I don’t do ads. Seeing them after years of not has a profoundly negative effect on my brain. A slight fog akin to waking up after using Benadryl as a sleep aide, and a hazing of attention capacity.
I’m not going to pay for that impact on my thinking. It certainly won’t improve the world to have more of it.
That was the original intent in the way it was made, with module creation.
It was a very active forum until Bioware accidentally deleted it once and then dumped forums altogether. I’m not surprised the fan base keeps the game going. Dnd is cool like that. Remember, Beamdog came out of nowhere and re-upped all the originals.
Proton up people. And get your people on Signal or WIRE.
We’re probably the most boring people day to day and we’ve dove it for a while on general principle. Now, it feels important to have already made that shift.
I didn’t read all of that, but yes, modding. Or just console commands.
Hey, when you started PC gaming with BG and NWN with user crafted modules which continued the adventures for years, you just expect it as basic form for PC games.
The one little game I’ll play on a mini is Scrsbble/Words w/Friends, with ad blocking.
The screen is small.
It’s an old person thing, probably, but I don’t enjoy phone sized screens beyond reading and such. I don’t know how people see an Apple Watch well enough to use it comfortably.
Laptop is fine most days but I really want that desktop screen when I can get it.
I can’t imagine Stellaris or AC or even Pathfinder on a phone or iPad mini sized screen. Like TV, most people aim bigger not smaller. I can still have portable games at 15” instead of 7”.
Adobe being adobe.
I have that, insomniac Lemmy ramblings aside. I’m making a point. There are many individuals out there without that capacity, financially or otherwise.
Art supplies, sewing supplies, woodworking supplies, metalworking supplies, stained glass supplies, even gardening supplies, and all the tools that go with these activities, these are all things that have become quite expensive across the last decade. More so in the last 5 years. That’s the point. It’s not free.
There’s a reason woodworking tools, art supplies, and sewing notions have been locked behind glass or mesh for a while now.
Writing is free. That said, an industry complaint of the last decade is the number of prospective writers is, proportionally, too large compared to active readers of late. And many of those prospective writers don’t read books to feed their craft. I’m sure you’ve noticed the quality decline in fiction, minus a couple notable exceptions.
The point is, what’s free for people to occupy themselves with?
Climate change is still nebulous. It’s like population decline. Few will face the impact of it with anything practical or human until the negative impact personally stares them in the face.
George Floyd protests and riots happened, in large part, because people were bored, unoccupied, and angsty about the world. Human behavior points rarely happen under the influence of a single variable.
If anything, people are more fed up with their daily world, now, than at the time of Floyd. I think that’s a piece of why people kept reporting a sense of impending doom all year.
Now we’ve hit a point where one guy with everything to lose said “enough” and went after a health care CEO. And we have plenty of people in this nation with nothing to lose. I wouldn’t be surprised if stage 4 cancer people started throwing themselves at CEOs.
The wall of inactivity and learned helplessness has broken with Luigi.
They’re not seeing how this scrubbing of entertainment access will impact the masses going forward? Plenty of people will steer away from action if you just give them free distraction.
But here we are, instead, working hard to scrub all free distraction.
I work 40hrs a week. No kids in the house. If I can’t stream, then what? Reading news and Reddit, probably. That’s probably the least healthy option.
Subbing everything isn’t sustainable for working class. It kills the monthly with bug bites.
Free entertainment is a way to occupy and distract the festering masses. And yet they remain determined to scrub all capacity for such.
If most people using free streaming could pay most would be already.
A nurse sub, because they always seem to have the inside healthcare scoop, posted active litigation on the guy. Something about stock dumping in advance of stock value drops, I know very little about trading or the lingo, such that shareholders lost money. And then he died outside a shareholder meeting. Speculation, but so is all of this.
That said, social contagion factors still apply. The idea is sticking with people, as scary as that thought is.
Never played anything like call of duty, so idk, my experience is limited.
You would think, because we live in a society, it would just be cool like that.
I’m a dnd fan, so ofc I played the MMO. Within the DND MMO, I had no harassment as a woman on a mic. In fact, it appeared as if ~50% of those playing and on mic were women. Granted, that was years ago. And maybe DND was, and is, a different scene.
Way back with vanilla and BC WOW, same though. No issues and lots of women playing. Self moderated social groupings, probably.
Granted, there was a social effect of 1 woman on a mic drawing out all the other women, a social permission & safety element.
No idea what it is now though, I’m too old for it now. If it’s rampant with harassment, that’s just sad, for everyone.
This is from 10yrs ago. Adult Swim joke skit.
More likely to be bidets.
I guess I just assumed everyone was using Firefox, except the business side of things, but then this isn’t my area. Why wouldn’t you use Firefox at home?
Working my way through Baldurs Gate 2 ee. Never finished it back in the early 00s. Maybe this time I’ll rescue Imoen and figure out Jon Irenicus’ deal. Currently still side questing.
It gets listed as such.
A lot if left leaving journalism can get annoying, but The Atlantic is solid. I’d believe them.
La Casa vs El hospital. What determines the gender of each? Spelling is great, but this piece boggles the mind.