The Snark Urge

I told my 6yo and my wife. They both resent me a little bit now. I had a great time.

If this account goes inactive after this comment, my family has murdered me. But don’t avenge me.

For once I’m #1 in something 🥳

Exciting times. Privatised rail has been way too expensive.

I have no tech background, and I am just getting into creating a media server. I started with an old secondhand Synology NAS, which developed a power issue within a month and no chance of returning it or getting it covered by warranty.

My current plan is to get another Synology NAS (new with extended warranty this time), along with a spare HDD enclosure so I can have an extra layer of redundancy, finally set up Jellyfin, and then I want to build a Pihole. At that point I won’t need much more self hosting or networking tricks until further notice.

Still have no idea what I’m doing.

Nationalise that removed

This is beautiful. The mood seems far more chill. The only one I participated in was… Rather contentious

Noooooooooooooo thanks

If journalism is the first draft of history, maybe fiction is the first draft of the future

Infanty 🤣

following…

The main thing I’m for is improved ownership rights, and currently GOG is the best of them. The only downside with it is that you can’t sell it on when you’re done, like old games in physical media. When digital media has none of digital media’s drawbacks, then I’ll leave off about the potential of NFTs.

Samesies. I came to these conclusions while researching what GameStop’s up to with its token marketplace. I hope they are planning something along the lines of what I’m talking about, but if they’re not then I hope someone else does. It’s an idea whose time has come I think.

Disintermediation would be nice; More of my money going directly into the hands of game developers instead of executives. Also, people who own games should be able to resell them. Can’t do that with centralized platforms. A benefit of decentralized game ownership would be that the developer could be cut into the resale of their games, which shifts the incentive to a more long-term view. A game could be something that is supported by the “used” market, and therefore has a reason to invest in long-term value. No more drive to keep on reinventing the wheel and releasing new games every year, just keep on making the existing game better.

I like itch, but it’s no steam killer. We need a way to somehow own our digital games in a way that is not centralized to one marketplace.

They always did strike me as idiots

You’re not getting the real McDonalds experience

Meta might be the worst possible company to darken our doorstep; at least Elon would fail.

Defed every corporation. McDonald’s starts an instance? removed off and fix your ice cream machine. Gabe Newell starts a Steam instance? No Gabe, go make half life 3. Make all these suits federate each other and see if anyone wants to talk on their removed.