Camera pans uncomfortably and refocuses on MoonRaven’s cat buying NFTs on an old laptop in the background.

I think Warframe is the only (non-open source) free to play game I have nice things to say about.

I never felt any pressure to pay, but every few months of playing and I would think, “I feel like I should chip these folks some cash, again”.

And then they do make it fun to chuck them some money.

Most of the purchasables may as well just say “trust us, it’s fun”, for all I understood any of them before buying. (I think I bought maybe 4 frames while playing for about a year.)

After playing for awhile, I do trust them. I’ve not been disappointed with any purchased frame or item - with the understanding that both are pretty much just amusing “thank you” gimmicks for supporting.

Warframe has been a good time. I sort of expect it to enshitify at any moment, but for now they seem chill.

You got my hopes up.

I don’t wish Alex anything but a long life after a hopefully complete rehabilitation of his sociopsthic habits.

But I do have a nice drink set aside for my own enjoyment on the day that I’m convinced Alex will stop harming others.

I don’t have any particularly strict rule about how I get convinced he is done hurting people. I suspect I’ll see it in the obituaries rather than an op-ed. But I’m open to either.

Alex doesn’t seem likely to fix his life, but he also looks like he doesn’t cares well for his health…so I do have that drink near the front of the cabinet.

Oh well. My nice drink can wait. Maybe I’ll open it to celebrate his reform yet. Like Alice, I try to believe six impossible things before breakfast.

sxxt?

It won’t be a problem, because companies are taking the risks of AI seriously, and compensating employees at every level well enough to ensure each employee takes proper precautions.

I imagine “enough” feels different bankrupting a casino.

Free markets hurt capitalists.

Fucking communists and their free markets and open competition! None of that for us, please.

(Poe’s law: This is meant to be taken as absurdist humor.)

Yes, it’s the people who put in decades of hard work, not the cocaine snorting golden parachute executives, costing US auto makers their chance to compete. That might be it.

Edit: If only there were some way for citizens united to do something to help those poor executives.

The story is funny because the squirrell is dead.

I’m glad to hear it.

I have a friend Jody reminds me of, and I appreciate that he’s still around.

Is that the one The Onion now owns?

Feels like this could happen…

“I was trying to save him, dammit! I was desperate to save him…”

F-Droid is great.

Aurora is more effort than Google Play, but I find Aurora so much more honest about tracking technologies in each app.

Regarding sandboxing, I think so, but installing an app on GrapheneOS is already so much better than on any other operating system.

I just install apps normally and don’t give them any permission I don’t feel like they need.

If I realize why an app needs some permission, later - I can adjust the permissions and try again.

How is Jody doing, now?

It will help my hat taste better.

It’s nice to see Micrsoft commit to teaching their subscribers about the affordable convenience of piracy.

This will surely go fine.

Can we start calling it “Parts for Prisoners” now, or do we wait for it to get turned into 400 homemade shivs, first?

Stupidest timeline.

I’m doing okay, too. Thanks for asking, everyone.