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That's a strange take isn't it? Facebook has like twice the # of daily users as Instagram, and 6x that of Snap...

If people don't like the China example, they can look at New Zealand or Australia, both of which had tiny fractions of our Covid deaths AND experienced less economic decline AND experienced a drop in suicides during the time.

Twitter is down a whopping 0.33% today.

Can confirm! I run a company that has five MUDs, and we have quite a few blind players as well as at least a couple of blind employees. I'm not visually-impaired, but I like knowing that our players who are are "seeing" the same game world in their heads as fully sighted players, or at least seeing the world from an equal perspective.

Nexon, Netmarble, Bandai-Namco are all comparable to or bigger than Ubisoft in terms of revenue I believe.

decentralized autonomous organization (driven via crypto)

R.I.P. Turd Ferguson

A number of years ago there was a guy from Korea (I think) coming to the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) in San Jose, but ended up in San Jose, Costa Rica. He was quite distressed.

Random retail investors aren't being scammed in that situation. It's completely different.

Thanks! No, I was Shaitan as a player in Avalon, then Lazarus as a god.

Glad you have such fond memories!

Oof, yeah, relatively low ping is important. Not like FPS important, but still important.

Nothing to worry about, it happens! Glad you enjoyed Achaea. :)

Because botting is basically impossible for us to detect algorithmically (we're a tiny company and don't have the resources to engage in that kind of battle with botters), our line boils down to, "If we come and talk to you and you don't reply, you're not playing the game and that's not allowed."

It's the only standard for botting that works for us.

You're welcome, and that's really cool to hear.

Fair point, and you're right.

MUDs may be history to most people, but at Iron Realms we still have five commercial MUDs running live with dedicated paid staff on each constantly working to improve the gameplay and enlarge the already massive worlds. Honestly, it's pretty surprising to me, as when I launched our first one - Achaea - in 1997 right around when Ultima Online launched, I gave us five years.

https://ironrealms.com

Hi Vadi! Sarapis here. ;)

He's right, Mudlet is the best desktop client out there for Mudding with. This is the part where I mention that I run a company with five MUDs ranging from almost 24 years live to just a couple years live. https://ironrealms.com

From the Harvard Injury Control Research Center:

"Where there are more guns there is more homicide."

"Across high-income nations more guns = more homicide."

"Across states, more guns = more homicide."

"More guns = more homicides of police."

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-an...

98% of them have no idea what's really going on.

So weird. Had just finished s3e4 for the second time through when I saw this.

My tomatoes are unhappy about this development.

Wow. I feel like I just read a line from some kind of James Bond comic book villain. I know he was serious, and that he's probably right, but still, wow!

Once it's clear to everyone that we're there, it's too late though.

Check out Iron Realms' MUD client. Nobody else's web client comes even close, I think.

https://nexus.ironrealms.com/Main_Page

He's going to appeal to his base is what he's going to do, while repelling almost everyone else on earth. As usual.

My first reaction was, "How do you make a game using an email client?"

This is a pretty good answer: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-stock-market-not-open-24-7

TL;DR: Letting markets take regular breathers probably helps curb swings in the market. It also lets people who manage money get some sleep (though of course there are other markets open 24/7).

No, 99/100 VC-backed startsup don't fail, and the rate of actual scams in them is FAR lower than in crypto.

"Soccer" brings in more revenue American football, baseball, and basketball....combined.

This article's 5 years old, but still relevant: https://mic.com/articles/91009/soccer-s-global-dominance-of-...

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