xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

>Get ready for late-night walk.
>Mosquito truck drives by and nukes the entire neighborhood

And people wonder why a kid dies from leukemia in our town every year. Why can't they just have the lamp posts also act like bug zappers? That sounds like a better solution than to just spray poison across town.

@PurpCat @beardalaxy I never had a problem using a non-gmail account for contacting people or signing up for websites. No joke, I used a firstname-lastname email address on cock.li (the have a few SFW domains) to apply for jobs, a few years back. Nobody saw the connection and I was never rejected for using such an email address. It only became a problem when my Dad busted me for it because he wanted to see my emails.

@beardalaxy Spam is just the tip of the iceberg. Email is hated for many other reasons:

* It's not encrypted by default - You need to learn PGP/GPG, find an email client that supports it, and have contacts that also know how to use it if you want to send an encrypted email. Most people don't want to bother going through that process. The only other option I can think of is to use DeltaChat which is really just an email client that acts like a E2EE messaging app.
* The vast majority of email providers suck - The Big-Tech providers like Gmail, MSN, and Yahoo need no explanation. ProtonMail and Tutanota claim to respect your privacy but have huge red-flags. Cock.li is run by one guy but has frequent downtimes and NSFW domains. Disroot respects your privacy and is run by volunteers, but has a somewhat restrictive TOS that doesn't allow commercial use with a few exceptions. And finally, RiseUp seems to be the most secure and private, but is invite only and is intended for far-left activists. The only other option is to self-host, but from what I am told, email is the hardest service to self-host.
* People are too stupid to use anything other than Gmail or Outlook - Not only don't businesses bother with self-hosting anymore, they don't even bother with custom domains either, despite Gmail supporting them. Maybe if you used them you wouldn't have to put numbers in your business email.
* Spam filters not only miss spam, but they also filter legitimate emails - Seriously, make sure you fill in the subject field and write more than three sentences or your email is automatically going in the trash. It's almost as if most spam filters are merely just regex filters that check for the standard letter format.

Honestly, we don't need better email services. We need an alternative TO email. But the question is what? What do we do to make it more secure than email and how do we get people to switch to it? (As time has proven multiple times, privacy and security is enough.) I think maybe we could try a Nostr like approach. Have private messages distributed through multiple nodes, but have them end to end encrypted, but that's not a perfect solution.

Why is MSN Dial-Up still a thing? Microsoft has more than enough money to make an ISP based off of anything else.

https://get.msn.com/

@icedquinn
>IPTV

Isn't that something that MSN tried to get into back into the 90s but failed?

@icedquinn If I were to buy a TV, I would probably buy it from GPX because not only do they sell their products on their actual website, they are also the only TV manufacturer I know of that still makes dumb TVs.

https://gpx.com/in-home/televisions.html

@beardalaxy @DreamSketcher Minecraft is kind of both. Sandbox games also include games like SimCity where exploration really isn't a thing. Garry's Mod is more of a closed sandbox than Minecraft is. Minecraft has exploration and even an end-goal. It just so happens to have crafting and a true sandbox mode (creative mode).

>My game is almost like botw except the final boss is gated by defeating all the other ones.

That's basically the same level of linearity as Zelda 1 (though Zelda 1 had a few dungeons blocked off until you got the ladder or raft). I think your game just has the added complexity of a day/night cycle and choices that actually make an impact on the game's story (a completely open-world game can lack either of those things).

@beardalaxy @DreamSketcher Depends on your definition of "open world" and the type of game it is. Something like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, or BoTW is definitely a no-go. Something like a simple Minecraft clone is probably okay.

Ultima is largely considered the first true open-world game and it was developed by a high-schooler. Though I personally never played it. It could be open-world in the same sense that the first Zelda game was in that dungeons can be traversed in any order.

Music now stops after defeating the final boss.

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Boss now drops the key which leads to the room with the MacGuffin item. I think it's slightly more climatic that way instead of it just ending abruptly.

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