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by aurelius12 4y ago
That's a strange take isn't it? Facebook has like twice the # of daily users as Instagram, and 6x that of Snap...
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by aurelius12 4y ago
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.
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by aurelius12 4y ago
Twitter is down a whopping 0.33% today.
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by aurelius12 5y ago
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 s
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by aurelius12 5y ago
Nexon, Netmarble, Bandai-Namco are all comparable to or bigger than Ubisoft in terms of revenue I believe.
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by aurelius12 5y ago
decentralized autonomous organization (driven via crypto)
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by aurelius12 5y ago
R.I.P. Turd Ferguson
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by aurelius12 6y ago
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.
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by aurelius12 6y ago
Random retail investors aren't being scammed in that situation. It's completely different.
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by aurelius12 6y ago
Thanks! No, I was Shaitan as a player in Avalon, then Lazarus as a god. Glad you have such fond memories!
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by aurelius12 6y ago
Oof, yeah, relatively low ping is important. Not like FPS important, but still important.
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by aurelius12 6y ago
Nothing to worry about, it happens! Glad you enjoyed Achaea. :)
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by aurelius12 6y ago
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 a
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by aurelius12 6y ago
You're welcome, and that's really cool to hear.
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by aurelius12 6y ago
Fair point, and you're right.
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by aurelius12 6y ago
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
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by aurelius12 6y ago
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. ht
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by aurelius12 6y ago
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." "Mor
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by aurelius12 6y ago
98% of them have no idea what's really going on.
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by aurelius12 6y ago
So weird. Had just finished s3e4 for the second time through when I saw this.
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by aurelius12 6y ago
My tomatoes are unhappy about this development.
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by aurelius12 6y ago
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!
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by aurelius12 6y ago
Once it's clear to everyone that we're there, it's too late though.
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by aurelius12 6y ago
Check out Iron Realms' MUD client. Nobody else's web client comes even close, I think. https://nexus.ironrealms.com/Main_Page
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by aurelius12 6y ago
He's going to appeal to his base is what he's going to do, while repelling almost everyone else on earth. As usual.
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by aurelius12 6y ago
My first reaction was, "How do you make a game using an email client?"
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by aurelius12 7y ago
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
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by aurelius12 7y ago
No, 99/100 VC-backed startsup don't fail, and the rate of actual scams in them is FAR lower than in crypto.
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by aurelius12 8y ago
"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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by aurelius12 8y ago
Pet-walking: rover.com

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