Yeah, I know I’m approaching fossil age, but the pen itself was first made 75 years ago. I had always assumed that the hole in the cap was a change made much closer to the 50s than sometime within my lifetime.

Wait, the hole in the cap is that recent?

Because Steam’s DRM is entirely unobtrusive, it doesn’t require online-only gameplay and the customer experience is excellent.

When Epic tries to compete with Steam they don’t look to make a better user experience, instead they bribe developers for exclusivity deals to force people on their platform if they want to play a game on release.

This is my read too. Cut someone out of your life for their shitty actions, not their shitty opinions.

It’s obvious. The person with the gun has the advantage here.

If the other player had 3 untapped blue mana though, that would be a different story

I know you’re being blithe, but I’d question any galactic federation representative that couldn’t comprehend that the slab of glass just happens to be the most efficient method of sharing information we as a species ever devised.

For me, it was a number of things that all came about through my 20s. The biggest were learning both how and when to tell people “no”, and making a conscious effort to think proactively rather than reactively.

What I mean by that is don’t take on extra work only because someone asks you to, and if something goes wrong, only worry about it if you can actually do something about it. Both of these are skills that require practice.

Also, as others have said, think critically if it might just be a shitty work environment. If that’s the case, consider looking for other work while keeping this job.

Boring reasons mostly.

Im told they offer better options for tiered monetization and the UI is supposedly way better. They also do a better job of promoting smaller creators.

Plus, they never threatened to oust their adult content creators because their payment processor asked them to.

Pretty good, actually. Assuming that you can brand it the right way.

For example, if you’re okay catering to gay men and can position yourself as a confident top with a dad-bod, there is a market for you.

They might, actually. I know of some people that stream software development to Twitch

I’d probably use Fansly instead of OF, but yeah, absolutely. (Assuming that I had the drive to actually do the marketing legwork and had something to offer that was actually in demand, that is)

I haven’t tried to use hamachi in years so I’m not sure about a solution to your problem. However, I can strongly recommend Zerotier as a potential alternative

https://catsystemcorp.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-television-2

Not quite a literal soundtrack to the weather channel, just meant to evoke the same vibes. It’s not a bad album if you’re into vaporwave but there are other vaporwave albums I like a lot more than this one.

I often explain it as though they’re asking an airplane mechanic to fix their Honda Civic. The principals are the same(fuel goes in, rotation comes out) but the machines are so different that doesn’t help much from a practical standpoint

I do the same thing but leverage networking instead of Linux.

“Sorry, I dont actually know much about computers, but let me know if you want advice about port trunking or configuring a VLAN”

This perfectly captures the spirit of an early 2000s gaming magazine ad

Wired communications would take over immediately and it would be a massive pain in the ass, but we’d ultimately adapt.

If the EM jamming is enough to also degrade the signal in copper lines, which at 1000x the strongest signal, might happen, then basically all modern society would collapse within 48 hours

The soctatic method. It forces people to actually think about their position in an argument

You’d think, but its easier to just charge an extra 20% and then blame China while pocketing the extra 3%.

We wont start mining for rare earth metals until they simply refuse to sell to us.

I’m not sure it counts as it’s not made in RPG Maker anymore, but To the Moon is amazing