the shitcoin-obsessed CEO is the problem

Yeah, their KS goal being US$100k is a low budget for something they're expecting to take two years.

If I'm running a tiny little single-user instance on a potato and my post goes to the mastodon.social federated feed, it would be impolite for them to direct 20,000 requests at my potato all at once. Instead, their servers grabs one copy and serves it to their users. If they're set up for 20k eyeballs online at once, they've got capacity to serve them all the photo.

Mastodon has a configurable clean-up period for cached media so you don't use infinite disk. That gives a bad actor an easy way to robustly host images for a couple days: post it, let it federate out, and then take your server down. Everyone else is now doing crimes for you, and cleaning it up is a reactive process by dozens of server admins.

it was never owned by the church.

the guy who bought it off the original founders was a scientologist and typical C-suite scumbag.

the only cult influencing neopets was capitalism. who doesn’t love shoving two ads in every hole.

The guy that bought it is the one who ran the neopets metaverse thing. So it sounds a little dubious.

I've been spectating games all day. 8v8 has so much going on and is a ton of fun to watch.

It looks like ncsoft's attorney filed a trademark on Secrets of the Obscure in March using a shell company called Secret River Enterprises. It's the same attorney that did other GW2 trademarks. They also did not prefix the trademark with "GUILD WARS 2: " like the other expansions.

So I don't think it's a placeholder, unless they're really committed to fucking with us.

"Secret River" and the "Secrets of the Obscure" give me some River of Soul vibes...are we perhaps going to the Underworld? It's supposed to be under new [demonic] management now, right? And we just had to deal with a demon in Gyala Delve...

Titan's Staircase doesn't seem to have enough people? Yesterday, we were outnumbered on EB at several points during the afternoon & early evening in NA timezones.

I've seen that in some of the previous betas too. It's not an encouraging sign.

There were plenty of good fights though!

Lookin 🔥

It's been a while since I've done in person. I had a laptop for my notes and GM resources, and I'd just throw stuff up on Roll20 with second monitor facing the players. We had a tablet logged in to Roll20 to pass around if somebody wanted to move themselves, measure distance, or review one of the handouts.

It worked reasonably well without needing everyone to hide behind their laptops.