Honestly I personally, selfishly, hope Lemmy never gets anywhere near Facebook or Twitter huge.

Most people are fucking boring idiot assholes, full of actually boring and stupid ideas and opinions they only think are clever or notable because them and their social circle are broadly ignorant and hypnotized by marketing.

I prefer a smaller community where people at least tend toward not being idiots, and not being boring.

I don’t want to hear from a celebrity, as their celebrity self.

I don’t want advertising to be viable.

You are right; most people do not care about things that they should, if they actually believed half the things they say they do. Most people are enormously massive hypocrites about most things, whether theyre aware of that or not.

I am under no illusion that people, broadly, when freely handed the solution to a large chunk of their problems, will use it, if it means they suffer any kind of inconvenience whatsoever.

I am under no illusion that most people want what they claim they want; they just want to be popular, or be where the most other people are.

If Bluesky dies and the users go back to Twitter, they never believed in anything more than ‘I want to be part of the herd.’

What you identify as a lack of water, I see as a functioning primary filtration system that prevents microplastic infected water from coming in to the system.

Keep Lemmy Weird.

I also find it odd that you would likely describe all that as anti-social.

… having preferences for the kind of people you enjoy socializing with… is not anti social. You seem to be functionally saying that not starting a massive marketing drive, that in itself is anti social.

This to me is either completely insane, or you don’t understand what ‘anti-social’ means.

The corporate paradigm for social media… that is anti-social. ‘Demonstrates a chronic pattern of disregarding the rights and well-bring of others.’ They literally act as fine-tuned personalized, digital drugs to manipulate your thoughts and emotions, by exploiting your weaknesses.

This has been fucking obvious for at least 2 years, more like 4, really.

What this has been the whole time is naked power grab to establish a technate, a techno-oligarchy.

When, not if, this fully fucking detonates the West’s finances and economies, most of these people will still be very wealthy, most of our 401k/pensions/net worth will mostly no longer exist, and we will end up with a society of all but formal aristocracy, vs us ‘low income worker’ peasants.

That is their plan. They have been open about that for 20-30 years; they despise democracy, they think the world should be hard deliniated into haves and have-nots.

It doesn’t matter if the tech works or is profitable.

What matters is who will be on top when the dust settles.

Tbf, there are mods that have just kept on getting more and more features and content added to them, and/or took a stupid amount of time to get to basically v1.0.

Black Mesa Source, the HL1 remake in HL2 engine… pretty sure that took a decade, was originally a mod.

Yes, by far most mods for most games are more… hah, ‘modular’, and tend to be basically just a single or few releases, but there are much more expansive mods of much larger scope, for many different games.

Basically, most ‘total conversion’ mods tend to be more like that… years of development toward a kind of end goal state, because they are basically making an entirely or massively different game, based on whatever particular original game.

That being said, I mean this just broadly for pc game mods. I don’t play Terraria much, never even heard of this mod till this post/article.

Its just a vestigal instinct at MSFT these days lol.

See, you hypetrain the hypetrain now.

12 dimensional marketing.

… what are you talking about?

Windscribe does have a free option.

???

I have never given them any money or CC or bank info or anything, and use them semi-regularly.

Yep, they’re 5 eyes, that’s far from great.

But… they do have a free option.

I’ve heard they have a tunnel network under her manor residence.

Home is where you can relax and enjoy yourself.

Home is where people are happy you are there.

Home is where you can be as you wish to be.

You may have to travel some, to find your home…

… but it is out there, for you to find, or build.

The ‘bigger’ you are, the more difficult this is to achieve.

I mean, im of the ‘poptart is basically a dessert calzone’ persuasion, so… yeah, sure why not.

There are differences, but basically yes.

We’re gonna need more sources of sustainable fuel, I suggest mulching the boomers that caused that need.

Well said.

100% agree.

We still have a ways to go in… socially realizing / allowing men to actually express emotional pain… I literally instinctively wanted to just call it ‘weakness’, lol.

We are still basically at ‘well if you are a man and you aren’t basically always a tough guy, well then you must be either gay or totally mentally unstable or something’.

That being said, of course there are exceptions to this, my experiences are proof of that, but yeah, its not the norm.

I’m banking it, I probably will at some point =)

For what its worth, I can offer an e-hug, if you’d like.

… I am a man and I have successfully done this more than once.

Not like, out of the blue, first date hookup kind of thing. More like… we’ve at least been dating for a few weeks, more like months usually, kind of thing.

Sometimes, it ends up with just comforting, no sexy time, just … more or less bonding time.

But, sometimes, it does end up with sexy time.

If your goal is relating to the other person, growing a relationship with them, not just sex with them… it doesn’t matter.

Because your tomorrow will include that person.

Lemmy is not a clone of reddit, we do have our own lingo here.

The power move counter to this is you trauma dump before sexy time, and then, if they help you through it, then have the sexy time.

You’re gonna be naked, bare your body.

Why not also bare your inner self?

The Sims.

You do not want to know how many ‘dlc’ there are for your digital dollhouse.

As well as entire community of enthusiastic corporate boot lickers with a ‘cozy’ aesthetic.

I will never forgive EA for destroying Maxis.

Kind of yes, but actually no.

We just see that debt now, its explicit.

EA … was subject to a leveraged buy out, that they sought out. They did this… because they needed cash, now.

What that means is that their internal financials were an absolute shit show… that they had, up untill that point, basically just legally lied about, hid, downplayed.

They fluffed up their balances and returns and cashflows in ways that are legal to do, but if you actually do due dilligence, you could read the writing on the wall.

Its basically the same as any other US company that got bought out / sold itself to private equity in the last 10 or 15 years.

Difference is, EA is so huge, it had to be bought out by essentially a sovereign wealth fund.