Ultima Online and Tibia were MMOs with persistent worlds with thousands of players at the same time and no monthly fee as well :)
But I already addressed it here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61742119/23805954

Poor analogy, Blizzard didn’t pay my internet bill, and all previous games you could play online just by buying the game. Diablo II had a single player but it was created for online multiplayer, and you didn’t need to pay a monthly fee.

Yeah, I used to play Diablo II online and Ultima Online as well (other friends would play Tibia), all of these were created for online multiplayer as well, that’s why I thought WoW was bullshit… nowadays I understand the difference in server costs (Diablo II they basically just hosted a lobby and your character data, the game instance would run on the player’s computer and not their server, but the other two games hosted all their realms 24/7 with thousands of players simultaneously, the difference is that WoW were hundreds of thousands to millions).

Hell yeah!

If just I had CD drive on my laptop lol

Hey @Deceptichum just the other day I found some notes from a time I cared about it (my major is history, but I left college almost 20 years ago) referencing a bunch of shit I don’t even remember reading or writing, and I was curious because it was something about Trotsky… some references to Lenin’s April Thesis being influenced by Trotsky’s Permanent Revolution, how Lenin’s Treaty of Brest-Litovski was highly criticized by his own party, that led him to write Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, and how through all of that Trotsky supported Lenin’s position while Stalin was using the Pravda to support the provisional government and the war. One of the notes is written “Kingston-Mann, Esther: Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution, 1893-1917 pg139” (and I have no idea what’s there :P), and obviously Lenin’s own testament saying Stalin was an idiot and should be removed from his position… it seems like the whole thing was to poke fun at Leninists idolizing Stalin and demonizing Trotsky… perhaps you can make something out of it :P

ps: I’m not sure I’m tagging user correctly here.

this is just too good lol

That was a very cool reply. I don’t use chatbots that much but I will consider running it locally, just from time to time I ask something to duck.ai or lumo and end up like fuckingshitfuckingchatbotcantdoanythingrightgoddammit

I mostly use it to grammar check me if I’m writing something I don’t want to mess up in a foreign language, the other day I was writing a movie review and in the middle of it I wrote something like “Has Van Damme ever made a movie that isn’t gay porn?”, and instead of grammar checking the review the chatbot was like, “Hey, it’s not nice to say those things about a public figure. There are no records of Van Damme making pornographic movies and he is not gay, those are only rumors” fuckingmotherfuckerchatbotbloodybastard!

Well, at least it keeps my hatred for AI companies fresh.

Diablo II was the last time I bought something by Blizzard. When they launched WoW I found it absurd that you had to buy the game and still pay a monthly fee to play.

The asterisks were the person’s self-censoring, it seems like he was trying to say wetback but he was taught to fear words, like he was going to summon Voldemort or something.

These models seem awesome, how can I get one to do that? The other day someone wrote “***back” on a forum saying it’s a slur and I asked a chatbot what slur is ***back and the chatbot said it can’t say because its hurtful.

it went from kinky to that golden crowning scene from Game of Thrones

I think the problem is that she is not sending it for no reason, they should stop ordering first :P

covered in what? covered in what??

Other Brazilian here: Although they don’t care much about piracy at individual level, there were local servers seized and from time to time they take down some locally hosted sites, so although it’s safe for you to download and even p2p share stuff, you can get unlucky hosting - if it’s near elections and some politician needs to pretend he is having the police working.

R.I.P. Manicômio Share

Thank you. I replied to another comment in this thread https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61581354/23757784 but it might be a gross oversimplification and faulty recall. Yeah, I do think Russia claiming “denazification” is quite ironic, but until it was about protecting separatist regions instead of attacking others, I had a more clear opinion on the matter (as per that comment). After 2022 I prefer to not be so loud and absolute about it.

I don’t know of it being archived, I don’t have contact with anyone from these networks anymore, but I didn’t want to talk about Donetsk and Lugansk because perspectives change, and I don’t know if the situation of today is the same as it was 12 years ago.

Being a South American myself, every time we “vote wrong” the Western powers sponsor coups or simply invade us to change the government, so despite reading from afar, I saw too many similarities, and my take was that after the government didn’t side with Western powers, the mass media started a generic campaign against corruption to mobilize public anger - all so common here. Literal nazis were the shock troops leading the violence, as it was denounced by the anarchists documenting all the groups. At the time, it was easy information to find, even Google wasn’t so enshitified, so you could find some noblogs or Indymedia content as well… (I think Rosa Negra was starting at the time, perhaps they might have information), but recently I tried to find it again and it’s easier to find (on English-speaking internet, at least) allegations saying that Azov isn’t nazi at all and it’s just Russian propaganda, than their own pictures and speeches showing they are literal nazis (same for other the other groups I mentioned in the post).

Everyone that was against this nazi-enforced coup was labelled pro-Russian, regardless of whether they were just against a nazi-enforced coup. Opposition was outlawed and persecuted, and then the regions that had a clear majority against the coup, which to my surprise nowadays is called the Revolution of Dignity, started being bombed and slaughtered for not recognizing the new government. They organized and had clear, internationally observed referendums about their self-determination, but it was dismissed and ridiculed by Western media and governments, and this is where Russian active support to these regions enters.

I don’t believe for a second in Russia’s good intentions, but I believe for people so cornered, they accept support from anyone. I also believe that Russia expanding the conflict outside of the separatist regions forced people outside of them to support anyone on their side (but since actual Ukrainian left organizations were outlawed, it’s kinda hard to know their take on all of that…).

However, Western media and social media platforms were always pro-Western agenda. American liberals eat that shit like cornflakes and pose as “left” on the internet, so all that was opposed was dismissed as Russian propaganda, etc, etc, even what I’d read from Ukrainian anarchist sources. So it was always kinda pointless taking it to Twitter or so because of the American “left”. There are a lot of activists that are now mature and are probably very knowledgeable about theory and praxis and current events, but that I fear had their formative “rebel” years on Twitter and its narratives (not anyone’s fault, it’s hard to find information on your own when you don’t have anyone to help you, and liberals do pose as rebels on Twitter). So that’s why I wonder if there is a generational information gap, because when I see leftist (including anarchists) support for the Ukrainian government nowadays, well, it’s kinda weird compared to what I knew of the situation. But I do recognize I don’t have nearly enough information about how everything developed to really have an opinion worth being heard (but back then, I think being anti-maidan wasn’t polarizing at all among anarchists and other socialist groups).

Flock Safety operates in only one country.

I had other profile that had a couple of comments removed but modlog only said “mod”.

lol
in these cases is there a way to know who banned you? I preemptively block some people so I never get the displeasure of interacting with them.

I felt like there was something missing so I picked some chives from my garden.

The pasta I’m making is an Italian Paganini “trafilata al bronzo”, might not be a big deal for Europeans, but is way better than anything local I have in my third world country.