One is even called pika, so that checks out

whichever would separate east and west, just for shits and giggles

Decentralized governments: already a reality in most places, with a clear hierarchy (federal, state/province, city). Local communities aren’t always formed, but can coexist

Decentralized power sources: kinda there already? The thing is that it makes more sense economically to have a small number of big power plants than spread then thinly, especially due to industry needs that can be much larger than what residential lines typically transmit

Decentralized market: I mean, open fairs and small, corner markets are still a thing, no? Or what kind of market do you mean?

Decentralized currency: crypto kinda does that? There’s no central authority issuing whatever-coins. In more real-life terms, decentralized currency is deeply tied to local economy and you can look at history for how something like that used to work: small kingdoms almost always wanted to mint their own coins, then whenever conducting trade with external markets, some exchange rates would be set based on supply/demand.

Blaming the user. Always

^{I’m the user}

Don’t forget that half of old youtube was rickrolling

Voices in OP’s head, I’d wager

The main problem is always “nobody else that I care about uses/will use the alternative”, so it’s a dead end

Pictured above, a bird whose wings double as ears

I don’t even remember why I had a MS account.

If you’re of a certain age, probably MSN Messenger

If it happened on a MS account you have, you can check the activity part of the account, it should list all login attempts and give you an IP for each.

Alternative text: Firefox overcoming Chrome

I vote for sea urchins to be added as hats to Team Fortress 2

Steve jobs also hated keyboards, or at least all the F1-12 keys because “nobody needs them”

About the “5 stylus on my hand”, it really feels like he only ever cared about the lowest common denominator when it came to usability and function. Yes, you have 5 fingers, but to this day fingers lack precision on touch screens, while a pencil stylus is as precise as it can get.

I just received an email from GOG saying the mod is available for free there (you still need to own the FO4 base game). The “catch” to download from them is that you have to subscribe to their email advertising.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/fallout_london

I suspect people watch it because it gives them that dopamine hit of helping someone, without actually doing anything. “Oh my gosh, he’s so charitable!”

Commodified charity is a very effective way to get views and followers, so many people copy his format, doing “charity” for personal fame and gain - i’ve heard of some “charity” tubers/tokers that start selling ad space to fucking online casinos once they get enough viewers.

So Star Citizen actually does No Man’s Sky travel, but better? Interesting.

I remember a flash animation that was basically the biggest advertisement of itself based off “reviews”, with stuff like “The greatest animation of all time; A must see animation; Better than Lord of the Rings; Better than sex; Better than chocolate; Better than sex with chocolate” - That was all the animation was.

Then why not release the binaries for running such server? I’m sure a group of people could figure out how to decompile and make a change so the game attempts to connect to a different master host

I wonder whether Eve has more or less scams per capita (player) than Roblox or Runescape

I think that wouldn’t quite count as an expense as it sounds more like simple currency exchange, similar to trading 100m dollars for 90 million euros.