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@0li0li

“Magic the Gathering” aka the inventors of real life lootboxes, not sure about trading card games.

But even disregarding the “booster pack” method, the gameplay of a mixed deck of cards + randomized strategy gameplay is the same reward pattern of random loot drops in other games. It’s just that the reward is a combo or win in a match and not an item.

@supersquirrel

ARPGs path of exile
MTG
Rogue likes
gear progression MMOs like WoW

could be continued…

@HiddenLayer555 @yogthos

Someone asked me to do a minimal but fully working prototype of… a docker hosted store front? It was apparently not very good, but the startup was kind enough to tell me why and I learned a lot. It did work, but I shoved entire python objects into sqlite and that just worked.

Ultimately I don’t know if it was what they wanted, they fixed three things and used it or if it was truly not good enough.

@supersquirrel I agree completely. The intent, setup, participation (including springer nature and everyone who publishes there), isn’t “dumb” though.

It’s malicious, evil, negligent or whatever you want to call it.

I dislike “stupid” because it leaves that room for innocent mistakes and unintentional behavior.

People didn’t care for ethical standards and this is the outcome.

@supersquirrel @spit_evil_olive_tips

Idk about stupid.

It’s the direct consequence of having and collecting a bunch of data. Being able to come up with any idea, throw it against the wall and see what sticks was the entire point in the first place. Having almost all of them fail to find the ones that don’t was the point of the setup.

This kind of use is also the reason why anyone who ever warned about data collection warned about it.

@esaru

“One option to avoid this is to self-host, but then you’ll be identifiable via your domain and have to maintain a server.”

Makes it a non issue.

It’s free as in freedom not as in free beer and that’s that.

Jitsi doesn’t have to offer free service and they particularly don’t have to provide anonymity.

The same is true for the fediverse, since the admins have info that could help identify users. That has it’s uses too.

@agelord

As in, where things are, why they are there and how it works as a holistic thing, isn’t being talked about.

Redesigns are graphic or graphic subsystems.

But nobody touches aspects of which settings make sense to put where, taking the education level of the user into account.

And there is no at least semi centralized group that organize that some setups actually work and are well explained. E.g. Sound, If you run into an issue there, good luck finding a support contact or manual.

@agelord

My main problem is that I have “legacy” games that don’t work on Linux as well as Linux ports and native Linux builds being worse than their Linux counterpart.

#limuxgaming has come a long way and I’m curious and excited to see where it goes, but ease of use simply doesn’t have parity. I want one click installs with identical performance.

The bigger issue with the #linuxdesktop in general is that no distro actually thinks about it as a product. 1/2

@On @interolivary the point she was making was that her job is harder because some people are actively dishonest and that creates distrust towards her entire profession, not just the individuals.

Big focus on the how it happened for this case of string theory.

@interolivary she’s cool.

@Hamartiogonic @SenatorBumCuckets

Interesting, I’m actually thinking that the character limit forces the user to put certain thoughts and pieces into paragraphs.

It becomes easier to interact with, e.g. disagreeing with opinions expressed in *one* easily linked to piece of the whole, as having to “disagree with *some unspecified* parts of a monolithic text”.

But I do understand that people don’t like to be… Aggressively encouraged to be brief.