felixworks

I feel like the admins and their actions were just not that visible back in the day too. Aside from the occasional drama around banning a high-profile sub, the fact that Reddit was run by a company with its own interests didn't come into play very often. With the admin layer hidden, Reddit the website felt like a sandbox run by the community.

It seemed like there was a backlash against it. At some point you would get downvoted for citing hailcorporate in comments. If I were more conspiratorial-minded, I would think that Reddit started throwing in downvotes at any comments mentioning hailcorporate, because it would hurt Reddit's image and advertiser-friendliness. But I've noticed that, across social media, some folks seem to get really upset when you point out that a post is fake/marketing/staged. So maybe that's just online culture now...

Edit: there were legitimate issues with people citing hailcorporate on posts that they just didn't like. But that seemed relatively minor to me.

Not really. Planetside is an FPS with fluid combat. And it doesn't have MMORPG-style quests or environments. I think another way of saying the idea would be "Chivalry with persistent maps and an overworld tying them together in some way."

Tbf, while daily-driving Firefox I do occasionally encounter websites (mostly web apps) that do not work on Firefox. But it's often a pretty simple fix, like sometimes I can get around it myself just through Dev Tools shenanigans.

Independent contractors have loosely had the same $600 threshold for a long time (you're supposed to report all income, but the payer is required to send the contractor a 1099 when the income is $600 or more). As far as I can tell, the new $600 rule is kind of just connecting the dots and making it harder to ignore the tax responsibility when the money is transferred through apps like Venmo. I agree it's not a great thing to focus on when the wealthy are not paying their fair share of taxes, but it's also not a huge change.

I like the idea of playing out the Byzantine generals problem in multiplayer or I guess with just another AI general too. Does Radio Commander have that element at all?

I agree with you. It's been a while since I played a Mario Kart though. I got turned off by the "wiggle while drifting to get a boost" mechanic in Mario Kart DS (which I know is a fairly old game at this point). Even when I got good at it, it still felt really tedious to do all the time. But idk, maybe newer versions have a different mechanic now?