Its what makes it more secure. Why do you need a chat app that allows your parents to accidentally stumble into a group of con artists or kids to stumble into things they shouldn’t be exposed to? It’s a messaging app, not gamer group chat.

This is what puts is way ahead of the others.

Unlike the other two, there are no servers that run discoverable group chats.

Because I dont need to pay rent for my files and I don’t have to worry about AI and VCs trying invade my privacy.

Studio fan death by 1000 papercuts.

This is where I’ve gotten to with their games as well. I love them, but tired of it basically becoming an MMORPG DLC subscription.

Most of the game genres they excel at are the type I like buying and playing because they are complete from day one, and you maybe get 1 to 3 DLCs. Like movies, the trilogy (original game and two nice DLCs) is the sweet spot.

Stellaris got insane and most of the individual races should have been bundled somehow into larger expansion packs.

Was Canadian, its owned by a Japanese company since 2010

OCRemix.Org already does this with their music, so its possible.

I have a gloriously reduced monthly subscription footprint and application footprint because of all the motherfuckers that tied ChatGPT or other AI into their garbage and updated their terms to say they were going to scan my private data with AI.

And, even if they pull it, I don’t think I’ll ever go back. No more cloud drives, no more ‘apps’. Webpages and local files on a file share I own and host.

This. Throwing your trash on the ground because you can’t find a trash can amounts to childish entitlement in my eyes.

No trash cans in the forest, is OP saying they just litter all through nature when they go camping?

I’d go back to the Yukon Gold Rush and make sure Fred Trump never made it out of Canada.

Edit: Doh! No consequences… huh. I’m not really sure it would be worth the trip then.

Most importantly always break well before a turn in snow. Never break in a turn.

Revenge of the Nerds when I was 7. Adult forgot about the peephole scene.

I downvote it when its opinion is clearly wack. Like when it tries to give Washington Post a highly trusted rating after all the inflammatory, biased shit they’ve been putting out.

I mean, gas is the original surge pricing commodity, they have had dark patterns in their pricing long before other companies.

60? Doesn’t that put you closer to GenX? Was there a “cusp” generation like Xennials?

Banana Cow.

Not the new age bar drink but the old school member of the Strawberry Cow, Chocolate Cow syrups line for kids to make Chocolate/Strawberry/Banana milk.

I think it depends on personal preference and what kind of user you are.

If you are going to engage in trolling and just being the kind of person someone wouldn’t want to hire its probably best to hide your identify.

Likewise of you just want to keep it a secret.

My identity has been out there on the internet for a long time. Ran a web community, work in IT. I might delve into grayer topics on social media than on LinkedIn, but I try to check myself and ensure I’m considering others and my behavior before allowing myself to just pump raw emotion into comments.

Not going to claim to be 100% successful at either of those but hey I try.

I limit what information is shared about me as much as I can afford to given the nature of the industry I work in.

Yes. Though its dated now. Really didn’t have any bright ideas for an avatar when I joined.

EDIT: Updated it to match my tenforward.social one.

Always into a good Denim sandwich myself.

A Jandwich if you willl.

I wont lie, it hurt to shut The Den of Amateur Writing down. That place was a product of the heart. So many good memories.

As I get older I find my heels and arches just hurt randomly walking on hard flooring, and carpets get gross. The solution for me is a pair of sketchers I reserve for indoor use.