I have Alex drawers, these are Alex drawers, we all have Alex drawers.

You might think that this is clearly a joke. That no one would actually do this. But you don’t know how the people at the other keyboards are going to take it. Case in point.

This is the best one. Well I feel like any game I could turn the corner and find a Stargate and it wouldn’t really be that out of place 😂

Honestly feel like this works 😂

Yeah I’m excited about it. Dubious and skeptical, but excited too.

I’ll always remember you Ralph. Though, I can’t even remember what I had for dinner last night. I wonder what I should have for dinner tonight…

Oh shit Demon Slayer x The Ascent. I’m imagining Ghostrunner but you fight 'borged out demons

This is hilarious, I thought it was just me 😂

I believe Vault/BitWarden caches all passwords on all devices. So you can create a backup anytime. Even when the instance is down.

I’m trying this with Truff sauce the next chance I get

I feel like this is a question that selects for people with interesting answers or people that are passionate about their response.

Google (I know, I know), ChatGPT (No it’s not a search engine but that is one of it’s effectual use cases) obviously checking the info for legit sources.

Idk personally I loved it. Played it on top end hardware from day one and only saw 1 or 2 game breaking bugs in my first playthrough. I feel like they really put a lot of effort into not just the main story but side quests and the world. So many little things to pickup on and discover. As someone who is not versed on the original lore, it was super interesting to find out little nods to characters and stuff. Can’t wait for Phantom Liberty!

Lmao, I can’t tell if this is stupid, or genius access control. Like if they had problems figuring out which one of their six employees was leaving the lock open, give them each their own lock!

I read that as chickens and thought your grand plan was to start a farm, LMAO.

A lot of split results here. I don’t think there’s a moral difference between yes or no. Truth is a building block but it can also hurt. Question is probably going to have to be a lot more nuanced.

If she doesn’t want to, she shouldn’t have to. I don’t think if he found out that would necessarily make him upset that she didn’t tell him. I would see it as rather endearing that she didn’t want to change our relationship. But if this news is weighing on her and she feels differently around him… Is he going to be confused as to why she’s acting differently around him? In that case it could do a lot of good to just be upfront.

So, Timmy, what games you playing?

Yes, but they’re still people. Chances are you don’t live in a slum spending your whole day’s pay trying to get drinkable water. So from someone else’s perspective, you’re the rich gluttonous dragon. I would hope common human decency would allow us to look past all that in a moment of life or death struggle.

From my parents, my wife, and her parents I definitely got a, “Oh you still play games, like you’re a kid. That’s cute.” vibe. But they we’re pretty accepting once they realized it wasn’t some hold over phase from being a teenager and a legitimate hobby with a community that increases technical knowledge, too.

That being said I still feel like a kid in one respect. You know that meme, where you’re playing an online game and your mom comes in and says “Pause it and come to dinner.” I get similar comments from my wife. And she’ll get annoyed sometimes. Like, “I needed you help on something but I guess your game is more important.” But I just sunk 45 mins of effort into a match of CS:GO, my rank is on the line which I’ve spent a lot more time on, it’s actually pretty rude to ask me to drop that because you want the trash out. Not to mention I’m tanking my teammates ranks. Like if my hobby was soccer, you wouldn’t walk out onto the pitch during a game holding everyone up and expect me to have a conversation about repainting the bathroom. But because they can’t see the game, they don’t get it.

So in that respect it can be difficult as an adult. You do have more responsibilities and relationships you need to maintain. So you need to be clear about setting aside time for your hobby. Communicate well with those in your life about it and what you need from them.

Honestly, people generally have more compute power than they need. If this proverbial platform came with an efficient transcoder, then the files just need to be hosted.
The torrenting scene is alive and well with users fronting the cost and taking legal risks. Many torrents have enough speed to actually stream the content while it’s downloading. Hard to say now… But if somebody set up a solid peer-to-peer solution, I think it has a chance.

I think this is super interesting, and a really good idea. But as others have stated in this thread, very costly.

However until technology catches up, maybe we could have an interstitial federated platform. One that’s super decentralized. Like 90% of the users running their own instance, decentralized. Anyone with a NAS can host they’re own vids. Then the other 10% that are willing to host high bandwidth, high capacity servers, can work as caching for the most popular videos.