Be very flattered somebody thought I was worth drawing.

I’m evaluating a few options now. Mostly by reading their statements, how they work, costs, what the reporting on them looks like (positive, negative - especially negative is important), how long they have existed, and which projects they have funded.

• https://goparity.com/ - Portuguese crowdlending platform
• https://enerfip.eu/ - French crowdfunding platform for green energy projects (mostly in France)
• https://trine.com/ - Swedish crowdfunding platform for green energy projects (seem to be worldwide but require an account to see projects - don’t have an account yet)
• https://www.bettervest.com/ - German crowdfunding platform

Supposedly there are also Green Bonds and Green Funds, but I haven’t finished reading investopedia. If somebody knows how to buy those, I’m all ears. (and I’ll finish reading investopedia).

Wow, never heard of them.

SUSE is the leading independent Enterprise Open Source company, founded in 1992. Pioneer in software-defined infrastructure and beyond. More than 90% of SAP HANA deployments and more than two-thirds of the Fortune Global 100 companies worldwide trust SUSE.

https://www.nordicmind.com/suse/

Never seen it used nor mentioned anywhere. Maybe they don’t have a user interface and are just used on servers or infrastructure (whatever “software-defined infrastructure” means)? That would explain why governments still use Microsoft (and increasingly fruits).

All due to those pesky immigrants

rich fucks

They will start the upgrade to windows 11 in 5 years and complete it in 3, just in time for windows 12 and nothing will have been learned.

On a serious note, the lack of a major European alternative is really a big problem. What do we have? A bunch of community driven alternatives with no marketing, no business, maybe support, maybe paid development, but mostly just dedication and dreams. Government shit on dedication and dreams on the regular.

VR with IRL walkable environments, once affordable could become a big thing in the future. If they invented or made a system that was small enough to put into the average bedroom and made it affordable, sweaty pubs would become a literal thing and gamers could become quite ripped. I do think that it would also provide an advantage in shooter games by simultaneously increasing the floor and the ceiling as aiming IRL has, at least in my experience, been much easier than with a mouse or controller.

The next leap forward in gaming would be brain to computer interfaces (BCI). Instead of sending signals from the brain to our limbs to our devices, one neural pathway would be cut out entirely. Of course that depends on the latency of the BCI but if that can be lowered to be faster than our nerves, it could be a dimensional shift in how we experience computers and gaming.

Of course, the Black Mirror always looms and those animes of people getting stuck in games and dying IRL could actually happen. There was also a movie with Bruce Willis, but probably inspired by an anime or a book, of people using surrogates (maybe the movie is called Surrogate?) with people at home connected to a surrogate mechanical body. And stuff happening like in this mini-film.

That does sound quite interesting. A difficulty level and game experience tailored to the player then? It does sound revolutionary actually. I’m just afraid of what it would take to get there. Always-online games could use third-party service that shares your profile across all the games you play which could have major privacy implications.

To replace the existing AI/bots in games? I admit, I have no idea how current game AI works, but LLMs might make them way smarter than before.

The replay must be faulty then because it shows the VR headset facing the other way multiple times.

Same story everywhere, people won’t vote to tax the uberrich, get fucked, and then make the same mistake again - only poorer this time.

Wealth Tax Now! Tax the uberrich!

Not me, but close family members used to play Super Smash Bros a lot. They then went to uni and nobody in the entire student housing could beat them. I was pretty decent at Mario Kart 64 finishing every track #1 in the highest difficulty. But recently I tried it and sucked hard as I hadn’t held a controller in more than a decade. Of course my curiosity had to be satiated and I tried the new Mario Kart on whatever console it was released on (Switch II?) - sucked even harder than on the N64.

My glory days of console gaming are long gone. It’s all casual gaming nowadays on my HD toaster.

I also have a… special skill that only about 3-4 other Beat Saber players have (in the whole world!). You can see it demonstrated in this masterpiece of a replay:

Are you doing it with your back turned to the screen?

Ban the fucking cars and replace them with public transport. It’s really that easy. Excise the problem at the root.

“We do not accept our mobile phones being switched off whenever a company produces a new model and wants us to buy a new model,” Mr Juss said. “So why should we allow thousands of pounds worth of games being made unplayable because new games have been introduced?”

It really is that simple. I can’t even remember the name of the dude who went viral claiming it should be allowed, but fuck that guy. Hopefully SKG isn’t just a storm in a bottle and when the signatures are counted in the EU, something will actually happen.

More than half of Gen Z wants UK to become a dictatorship, survey claims

We could send all the Nazis to their own island.

They have time to get out.

Spoken like somebody who has nothing to say

But ask the judicial system to ban the party? Nooooo! Convince your voters with democratic arguments as to why the rich shouldn’t be taxed and why immigrants are the problem.