We also sometimes have to pay “pet rent”, and no this does not cover pet damages.

As a sole proprietor, yes we do.

Whatever they were designed for, they are currently being sold as the solution to nearly every problem. You can’t expect a layperson to look further than that, and it’s completely reasonable to judge what they do against the claims being used to sell them.

You can blame the marketing departments, but that original purpose you mention is no longer a major talking point (even if it should be).

No one can answer this question with anything but speculation. If you enjoy the speculation that’s fine, but just remember that no one here has a crystal ball and what they say is just a guess rooted in their own biases and lifestyle, no matter how well thought out it sounds.

“The service will succeed or fail”. Not much of a hot take, even though I agree with his sentiment.

I don’t think Itch does, but I don’t know about any others.

Not sure honestly. It was a few months ago now. I bet you can see it somewhere, considering how many games get uploaded.

They’re still doing this. I just recently put my first game page up on steam and this is one of the things you sign.

Or better yet, don’t buy one at all

Oh damn, that’s very interesting to hear. I avoided watching it so thanks for taking one for the team and reporting back.

I’d recommend starting with modding. It gives you a huge shortcut to many aspects of it, letting you get something playable faster, which is the rewarding part. As you get more experience, you can try more challenging mods, and eventually you’ll reach a point where you want the greater freedom of making a game from scratch.

What about the military parade shows disdain? Doesn’t it happening at all show support?

I used to be the type to want to consider a variety of opinions and play devil’s advocate. The last decade has radicalized me into being much more staunchly progressive. Stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.

It’s an easy trap to fall into if you’re a generally open minded person I think. I didn’t want to follow the herd, and I didn’t want to take things at face value. Those aren’t bad ideals, but when living in a corrupt and dishonest world it basically means giving too much space to people who aren’t worth it.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I would imagine tons of bot accounts being spun up just to wait for a bit would also be suspicious, right? But in that case they could be pruned before they did anything. I’m not a moderator, so don’t take anything I say as fact.

I think account age would be more useful than karma. Karma is just a game-able system, but I could see a very short age requirement being useful eventually if a lot of spam starts to happen. I don’t think we’re there yet, though.

I remember people doing that! I never did it myself (way too grindy for me), but it’s pretty crazy the game let you do it

Because they have ai controlled party members (and have since the beginning), it’s actually completely playable solo to this day.

You might be surprised how many people still play though.

Guild wars 1. I don’t play it often but every once in a while I get the itch. It’s honestly still really compelling.

Ai companies: ai will only get better!

SEO companies: hold my beer

Simple to say, not so simple to do. I’d love to honestly.