Getting harder to afford the setup, but there’s very compelling reasons to use local models instead

It’s not fixed, I also get this problem atm

So the main complaint is that Pixelfed clients don’t display posts without images even if one has followed the poster? And thinks it incentivizes creation of using multiple accounts/apps when a single one to interact with ActivityPub would be better? That seems like a fair thing to criticize but it seems a little dramatic to paint it as entertainment killing communication.

The English language is not rules based though, if it sounds wrong it’s wrong. Whom is no longer a real word.

Like the implication that having an active sex life and bullying someone to death are basically the same category of thing or strongly related somehow

I might be remembering wrong but didn’t this webcomic invent or popularize the word “fap”?

exactly

So then we would tell the alien we use base 21?

If someone is complaining about the reasonableness of the price of an Apple product, while using one (and presumably leaving on the features that advertise in messages that an iPhone was used), I think it’s fair to assume they are paying or going to pay those prices, especially because of all the stuff Apple does to maintain a closed ecosystem of products.

There’s also the implied expectation that an ethical company would be voluntarily using the money they get to make sure they are giving back to employees and the broader society, but that’s unrealistic because companies never work like that.

If they can turn off your ability to play the games you don’t own them

I would argue that even before the point where the conspiracies I mentioned were conclusively proven and accepted as common knowledge, it still made sense to seriously consider the possibility and not dismiss people doing so only because they were engaging in conspiracy theories (which absolutely happened). That mindset just helps them get away with it.

I don’t want to move on from Reddit, I want to contribute to its destruction and/or replacement.

The way to do it is block communities you don’t want to see content from, which is kind of like unsubscribing if you browse All

Sure, but it works the other way around too; you can’t automatically rule out conspiracy theories as false just because they fall into the category of conspiracy theories. This is itself a plausible conspiracy theory; that the trope of conspiracy theories being associated with crazy idiots, and the prevalence of very stupid conspiracy theories, is supported and encouraged to provide additional cover for the real ones.

ok fair, I didn’t play that one. The point is Morrowind is exceptional.

Yeah, they started with Oblivion though, and it’s a very noticeable difference. For instance Morrowind doesn’t have a quest arrow telling you where to go, you follow signs and manual directions based on landmarks, which is possible because of more thought being put into the landscape and making its details a part of the story.

NSA spying, Epstein, diamond engagement rings, are some examples of conspiracy theories widely established to be real.

Ok but what about the conspiracy theories which are the truth

I guess I’m not totally sure, I know Oblivion used a bunch of procedural generation and I assumed Skyrim did the same.

I’m biased having played Morrowind first, but I’d argue it’s way better than its sequels in a lot of ways, so people are definitely missing out to skip it. The whole game world is hand crafted rather than being procedurally generated, the writing and worldbuilding are better, there was obviously a huge amount of work that went into building the RPG side of Morrowind that felt missing in later games.