ToyDork

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[–] ToyDork@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't need to be paid, I just don't want corpos profiting off of my data for any reason, so robots.txt works fine for me. The reason that's enough in my eyes is, I don't hate capitalism nor am I an anarchist or tankie, this is about halting enshittification and for one other reason:

"AI is fundamentally about giving the wealthy access to skill while depriving the skilled of the means to access wealth."

In short, eat the rich because they've ruined everything. They want capitalism? Then no more "laissez-faire" bullshit, you pay your fucking 90% tax on every dollar above 1 mil and shut it. Nobody needs 15 different colors of common Lamborghini and 1 Lambo out of less than 500. Nobody needs 5000 days of going to the mall to buy a dress every day. Nobody needs a personally-owned A380 private jet. Nobody needs 25%, 25 fucking percent, return on investment.

That also applies to the internet and tech companies as much as reality and banks. When I used Reddit, I never told them they could block access behind a paywall and they know it, and they also knew I can't afford an international court case against an American tech giant. Now 90% of google is locked behind reddit, a company which shadow banned me well before the API issues.

As long as Reddit, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, etc. can't legally make free money off of this, I'm happy.

[–] ToyDork@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Squadron 42, to my knowledge, is much closer to it's release than Star Citizen as an MMO. I suspect we'll be waiting until 2028 at earliest for either, but Squadron has a chance at releasing by then, late as ever but at least passable (and hopefully not a fixer-upper like NMS or Cyberpunk were) and possibly benefiting from it's age, but don't expect groundbreaking graphics as the games that have aimed for such since the release cycle of games in general hit the 10 year mark.

Star Citizen will always be a living project as long as it exists, but Squadron 42 will be more in line with people's expectations. Remember, GTA V started development before GTA IV was released, GTA VI has likely been in development just as long as CIG as a company has existed.

[–] ToyDork@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Same, but to my knowledge it's not possible. The engine is too outdated, and Godot wouldn't feel the same.

 

It's stressing me out to leave communities that are relevant to it unblocked. The sheer cynicism is affecting my mood and I'm having to block all communities about real life news of any kind for personal health, so I am wondering if anyone considers "A Boring Dystopia, but instead of being boring, it's edgy or (at best) a cool workaround for corporate internet BS." a deserving project to continue? I plan to remain lead mod but give the first new moderator free reign; I wouldn't be asking this if I had any intention of ever pulling anything stupid like deleting it on a whim, I think I would like to see it continue but in better hands than my own.

 

I can't take reading about how the world is collapsing every fucking day, if anyone wants a mod position and has experience, DM me and I'll give you free reign with an exception for banning me from A Nerdy Dystopia (I will keep the main moderator position to prevent this). Shouldn't be that hard to run a community like this if you're used to A Boring Dystopia's posts, it's basically this but the posts are about subverting corporate control or about how non-boringly evil some people are. I just want to relax and can't run a community like A Nerdy Dystopia without getting stressed by all potentially-relevant content.

 

Fuck Sony, down with these corpo bastards.

 

Otherwise in 10 years we may not have a place to find tech support resources.

 

~~Unfortunately, not every dystopian element of real life is caused by corpo-jerks. Sometimes the full truth is inescapably fucking awful even before money gets involved.~~

Got confused somehow, sorry about that. I must have had this tab open and mistook it for one of my "bad news suitable for Nerdy Cyberpunk Dystopia" tabs.

 

Oh great, more bad news about hardware prices...

 

I can only hope it goes no further because f*** the corpos, I want to write for a living and actually provide quality.

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