Of course, true enlightenment comes only when you accept that you will never be able to play every game you already own, let go of the worldly desire to clear your backlog, and buy more games anyway. At this stage of enlightenment, you transcend the need for willpower.

Yeah, "buy now, pay later" usually refers to installment plan services like Klarna and Afterpay. Credit card companies have a different business model.

The business model for those services is basically to do all the shady shit that credit companies can't do anymore because they've been around long enough to become regulated.

Going back to the original point about thinking people will be able to pay later. I doubt that's the goal. My impression is that their income is meant to come from two places:

• garnishing people's wages forever and getting them on interest that they can never repay (won't work on everyone, but maybe enough for margins)
• laundering and selling these subprime loans by bundling them with better loans, like the mortgage industry pre-2008

I think I figured out why Bodhisattvas went extinct.

I used to live in an apartment building whose first floor had both a bar and a beer/wine retail store. It WAS so cool to live there!

Fascinating. Live by the trolls, die by the trolls.

Exactly. That's why it's so pointless.

So glad to see another one of your posts! Encountering these in my feed is like stumbling upon an oasis of casual fun in a vast desert of bleak chaos. Always a pleasure!

I thought you might like to know that your earlier posts inspired me to take my Steam Deck to the next level. I got Heroic Launcher set up and used it to play Art of Rally (purchased on GOG). Both were good suggestions, so thanks! (But in my case, Art of Rally should probably be called "Fishtail Simulator") I was also pleasantly surprised that it was able to run the original Wing Commander on the first try, but getting the controls fully mapped and comprehensible seems like a larger undertaking...

Since you asked about games being played: I'm jumping around between stuff a lot lately, but some notable and enjoyable highlights include For the King 2, Guns of Icarus Alliance, The Cosmic Wheel: Sisterhood, and Hexagod.

Well, that's the point. In order for that system to work as described, you would need some kind of centralized authority to validate and enforce it. Once you've introduced that piece, there's no point using NFTs anymore - you can just use any kind of simpler and more efficient key/authentication mechanism.

So even if the corporations wanted to use such a system (which, to your point, they do not), it still wouldn't make sense to use NFTs for it.

Also ridiculous patent trolling.

This one is also a pretty good fit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kguaGI7aZg

Well said. On top of all that, he is the President of the United States of America engaging in that position's role as leading representative in the country's interactions on the global stage. Like it or not, that makes his arrogance American arrogance.

Thankfully, this is satire.

For now...

That explains why you wouldn't be able to see world from beehaw. But world is still federated with beehaw, so you should still be able to see beehaw from world, right?

Of course, you wouldn't be able to interact with anyone there, since they wouldn't see your posts/comments.

And on top of all that, patent trolling to hamstring any competition. I'm done encouraging their nonsense with my money.

Kind of telling that he doesn't even provide an example of anything positive, but a negative example was easy to find.

I assumed we were talking about Musk.

That would require not being blinded by his own ego.

Besides communities, it could also depend on your instance. The one I'm on, for example, makes a point of providing a safe space for gender diverse people to hang out, so the admins will defederate with any instance that does not police itself sufficiently to avoid bigotry. I imagine that means I end up seeing very little of the hate that goes in the broader fediverse. No big loss, I'm sure.

Absolutely. You wouldn't want to be in front.

I agree about that. That makes perfect sense. It's when you start factoring in religion that it all breaks down for me.