#HoloYolo

But I was told that closed-source is more secure, surely nobody lied when they said that

“I chose to view content from all federated instances and now I’m seeing content from all federated instances. How can this be happening to me???”

I downvoted it for spreading incorrect information and being incoherent. Happy?

Marketers should be rounded up and then loaded onto a rocket to the sun

Because it sucks and the 3.5mm jack is better. Manufacturers should be forced to include it or pay a punitive fee calculated to far outweigh the savings of not including the jack, perhaps $5,000 per individual unit manufactured.

You gotta pick your battles, you know? The game still has content in it from 2001. The same company still makes the “regular” version of RuneScape alongside OldSchool, and while its graphics are more sophisticated, they’re also more inconsistent and have a tendency to look cheap—and regular RuneScape is filled to the brim with microtransactions. On desktop you can play OSRS using a third party client called RuneLite, which does have some graphics improvement plugins, most notably the 117HD plugin:

Personally I recommend Old School RuneScape.

Pros:

• F2P mode is robust enough to enjoy casually
• Membership is $12.50/month and drastically increases the amount of content you can play
• There’s tons of stuff to do in general and the writing, especially in quests, is charming and fun
• The in-game events are generally flavor events like Halloween, Christmas, and special game modes. There aren’t any “double XP weekends” or shit like that
• The only microtransaction is the membership bond, a token redeemable for two weeks of membership for those who don’t want to buy membership directly. You can buy bonds from the developer for $8, but you can also trade or buy them from another player using in-game money. This means you can technically “pay to win” by buying bonds and selling them for gold, but a high-level player can make gold more efficiently than that anyway so it’s a waste of time
• Players who have membership are elegible to vote in the content polls, where the developer proposes game content updates and only implements them if 70% of the voters approve. For example, the game is getting a new skill, Sailing—but only because adding a new skill was approved by members and then Sailing beat out the other choices in the subsequent round. The devs do still put through unpolled updates for “game integrity”, like bug/exploit fixes and necessary technical changes.
• Has easily the best wiki of any video game period, and an in-game “look this up in the wiki” button.

Cons:

• The developers (mostly when ordered to by their parent company) occasionally try to sneak enshittification into the game once or twice a year, till the players riot and threaten to cancel membership
• There is always some kind of drama going on, currently the drama is that a J-mod (one of the people on the Dev team) was temp banning every player who crossed a girl he wanted to impress
• The player base is pretty toxic by modern web 3.0 standards. However, as someone who’s played both games, it’s basically Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood compared to the League of Legends community.
• Modern gamers might find much of the gameplay, especially skilling, to be grindy and monotonous. In other words, you might find it boring. There are ways to liven that up, but I also just enjoy a good grind sometimes too.
• It’s low-poly and ugly, though the players actually like it that way (and I do too)
• Addictive personalities might get REALLY addicted

Being this obnoxious is practiced and you’re clearly conversing in bad faith, that’s the only response you get

“muh fallacy”

I didn’t know this was reddit

I might have missed the actual point.

You deliberately missed the point, and seem to think I can’t tell you’re being deliberately obtuse.

You literally made up an argument no one made in this thread.

I literally was not confined to this thread, which is blatantly obvious if you know how context works.

The fact of the matter is that it is unwise to have both secure and insecure messaging side-by-side.

Skill issue. If it’s too hard for some people to pay attention to what they’re doing and use a tool correctly, they can buy a Vsmile. This is all ignoring the fact that no human being could possibly fuck it up on Signal unless they’re too illiterate to send text messages—or indeed use a cell phone—in the first place.

You want another beer?

Or at least it wasn’t four years ago

Question: are you missing the point deliberately, or is it genuine obliviousness?

Was that the punch in the face, or was it all the morons intentionally misinterpreting this argument and saying “but why would u want to send nonsecure messages are you aware SMS isn’t secure it’s like so insecure to send SMS bro it’s not secure it’s like literally a security risk bro SMS isn’t secure at all and also are you aware SMS security is poor”