For once I’m #1 in something 🥳

Condolences.

It’s an appropriate amount of food in terms of calories, but it does leave one distinctly dissatisfied.

Breaking: Actual irony was spotted on Lemmy, if it sees its own shadow we’ll get six more weeks of summer 🫡

Investors: You didn’t do it sneaky enough! Shhhh

Damn. I wish he was this funny instead of this crazy.

Wear a helmet when you ride your bike kid, or you’ll make comics like these.

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.

The destruction of ownership rights has been profitable, but there isn’t an amount labeled “enough”

The sticker price of games is what it is. Micro transactions, subscription models, DLC, and such have all been flawed attempts at remedying this. If they increase the sticker price of games they’ll be subjecting themselves to more critical consumers, more risk averse buyers, and less movable players.

The question they have to ask is, do they feel safe rolling those dice, if their survival might otherwise depend on decreasing a game budget?

This actually seems cool. I’m certainly happier with this angle than I am with the web3 stuff.

Remember that you enter a revolution with the culture you’ve got, not the culture you want. Think on that very carefully before you roll those dice.

I didn’t know spiders got that big in Canada

On the contrary, I think the games industry is struggling with it. Larger developers keep increasing their budgets, and the need for return on investment is making them too risk averse to create anything worth much of a damn. Meanwhile low or no-budget (kick-started) indie titles are making several times their investment while doing really commendable creative work. The profit incentive is self-destructive in art.

That’s… Better than what you said before, but it pains me that people think that’s the full depth of artistic endeavor, to have given people fodder for small talk.

Art is a kind of conversation, but it’s not small talk. If you’ve been following that conversation and you bring a new perspective to it that changes how everyone thinks and shapes the conversation from that point onwards, that is what you might call “artistic success”.

On the other hand if all you’re doing is trying to make money…

Nobody knows. People have been making art for several thousands of years and nobody has ever known whether it was any good unless it made a lot of money! Thank goodness we’ve cleared that up, now I’m going to go try and will myself to have an aneurysm

You mean commercially, or artistically?

The “shits and giggles” crowd when the shits begin: 😦

He’s not even narcissistic in an interesting way

Forbidding people to talk about politics is inherently political, and therefore hypocritical.