On the other hand, what cost is it to Capcom to let players “redo” whenever they want? Some people just like trying new things.

This is just a cash grab aimed at people who have alternative ways they want to play, with no real benefit to anyone but Capcom. I don’t care what people look like, as long as they don’t throw a hunt for the lols. And if it makes someone else happy to have a weird troll with an underbite one week and a giant Smurf the next, who am I to say that’s the wrong way to play?

Just seems like Capcom further forcing people to fit within their box. First it was the anti-mod rootkit, now it’s limited in-game customizations.

It’s because it’s hard to maintain a browser. There’s lots of protocols and engines and other moving pieces; I remember when web pages would render in Netscape but not Internet Explorer, for example.

We take for granted how seamless and ubiquitous the internet is, but there were lots of headaches as internet devs decided to adopt or include different users (or not).

And now, it would take a lot of effort and market upset to convince the capitalist overlords to include something new in their dev stack. The barrier to entry is monumentally high, so most people don’t bother to try inventing something better.

Requiring a phone number before allowing a user to use app-based TOTP.

You don’t need to know my phone number to make the secret key on my app work.

The YouTube Android app does that, and it’s fucking annoying.

On a related note, if you are fortunate enough to have a public library where you live (like many of us in the US), avail yourself of their resources. They often offer a lot more than just books.

It’s perhaps not fully in the spirit of the author, since you don’t solely own that either, but in the US at least, they’re unique public institutions owned and run by local government, not state or federal. So in a sense, you own it insomuch as your community owns it and you continue to be a part of that community.

First of all, let me say that I think it’s great how you’re dissecting all of this.

It has gotten to the point where anything that you say will get you labeled as woke or a liberal.

You might enjoy this video: https://youtu.be/v2QGME8KHzY

He talks a lot about that idea in a very thoughtful way.

Because it doesn’t hold a unified definition across the aisles.

Besides this, political labels as a whole are mostly bullshit because people use them to describe themselves as being part of a group.

This is, unfortunately, not an accident. First it was “the Commies,” then “the Gays,” then “the occult,” then the Liberals, then the “trans people,” then the “groomers,” and then, and then… The people in charge right now know exactly what they did and what they’re doing: shortcutting people’s ability to reason.

This is common in religious cults and other abuse structures. It’s also no accident that fundamentalist religion is a major component of a lot of MAGA, since it already primes people not to question anything their leaders say.

Until facts once again matter more than what our favorite political/billionaire celebrities say, they’ll continue to weaponize our worst impulses against us. Recognizing that you deserve to think for yourself is the first step in resisting.

• Labels allow expedient understanding of a philosophy, concept, belief system, etc. They’re not pointless.
  • If you want to agree upon a definition of a label, you have to start by asking people what they mean and then go back and forth until you agree what “Label N” means. Otherwise, you’re just talking past each other.
• Seems fine to me. I call them fascists, because they seem to believe in extreme government control of the population, jingoism and territorial expansion, religious indoctrination, cult worship of the leader, suppression of speech, and “othering” minorities in pursuit of power.
• See my above point about religious indoctrination and cult worship. The in-group lingo signals to the group that you’re supposed to get mad about the thing without question; questioning might get you cast out from the group.
• Not true. There’s lots of podcasters, for example, who check their facts and aren’t merely propaganda (Knowledge Fight is a great example). At best, you can say “many.”
• How you decide to define the word “Christian” is subjective. Lots of the MAGA types would also consider themselves “followers of Christ.”
  • If Christians don’t want to be saddled with the ugly behavior of some of their adherents, they need to come together and agree upon a new label, either for themselves or for the ones they are rejecting.

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion.

—Steven Weinberg

That’s the only thing that’s stopped me from getting too excited about this one. I haven’t reinstalled World just because of how they forced players into it.

Though with Dauntless getting shuttered at the end of March, maybe I’ll have to dust off the ol’ gunlance.

Does it still come with Capcom’s anti-mod rootkit?

Man, Meta sure is having a lot of “errors” lately…

Case in point: I was required to add a phone number to an account before they would let me use an Authenticator App. If you’re securing your account, the standard should be that an Auth App is agnostic of other user data. It doesn’t need your phone number, it doesn’t need your user ID, it just needs the secret key.

And I was thinking all along, “What if I didn’t have a phone number? Are people who can’t be reached by phone just not allowed to use TOTP?”

It’s needlessly discriminatory.

People are so creative!

A Valve x Framework collaboration would be awesome.

Sometimes, you just do things because you can.

Here’s the Steam Brick, a very similar project. To quote the maker:

I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could that I didn’t stop to think if I should.

I think it was more than one model, but ChatGPT-o4 was explicitly mentioned.

My one, sole issue with LibreWolf is—and correct me if I’m wrong—it still relies heavily upon Mozilla’s efforts in developing Firefox. LibreWolf is not a standalone fork, just a downstream improvement.

It really sucks, because apparently, developing a web browser is hard. Until we can manage to get a browser that’s completely free from Chromium and Firefox, we’re kinda stuck with the Mozilla hand that feeds us as the current best option.

It worked for Conservatives when they boycotted Target and whatever dumb beer company over support of Pride. We ridiculed them for it, and look where they are now.

I think it’s fair to say that there’s better ways to protest, but getting people off their asses in any way could be a gateway for some to realize that a little discomfort is worth the outcome.

At least we know where their loyalties actually lie, now.

Don’t hurt the poor fascists’ feewings, y’all!