And blizzard stopped making them didn't they? (Separate topic.)
JackbyDev
joined 2 years ago
It's a line from the song.
Feels odd to include Pyre over Hades.
But do we have reason to believe that it's not just giving them lies to get them to touch it? Is it tempting because it can do things or is it tempting because it tells people it can do things?
I'm open to using non-federated software. I think federation is cool and useful but I don't see it as necessary in any way when choosing what to use.
The biggest things are features, existing username, and/or ease of getting my friends on it. User base size is why I didn't use Mastodon for niche hobbies of mine.
I have the "touch grass" one from April Fool's day. It's pretty funny.
I paid $30 for a year of Nitro basic. I don't think I'll do it again. All the actually useful features for me (longer messages and bigger uploads) are behind the more expensive one, and it's not worth it.
Part of that is because ads that are enjoyable and for things people enjoy often don't even register as ads to people. When people think of ads they typically think of unwanted distractions for things they don't want. They don't necessarily think of something like a free sticker for their favorite video game given to them at s convention. They may even put it on something like a laptop or water bottle. The same people may say they "hate ads".
I'm not trying to throw shade on those people, I think pretty much everyone is going to be accepting of at least some type of hypothetical thing that's enjoyable and/or useful to them. A prime exam is having a business listed in a directory. Someone mentioned that as an alternative to advertising as if companies don't pay to put their names in those directories.
None of this is meant to be any sort of criticism against anyone based on what they do or don't view as an ad, I'm just trying to help explain why, at least some of the time, it seems "people in the real world are depressingly accepting of ads."
Is there textual evidence for it granting powers other than invisibility and immortality though? I see this topic come up every few years and my recollection is that it typically sort of comes back to "we aren't sure."
The ring tells people lies though, no?
You know, as soon as I hit submit I was like "that might also be a line from the song" but I was like eh, it's gonna be weirder if they see Deleted lol.