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I guess I'll be the contrarian here and say I don't mind paying a subscription at all. I didn't stop playing EQ live and start playing the emulators back in 2004 because of the subscription cost. It was simply that Live no longer offered what I was looking for. My gaming budget these days is...

I don't give a shit about any of that tbh. All I care about is the game they are making. I don't expect them to be "spotless" or "saints." I have no expectations at all, honestly. I'll check out the game when it's available and if it's fun I'll play it. If it's not, I won't.

You just invented Samdaman.

Yeah banks basically won that battle. And it was a big battle. Doesn't matter, tradfi's days are numbered. Their intransigence will only hasten their demise.

Him, then. Wasn't intentional

Personally wasn't interested until I saw that both Rogean and Secrets were collaborating on it. Rogean obviously has a really good grasp of what made classic EQ great. And after playing Project Quarm, I personally have a ton of respect for Secrets and her ability to balance common sense...

Didn't see a thread for this. This actually looks... really interesting. AI summary: This just dropped today — announced at GDC 2026. Here's the rundown: What it is: EverQuest Legends takes players back to the early days of the MMORPG with restored sound and visuals and all-new...

Was mostly joking- but I'm not sure anyone other than Waymo knows how much control actual humans have or how often they exercise it. Honestly my personal experience with Waymo has been meh. For example, I usually walk the 10 blocks or so from the train station to work when I go in but I wanted...

Waymo isn't self driving, it's just dudes from the Philippines. https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-often-guys-philippines.html

Jane Street lol

We are about to see so much cool shit happen. Right up until AI wipes us off the face of the planet.

Basically a pow source of friction instead of a monetary one.

I know you're joking, but the idea is that all that shit will be automated. You'll keep a baseline small amount of money in an account tied to your persona. Deductions will be automatic, but so will the refund at the end of the month (or whatever time frame) that refunds all your deductions, up...

That would help, but it doesn’t solve the whole problem. A one-time registration fee is a fixed cost. Spammers amortize fixed costs easily. If I pay $5 to register an account and then send 5 million messages, that fee becomes irrelevant. The spam problem isn’t account creation anymore- it’s...

TLDR: End of the Internet as we know it is coming soon. Blockchain tech is a potential (and the best) fix.

Openclaw going to bring crypto roaring back in a big way.

Not a TA wiz by any means, but just looking at the 4 year cycle: 2013 peak: ~$1,132 (Nov 2013) Bear low: roughly $150–$165 area in early 2015 Drawdown: ~-85% to -87% 2017 peak: ~$19.7k (mid-Dec 2017) Bear low: ~$3,122 Drawdown: ~-84% 2021 peak: ~$68,982 (Nov 10, 2021) Bear low / base: ~$15.8k...

So far BTC is following the cycle to the letter. No guarantee it will continue to do so, but if it does, we have at least one to two more legs down, then it needs to wallow in the doldrums for a while. Then a climb to a new ath. Macroeconomic conditions are very different this time around from...

Be careful out there, boys.

Bro, that's already on S04.

Guess what game is getting a live action TV show on HBO?

Land is great- unless it gets seized by the Government. There is literally no scenario where an investment can't go to zero. It's just a question of risk/reward.

True for any investment!

I've got it hitting the bottom at around 50k give or take- but I'm not waiting for that to buy.

I know, I'm just indirectly complaining about the trend of streaming sites to drag shit out as long as humanly possible to keep those subs going. It's obnoxious and it fucks with things like pacing, momentum, etc. Especially if you need half hour episodes to pull it off. It feels like blueballs...

Make it a long movie then 🤷‍♂️

Show is great 👍 👍. Six half hour episodes for the entire season is bullshit 👎👎.

Satoshi was actually Epstein is pretty good. Agree we are getting close, but I need to see more "Bitcoin is dead" buzz before I call true bottom

It ain't the bottom for BTC until a bunch of people declare it dead and start writing post-mortems. Only then have we hit the bottom. It's the same every cycle.

Did a quantum deep dive a few months ago. Here's a pretty succinct (as succinct as a complicated topic can be) explanation: Really important distinction: BTC addresses aren’t public keys. They’re hashes of public keys. Your public key only gets revealed when you spend from an address. So...

Looked at another way, our entire current financial system is fraudulent

It's going to bounce back. Bigly.

Don't disagree. The quantum issue itself is a little different than most FUD btc has lived through though, in that the danger here is very real and the consequences of failing to address it would be catastrophically serious. Like you said though, there is a relatively easy solution (from a...

Quantum fears putting downward pressure on BTC. BTC community has been slow to address the concerns. Add to that the market apparently doesn't like Trump's most likely pick for Fed.

Only a matter of time until things rotate to BTC and we get a new ath. They need to address the fucking quantum stuff though- it's seriously holding everything back.

As an aside- gold is now rough double the price of platinum. Made me wonder why plat in EQ is 10x gold so I looked it up. When EQ was released platinum was worth significantly more than gold was in 98/99.

Also far fewer of them, which means it's easier for them to collaborate (collude) towards the common goal of opposition. Ultimately a losing battle for them though, I think- which if you believe in capitalism is good for consumers.

Yeah banks starting to wake up to the existential danger crypto poses to them. Their arrogance has made them slow to the punch here, but they can hit more than hard enough to make up for being slow- as we are seeing.

People knew, but it didn't get brought up much lol. I'd say there was a hope that computing power would eventually compensate, but those people tended to be the optimists. Not to be overly negative, but there were enough crises going on all at the same time that you could kind of take your...

We fought the good fight and managed to eliminate a lot of 3rd party gold sellers, but like I said, it was doomed to be a losing battle because we didn't have support from programming (not their fault), marketing, and the publisher. Also keep in mind I was only involved during the Sigil era. I...