Leaving aside the quality of Rock Band vs. Fortnite, there are some other key differences:
Playing with your friends in the same room. With Fortnite I think that’s possible on consoles, but it isn’t how people tend to play. If you’re not playing games with friends in the same room (at least sometimes) you’re missing out.
A variety of games. Almost nobody exclusively played Guitar Hero, or Rock Band. They were just one of many games people played. For some reason, kids these days seem to be hyper-focused on one game. First it was Minecraft, next it was Fortnite. My nephew switched to League of Legends next, and again, it’s all he plays. I can understand getting hyper-focused an MMO, because they try to pile in all kinds of content: quests, raids, dungeons, professions, seasonal events, exploration, PvP, PvE, etc. But, Fortnite and LoL lack a lot of those features.
I can understand getting hyper-focused an MMO, because they try to pile in all kinds of content: quests, raids, dungeons, professions, seasonal events, exploration, PvP, PvE, etc. But, Fortnite and LoL lack a lot of those features.
The one criticism I’d say you can’t make about fortnite is a lack of content, every season they add a completely new gameplay feature then remove it next season, right as it gets stale. There was a season where you could just be Spider-Man and web swing around, a season where there were planes and dogfighting, a season where you could get the infinity gauntlet and be thanos. Plus some others but I don’t play the game so I only hear about it second hand.
If that’s once a season, should that really keep someone interested for months on end? Playing like spider man sounds fun, but is it really going to take you multiple weeks to exhaust all that has to offer?
Like MMOs release content every season or so, but that’s some new quests, dungeons and raids on top of all the existing quests, dungeons and raids, and also on top of all the exploration, crafting, achievement hunting, mastering multiple classes, etc.
Each season in Fortnight they update the weapons and items in the game, so when they say you can play like Spiderman they mean you can get a gauntlet that lets you swing around. There’s other stuff too to counteract and balance the game out.
It creates emergent gameplay though, you combine the new map with new weapons and special items that change the baseline strategy, and it creates really unique gameplay which doesn’t get stale for weeks, for me at least.
is fortnite really still the thing these days? that game is a full 6 years old. i know games have a longer shelf life now (same vein as minecraft and roblox) but surely there’s a newer game we grumpy old geezers should be shaking our canes at the kids about. sus amogus anyone??
(If you start a site like this, you surely can count on that somebody will be after you. Host it in different country, pay with Bitcoin, hide your registrar data etc so they cannot sue you. If you cannot guarantee it, why start it?)
I think you misunderstand what 12ft.io’s business model is – they didn’t bend over for the NYT, the NYT bent over for 12ft.io by paying them to exclude them from the service. Literally the whole point is to extort money from publications to get on the whitelist.
<span style="color:#323232;">BEFOREHAND: close door, each window & exit; wait until time.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> open spellbook, study, read (scan, select, tell us);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">write it, print the hex while each watches,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> reverse its length, write again;
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> kill spiders, pop them, chop, split, kill them.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> unlink arms, shift, wait & listen (listening, wait),
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sort the flock (then, warn the "goats" & kill the "sheep");
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> values aside, each one;
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> die sheep! die to reverse the system
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> you accept (reject, respect);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">next step,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> kill the next sacrifice, each sacrifice,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> wait, redo ritual until "all the spirits are pleased";
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> do it ("as they say").
</span><span style="color:#323232;">do it(*everyone***must***participate***in***forbidden**s*e*x*).
</span><span style="color:#323232;">return last victim; package body;
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> exit crypt (time, times & "half a time") & close it,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> select (quickly) & warn your next victim;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">AFTERWORDS: tell nobody.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> wait, wait until time;
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> wait until next year, next decade;
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> sleep, sleep, die yourself,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> die at last
</span>
I hate that people buy hamsters for kids, to die in random ways. I’ve kept hamsters all my adult life, and they all live to old age because I take care of em and don’t stress em out like a kid would. They’re so delicate, I wouldn’t give the care of one to a kid.
Counterpoint: it’s a good way to teach responsibility to kids. You wouldn’t leave 100% of the care of a dog or cat to a kid, but for a hamster or goldfish, they can be fully responsible (for better or worse).
I never had hamsters growing up and I have no idea that little kids often got them killed in “random ways”. I can’t even fathom what the fuck this means tbh. Do they mean that people accidentally squish them all the time or something???
Tbh I’m a single adult who loves alone and was curious about getting a small pet, but idk if I’d be able to deal with something of decent size like a dog or cat. What are hamsters like?
Yeah, now that I’ve gotten a full night of sleep I see it’s definitely a hamster. The tiny ears, the front-facing eyes, the distinctive splayed hind legs. Idk why I thought it was a guinea pig.
The typical default configuration has the ISP providing DNS services (and even if you use an external DNS provider, the default configuration there is that the DNS traffic itself isn’t encrypted from the ISP’s ability to analyze).
So even if you visit a site that is hosted on some big service, where the IP address might not reveal what you’re looking at (like visiting a site hosted or cached by Cloudflare or AWS), the DNS lookup might at least reveal the domain you’re visiting.
Still, the domain itself doesn’t reveal the URL that follows the domain.
So if you do a Google search for “weird sexual fetishes,” that might cause you to visit the URL:
Your ISP can see that you visited the www.google.com domain, but can’t see what search you actually performed.
There are different tricks and tips for keeping certain things private from certain observers, so splitting up the actual ISP from the DNS resolver from the website itself might be helpful and scattering pieces of information, but some of those pieces of information will inevitably have to be shared with someone.
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