Worth getting into? Absolutely. It can be very cheap, too.

Where to start? That’s the trick question. It will depend on whether you start with console or PC, the latter having a much more extensive catalogue of games, plus emulation of older systems.

My personal recommendation is getting a PC, it doesn’t even need to be a gamer one, anything that isn’t a piece of shit and was released in the past 4 or so years will do good for playing low end games and emulate anything up to N64 and possibly Dreamcast games (2003 and earlier). You can use a variety of console controllers on computer, so it’s fine. Whe searching for ROMs, be sure to have uBlock Origin installed on your web browser.

If you have any friends, talk to them, see what they’re playing or would recommend you to play. If you don’t, download steam and download demos of games that look somewhat interesting to you. Check GOG as well, it tends to have some older PC games as well, plus demos and whatnot.

Try out a variety of genres. It’s possible one game of a certain genre might not “click” with you, but another might.

I probably own a significant portion of those games in my GOG account, I’ll double check when I’m home

Bluesky has brand recognition (founded by the same dude as Twitter), more people and “feels like twitter”, in the sense of what you see, more than mastodon. Also, news outlets seem to be migrating there.

Mastodon (and pleroma, misskey, etc) is seen as a place for weirdos and techies, with “nothing interesting going on”. Several people mentioned this already one way or another, but that most servers/instances are “specific” about whatever means that people will feel that they might miss out on something by choosing the wrong server.

Ha ha ha, yeah, sure. Bluesky won’t defeat xitter, at best it’ll just be the “next thing” once xitter finally finishes getting rid of most of its users, which I guess will take more than 4 years from now.

You’re completely ignoring the point that being decentralized and/or implementing hash trees does not make a system trustless

Not being centralized has nothing to do with being trustless. The fediverse is also decentralized, yet you, me and everyone else has to log in to a specific server. If I try to login via lemmy.world, it’ll fail. I have to login via programming.dev. Does that make lemmy and the fediverse trustless? No.

Even the top answer on that SO question explains that the use case of hash trees for git is different from that of blockchain

The genie forgot to turn the wisher into a raccoon

How could those two suspiciously familiar faces with light violet and wine colored hairs possibly be Jessie and James from Team Rocket???

Right, but isn’t the “main chain” of Ethereum based on a similar principle wherein it’s the main chain because it’s the one the devs use?

No clue, I don’t keep an eye on that, I’m partially aware that there are several similar forks (and eth classic was a result of scammy shenanigans) but, afaict, none try to pretend they’re the “real” ethereum.

I’m genuinely failing to see a distinction here

A distinction between trust and trustless? Because my initial point was that git isn’t trustless, because it works just like any other online system that requires a login, where a central server/database checks if the user sending inputs was properly identified by some mean (password, cryptographic key, something else). Implementing a Merkle or any other hash tree doesn’t make something trustless

How is it any different than verifying that a transaction occurred?

With a centralized trust source (bank), you ask for the records.

How is a trusted repository different from a hard fork?

Because you check who owns and maintains it. A notable example was with Simple Apps for Android, earlier this year the main repo was sold to a company. Trust was lost, thus a fork was created to keep the original stuff.

It’s trust less in the sense that commits can’t be easily forged and are signed with cryptographic keys and identities.

I’m pretty sure being able to verify that the person responsible for a push is an actual maintainer is the opposite of trustless.

Neat, I might set up one of my older, currently unused phones to be my host. As soon as I figure something I want to share around

It’s facebook, that’s entirely possible.

Dumb question: can anyone host a i2p site on a personal device? For instance, if I leave a PC or old phone connected to the network, how easy/hard is it to configure so I have a working site accessible to everyone on the network?

Game Boys are usually regarded as durable as hell. There’s even one that withstood bombing during the Gulf War (1991)

Congratulations on taking a fucking DECADE to realize what should’ve been FUCKING OBVIOUS from the start.

Agree on KoA. Playing a mage is super flashy with plenty of cool looking spells that make you feel like a badass wizard. The chakrams (one of the main wizard weapons) flying around look awesome, too.

Also, hot take here, I’m pretty sure that the US occupation o Afghanistan was better than the current system in place there.

True, but then again, “better than the Taliban” is a really low bar. Also important to remember that the USA indirectly led them to power via Operation Cyclone

Or a bard.

People have been save scumming games for as long as saving has been available. A number of PC games have had instant save/load at any point for decades. This wouldn’t be much different