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It feels a lot like using a game controller to control your mouse, if you’ve ever used Joy2Key or similar programs.

Correct. This was all just theater so that TikTok could put up a message in front of several million users saying how good of a guy Trump is.

Won’t he be embarrassed to learn it wasn’t even offline for half a day!

Isn’t calling it a meme supposed to be the quiet part? I thought we called them “meme” coins because everybody was in agreement that the coin wasn’t meant to be taken seriously?

A handful of underpaid city staffers gently disassembling your home don’t send the same message that 200 tons of steel and diesel barreling through it does.

They’re not mutually exclusive. The Hope Diamond is valued at around $300 million, but it doesn’t make any profit.

Well for one, it’s easily one of the largest social media platforms on the planet right now, so it getting cut off from a major percentage of its user base overnight is a pretty big deal in terms of discussions on government censorship.

But if you want a more Fediverse-pertinent reason to care, those several million users are going to be going somewhere for their content fix. Some of them are going to be trying out Loops and Pixelfed, which are Fediverse platforms that replace some features of TikTok. While it’ll likely only be a small percentage of those users who try migrating over, that’s still going to have an affect on adjacent ActivityPub platforms as a bunch of new instances and users start engaging with it.

“stealing” a digital copy of a movie, tv show or a game is like if the item you’re stealing from a store is infinitely copyable.

What if it’s a physical Blu-ray? Those are infinitely copyable.

have pooped through a hole in the bottom of a moving train in China

Sorry, but that sounds like an upgrade to me. Pooping has gotten so boring lately, but that sounds exciting! I’d pay good money to experience taking a miles-long dump.

pronounced two-by-four

Unless you’re in the south, in which case it’s pronounced “tuba-fur”.

I’m sure he’ll read it.

It’s creepy whenever people write songs praising active, still-living leaders.

Could implement torrents, which I believe is how Peertube handles it.

My apologies if I’m getting this wrong, as I don’t play Gacha games, but isn’t that worse?

It depends. I’m not sure how current loot box games handle it, but with most gacha games, there are determined odds for the prizes, so they have a “pity” system. So after a certain amount of pulls, you’re always guaranteed to get the top reward. RNG will make it so that you’ll typically pull all the way to nearly the end of that pity timer before you get the top reward, but you’ll eventually get it.

I’m not sure if traditional loot “boxes” have such a protection in place. I dunno if it’s any better or worse since they’re both pretty manipulative tactics, but it’s different.

I feel like the difference is the loot “box”, itself. Granted, I’ve not played any loot box games since Team Fortress 2, but in that game the box was an actual inventory item you could store and open whenever you wanted, and those items would always be from the same pool.

With Genshin, you’re basically just pulling from a singular, infinite loot box that rotates its reward pool. So you can’t, as a player, decide to open a Year 1 item when it’s not in the current rotation.

It’s a small difference, but I feel like that’s why we have separate terminology for “gacha” and “loot box” games.

I’m confused. I’ve played Genshin, and I don’t remember any sort of loot box system in the game. There’s a gacha system which seems to be what the article keeps referring to, but that’s very different from what I think the average user considers a “loot box”.

Was kinda hoping for specs. I like the design upgrade, though.