The problems go further than that. Kiwi farms has had their cdn, hosting provider, domain name, owners personal phone number, post box, and legal team cancel them all within a week.
Once big corporate decides to act against you, it’s basically impossible to continue existing.
While I agree with this in principal, it is still not practical. Crypto is still too clunky to be used by many potential donors. A site would take a heavy hit to their income by only allowing crypto donations.
Making a Cast-on-crit automated character that could cause recursive explosions of knives and fireballs as long as it stayed within range of enemies was so satisfying.
Theorycrafting is fun. I want a PoE that allows and encourages botting so I can play it like an incremental game more than an ARPG.
Eh, I'm more into gameplay than theorycrafting personally.
Optimisation is something I do only at work, not in my gaming hours.
When the common advice for new PoE players is "follow a newbie friendly build for your first couple runs", it explains why I have such a hard time enjoying the experience.
It is though their recent direction is concerning. I quit this league within a week or two. Don't really want to unpack all the drama here and the game is still very good, I just need to wait and see what they do next time around.
Yeah, the addition of the constellation system on top of the dual skill trees was huge for me too. Brings the depth to a level where you can spend ages theorycrafting, while not being nearly as immediately daunting to new players as PoEs skill tree can be.
Tencent is present in almost every game dev company, including blizzard. they own almost half of epic too, so half of unreal engine is owned by them too. you will be playin a very narrow selection of games if u go down that road.
Also check out Grim Dawn. Feels a bit less cartoony than Torchlight which I appreciated, and has a lot of nice solutions for quality of life problems from D2.
Grim Dawn is also great, though you'll only be able to squeeze a few hundred hours of greatness compared to the thousands of hours of greatness you can get out of PoE.
There is a mode where you create the character separated from the global server, so u play alone, or you can pay GGG for a private server to play only with friends. but is always online.
i am not even 40 and got my money robbed from the bank by the government twice. depends where you live, a bank is not that good of a place to keep your savings.
Not the OP but there are plenty of examples of countries where the government stole everyone’s deposits — usually by forcibly converting accounts denominated in a hard foreign currency to the local currency at a farcical “official” rate.
I’ve specifically heard of this happening in Argentina and Yugoslavia, but if you google “forced currency conversion” you can find many other examples.
Nah the IRS has frozen bank accounts multiple times merely because people owned cash businesses where they made sub-10k deposits on the regular without any intention to structure it. It's frighteningly easy to lose access to your bank account in the US.
>But that's not at all what happened in the thread we're replying to..
Don't think you have the information to say that.
OP didn't say what happened. I don't think we can say anything in particular is exactly what did happen without more information. Unless you don't consider the US a place with "a stable financial system and/or government" -- which may be accurate -- then this very well could have taken place in the US. I'm not sure you can infer where this took place.
This is a pretty common scenario in South America, e.g. Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and then you can look over at some African reasons and even Asia nowadays too - e.g. Sri Lanka.
You can also go as far as even the USA does this on money it deems "did a crime" or was related, or just in the proximity because the law enforcement officer said so. civil forfeiture.
it depends on the country u are in. in Brazil the law is a joke. I prefer to risk a typo then be entangle in any legal battle here. I know people that won cases 30 years ago, and are yet to see any money.
The most underrated crypto thing that people don't discuss enough, is that i don't need an email account to interact with web3 apps, i just sign in with metamask. if I could do it for every single app around that would be great.
You don't need crypto for that, though, client side certificates have existed for such use cases for decades now. Companies aren't using them so nobody knows about them and therefore browser vendors don't care about the UX and therefore nobody wants to use them, but that cycle will happen for as long as people don't implement such login methods.
If there was a way for end users to sync webauthn logins, we'd solve this problem without ever resorting to any kind of blockchain whatsoever.
Browsers have mutual TLS auth if you want that type of authentication. The UX is mediocre and MANY tracking websites will ask you to sign in (either out of incompetence or malice) in your regular browsing, but it's definitely possible to use such a system.
Nobody is accepting random self-signed certificates, of course, usually they need to be signed by a CA belonging to the party you're authenticating to, but there's no technical reason why you can't use a random certificate to authenticate with a website, or even modify your browser to add a quick and easy button to generate them on the fly.
Browser vendors have stopped caring about this type of auth and are focusing more on webauthn, which stores a cryptographic token in your device's secure storage (if available) or on the file system. When browsing from a phone, this means it's essentially "sign in with your fingerprint" for websites, which is really cool! You can't easily back those tokens up, though, so you still need something like a recovery email if you don't want your users to lose their accounts when they drop their phones too hard.
Easy to forget login, easy to forget passwd, easy to forget what passwd is attached to some login. Not to mention that nowadays most services ask some second and third factors like email which has 2 passwds, phone which may be lost, docs which may be unwanted to demonstrate. Modern cryptography may solve it if webmasters really want it (but for some reason they prefer to collect as much as possible).
These all sound like convenience factors. I don't see why my identity with one provider has to be tied with my identity from another provider at all. Having a crypto wallet (for this purpose) is just certificates with extra steps (quite literally, as it's cryptography).
And being bond to some database? That is... not for everyone.
Password manager is good if it is planned to share all my passwords after my death with my family, for not gifting my funds to some random guys. In every other cases it sucks like Sasha Grey (from my lifestyle's point of view which involves heavy use of random devices most of them even does not support any passwd mngr).
> In the simplest case, 2 things are needed to support a password manager: Network access, and copy-paste.
All of my mobile devices doesn't really support JS so I can not even input my HN's password to there without a PC.
Also I do not believe all of my e-mails which has some accounts with some values on it are still working. At least one time I had to re-register e-mail exactly as previous to withdraw some of my funds which were untouchable for few years :-) So the biggest part of problem is not on user's sides of wire and I have already tired to struggle to formulate such a simple thing using such a lot of sentences.
network access itself is not necessary foe using various password managers, though of course for the majority of uae cases you'll require it anyway. But if you e.g. have a journal that is encrypted, you only need copy-paste.
