The bottleneck isn’t acquiring plastic. The bottleneck is everything else.

This is spot on. I’ve had resin printers for ~6 years now, I’m quite skilled at adding supports to models (and despise pre-supported ones). I bought the first one fully intending to print RPG minis and maybe also make my own 40k army. Printed a lot of minis, printed some on commission, sold some, including 40k, but never made an army, “my” army, I get stuck at choosing a force/faction and then making the composition. The ready made combat patrols just feel “meh”

Most importantly, I only know one 40k group and they play ~30km away from where I live. I already do that kind of trip every single day for work, so that was a huge dampener to me.

Same reason people prefer the original thing over cheap copies, even the perfect replicas. This is valid for pretty much everything: art, clothing, videogame cartridges, plastic toys, boardgames.

I’m on a number of telegram groups that shares models, there was a big nuking last year, with them going unlisted, but still active. Russians don’t give a fuck

By stabbing the wool you are actually getting the individual hairs to lock together because they have scales

TIL sheep are shitty dragons

The main driver for lock in is hardware. Like I said in my comment

Only a limited number of models can receive custom roms.

What’s the size difference when you remove the porn stuff from the torrent?

TL;DR: cloud or not, maintain your agency.

Even that is getting harder, thanks to google and micro$hit doing everything they can to lock down their respective OSs. Linux on a desktop, yadda yadda, but we’re ~12 years into the smartphone era and we still don’t fully own those electronic pieces of shit. Only a limited number of models can receive custom roms.

Lord of the Rings

Die Hard

Terminator 2

HB was good when you could set the entirety of your purchase to go to developers. Now they greedily force you to divert a minimum to themselves

Linux isn’t the thing that’s driving Steam’s profits, tho.

I thought people would miss the keyboard on smartphones. Turns out we are a small minority

Those pesky nationalists thinking they could nationalize oil just because they fairly elected a president that wanted to do that!!!

For the Iranians, yeah, different asshole, same shit

The democratisation effect is something I’ve been thinking about myself, as hiring developers or learning to code doesn’t come cheap.

It’s not really “democratizing” anything, since anything made that isn’t like a simple calendar or forum will come with more bugs than working features. Low and no-code development options have been available for ages, so “doesn’t know how to code” was never an actual barrier to making software. Not only that, learning to code could be done effectively for free for well over 15 years now, online resources have only gotten better. It was never about the (lack of) money, it was always about time needed. “I don’t want to/can’t learn this, yet I want the thing done” - that’s why we pay professionals.

However, if it allows non-profits to build ideas that can make our world a better place, then that is a good thing.

At best, they’ll get semi-working prototypes. At worst, they’ll try to sell said prototypes as end products. Besides, anything that is “a disposable utility, designed for the immediate “now” rather than the distant “later.”” is extremely unlikely to make the world a better place.

Itching to start a fight

Singled them out because they’re the most used to seeing “autoplayers”, aka bots

Don’t forget to call Josh from Let’s Game it Out to create forward outposts that the enemy will find first

When artists now are now asked, after years of being on social media platforms and these lackluster art sites, what their dream art website looks like.
They describe a store.
A store that is allowed to sell pornography also.

Capitalism and the greater opportunity to live off your art are definitely one of the biggest death causes of most community oriented sites. The moment money enters the equation, fun gets kicked off. Why show off your art around if there’s no profit to be had and the clout can’t be transformed into money?

The author finding Artfight and mentioning how it has no monetization further drives this point.

All that shit for a game that will look and perform worse than The Order 1886 or Ryse son of Rome

. And useless, even though I read this huge wall of text, I’m not closer to understanding what this plugin actually does.

That’s how I feel coming across half of github projects or frameworks.