How would explain what this is for to someone who doesn’t know what this works as an alternative to?

For palworld players, Nintendo is the current boogeyman, thanks to the Legends Arceus gameplay patents.

My guess is that none of those avatars resemble their real bodies in the slightest

That and Roblox, the commercially successful metaverses that zuckberg dreamed of.

Where said murder happens is a very important detail. Murdered on a roadway without any cameras for kilometers on end? Yeah, better believe nobody will find out the culprit. Murdered while visiting a different country? The chances might increase, but not much.

Who kills you also matters. Was it a cop or some rich asshole? It’s likely he’ll be found out quick, but will be acquitted for some shit reason or legal loophole.

Mostly myself. When I was a teenager, I was an insufferable, arrogant shit person. I got better during college and even better after getting my first job, I started to understand better why I was such an arrogant asshole and why people, especially women, really would not rather interact with me.

I guess I’m not too addicted, though 99.9% of all my direct communication relies on it, so that’d be the biggest blow I’d feel. I almost never play online, so I’d be fine on that, though I’d have to rely on whatever’s already installed on my computer. Maybe I have to bite the bullet and make a home media server to put all my GOG stuff there… Half of my salary just for an 8tb drive, tho 😭

Pretty much this, which leads to a bajillion different forks and similar-but-not-quite alternatives that have some neat features but lack others, which your instance of choice probably won’t ever migrate to and which all risk being abandoned by the single person that decides to work on it.

Just to give a taste of forks - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps/issues/47

If they’re desperately seeking me, then shit must be really fucked up. Might as well start a new religion and pull a Gobind Singh before I die - he was the last sikh guru and named their holy book as the eternal guru, an equivalent would be the pope stepping down and claiming no more popes are needed, because people have the bible.

Who is stupid enough to be paying for that shit? Or is this premium+ what bot accounts need to reach the masses like elon’s shit takes?

Get Lemuroid and go crazy on 16-bit era and GBA RPGs.

Best I can do is some shoddy pirate yugioh’s

Because social media will usually allow us to contact other people with similar niche interests, people that we’d be hard pressed to find IRL

One way is making raytracing shaders for older games. I recall one korean dude whose patreon was raking in ~50k dollars a month, several of his releases/posts were about adding raytracing to Fallout 4

Sounds straight out of Paranoia RPG. Friend Computer knows what is best for you. To imply that Friend Computer does not have your best intents in its algorithms is treason.

You’re lucky to get a human to call you, I only get robocalls, literally zero humans on the other side of the line, either trying to convince me to borrow money or a fraud attempt trying to convince me “a purchase was just made on your account, press 1 to confirm or 2 to talk to our support” - on the latter, a human sometimes answers when you press 2, but they deserve all the shit you can throw at them because they’re fucking fraudsters and they know it.

Orks definitely make the best stories, the cockney accent is just a cherry on top. Them joining other factions because of how cunning they are is always incredible.

I like the old necrons, the ones that were all terminators bent on eradicating all life in the galaxy, a threat so dire the space bugs would nope the fuck away from their planets.

We still need some way to fix the endless robocall and fraud spam that we can’t even block because they’re always using a different number

So, kinda like Freenet or I2P?

I kinda miss when places would host their own videos instead of relying on youtube, but that’s the problem of a centralized internet, the majority of people won’t want to leave yt/ig/fb/tiktok/twitter/reddit in order to watch or read whatever you posted.