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  • Honestly, I don’t know if we’ll find out what the real bribe amounts are until some people’s memoirs are published after they die or are out of the rat race in the US. It’s too soon.

    Million dollar dinners are a thing though that have hit the news multiple times this year. Who knows how much it costs to kiss the ring in reality, but you can bet your ass all these rich crooks getting pardons in the news right now have paid up… and the ones who have paid for those dinners seem to have the government on their side, so long as they do not say anything negative about the administration.


  • No sir, you misunderstand.

    This is the 21st century american version of paying for indulgences. However, we’re not talking about holy sins, we’re talking about a total pardon for all known and unknown crimes, immunity from prosecution by the government and perhaps even prosecution against any enemies you may have whom have not also paid for their million dollar dinner.

    You’re not just paying for the best plate of food available at the million dollar dinner for those paying the price, they’re offering true honest to god fixing of whatever regulatory and legal hurdles you might have… and for a special price they can upgrade you to the gold tier which includes fixing supreme court judgements in nearly any case.

    Act now! Dinner times and their benefits are limited for three years, death by natural causes or if impeached or otherwise removed from office. The sooner you buy, the sooner you win!


  • If you ask me, what we really need is an army of bots going around and literally DMCAing absolutely everything on behalf of every business out there that is submitting DMCA requests. Make the process practically impossible to police until someone forces a legislation action that fixes the whole system.

    Erroneous DMCA requests should be so severe that once one is reported by a company authorized to perform the requests on behalf of the IP holder, the IP holder should be barred from any agents on their behalf performing them for a time period of at least 90 days… with treble fines. It would be so much fun creating content that baits DMCA but is clearly fair use to break all their shit.

    Unless someone is copying what you do nearly 1:1, dmca should not be valid. These clowns and crooks running for office talk all about how regulation stifles innovation and this is a true case for sure. So many small business owners are getting fucked by the wild west of DMCA takedowns today.







  • The monkeypaw says they will stop updates for the java edition or release a new version that doesn’t work on the java edition.

    They probably see how many sales are generated from the free work done by modders though. If someone wants to come along and do for free the thing you might have to actually pay designers, developers, artists and all the support staff for and they still need to pay you to play it, you’d be foolish not to encourage the exploitation of free labor.


  • MHWilds suffers from a lot of weird decisions.

    I don’t like crossovers or scifi stuff in games that are supposed to be hardcore human-vs-dinosaur “monsters” - I know this is widely popular but it’s just offputting for me, a veteran from the OG PS2 release. I’ve played FFXIV and still have no interest in FF content in MH or any other game I play. It fits in games like smash bros though or other games that are all about crossovers, MH has never been that for me.

    Also not much of a fan of the current implementation of open world. They could have done so much more, better things with it. You should be able to setup a hunting party and chain-hunt monsters and have rewards pile up for whenever you cash out with bonuses for sticking out beyond an initial hunt. They could have had hunts that include more than 4 players and even included a mode where it’s a competition between different hunting parties to rack up the most kills - with all players getting the rewards. There’s so many possibilities in this kind of open world, but as-is there’s little reason to engage with the open world at all. Even the story doesn’t utilize the open world elements effectively imo.

    The forced story/tutorial with loads of unskippable content was infuriating. I’m so glad I finished the main story… I will never start over unless they patch in some way to skip all the childish reaction shots and other bullshit. I wasn’t a fan of Rise but being able to rush through the ranks was a better experience.

    The performance doesn’t bother me so much because I have bleeding edge hardware but most of my friends are alienated. I do believe in modern games being able to deliver graphics settings that current hardware cannot support when all is enabled to the fullest - but you should also support a good looking quality setting that runs on older hardware, which this just doesn’t. The highest settings do not look great. It’s capcom’s own engine so there’s no excuse, it’s not like they’re some tiny indie studio using an off the shelf engine.

    We also haven’t seen a new weapon type in a long time (charge blade and insect glaive in MH 4.) Why?

    I suspect in a few years when the inevitable expansion drops accompanied by the next generation of GPUs and CPUs we’ll get some good framerates and a lot more content to help this shell of a game.


  • If they can identify the user’s computer, they can cross reference against all the other tracking metadata available. Since they know the browser down to the individual, they also know the predominant IP of said browser and can link your actions from before and after the vpn/proxy account was created.

    As long as javascript is running they can track your mouse movement, which is similar to people’s gait when they walk. it’s unique, it’s identifiable. You can probably fuck with them by using a trackball on one profile, but once they link that trackball movement to your profile with other metadatas then the cat is out of the bag and you’re permanently known to Reddit and whoever it sells it’s data to.

    As much as people will claim “just disable javascript!” - you’ll find that you practically cannot use the internet without it… and having JS disabled makes your fingerprint even more unique as few disable it carte blanche.

    Basically, once they have a shadow profile of who you are it’s just a matter of time for them to link any account created to it. I suspect almost everybody’s shadow profile is quite complete.



  • it doesn’t make any sense to have a centralized distributor acting as a middleman. The current implementation requires bringing your own game files either manually or via a steam connection. There’s only two games, the minecraft clone mentioned is just a web browser game and not actually minecraft.

    Since most browser games simply “just work” when you go to the website i’d just create a profile launcher firefox link, and then in that profile build out each game you want as one of your homepage links, which would just be a grid of bookmarks basically. It’s entirely overkill for exactly two games imo, and if you’re on a desktop that can run these games you’re better off running them natively.

    If you’re on mobile you’re currently SOL it looks.


  • So browser games are games that run in a browser. The browser is the app.

    Are you saying you want some silly 3rd party wrapper “application” that simply loads a page in whatever browser without the typical URL controls like so many android and apple “apps” are? because that’s just silly.

    If you want to click an icon to open, create a hyperlink shortcut and click that to launch it… you could even create a separate profile that launches JUST for games, so that it doesn’t show up in your normal profile or interact with other cached files or cookies or even have the same addons.


  • I’ve seen this but I don’t really want the docker part.

    I think it could be phenomenal for some kind of beefy VDI implementation for low demanding games or some kind of monster server with multiple GPUs, but it just feels wrong for an individual who wants to remotely stream their desktop on demand and has no plans on having others share the host.

    Maybe i’m overthinking it, or haven’t thought it through enough - but my gut says this has more drawbacks than i’m realizing.