YouTube video by ZennyChanVT How Atlyss Recaptures What Modern MMOs Have Lost

The Intro to this lady's vid about Atlyss is one of the most succinct explainers for the history and state of modern MMO's I've seen

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Yarp, I’ve never made an account for, or used Facebook or Linkedin in my entire life, and it’s only ever helped me in keeping things this way lol.

Reminds me of when the (failing) Boring Co. tried to reinvent trains, but worse

Anti-trust now, anti-trust forever!

Apartment Complex is advertising FREE SOUNDBARS for anyone upon signing lease. I’ll put that place on my uninhabitable list kthx

People know that modern success is a game. And you would think that winning the game makes you smart, but actually the way these guys win is by cheating without (luckily) getting caught

One of the most dangerous types of person in civic life is the rich guy (and it's almost always a guy) who thinks that they have expertise on all matters because they're rich.

She pried her ill-gotten millions with some amazing stock trades, like the rest of the ghouls in congress

Driving a GenX metal head van needs to make a comeback

I’m a complete noob sadly, I plan on testing a complete reformatting with Linux on an old laptop—eventually replacing ‘agentic’ windows on all devices

I just got a new thumb drive to try Linux mint!

We’re teaching the next generation that they require yet another monthly rent payment to a giant tech monopoly just to function in life. Bleak

the cryptosphere has boomer guys scared out of their minds that if they don't swap all of their cash into crypto they will be sht up a creek when all of society, uhh, 'shifts to crypto as sovereign currency'

My dev friends in tech say their companies are quietly starting to hire junior devs again. the ai hype is not meeting reality

The most expensive education in the world, a lifetime of debt. And yet, Americans aren’t good enough! Sunrise is getting scammed

It is rancid

TX polls are dominated by self serving geriatric voters. Almost no one votes here, or even knows there is an election happening half the time. And organizing is very difficult here because everything is obscenely car-dependent and spread out. TX life is isolating.

Texas has a non-voter issue (except for old people). Folks here don’t even know there is an election happening most of the time, or how to even vote. And there is no easy way to organize b/c everything is so spread out and car dependent. TX life is very isolating

THEW ALERT

Jeans, and Wolf. At Tanagra.

bro your rent-seeking behavior is ruining everything

Texas has no political organization. Only 13% voted this year, and most of them are retirees who read these amendments for the first time as they voted. No joke, Texans never know when an election is happening. There is no fanfare or adequate signage, no ground game

The funny thing is: I bet half of Texans don’t even know either state is doing any kind of redistricting, let alone what that would mean politically. Politics is a ghostly phenomenon of nature over here

Texan Takes On Corporate Abuse as Trump’s FTC Abandons Workers - The American Prospect Ric Davidson’s motion to defend the federal ban on noncompete clauses would force the FTC to undertake a formal process to roll it back, not just quietly suffocate it in the dead of night.

Last week, a unemployed Texan barred from getting a job in his field by a noncompete agreement stepped up to intervene in the federal lawsuit and defend the FTC's ban on noncompetes that Trump's FTC won't. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social talked to Ric Davidson about his story & why he decided to fight.

TX has such low turn out and almost zero political organizing. Folks here barely even know an election is happening more than half the time. Until that changes, Facebook-addicted retirees will continue to dominate from their gated communities.

Translation: Hey old people, we are shoveling poors out of the way so that you have shorter wait times at the doctor and your investments are less likely to get rug pulled eyyyy isn’t it great being the most likely demographic to vote???

A majority of, uhhhh, 13% of the population. (Non-geriatric) normies almost never know when an election takes place here or what’s even on the ballot well over half the time. TX will continue the rentier / monopolist suck-off until the low turnout changes

The mood on Barrens Chat is not good.

TX is wild though. Only like 13% turnout today. It’s Gerontocracy 4eva, we are torched over here