Good fuck every company that has loot boxes and fuck every idiot who has ever bought one.

Both can burn in hell for damaging the game industry and making gaming worse for everyone.

While I’m at it, stop pre ordering games too you fucking degenerates. You are all a disappointment to total biscuits legacy.

No that’s just gnome. Seriously people stop fucking using gnome and giving them power to fuck either else up for the rest of us.

Their sheer popularity and gtk causes so many fucking problems all over the place. They are as bad as microshit.

Valve games literally target mostly the 13-18 age range…

Also do you have any fucking idea what the M rating means…? M RATING IS STILL MINORS.

It’s 17 and up, 17 IS A MINOR.

The ONLY rating that’s for adults is AO or adult only 18+. Real world gambling is literally only legally allowed in AO games.

If valve wants to have gambling then their games should be AO. Which then carries a legal requirement of age verification already and has for decades.

If you have gambling in a m rated game that involves real money you have underaged gambling. It’s literally cut and dry

Then they can fucking stop with the god damn fucking loot boxes.

Valve shouldnt need biometrics.

Valve also should fucking suck the fattest cock with the gambling bullshit.

Random chance should NEVER be part of a transaction involving two parties that have unequal footing in the deal.

Expect the dev behind it is also a insane twat waffle.

Bottles is about as much of a mess as lutris is with a dev that’s just as crazy.

Generally you have a 50/50 coin flip if lutris or bottles works for you. And for the most part you sorta just try both and see which works then attempt as hard as you can to change nothing so it don’t break. Cause bottles LOVES to break.

Try actually having open communication. Your as much as fault as that guy.

Your clearly here with a made up mind and no room for discussion or nuance. Thus you don’t deserve anyone’s kindness.

That guy is just here to be an asshole.

You basically have a sign on your head saying “be an asshole to me or don’t talk to me”.

When the only room for discussion is hostile don’t be surprised when you get the assholes talking to you.

While I hate AI as much as the next guy. It’s also entirely true that people are attacking and harassing people for using making them a worse problem.

I’m entirely down for fucking with the dipshits who can’t help themselves but be massive twats.

If your going to have a shit show might as well make it a good one.

Can’t even refund it if you play black desert and claimed the pre order bonus else you will lose like 30+ billion silver as a punishment. Which ranges from 30 to 80 hours of grinding.

Absolutely funny as fuck. Get fucked any dipshit that pre ordered this. STOP PRE ORDERING GAMES. Anyone who pre orders anything is a disgrace and an insult to the memory of total biscuit.

I’m still baffled anyone didn’t see this coming for years.

Dude is fucking unhinged and always has been.

It’s likely idiots confusing normal arch and things like endeavour or cachy.

Pre built arch distros are legitimately as bullet proof as something like mint. Everything’s guis, everything’s pre done by the distro mainter, and you basically have to do nothing.

This isn’t 2003 anymore. Arch based distros dont just randomly explode any more or less then fedora or Ubuntu or popos at this point.

For heaven sake steamos is arch. Arch is unironically likely the single most commonly used distro for new users of the last few years because of the steamdeck.

A new user shouldn’t be doing arch from scratch, but a distro is a distro they don’t just go boom because of random happenstance.

It can but it would require headlines like “70% of all nividia users find their computers unusable permanently due to a faulty automated update.”

THAT Would cause a solid drop in stock value

To be fair, it’s also inconvenient convoluted and confusing to non-technical users… So yeah it works and some people can use it and others need their handheld quite a bit to even get halfway.

The same problem matrix as. If you’re trying to talk about a discord alternative, you need to aim for the demographic. That is the bottom 50% of the bell curve. If your explanation needs to be longer than two to four sentences on how to use something, then it’s already too complicated and will never take off for the use case.

If you’re looking for a usable open standard that is reliable, xmpp is incredibly good. It’s just not a discord replacement. It’s a discord alternative sure. And a good one at that.

But again till the user experience problem can be solved. Like with most open source things they will never be average user friendly.

That might be the stupidest fucking statement ever.

Your basically asking if unicorns shit gold would you take the unicorn poop.

It’s nonsensical. It doesn’t reflect the reality of the situation. Anyone can make up b******* hypotheticals to make something sound bad. It’s still b*******.

Why the fuck would anyone give a fuck about the plutonium stuff? Kick starters, investment backing, and crowd funding are all standard ways to generate initial revenue. It’s a f****** company. It needs money to buy hardware in paper server costs. Development isn’t free and if you want people to work full-time on something you have to get this pay them.

He basically asked for $300k to start full-time development and Kickstart the company after he left closed development. He provided a full proof of service documentation in history of his closed development.

The only people who have any issue with the plutonium stuff are those who are either too f****** retarded to understand basic business or a too far up their own asses to think that everything should be free in life.

If you self-host you don’t have to pay f****** wild concept considering how many self-toast services actually charge you money for full service. So that alone is already one up on a lot of stuff.

A basic subscription is far more reliable than donations if you want a company to be able to actually function. A subscription provides a reliable income so you can actually plan your costs and budgets. It’s a far better option than microtransactions that discord seems to want to push.

Cuz again server costs and vitamin costs aren’t free. Remember FOSS stands for free as in freedom to do what you want with the software within the license not free as in it doesn’t cost you f****** anything.

If fluxer had come out of the gate with no proof of concept, no history. No explanation of the credentials of the developer. No business license and no source code on demonstration and just said hey. Trust me bro. I need 300 Grand then. Yeah it would be an issue. But lo and behold the reality is none of that’s true.

Could it all go poof belly up and a month time 2 months a year? Yes of course, small businesses die all the time. 300K is not a lot of money for a small business. Frankly, the fact he only asked for $300k is more of a red flag than he asked for money at all. Cuz he’s going to have to pull a lot f****** more money if you wants to do anything remotely clothes to what his goal is. If he had shot for a 500k 600k somewhere in that vicinity. I would personally be more trusting than him asking for $300k. Much more than 600k and I would start asking questions as that’s a little bit much for a initial investment backing.

Seriously, the more I look around on Lemmy the more, I think that nobody here seems to actually understand that s*** costs money.

Unlikely. They make for poor discord community replacements. There’s just too much complexity at the door.

Most things are looking towards fluxer as the replacement. Since it’s actually a discord replacement unlike xmpp or matrix. Which are alternatives not replacements.

Closest your going to get is fluxer. It unfortunately only just entered open beta. So the self host option while there… Is not simple yet.

Tho it’s on the road map.

It broke 100,000 users and growing. The $300,000 the dev raised with his backer Kickstarter thing really is going to get stretched thin really quick with how fast it’s growing.

He’s already had to roll out more servers a few times to my understandings too. Well, self-hosting is currently a thing. It’s still under active development in that really needs to finish up quick to help offload some of the load.

Honestly, once the mobile app is finished and the self-hosting is more stable, it’s basically going to be like the old days of TeamSpeak 3 s when everyone actually liked it.

But with all the modern conveniences and benefits of discord.

It is the only thing currently going around. That’s actually trying to be a replacement for discord. Keyword replacement not alternative.

Like xmpp is an alternative, not a replacement.

The ever continuing trend of foss enthusiasts having less then no fuckinf clue the FUCK normal people use computers for.

Xmpp is great but you are 100% right. It’s not a discord replacement. It never will be. It is court replacement and it is not trying to be a discord replacement. People need to stop trying to force it to be one. The same thing goes with matrix though to a lesser extent.

Matrix at least is trying to be a team’s replacement, which is a legitimate alternative to what discord does for the average user.

Matrix has a whole host of other problems that will make and never be a viable alternative. But none of them are technical in nature. It’s mostly just the fragmentation will nature of it. And how confusing it is to navigate.

At the moment the only two legitimate replacement options are stoat and fluxer. Stoat is a dead end and unluckly to go anywhere. While fluxer is only like 2 weeks into its open beta just released its code base to the public after a long-ass time of closed development. And barely has enough funding even with their Kickstarter thing. Fluxer has passed 100,000 user Mark already and growing.

It’s also the only thing that’s actually trying to be an app for your average user. It’s actually targeting the same demographic discord was.

Which matters a lot. Matrix xmpp all these other things aren’t targeting the same demographic. They are not trying to be a replacement. I mean, I’m sure they’re happy to scoop up some new users and help expand their reach a little bit who doesn’t want to see their project grow after all.

But all these people trying to push matrix xmpp and what not is like going to a construction site telling a worker. Hey, your pickup truck is old and s***** you should stop using it and go use this nice moped while they look at you. Like you’re a f****** retard as they have to lug around a ton and a half of materials and tools everyday in the moped. Why perfectly good means of conveyance will do the job better than the pickup truck as the purpose of a vehicle cannot fully fulfill the same role that the pickup truck fills.

This was voice dictated if the grammar is f***** up. Sorry my brain don’t work too good sometimes

If I keep learning new words I’m going to start to forgor older ones!

Fluxer has been in development for a while, it just only recently went public. Everything has to go public at some point. Judging something just because of that feels ignorant and kinda stupid

Also literally every thing ever in the history of business. Has had initial investors of some descriptions. Again this feels insanely stupid to judge something because it’s trying to gather seed money.

300k wasn’t even a lot of money. For what fluxer is trying to do it’s going to need millions and a steady inflow of cash.

If anything the fact they didn’t try to get more money is a red flag.

If a program trying to replace discord doesn’t ask for money it’s a scam. You can’t do something at that scale and not have subs or paid options.

There’s fucking nothing free in life and I’m fucking tired of people expecting and demanding everything be free. That’s how we fucking got to this point in the first place. Companies turning to ads, data gathering and other things to generate revenue. Because the number of paid users is a drop in the bucket.

Either you pony up and put money on the table. Or YOU are the fucking product and will be sold off as parts to support the stuff you use.

Bandwidth, labor, hardware all costs money. Even self hosting still costs labor.

AND FUCK AI.