I’m just hoping there’s eventually some form of private server similar to FiveM so I can have my Dune roleplay.

Personally? The vast bulk of my interactions with people online. Voice chat, DMs, servers for pretty much everything. Being involved in roleplaying communities in DayZ and Conan, the vast majority of the behind-the-scenes stuff is taking place on discord. Servers for particular game servers as well as groups make up a pretty big portion of my list, along with smaller private discord servers of networks of players from various other servers. It’s how I stay connected with dozens of people I’ve known for years.

I’m also in quite a few discords related to modding and game development. Nearly every modder has their own discord, which is extremely useful if you’re running your own game servers and need to be in contact with them or if you make mods yourself and want to seek advice or information for compatibility. The same is true of a lot of other non-gaming software, with many developers having their own servers where they post updates and where you can find advice or post suggestions.

I’ve got a few queer community servers on my list, which were particularly helpful when I was early in my transition before I really had gotten around to rebuilding my social network and finding accepting people. There’s even a discord for a group of animators I used to spend a lot of time with back in the mid 00s; back then we were using forums and IRC mostly, and a little bit of Skype, but these days it’s been a good way to keep in touch.

If I’m home and on my computer, I’m almost always in a discord voice chat. It’s basically the modern equivalent of AIM or ICQ or Facebook, but with loads of added features and without Meta being involved. I even use it for note taking and storing images and screencaps.

Even something like Matrix, at the moment, doesn’t really cover all the voice and video chat features that Discord does. It’s close, but it’s missing essential components like push-to-talk, and it requires workarounds to enable things like screen sharing.

Discord turning to shit would be a real pain in the ass.

Do those have push to talk?

Too low. I should not be able to personally afford a whole ass ton of excess greenhouse gasses for the same price as my car insurance.

I’m sorry, but who the hell quotes stuttering verbatim?

Considering that it also extends to charging stations, that some of the Teslas are privately owned, and that people have been doing things like shooting at dealerships? I’m thinking not.

Quite the pattern. Notice how once something happens a few times, it becomes a normalized course of action. In a month or two we went from not hearing about this at all to seemingly many people across the world jumping in specifically on lighting things on fire. There have been some other approaches too, but burning things down seems to be an increasingly common response.

It’s interesting to see how specific kinds of resistance become sort of a behavioral trend. A few people lead by example and suddenly it starts to snowball. I wonder what other kinds of similar situations we’ll see play out over the next few months.

I’m pretty sure people thought Trump would be good at economics literally just because of the Apprentice. Manny more people in the US watch reality TV than have any real understanding of politics. Look at all the Trump voters who literally seemed to have no idea he would do any of the things he very loudly said he was going to do. They just remember him being the boss guy who was supposedly good at business from that one show they watched about business.

To be fair, it’s almost infinitely cheaper to hire a bunch of people to post in threads muddying the waters of any discussion than it is to fix any given issue. If any public criticism devolves into bickering, it’s hard for outside observers to make enough sense of it to heavily impact sales.

Look how well it worked for the election. With a proof of concept that dramatic lying around, what money-grubbing executive wouldn’t want to follow the example?

I’m not sure the US saying “okay, Putin gets whatever he wants” is going to be as effective as Trump would like to think.

Everyone knows in real life your shoes come apart every 15 minutes and if you don’t eat every 20 minutes you’ll immediately die.

So… No one should ever give any feedback on what kinds of thread anyone else posts? Not sure I agree with that.

Because it’s populating my feed?

Agreed.

This is actually why I stopped using Startrek.website, though. One of their mods posts constant updates about STO. Honestly, I’m pretty sure he’s employed by STO.

To be fair, it is kind of odd to post patch notes. All sorts of games get new patches all the time. If people start making a habit of posting every set of patch notes for the games that they play, it’d very quickly become a substantial portion of the posts here.

Personally, if people were regularly spamming patch notes I’d probably eventually either block the community or block the poster.

Looks like it’s just a picture of something sitting in relatively still water that’s just been flipped upside down.

Most single player steam games are cracked anyway. The real danger of steam is the reliance on it for most multiplayer games. Though if it were to get particularly nasty I imagine adding aftermarket multiplayer functionality would probably be in the realm of possibility. If private WoW servers are a thing, it stands to reason that the same can be done with a lot of other games.

Literally none of that changes the self-destructive stupidity of letting Trump get into office.

It isn’t about whether the Democrats are exemplary or even decent. It’s about the actual result of your actions. Are the Democrats to blame for failing to act, for failing to prevent a second term, and for all the other mistakes and capitulations they’re guilty of? Absolutely. Does that absolve voters of responsibility? Not even a little bit.

At the end of the day, voters still decided that they were willing to let others suffer. They decided that Palestinians don’t matter, that health care doesn’t matter, that trans rights don’t matter, that immigrants don’t matter, that the environment doesn’t matter, that access to food and housing doesn’t matter, that reproductive rights don’t matter, and on and on and on, because it’s more important to send a message that they don’t approve of the Democrats.

Everyone who spread the narrative that they’re no different is complicit in everything Trump does, because this is what you chose. This is the supposed lack of difference. This is what you said doesn’t matter and isn’t important.

Nothing you say about the Democrats will wash the blood from your hands.

Literally. This is the result of the level of discourse on the internet and of petty one-upsmanship with a complete disconnect from reality. All that matters is being ‘right’ not what actually happens in the world. Therefore it’s a race to the bottom while doing everything possible to shatter any political power that might have resulted in a coalition with any chance of saving anything.

So we get the worst because people are too busy shitting on anyone they can point a finger at for not being their idea of perfect.

We are apparently incapable of learning how to get along with one another on the left and are utterly susceptible to atomization, while the right is capable of banding together with absolute moral bankruptcy to light the planet on fire, commit genocide, and destroy every social service we ever had.

Fucking infuriating that this feckless performative bullshit is the best we can muster. That we literally are too divided by pointing out everything wrong with everyone else to ever get together and accomplish anything.

The stupid thing is, the people directing the bot farms that started this? They fucked themselves too. The right fucked themselves, the center fucked themselves, the left who couldn’t get it together to work with anyone lacking ideological ‘purity’ fucked themselves.

Humans are too stupid to exist. Fucking checkmate. We all lose.

Gloat? Hello? I’m furious. The people who pushed this angle successfully fucked the world up for a bunch of people including themselves.

They may literally have wiped us out. All of us. They almost certainly doomed millions to die of entirely preventable environmental disasters.

For what? Hyperbole? Spite? Fucking really?