MonkeMischief

I really miss the early mobile games days, when they were still experimenting with the format and you had games like Angry Birds, Infinity Blade, Peggle, and various Marble Madness or Monkey Ball clones, just for starters.

People were making games designed to be fun, and if they were addictive, it was because you were enjoying yourself. If you bought the game they didn't care how addicted you got or not, only that you didn't tell all your friends it sucked! Lol

Once it started taking notes from the casino industry, that was it. I don't even open the Play Store anymore.

Just now had a thought: If places like Newgrounds or ArmorGames were pay to play for developers like the mainline mobile stores are, I bet we would have seen a lot more of that nonsense a lot sooner. (kongregate seems to serve a perfect example of this.)

"Trah a summersault!!"

(Crashes)

"... You're becoming more like your father."

But indeed, planes aren't supposed to do barrel roll on the runaway.

I tried to barrel roll a commercial plane in a flight sim once...I concluded I don't think they're supposed to do it in the air either. 😂

Ooof. That's heartbreaking, I'm so sorry. :(

Sincerely, thank you for specifying the State religion of evangelical "Supply Side Jesus" as its own evil cult, and not alienating the rest of us who stand with you. I always appreciate that nuance in this kind of discourse.

There's a lot of Christians here, myself included, horrified by every second of this, watching people calling themselves "christians" give themselves over willingly to corruption and sheer evil and unfiltered hatred at an alarming rate.

Of course we're silenced on many fronts: Most of the money for churches comes from powerful americultist organizations and donors, who are obviously in the angry orange baby Hitler's pocket, and they're seeding such hateful polarization that even leftists are turning on us and discounting us outright.

We're not as loud, well-funded, or numerous as the cult of hatred and warmongering and greed. But we know that the Jesus of the Gospel who commanded us to "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is not the Jesus of the State, and to throw one's lot in with these politicians is to deliberately side with the legions of Hell.

I am heartbroken and ashamed at how many people I once thought good and decent, who have fallen for this lie and follow such a disgraceful monster.

This is definitely our punishment for elevating sociopathy to celebrity, rather than chasing it out into the dark woods with pointy sticks.

if you get sent there for computer crimes you might get the worst sentence: Teaching those "tech skills."

Peoples' point is it's basically like

"Ah yes, I see you claim you lost the use of your legs. That's okay we've got you. Just ascend the 58 stairs to the main office to drop off your form and..."

Hehe I think you might have been replying to a different thread. :)

It might be some way, however not easily. My mega-corpo ISP blocks incoming connections on common hosting ports, because they want to ~~keep the network safe~~ sell expensive home-business plans. Lol

I'm also very amateur at this as I go along, and I'm not sure I'm ready to deal with the fallout of missing some security step and getting my server botted or ransomwared lol.

I haven't done the hardware stuff with setting up my own router/firewall box either, for instance.

So Tailscale works really well for me by seemingly magically bypassing a lot of that nonsense and giving me less to worry about. They allow 3 users for free, but have a relatively inexpensive family plan for like 6 users as well, if that becomes necessary.

I mainly just need to tell them not to try and use my server as an exit node if they're across the country 😂.

But yeah definitely, I'm using this as a way to test the waters for running service alternatives as the web we knew collapses around us lol. I'm not ready to be running something people really rely on yet, though. :)

Thanks! This is very helpful! I really appreciate it! :D