@Moon@why Pretty much. "A couples of special in game skins/whatever are cross promotion" or "bonus in game item if you have x" is basically the best thing you can hope out of that which doesn't make it any less cancerous
So basically, we now have item marketplaces, which has been bad for games
We have battle passes now, which has been bad for games
Imagine the Square Enix shitter CEO's dream come true "Play to earn" as he calls it. Imagine top 10 players in an event (I play some gatchas, you have to spend hundreds to thousands to be #1 in an event, I'm not even kidding) now earning NFTs theoretically worth money. This is going to be a special form of cancer upon games
Note that this Dutch abortion pill website is literally #1 on the ISP blocklist in the recently released Texas bill. We're right on the doorstep of the conversation about the role of censorship circumvention tools deployed in repressive regimes, for American Internet users. Also, U.S. ISPs may about to be in the crosshairs of a #NetNeutrality fight, and it's not going to be the usual one where we bicker over economic zero-rating schemes to supplement oligopoly profits. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/dutch-doctor-internet-are-making-sure-americans-access-abortion-pills-rcna35630
Nah but you're close IMO, the thing is people look at dead dumpsters like Gab and Parler and Bitchute, or before that shit like Zippcast or streamme and dlive and think "it's going to get big and then ban everyone who made it big because of government/media/ADL pressure".
Around the time Josh ran a fedi instance or started it with Crunk, he wrote an article mentioning Gab's #1 problem, it's an echo chamber and anything he said had a zero chance of reaching someone else.
the #1 problem with the trans community is by design, they are incapable of policing their own. They feel that taking out the trash will lead to bigotry and devalidate them, and this is something I've heard when I asked one why they can't clean up their community.
This leads to hilarious situations in which members get canceled by each other, like the Keffals situation a few weeks ago.
@silverpill I'm definitely not on the Nostr hype train either. Baking crypto so deeply into your protocol and its culture does not end well IMO.
I am curious what you mean with your fundamental flaw #1. Doesn't any good UX design hide protocol details from the user? Like, grandma doesn't need to know how TCP/IP works.
The groups that did murders would get broken up by the feds in the good old days the minute they did one.
There was a group called The Order that literally stole their name and premise from The Turner Diaries. Their activities were counterfeiting money, fraud, and assassinating some shock jock and the minute they assassinated the shock jock most of their members were arrested and their leader (IIRC) died in a Waco style shootout with the feds (totally not killed by the feds). There were other milita and similar groups being broken up/infiltrated in the feds in the 80s-90s, and both Atomwaffen and that Michigan Governor plot sting are examples of this in the present day. It doesn't happen that the #1 enemy of the far-right's productivity today is online drama. There's little difference between Nick Fuentes and the infamous DSA convention, except Nick's a eceleb instead of renting a motel for nobodies.
Lately if you look at the White Nationalist/far-right sphere online the trend over the past few years has been to simply post online and make memes. For every retarded boomer whose idea of "doing something" is to shoot up a synagogue of old grannies, most of the younger ones prefer to piss people off with memes or FBI crime statistics instead of rotting in prison when you can get life in prison for merely failing to escape from an unauthorized protest. It's to the point where /pol/ users often get trolled by merely uttering the words "you won't do shit".
I also heard that school shooting numbers are inflated by adding in everything from shootings that caused school lockdowns adjacent to it, to even shit like that one Portland antifa dad who tried to shoot a cop at a school over a custody battle.
>Like that year some muslism did a shooting at a gay club, it was filled under "right wing", including the Vegas shooting we still know nothing about I believe
There's a reason for that, they had a political motive for covering the shooting that way. They didn't want to address the inconvenient truth, that those they worship aren't good little allies for other causes. Their #1 cause to rally around of the time was LGBT rights, anything else came second.
This is the #1 issue we should be discussing. We're all freaking out about the results of fucking up our kids and not about how we actually fuck them up early on.
When you're a kid/teenager the future is this amorphous blob you can't think clearly about. People around you usually do not help: "you can do/be whatever you wish". This fucks up teens so bad (kids too). No, you can't be anything you want, there are things you're good at and things you're not good at. And there are things you just can't be good at no matter how hard you try, e.g. play the nba at 5' tall or be a space pilot with an IQ of 70. Or be a woman if you're a boy (I make a point not to forget to alienate that crowd in every post).
We should really stop: a) prettying up the grades so we don't "hurt" kids (and parents) b) coddling laziness disguised as mental or physical illness c) rewarding participation without effort - downplaying success d) overloading them with activities - taking their childhood away e) burdening them with ADULT things (like politics and ideologies) f) making them feel ashamed for things they can't change (skin color, temperament, height, etc) g) ignoring their need to be accepted by their peers (not their parents), which is #1 in their brain well into ages 17-18