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aurelius12on Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

That's a strange take isn't it? Facebook has like twice the # of daily users as Instagram, and 6x that of Snap...

aurelius12on Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes

If people don't like the China example, they can look at New Zealand or Australia, both of which had tiny fractions of our Covid deaths AND experienced less economic decline AND experienced a drop in suicides during the time.

aurelius12on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

Twitter is down a whopping 0.33% today.

aurelius12on Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?

Can confirm! I run a company that has five MUDs, and we have quite a few blind players as well as at least a couple of blind employees. I'm not visually-impaired, but I like knowing that our players who are are "seeing" the same game world in their heads as fully sighted players, or at least seeing the world from an equal perspective.

aurelius12on Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal

Nexon, Netmarble, Bandai-Namco are all comparable to or bigger than Ubisoft in terms of revenue I believe.

aurelius12on Let’s talk about founder compensation

decentralized autonomous organization (driven via crypto)

aurelius12on Norm Macdonald Dead: Comedian and 'SNL' Star Was 61

R.I.P. Turd Ferguson

aurelius12on A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco

A number of years ago there was a guy from Korea (I think) coming to the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) in San Jose, but ended up in San Jose, Costa Rica. He was quite distressed.

aurelius12on U.S. says John McAfee indicted over fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes

Random retail investors aren't being scammed in that situation. It's completely different.

aurelius12on Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play

Thanks! No, I was Shaitan as a player in Avalon, then Lazarus as a god.

Glad you have such fond memories!

aurelius12on Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play

Oof, yeah, relatively low ping is important. Not like FPS important, but still important.

aurelius12on Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play

Nothing to worry about, it happens! Glad you enjoyed Achaea. :)

aurelius12on Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play

Because botting is basically impossible for us to detect algorithmically (we're a tiny company and don't have the resources to engage in that kind of battle with botters), our line boils down to, "If we come and talk to you and you don't reply, you're not playing the game and that's not allowed."

It's the only standard for botting that works for us.

aurelius12on Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play

You're welcome, and that's really cool to hear.

aurelius12on Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play

Fair point, and you're right.

aurelius12on Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play

MUDs may be history to most people, but at Iron Realms we still have five commercial MUDs running live with dedicated paid staff on each constantly working to improve the gameplay and enlarge the already massive worlds. Honestly, it's pretty surprising to me, as when I launched our first one - Achaea - in 1997 right around when Ultima Online launched, I gave us five years.

https://ironrealms.com

aurelius12on 1977: Zork

Hi Vadi! Sarapis here. ;)

He's right, Mudlet is the best desktop client out there for Mudding with. This is the part where I mention that I run a company with five MUDs ranging from almost 24 years live to just a couple years live. https://ironrealms.com

aurelius12on Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters

From the Harvard Injury Control Research Center:

"Where there are more guns there is more homicide."

"Across high-income nations more guns = more homicide."

"Across states, more guns = more homicide."

"More guns = more homicides of police."

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-an...

aurelius12on GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

98% of them have no idea what's really going on.

aurelius12on Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

So weird. Had just finished s3e4 for the second time through when I saw this.

aurelius12on Foreboding Skies over the SF Bay Area

My tomatoes are unhappy about this development.

aurelius12on Want people to do the right thing? Save them the guilt trip

Wow. I feel like I just read a line from some kind of James Bond comic book villain. I know he was serious, and that he's probably right, but still, wow!

aurelius12on One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever

Once it's clear to everyone that we're there, it's too late though.

aurelius12on DikuMUD 3 Is Released

Check out Iron Realms' MUD client. Nobody else's web client comes even close, I think.

https://nexus.ironrealms.com/Main_Page

aurelius12on Trump to sign executive order on social media Thursday

He's going to appeal to his base is what he's going to do, while repelling almost everyone else on earth. As usual.

aurelius12on Show HN: I made a multiplayer web game with Elm

My first reaction was, "How do you make a game using an email client?"

aurelius12on Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

This is a pretty good answer: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-stock-market-not-open-24-7

TL;DR: Letting markets take regular breathers probably helps curb swings in the market. It also lets people who manage money get some sleep (though of course there are other markets open 24/7).

aurelius12on Bitcoin's First $1k Weekend Since 2017 Marks Nine-Month High

No, 99/100 VC-backed startsup don't fail, and the rate of actual scams in them is FAR lower than in crypto.