Yeah you got me there, I thought about it a bit more after I posted and concluded “That actually doesn’t make any sense” but I figured someone would get what I was going for.
Also framing it the way you did makes therapists seem like modern-day sin eaters and now I can’t stop chuckling at the concept.
The psychiatric healthcare industry 🙂
I feel for you OP, I hope we all get to live in the more accepting world we deserve someday.
Apologies as well if my previous comment also sounds a bit unsympathetic, which was not my intention but it does to me on a re-read. I’m sure there’s a lot more discomfort that comes with living under these kinds of rules than just what games you are or aren’t allowed to play that I did not give enough consideration to.
I do hope you get to play and enjoy the game, but no way should the developer compromise on their vision of the game just to comply with a fucked-up morality regulation.
Star Trek says that we shouldn’t expect World War 3 until 2026, so we’ve got 1 more year to live to the fullest before then.
Definitely won’t be all of them. Probably just a small set that are not huge money makers. They already publish some titles as third party, like Minecraft, Ori, and Lucky’s Tale.
Guessing we just get ports of, like, Hi-Fi Rush and Psychonauts, and continued support of some Activision titles that are 3rd party like Diablo 4, Spyro, Crash, and a token Call of Duty game.
Not yet. Their AT protocol, similar to the Fediverse’s ActivityPub protocol, is open-source and is supposedly working towards the goal of enabling federation, but presently Bluesky is centrally-hosted and run. In theory, one could use the existing AT protocol and spin up their own Bluesky alternative, but it would just make another “center” given that current lack of federation.
The optimist in me is hoping that this is just a temporary thing, to show users that the platform works before enabling federation, versus what has happened to the Fediverse early on where a lot of poorly-implemented/poorly-run instances that couldn’t handle any significant user load ended up buckling and gave early adopters a negative impression.
But the cynic in me (and the commonly-accepted conclusion others appear to have drawn) considers the possibility that Bluesky no longer cares about decentralization and would prefer to remain a centrally-hosted Twitter 2.0. But there is a push to transfer the governance of the AT protocol to a nonprofit to ensure that its original purpose is protected, so hopefully that or some other initiative like it ends up accomplishing their mission.