There’s monster collecting and battling, something numerous other games have done.

That’s where the similarities really end

Has Firaxis released a game since Civ 6, which was better than most at launch, but still rough

Edit. Forgot they did Midnight Suns and XCOM Chimera Squad. Both released fully working to my knowledge

I mean, gaming patents are horse shit from stage one. There’s 0 reason you should be able to patent a method or mechanic in a creative medium other than creepy corporate BS

Correction: a minimum of 25k non terrorists!

I see plenty of value in buying it and turning it into a gay cam site!

I think Perl is closer to Esperanto - the vast majority of people will never want to learn it and the people that know it won’t stfu about how everyone should use it! And they could all use a shower!

(I kid… Mostly)

Ahhh, right. I suck at geography

Wait, hold up, what? I assume they occupy a country adjacent to Brazil?

I really don’t understand why PolyMC forked… Multi MC still has several third party mod packs available

Wait, what happened to Multi MC? I still use it whenever the want to play modded Minecraft returns

Obsidian is just sooooo good. I hate that you (technically 😉) have to pay for multi device sync, but the UI and UX are excellent, especially if you’re already proficient in markdown

Haven’t tried logseq before, so I can’t compare

I mean, if anyone needs a private plane, it’s the leader of a country. Shits too tense nowadays for any group to risk that

I’d think no. This is barring someone from using an app entirely. But when it comes to dating, everyone has a preference of gender, even if that preference is “no preference”.

And dating isn’t discrimination. It’s picking a person that you want to spend extra, and frequently intimate, time with. It’s a billion subconscious factors that your brain interprets as love, affection, or whatever other emotion your brain wants. Can some of those factors be discriminatory? Sure.

I like men and women and everything in-between and around, and I’m sure I have plenty of biases and discriminations of my own, but that’s not enough to outright call all dating discrimination

Isn’t that some American BS? Every non American food I’ve had was measured in Kilocalories

Once you’re at this level, you’re looking to get improvements of a fraction of a percentage. I don’t know the specifics cause I’m not a pro shooter despite being American, but from other high level skill people I know, you hit a point where improvements basically plateau and you have to resort to increasingly niche products to obtain non skill improvements. If you want proof of that, check out calligraphy and fountain pen communities. The amount of money some people spend on things I didn’t know existed is wild.

(No bad judgement to those folks, I’ve gotten hard into map making and 3d printing lately, so I’m right behind you)

I shut down every subreddit I modded permanently and was publicly screaming “fuck reddit” and “fuck spez” until the last minute.

Still got an IPO invite I ignored and even a mod meetup invite

Fuck no, he’s yours to keep. We’re full on crazies, especially in Texas!

They’re in horrible legal ground. What they did was illegal (though not necessarily wrong), but now they’re risking dying on this hill, which will cause people to lose a valuable service. They need to surrender the hill before it’s too late, if it’s not too late already

Their main argument for not donating to Wikipedia is because it’s improperly monetized?

Good. I’m sick of everything good having to have every single aspect of it monetized. Fuck the modern corporate internet

On the teenage mod thing, I have a bit of insight-

So basically modding on Reddit sucks. You feel like you have zero support for a volunteer position and it genuinely becomes taxing. I moderated a large subreddit (4 mill+ subs) for a few years alongside 2 smaller (still 100k+) ones. Both of these were exhausting and I ended up letting auto mod do half the work.

I got invited by a friend to moderate a default subreddit. I lasted less than a week. The types of things people post on there that the users never see is horrifying and whenever I can afford therapy it will be getting brought up. I’m talking early 2000s gore sites level shit in addition to the buckets of CSAM.

I started moderating one of the smaller communities back in high school. Let me tell you, my time was worthless back then and I was on top of everything. Once college started, that slowed down a lot and setting up auto mod for the common stuff became entirely necessary. Once I graduated, I suddenly had zero want to moderate. I barely touched anything and automated 99% of my tasks.

Basically what I’m trying to say is that moderating defaults is damn near a full time job, and most of us adults just don’t want to do it. I know I sure as hell didn’t.

And let me tell you, some of the mods on there get just an awful break. Almost all of them are just people trying to build communities, many of whom have no idea how, especially once they get big. The real people to watch out for are the mods no one knows the name of. I know for a fact that many power mods were completely unknown. They used dozens of sock puppets to moderate hundreds of communities, all of them aggregated in private discords. I managed to find a wild invite to one once, but I got booted before I could start taking screenshots