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  • latenightnoirtoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon dances with the devil in the pale moonlightEnglish
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    6 小时前

    I think something Boutique™ might be catchy and niche enough to make it! I don’t see them becoming The Next Arcades, but a couple of such in a moderately sized town could work!

    They’d have to have some personality to them, but as a Millenial, I feel that my cohorts and I have become somewhat tired of the gimmicks and would go for something intentional, but simple. As long as the atmosphere’s good, there will be clients. Heck, could do a lot of organised events, build some community!

    Edit: thinking about it, I’d totally go for something which caters to both the CS 1.6 and the Sims 2 crowds. Like, you wanna solo some Frostpunk but feel kinda’ lonely doing it at your desk again? Come on over! We’ll reserve you a wall desk and you can butcher save your citizens in peace! Might even have your favourite Monster (or whatever) flavour in stock if you let us know what you drink!

    Edit 2: plus the software overhead would be minimal now that Linux runs (most of) all the games! Just have BYO Steam Account, like!

    Edit 3: and a couple of rental accounts with decent libraries for those who’re new to the disease. There, free business plan!:)))

  • latenightnoirtoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon dances with the devil in the pale moonlightEnglish
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    7 小时前

    Back in Uni, we’d just do weekend-longs:)) We landed at that sweet spot where laptops were ok-ish enough to be able to run the LAN staples without combusting in a 20m² room with four beer-farty and sweaty people, on 40°C summer days.

    We’d start off with some frags, run a couple of boardgames, fall asleep for a couple of hours, wake up, make coffee, start from the top! Pretty sweet experiences, Borderlands 2 is amazeballs when the entire team’s in the room and wasted.

    Edit: if we got lucky, we’d manage to corrupt one of our posh classmates who were renting. If not, we’d just alternate between hotboxes in the dorm:))

  • latenightnoirtoEurope@feddit.org•Why are Romanians abroad voting for far-right candidate Simion?English
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    3 天前

    It’s… an uphill battle, to say the least… I’m trying to discuss these things with people within my social group who are undecided or are Right-leaning, and everything is dismissed as “fear-mongering” - even (maybe especially) when presenting actual facts.

    Trouble is, our educational system, while dense and robust in terms of information, does not encourage or aid the development of critical thinking. Most people don’t even understand the Hierarchy of Blame and Responsibility (as I call it), nor do they have an adequate understanding of how the economy works, which is why everyone still cheers when someone says “we’ll increase the amount of money in your pockets” while it’s a practical impossibility, or why a lot of people believed that “€35k houses” nonsense Simion spouted.

    These are dangerous times, everyone’s feeling it and that feeling is correct. However, most people don’t do the work needed to understand WHY the times are dangerous and wherein the danger actually lays, and so start hanging onto anyone or anything which promises them quick solutions.

    Part of me can’t blame them, as our history has never been truly comfortable, not even after the establishment of contemporary Democracy in our country. We, the average citizens, have been played and taken for fools time and time again, it’s hard to trust anyone who seems to want to maintain the Status Quo. On the other hand, I can’t believe how desperately stupid the situation has become…

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