I usually think of the video game industry as having the bad aspects of both the tech industry and the media industry.

Probably some underpaid employee comes every week to refill the machines

Whether it's coin or cash I guess it will depend on which ATM and which bank you're using

No you can't get instant healing currently since that machine was broken and we are waiting for the IT department to send a technician

Since the adventurers guild is a bunch of communist losers the prices are legally fixed by the government after countless strikes and demonstrations

Every few levels there's an old wizard running a kiosk where you can get stuff cheaper

No reverse vending machine, the government deemed it illegal under monopoly/antitrust laws as whoever gets to control the selling machines can control the entire dungeon economy, but you can some times sell to a wizards kiosk and if you found coins or money you can deposit them at an ATM

The dungeons are still dangerous so nobody wants to live there but I would imagine some small communities or commercial centres and motels in some safe levels

And yes anyone can use a vending machine if they can pay this is capitalism after all

We are in 2026 I'm pretty sure there are vending machines and ATMs there now

Edit: please ignore this stupid comment I just woke up and I don't know what I'm saying

Thing is peertube is still pretty much new and empty. I didn't find much content that I would be interested in or even an interesting community. Although I see its potential as a social platform I don't think it will ever replace YouTube (at least for me) as it wouldn't give creators the financial incentive to use it.

I don't know why but "Google et al" made me laugh

P.S. Sorry for the rant you can ignore this post. I'm just frustrated with the bureaucracy here.

I mean sure but these bureaucratic laws and practices are ancient. I come from Egypt and the bureaucracy here is terrible. To do anything government related you have you to free an entire day and some times almost a week from your schedule just to finish the paperwork and visit the required government offices. Why is that still necessary in the digital age.

When our government decided to digitise they didn't upgrade their system they just added additional digital steps. So now the process has even more redundant steps. The issue is that the rules are too old and the system is too centralised and also fragmented. To get a single paper/request approved you usually have to go through multiple departments, offices and ministries each with their own rules, requirements and paperwork, while we have the infrastructure to just do it with a single paper, an ID and a biometric scanner and share the info between departments digitally. Also a system this complex has to have many loopholes and bound for corruption.

The argument I keep hearing for bureaucracy is that the government has to keep providing government jobs to reduce unemployment since a significant portion work in the public sector, but these jobs are useless anyway we can give some of them actually useful tasks and with the saved money we can put it to better the welfare system. Another argument is that you have pay multiple fees, but then you can also take these fees as a single summed transaction and save the time.

Where I come from the X thing wouldn't be legally binding. What people who couldn't read or write would do is using their fingerprints. They would put their finger on a stamp ink pad and then stamp the paper with their finger. That's why we say "someone who uses their fingerprint" as a euphemism for "illiterate".

I think what SatyrSack meant is that this offers no additional benefit to just storing the game files on a NAS. It makes more sense to have a dedicated server for streaming as you would then be able to enjoy the same copy everywhere, but with games you would have to download it again anyway so why don't you cut the middleman and download directly from your NAS/storage system or even the original source.

That happens on the server side and how the owner of the site configured it. Some sites would redirect you to the www subdomain. If you go to "example.com", it (example.com) would redirect you to "www.example.com". The www part is not assumed and not automatically added by your browser as is the case "with http". And you can in fact have your server redirect connections to something other than the www subdomain or not redirect at all, you can also not have a www subdomain at all, but these are usually considered bad practices for public facing sites.

Edit: the opposite is also possible and happens some times, where "www.example.com" would just redirect to the main domain "example.com". This is usually done for backwards compatibility since a lot of people would assume www is necessary and type it out even if it doesn't exist.

The difference between when MY Linux laptop has been running for a while (multiple days) and recently restarted is very noticeable. All the quirks disappear and everything is slightly smoother, and also for some reason I get faster WiFi?

When I was a kid physical gift cards where the only way I could pay for online games since my nobody at home had a credit card that accepts international transactions.

I'm starting to think that no place is left that isn't turning into a shit hole.