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mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other trilema lulz --
mircea_popescu: ok, i guess...
mircea_popescu: i don't like shooter sims.
asciilifeform: ( sorta how 'thief' wasnt )
mircea_popescu: a
asciilifeform: 'halflife' -- shooter.
mircea_popescu: yup.
asciilifeform: or whatever else horsepower-heavy chore
mircea_popescu: pretty fucking sad.
asciilifeform: verily.
mircea_popescu: i can't help remembering the 90s.
mircea_popescu: honestly i don't mind owning the hardware.
mircea_popescu: it's so well made.
mircea_popescu: rather spend on this than say "art"
mircea_popescu: aha
asciilifeform bbl:meats
mircea_popescu: nicoleci, hey, make an account on forum and ask the guy whether he's amenable to sell out to us.
nicoleci: mircea_popescu, yes, Master
mircea_popescu: thanks god for our archival service
mircea_popescu: oh he INTUITED, did he.
mircea_popescu: imo output is plenty
asciilifeform: for pgp-style rsaism, imho entirely plenty.
mircea_popescu: decent consulting gig, $1mn budged A++
mircea_popescu: not the point
mircea_popescu: lolz
asciilifeform: )
asciilifeform: mechanism, for thread-completeness.
asciilifeform: as of 1+yr ago.
mircea_popescu: ikr ? pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz,
asciilifeform: what was this ? ( a mud ? )
asciilifeform: as of ch19.
asciilifeform brb:teatime
diana_coman will be back tomorrow
mircea_popescu: << some kinda game. it's fascinating to me, how these things die.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-07 21:06 asciilifeform: what was this ? ( a mud ? )
mircea_popescu: kinda how it's fascinating to me how all sorta things end these days.
mircea_popescu: nothing seems to ever live up in death to the pretenses it puts up while alive.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had piece where he got hold of a lolpad or the like, installed buncha '2 chinese d00dz on a napkin'-type gamez, and 6mo later all 'eggog, cannot connect to serv' etc
mircea_popescu: aha.
mircea_popescu: it's just... look, i guess a preoccupation with gravestones and old musty writs and whatall else is to some degree a professional deformation / professionalized mental issue. but nevertheless, consider : slashdot. fucking slashdot, yes, the people who named the site so that lamers couldn't tell it each other over the phone, calling each other from the video store (which, face it, early ,com internet was 100% videostore cle
mircea_popescu: rks)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is moar 'life cycle of fruit fly' than 'ancient stones' imho
mircea_popescu: sells in the end for 1,5mn or some shit. that site fucking owned the internet before altavista could return a search page on "google"
mircea_popescu: gigaom, this "big deal" specialist/experiencialist/entrepreneur/moasa-sa pe gheata.
mircea_popescu: just went away. arianna huffington, right, "mover and shaker", america's most politially influential whatever the fuck dumb cunt, right /
mircea_popescu: all these big deals were here at some point. at some point in my lifetime. frankly, it doesn't seem so much earlier than today's breakfast.
mircea_popescu: tons and tons of fruit flies with driveways and car payments, pretending to granite gravestones and "a normal life". THEY'RE FUCKING FLIES.
mircea_popescu: as per hanbot's
mircea_popescu: << wants 20 bucks on steam, meanwhile cant' afford a mysql install.
mircea_popescu: they've gotten cheeky btw, i recall the furore when blizzard dared break the tacit "no game shall cost over 19.95". by now ? 80 euros (ie, aboyut a benjie).
mircea_popescu: doesn't seem a bridge too far for plenty of these.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck are they gonna make a game worth half a 32 inch monitor is anyone's fucking guess.
mircea_popescu: << other sduch lulz. "We are saddened to share that SOS and SOS: Classic has been permanently shut down. However you can use this website to play free Slot Games and win $25 per day by simply spending time on this website. [...] Free slots were created as a consequence of a growing need of the market to play slots..."
mircea_popescu: for the record, there is NO MARKET and absolutely no fucking need for slots games/machines/whatever. they're the contemporary equivalent of buggy whips
mircea_popescu: item existed at a certain point because from one hand technology sucked just enough to be able to make that kinda blinkenlichten box but no better ; and from the other hand because country bumpkin were just bored enough at home on the farm to find the box entertaining.
mircea_popescu: neither premises are any longer true, the slots "market" is like the disco pants / 70s hairdos market.
asciilifeform: evidently 'satoshi dice' dead, but the 9000 clones -- notyet
asciilifeform: there's a reason these figure prominently in spamola of erry type, tho, hard to picture anyone with two working neurons playing
mircea_popescu: idiot vegas, followed the blueprint to the t : replaced the "expensive to run" games, the poker with its cigars and the craps with the whores and the hustlers with slots.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 07:21 mircea_popescu: << then briefly thereafter, fold altogether, once ebay figures them out.
mircea_popescu: "oh, we're making so much money now [burning down the oilfields]". lasted for what, ten-fifteen years, now it's fucking dead.
mircea_popescu: "oh, but we moved to asia". yeah, great fucking plan.
asciilifeform: of all the things that decayed from 'expensive to run' to 'casual monkey drops coin in slot', imho gambling is the least surprising
asciilifeform: elementarily moar poor idjits interested in the basic proposition than non-idjits
mircea_popescu: this is not so. gambling in the old style, along with prostitution and not listening to your parents were traditionally important pillars of republic.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu iirc had a piece re why poker , how it was a social circle thing for the rich, and then not. so, unsurprise, coin machines
asciilifeform: right , was described in ^
asciilifeform: but then somehow went away, leaving the straight 'dice ops'
mircea_popescu: well, "fighting corruption", right ? uppity dweebs, went into poker room to dump their edgecase links.
asciilifeform: for all i know, the actual elites still play poker just like in 19th c, in closed room. while in vegas the 'aspirational' morons 'us, too'
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : apparently cca 2016 steam had a "run windows titles under linux" thing.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, died and buried.
asciilifeform: i dun expect the latter have any bidirectional connection to the former, any moar than the rats which eat mircea_popescu's leftovers in dumpster, have any effect on mircea_popescu's kitchen per se
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it did, i even got 'portal' to run at one pt
asciilifeform: unsurprised that it died
mircea_popescu: i imagine it was a major loss leader
asciilifeform: i suspect it was a 'techie' 'wouldn't it be 13337 if we...' featurism
asciilifeform: these live for as long as the maintainer feels like maintaining, on his lunch breaks
asciilifeform bbl:meat
