great)grandparents.

    The idiots of the AFD want to forget the past simply so they can repeat it.

    They want to repeat the sins of their forefathers, they just don’t want to be reminded of the consequences that followed.





  • So you could just use Email in these archaic programs called Thunderbird etc. If you really wanted to use gmail. You know, without adds, without the need for an ad blocker, without AI recommendations and at your leisure.

    But hey, you’d have to install something on your computer for that… how horrible.

    And who uses computers for work anyway, you can just write your essay on a tablet. (but there are also email apps on those)

    It’s a shittier way to work but hey it’s easier.









  • Thing is, it doesn’t have to be ready. It doesn’t have to have everyone here, just enough people to form a healthy community.

    This is how it was in the olden days and it worked well.

    If there is reddit with its gazillion users and the fediverse only has a few million that’s enough for me.

    Enough to have interesting discussions and learn new things.

    And who the f**** really cares about celebrities like Nicki Minaj etc.

    I’d rather talk to the most unremarkable person I can find than those manufactured personalities.