I loved the english gibberish at the end.

I know, I’ve already played it.

It’s a joke, and it doesn’t work nitpicking over the definition of “a game”.

I’m surprised it took this long.

If the game wasn’t massively buggy at launch, could you even call it a fallout game?

One of the interesting outcomes of this could be that a lot of companies require new business models. As far as I can tell for example, opera’s core business model is Google paying them to use Google as a search engine. Firefox also makes significant revenue from that practice as well. I believe some Linux distributions even take a cut as well as apple.

If the practice gets shut down I’d expect a lot of changes fast. Either the projects would have to shrink operations, reach out to users for support, find an alternative company to pay for search, or some combination of all three.

Lots of people love to defederate anything at the drop of a hat.

That’s it.

In reality, threads and lemmy aren’t even the same type of thing and are unlikely to intersect on a regular basis, in the same way you don’t see many posts from mastodon or pleroma.

One thing I find funny about the whole thing is meta is a bunch of corpos, so it isn’t that hard to just get them to defederate from you if you’re willing to grow a spine. My network is blocked, and I believe it’s because I called the maintainer of fediblock a nazi gestapo a bunch of times and demanded they add my site to their list of wrongthinkers or I’d call them doubleplus ungood, thus getting on a list that mindless drones use because it’s easier to just follow orders, regardless of where those orders come from.

lol

I find a lot of AAA games don’t really do couch coop these days which is disappointing.

One game I always come back to (and it’s ancient and Free to Play) is Awesomenauts. It’s a cartoon sidescrolling hero shooter type thing, but it’s a lot of fun.

Something we all have to fight for is to keep our feet nailed to the floor when we’re experiencing success. When you’re the world’s richest man and there’s so many people calling you genius all the time and kissing your ass I suspect it’s really easy for your internal critical voices to get the volume turned way down and people actually need that part of themselves or they just start saying whatever pops into their heads.

What you said and what I said can be true at the same time.

They were for-profit and subsidized, but you still don’t get into these fields to get rich, and other than Tesla and SpaceX nobody has. Even so, based on business fundamentals Tesla shouldn’t have made Elon rich, he just happened to ride a broken stock market caused by state socialist market interventions in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis.

If Elon just wanted to get the highest numbers, especially at the time it seemed the best idea would be to head out and build a new Internet company. Given his showmanship there’s every reason to think he could have founded some new company with unlimited margins that sold bits and bytes to people. Instead, he went with companies that had to manufacture difficult to manufacture things, heading into industries where margins rely not just on efficiently transporting data from point A to point B, but in building complicated physical devices – an infinitely more complex, higher risk venture with much lower potential payoff in terms of profits.

Yeah, if they want to control what happens on the land, they can make an offer and buy it themselves. Then they can make it into a giant septic field for all anyone cares.

I wonder if you’ve ever used a Chromecast based on this criticism.

For a standard Chromecast, you open the app on your phone, then press the cast button, then the device you want to cast to, and the the device begins to stream the media independently of your device. You can shut off the device you used to start casting and it doesn’t matter because Chromecast is pulling the data on its own.

On some websites such as YouTube on PC, you also have a cast button and you can press it, select the device and it’ll start playing. you can get this button to work on all kinds of sites, and a lot of open source software supports it to a degree such as VLC, Peertube (through a plugin), and Jellyfin.

Using google chrome you can cast your current webpage or your desktop, but that’s not the standard use of Chromecast.

It takes some finagling, but you can cast from Jellyfin to a standard Chromecast right from your phone.

The latest version out is Chromecast with Android TV, which is really nice (for now). It’s running a version of android and has the play store, so you can set up the Jellyfin android TV app, and stream from your home server without requiring a domain name or https like you do to stream properly on straight Chromecast.

The big issue with Chromecast in my view is that it’s a Google product which means 3 things:

1. it’s proprietary, which has many risks coming from that nature and a crappy largely hidden API
2. it can be shut down any moment if they desire (see google graveyard), and being an always-on device it’s possible they just brick it on the way out
3. it will suck up as much data as they can from you to try to sell you more crap

It’s fun. It wasn’t near the top of my list that season (but that season was an absolute banger), but it’s a very back to basics tale about the value of hard work and sacrifice and treating your friends right.

Creative industries in general have been somewhat stagnant including TV, video games, movies, and so on.

Part of it is the raw bureaucratization of society where box checkers and rule followers are getting into creative positions and being uncreative.

That’s also why there are good things out there in niche spaces, because creative people didn’t disappear they’re just keeping low.

How so? It seems like chromecast does exactly what it says it does, even if it’s a suboptimal solution for not being FOSS.

To be fair, Elon Musk seems to be doing exactly what you’re talking about.

You don’t go to space or start building electric cars to get rich, that’s not even an expected outcome of such things. You get companies like that because you want to do those things and that’s the frame you see the world through.

His acquisition of Twitter is really the ultimate example. He picked up a shitty social media website, and I guarantee you that’s not something you do at that moment because you want to become rich, it’s something you do because it piqued his interest and he was the world’s richest man.

But Elon is a good example of why even if you’re the richest man on earth you don’t want to draw too much attention to yourself. As the Japanese say, the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. How much time and energy does he have to spend on court cases because of something he said or did or because people just don’t like him? It’s best to stick to the infinity pools rather than arouse the ire of those who are even more powerful than the world’s richest man.

This has turned into one of my favorite anime of the season.

I’ve been interested in green technology for decades, but it’s always important to make sure we’re not just replacing one pollutant for another, and that new technologies are actually practical.

If there were really simple solutions, we’d be using them already much in the same way we moved from HCFCs to HFCs for air conditioning and the way we moved from leaded to unleaded gasoline.

One of the coolest things about isekai is I find a lot of writers use it as a springboard to the genre they actually want to write.

Reading “only the villainous lord has the power to level up” was crazy because it’s this big epic political story and that’s where I really realized how much authors are just using the gimmick as a springboard to a story that really isn’t remotely isekai-like.

Not watching the show, but I can’t see that title without thinking of sora the troll: “BYE BYE TO ZA ASS!”

I know a lot of people were complaining that the show got slow, but I find all the stuff going on really interesting this season.