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That’s a terrible idea and you should never run any kind of service from your phone.

That takes like 5 minutes, what are you eating lol

Also in flight meals are crazy expensive. Like $8 peanuts!

Do lots of drugs

Hard to beat tiktok

You realize they’ve been doing chip making way longer then we have

What can you do with it that you cannot already

They already were, but how they can use this dangerous advance semiconductor manufacturing to get a couple more fps on among us

Chip manufacturing advancements is awesome for everyone. Oh no, good technology advancements but Americans didn’t make it!

It was no normal gadget.

It’s literally just a hauwei android phone lol

All of them lol

I don’t think it’d cost the server much storage or computing power, but it would probably mess up an application queue. Also hopefully the instance does inactive account purges every so often.

I have a lot of fun with the game and have seen how deep the the game really gets, but I do wish it would be a lot more generous with healing.

You tell your manager. Why the hell would you put up with this shit as an adult? Stand up for yourself.

How expensive is it to run a dead mastodon instance lol. Ppl do this out of pocket already in the greater mastodon ecosystem. Hell, we’re talking on an example of that. Is the instance owner of your instance doing this out of pocket?

When I look up guides, I’m now spammed with game8 and screenrant links. I’m pretty sure they’re just AI generated too.

To be fair, a pity system should definitely be a thing if there’s any sort of gamba. That way there’s at least a hard limit on what you can waste your money on until it’s guaranteed. I at least find GI characters not to be too predatory, you mostly pull them for fun. In fact some of the best characters are the starting 4 stars lol, and you pull cuz you like the character a lot. They really develop the characters a lot, and if you’ve seen any comic cons or anime conventions, you’ll see an insane amount of Genshin cosplays cuz they suck you in by really loving the characters. The gameplay is honestly so easy you absolutely don’t need a good character, and it’s actually incredibly balanced. The earliest characters released are actually still S tier because they fucked up the balance a bit with them so the new characters are still good but more niche focused, so everything is still relevant.

The only hard content is what’s called the spiral abyss, which is a completely optional dungeon that rotates every 2 weeks and 100% clearing it gives you like 5 free gacha rolls, so people really just use it to bench mark characters since nothing else in the game is remotely challenging, nor is there any pvp aspect or anything.

But yeah, also Gacha and live service games tend to be a drug, once they have you hooked it’s hard to quit. Sunk cost fallacy is real hard to overcome in gacha games.

Yeah it’s a legitimately a really good game and still has a huge amount of permanent content, but that’s the nature of live service games. They need that constant engagement to survive. A game like Baulders gate, you buy it and the devs are paid regardless of how much or how little you play, not really the case with live service.

Oh and GI is gacha which isn’t good either. But then they do cool stuff like make a really good card game in game that’s completely free with zero paid stuff, and even hold irl tourneys with big prize pools.

That’s not what fomo means. I have a bad case of FOMO right now with Genshin Impact. I genuinely like the game, but it forces me to login twice a day with the resin system (basically energy that accumulates over time), otherwise it caps and I lose progress. Also a lot of their content is in the form of limited time events. They do this for the obvious reason of it being extremely profitable. This is why you should be very cautious about getting into live service games.

it’s actually a blue collar job where they do quite a bit of physical labor, at least the good ones. I have more respect for that then a lot of white collar jobs.

Fediverse is a healthy alternative I don’t need to feel bad about. I feel shameful and don’t want to talk about it when I use Reddit, which I stopped using anyways.