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What was a profound moment that a video game caused you to experience, and why?
  • Subnautica; at the beginning your pod drops into the surface of the ocean, then you open the hatch and you climb out... to see an infinite expanse of blue sea under a blue sky.

    That triggered so many memories for me, I had to take a minute. The color grading on that scene was on point.

    One of the Quake games has a section where you get captured, then put on a conveyor belt where you see other people in front of you get mutilated, then that happens to you. That scene almost triggered a dissociative episode.

    The original ending of Mass Effect 3 brought me to tears because the Clint Mansell music meshed so well with the on-screen segments, it really moved me. That said I also like the remastered ending; the latter is like the last few chapters of Lord Of The Rings, the former is like an American movie ending.

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  • To your last point: money being created != Wealth/value creation; it's more like wealth redistribution (if you create a thousand bucks out of thin air, in an economy of a trillion it's small potatoes - but it does add up fast and affects everyone).

    There absolutely is value in banking, but it's not nearly enough as much as advertised.

  • So how long until the Fediverse is monetized?
  • Capitalism is relatively good, gives performance & frugality incentives. Unrestrained late-stage capitalism... not so much. Think of it like oxygen. At 21% you're great (and need it to live), at 90%+ you spontaneously combust.

  • So how long until the Fediverse is monetized?
  • In part you can see this already - there are a bunch of servers that most lemmy instances have defederated from. In these cases information flow is one way - f.e. lemmmy.world doesn't get any updates from foo.baz, doesn't provide search results, communities, etc.

    Subscription would make sense when the added value you provide is 1) availability guarantees, 2) performance guarantees, 3) membership guarantees, 4) moderation / content filtering options

  • How the beehaw defederation affects us
  • I’m not a fan of the idea of safe spaces

    You probably haven't been in a space where you haven't felt unsafe.

    I like the wild and free frontier internet, and Lemmy was feeling like that.

    I would disagree somewhat. Lemmy right now has the same feeling as Reddit during the Digg exodus, but the unwashed masses have already started the Eternal September.

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