Baku

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[–] Baku@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It always makes me chuckle a bit how internet censorship (at least in western countries and on a personal level (school and work networks excluded)) is almost always just done through DNS. I mean I'm sure not going to be the one to tell them how laughably ineffective that is, but it's just funny.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

I was 100% expecting a dark ending

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

I live in the country with Ampilatwatja and Jarlmadangah Burru. This is nothing

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not all of them. r/PublicFreakout (and its clone - r/ActualPublicFreakout) both have a fair bit of gore. r/IAmATotalPieceOfShit sometimes has some as well

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] Baku@aussie.zone 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Now I kinda want to write a full license, complete with all the legal jargon, that takes up 43 pages of space to say you can do whatever the fuck you want with this software

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Best to go to Reddit for that. It'd cause so many problems, particularly for small instances

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Don't forget to upvote good segments and downvote bad ones. Segments that are downvoted enough get hidden or removed. That's a pretty big part of how they prevent malicious people (possibly with outside instances) from trying to sabotage the network

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Are spaces used in place of commas in regular casual conversations, too? In Australia, I've only ever seen them used in really formal documents like financial reports, never really anywhere else

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think the company should also be required to clearly state the amount of time they'll keep supporting the game and will operate the servers for. If they decide to shut them down early, everybody should be given the choice to either receive a full refund or the non DRMd version of the game + the server software like you suggested.

In general I think all paid games should be required to clearly state the amount of time they'll keep providing feature updates for, as well as support for new hardware, major bug fixes, and minor bug fixes. Although games that aren't online and just reach EoL are still playable for quite some time, eventually there'll be some breaking operating system or hardware change that will force the use of a virtual machine, compatibility software, or other types of emulation to keep playing. That might not happen for 50 years, at which point you probably don't care, but still. I'd give more leniency to indie Devs and games made as passion projects, though.

Although obvious once you think about it, I don't think most people realise or even think of the fact they will eventually not be able to play the game they're buying. And these mega companies need to stop making games they dump 6 months after launch.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

And MSIs motherboard control centre thingy. Its absolute garbage

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago

Ironically when I want to be an NPC nobody interacts with, people decide to start interacting with me 🤦‍♂️

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