Please for the love of all the gods do not give studio execs this idea or they’ll be scrabbling for a remake.

Just the Definitive Edition. It’s pretty future-proofed too, and it’s essentially what I expected the “HD” version to be back when I got it.

But the issue isn’t with expecting another version of AoEII, but how Age of Empires as a whole will be managed from here on out. Activision is responsible for creating a lot of toxic online crap and is, responsible for outlining and coining the term “Live Service”.

With AoEIIDE, AoEIIIDE, AoMR, and AoEIV still getting support, updates, and DLC, I can absolutely imagine a very near future where Activision drags it all through shit and muck.

Well fuck, there goes Age of Empires…

Yeah, but those are a combination of cover based shooter and RPG. Not really in the same vein as your typical shooter.

I mean… Half Life and Half Life 2.

He became one with the Force.

The like 100+ new Blender3D plugins that are sprouting like mushrooms growing on shit.

Yeah, but it brings you past this commercial zone where a number of chains and franchises pay Google a lot of advertising money.

When I buy a copy of something I don’t expect to own the intellectual property and all of the themes and elements that make up the intellectual property. I expect to own that one copy that I bought. Just the copy. The medium.

Glad I never made a PSN account. Glad I stayed the fuck away from Helldivers 2 until they removed the stupid PSN requirement.

Where’s Spongebob caveman?

Then the Netherlands be like…

I’m not buying GTA6, and I wouldn’t care if R* burned to the ground. They’re union busting assholes, and all the money they’ll harvest from GTA6 will simply tell them they can continue being union busting assholes.

My friend has set up his Matrix server with Continuwuity (what a name…) and it required quite a bit of technical knowledge. With Fluxer you basically don’t need any technical knowledge.

For comparison, it took my friend about a day or two to set up his Matrix server with Sable as his client, and make sure everything was running smoothly. We managed to set up a Fluxer test server within 30 minutes.

Sable already offers most of the features of Discord, even ones otherwise locked behind the Nitro pay wall.

What’s more difficult is getting people to move. There’s always excuses, and nothing is EVER going to be the exact same as Discord. So the excuses become progressively more granular.

Check out Sable. Me and my friend were in the exact same boat, but then we found Sable.

Fluxer has no E2EE yet, and no Federation. But it’s very easy to set up your own server.

The big thing that made Discord so popular is being able to make one account and join multiple communities, often about specific subjects. To use that exact same account to freely communicate, including direct messages, with members of these communities, and have one friend list attached to your account.

Only ways you can have this is either through centralisation or Federation. Centralisation has proven to be junk.

Oh, well, yeah. That explains it then. The default matrix server isn’t good for anything because its bitrate is low, yet everyone makes an account there.

So you have a limited bitrate anf thousands of people to serve. Fluxer is the same. It’s just not as bad yet because there aren’t as many people there.

If you’re approaching Matrix like a centralised service, you’re doing it wrong. You must set up a server for you and your friends, and then federate with the rest of Matrix.

Streaming over Matrix seems to work just fine with me and my friends. Might be the client we’re using, or the fact it’s a self-hosted server.