Why not both?

The rich love being in a exclusive secret clubs and creating a secret club with dedicated buildings/rooms is not super difficult if you have money. They are still the same rich though.

The implication that “games as a service” is somehow a positive for game preservation is its own kind of illiteracy.

I am suspicious that this is ai.

There are very strange contractual elements and structural decisions in all of this, yet i find no digital artifacts.

Its a completely different form of entertainment, way more similar to watching tv.

The main difference is you dont need to plan or think yourself, your mind can take a break just following whats going on. This can be much more restfull and relaxing.

Compare that to activity playing the game and your using much more energy, your brain is calculating every interaction you have to make. It can be stressful at times. A mistake can feel like lost time but an accomplishment gets you a high you will never get when backseat gaming.

Completely different and up to personal preference on how people like to spend their downtime.

Especially for comfort food i can see that being true.

I am not sure how this translates to my example though, it was definitely a restaurant. Though it was known to be an eccentric bordering on rudely rushed experience. He had some contacts to get incredibly high quality fresh ingredients.

Or simply reject proprietary clones all together and go back to the OG public domain versions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau-Mau_(card_game)

FIY: this is also why Uno corporate gets its panties in the a that people are playing their game wrong. Once people realise any card can have any function the illusion falls.

Was going to say i and most cant afford even a single star restaurant but then i Realised those only go up to three and you’re talking about fake internet points.

One of the best restaurants (zero stars) i have regularly been too has no website and most people don’t even know what its called because its not on the storefront or the menu. People refer to it using the chef/owners name.

This is how science fiction is made! Special Meta materials are very under-explored, It seems reasonable that in a future high tech society they would be increasingly common.

Mostly we get “faster engines” and “advanced computermachines that sometimes perform unexplained magic”

Can we make liquids like that? Sounds useful in some situations.

It already looked like bottom on first glance, The shadows and light seem to verify it.

Your example is about physical goods.

Software is at its core just digital information a computer can use.

Knowledge/Information (that is not personal information) should be free.

You can make a argument that software developers still must sell copies of their code to make a living but if you look at the reality of software that appears to simply be some kind of bias. You can make software that is free and still make a living they are just not always related.

The software that runs the world’s infrastructure is increasingly FOSS, from critical cybersecurity to vending machines. Even big corporations are increasingly getting involved in using and making open source components for their proprietary fronts.

As a linux user everything i need can be done legally with free software, not only is it free is most of the times vastly superior then a paid product.

Ever needed software on windows to find the installer got bundled with spyware and then the final program turns out to be a trial before Requiring a subscription? That is only because they need to make money.

On linux, you install it, it’s only the thing you actually need, and it works. No bloat, no enshitification. Some person or group realized there was value to be created, created it and as a result the entire world won collectively.

I have a few products of my own that i hope to publish some day and i already vouched to never make them proprietary, My dad called me insane not to try to profit. I call it nothing but ethical to make the best value for humanity that i can. My very common office job provides enough liveable wage and work/life balance for my family and still find time to do such.

Agreed, just use common sense to judge wether or not other people then yourself may understand the semantics and context of written information works pretty well. /s

Am I confused on why people are overcomplicating the math and adding assumptions to a clear given.

• 60 applications a day.

• Half of them (30) buy something.

• Makes 300 per day.

• They must make $10 per vending customer.

We can safely ignore operating costs and sementics to conclude this is massive ragebait.

Completely different genre but the Stabley Parable checks all of these.

100 years in the future and it will be just as perfect.

Is that really considered hardcore?

I follow some local news and i have a list of video content creators i download with a script but other then that its just the Lemmy verse for me.

The first level of the game is called “input a 3000 word essay on why you are in hell”

Any spelling mistakes will require a full do over.

Depending on your crime the return/erase button may be disabled.

Devided? Between who?

Checks article: And Its berween the people who have lives there versus the ruling class who are about to profit because of course.

So i thought you said “There isn’t evil” in the pokeverse and i am too far in trying to post this so enjoy.

“To denounce the evils of truth and love”

I assume that bad cops do exist everywhere but you should check on how london police are taught deescalation.

US and UK cops are not the same. Granted civilians don’t usually carry guns over there but i have seen footage (sorry cant find it) where they dealt with a confused person holding a knife and they just calmly talked them into putting it down with no force whatsoever.

Its probably very country specific though, depending on both recruitment standards and amount of training.

For an mmo game that was released 2 decades ago and has a large established userbase, the main thing left to do to continue being a good game is organising events for continued engagement.