Oh, absolutely, I do very little to hide it online. Might start posting my RAADS-R score in profiles for fun xD

By RPGMO, do you mean MMORPG?

No, RPG MO (forgot there was a space there) is an MMORPG. It's also on Steam if you want to see videos/screenshots

Well, no, they're not actually.That'd be basically AAA live service games.

I more meant as a genre. Everything gets more expensive when you get into the AAA world, but that's more a matter of scale than genre. There are probably some single player games that have cost more than some MMOs have cost the devs over the life of the game :P

And also... I remember the early 00s. We had a bunch of fairly big, and also actually fairly novel and distinct kinds of MMOs coming out, fairly regularly.

Same! I kinda miss those days for MMOs. Some of those are still hanging around, but a lot of the ones I used to play are just shells of what they used to be. Perfect World, Conquer Online, FlyFF... Well, FlyFF was never that good. Damn lootboxes.

they're allergic to MMOs, unless they make them insanely pay to win or gacha or something like that...

Yeah, it's partly because most MMOs aren't that profitable, at least without p2w/gacha mechanics. It's due, at least in part, to the nature of MMOs.

Generally with theme park MMOs (Final Fantasy, Runescape, GW2, etc) there comes a point where the player runs out of content, or burns out. At that point they switch to doing something else, and stop paying you money, even if just for a while. Some will stick around, but most will move to another game, usually one with more money, and a larger dev team, that can release content faster. Through a few cycles of this, smaller studios are often choked out of resources, because while server costs go down during slow times, it's not proportional to the amount of money lost. Each additional player is cheap, but the base dev+server costs aren't, at least for a game that's trying to compete with the big ones.

Email, Nebula, Dropout, Borgbase, a domain name.

I also have humble choice, but that's a bit of a tossup. I've found some great games through it that I still play, but most months it still feels worth it to me

Edit: Forgot Mullvad VPN! Love that thing, 15/10 would recommend. Reddit doesn't like it, but also I don't like reddit so whatever

Fruity. I like my coffee acidic more than anything else. Occasionally I'll be in the mood for chocolatey, but that's very occasional. Generally the more bitter it is the less I go for it, which is why I started salting my coffee in the first place

Yeah, I'm similar. Its not quite undrinkable for me, but I do find that plain coffee just tastes better. Absolutely love the smell though, if they made a raspberry+coffee candle I'd buy out the whole store

Wasn't there one that was basically giving away cubes of tungsten for free?

Remember: Companies don't learn lessons, they react to profits. They're 100% gonna boil the frog here.

Yeah, the fact that so many things just automatically require 16gb of RAM is wild to me. Why does a web browser need 16gb of RAM??? Why did a calculator leak 32gb of RAM???

Yeah, at least one of my RAM sticks seems to be going out... Very not happy about it, but not much I can do about it rn

About 3 years in, and same as it has been: Discovery's kinda ass if you're not on the big servers. This is both a positive and a negative. In most cases it leads to a lack of content directly, and for services like Lemmy, it leads to communities being more dispersed.

I think giving servers the option to run on a whitelist basis instead of a blacklist for other servers would be good. Federation is cool for a lot of reasons, but if your goal is to be a dick you can do that on a $5/mo server with a few cheap domains. Plus I've wanted to self-host some things that I don't necessarily want federated, like Bookwyrm. I was looking at setting one up as a fanfic sharing thing, and a lot of fanfic authors don't want their stuff on platforms like Goodreads for valid reasons, and I personally feel like having it federated would kinda defeat the purpose there. While I was typing this out I just had an idea that might have fixed that problem, actually, I'll test that later

In the same vain, allowing servers to share their blocklists with other servers would help a lot as well. Yes you can see the block list publicly (though some servers do disable it), but manually copying it is a massive chore, and keeping it updated is even worse.

Waterfox if you want something that still feels like a modern browser, LibreWolf if you don't mind having stricter defaults. If you want the nuclear option, Mullvad browser is good, it is very inconvenient thoygh. At least for desktop. On mobile I use Vivaldi/Fennec/Vanadium depending on need

That's the kinda mentality that lead to the fall of Yugoslavia