Yeah… Funny… That’s what Putler has been doing each time he was invited for peace talks.

Tyranny has the same playbook.

Empires don’t fall by themselves. People burn them down.

If everyone in America is waiting for “somebody” to fix everything for them then there’s a good chance America is going to exceed that 250 year mark.

Yeah. A good thick slice of Anarchism might be what we need to reset things.

That is Anarchism, with capital “A”, the anti-authority ideology.

I AM THE KING!

A good king doesn’t need to remind his subjects he is king.

The Fallout style corporate dystopia isn’t coming in the future. It’s today. It’s right now.

How many more times does this guy intend to mention marijuana? For someone who doesn’t want to have anything to do with weed, he sure as hell mentions it a lot.

And how well do you think that’s going to work? Sounds like a shitty service maybe five people will subscribe to, and then it dies a year later.

We’ve had subscription services like this already. I don’t hear much of them anymore… Or at all… So I presume they’re all dead.

The only reason I got a Switch 2 is because a company selling them here in Denmark made a HUGE pricing error. So I got a Switch 2 and Mario Kart World together for just 99 DKK, or 15 USD.

BREAKING NEWS!!

Evil company known for being evil is caught doing evil things!

I do once in a blue moon.

Morrowind, if you’re using OpenMW, also has multiplayer.

Maybe. Looking like the best option right now.

Oh no, not another Lemony Snikket rabbit hole.

Yeah, I know. I wanted to pack as much info into the title as I can, and it turned out like technobabble. ^^;

I have considered looking into renting a VPS, but considering my friends group does A LOT of voice calling and streaming over Discord I dint think super lightweight is an option. Even so, not having to pay for a server is always better than having to pay any amount for one.

I’ll take a look at ejabberd. Didn’t know there were specific preferences for clients.

It’s a bit of both:

My friends need a drop-in replacement for Discord (or as close as possible), sooner rather than later. My idea for self hosting is to defeat the need of someone hosting a 24/7 server; if we all host our own accounts on our own computers we’d essentially have a peer-to-peer Discord-like group.

The other reason is indeed to learn, because every centralised service has the same problem; it’s not a question if a service will turn bad, but when. It’s an inevitability, and it’s happening faster and more frequently. The only out-way I see is if me and at least some of my friends learn to self-host.

Gee, if only we could’ve seen this coming.

No, like a legit game engine that is advertised as “console ready”.

Well, you’ll be glad to hear that Toyota, yes, that Toyota, announced a new open source game engine, with deep integration of Blender 3D.

Obviously. And it’ll be just as broken. Show it’s technical age even more.