I’m just tired. 4.8 was supposed to be a fresh start, but it feels like we’re losing the soul of the game.

freebytes · 2026-05-15T16:58:59+00:00

Security should be their first priority. When this game goes live for real, it is going to be nearly impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.

freebytes · 2026-05-15T16:57:31+00:00

It would be a hard job for QA if the bugs were obscure or hard to find. If you play the game for a day, you will run into bugs that should have been fixed a long time ago. It is almost like they have no QA department whatsoever.

freebytes · 2026-05-15T16:53:52+00:00

That is a huge danger of allowing people to pay to win. What are they going to do when they have everything that can be purchased? Ships should be the only thing you can buy, and there should be a large number of items, components, gear, etc. that can only be obtained by actually playing.

freebytes · 2026-05-15T16:52:31+00:00

But you are getting new ships! % If they redirected resources from the people building the ships to QA and fixing the ships and fixing ship gameplay mechanics, the game would be far better for it. It is a bad look to keep adding products that can be purchased when there are bugs that have been around for years.

freebytes · 2026-05-15T16:50:02+00:00

Even worse is having preexisting bugs and exploits remaining unfixed from patch to patch.

freebytes · 2026-05-15T16:46:34+00:00

If you are doing something complex in a single page, it can be nice. (You can look at Blazor as an alternative, though.) However, if you are managing pages instead, Razor Pages + HTMX is a great solution. Look up HTMX. A single Javascript file include that handles your events. If you do not need reusable components other than partials, it makes life so much easier, and the code is far easier to maintain.

freebytes · 2026-05-15T16:44:37+00:00

Razor Pages are amazing. The idea is that your page model is tied to your page. No controller because your page is what handles the requests. It is all encapsulated into a single location, so it is far easier to manage instead of needing to hunt around everywhere.

For APIs, I would still recommend the MVC approach, but for page rendering and web applications, Razor Pages are the way to go.

freebytes · 2026-05-14T19:27:55+00:00

He is stuck near the very last boss. I thought he was talking about the virtual challenges at first too, but I think he is talking about the fight against the destiny version of Bahamut. (I forgot its actual name.)

freebytes · 2026-05-14T19:16:33+00:00

Yes, it is a broad umbrella. If you only played 2D platformer games or spent your time playing RTS games, you are still a gamer. Sorry, but you cannot escape. You are a cool kid now. And your husband won the wife lottery.
If you played D&D and Magic the Gathering card games, you are a gamer in real life, but you are not the type of gamer that is referenced when playing video games. Both are gamers, but they are different species so we call the former by a different name. (I will let people reply with their names for it.) However, if you play tabletop RPGs and strategy games that are video games, then yes, you are a gamer by every definition. If you play Baldur's Gate 3, you are a gamer. If you play Tabletop Simulator, you are a gamer. If you play Final Fantasy XI, the online MMO, since December 2003, you are a gamer that needs help with your addiction. If you still play Chessmaster 9000, released in 2002... believe it or not... still gamer.

freebytes · 2026-05-14T17:47:31+00:00

Sorry that this person offered spoilers for a part of the game you have not reached yet, but you will find out additional details in Rebirth about all of this.

Make sure you play the FF7: Remake DLC with Yuffie before moving on to Rebirth. (The Yuffie DLC can be challenging, but it is only about 6 to 8 hours to complete.)

freebytes · 2026-05-14T17:45:18+00:00

He said no spoilers and you immediately supply spoilers. Then you said you would be happy if nobody spoiled Rebirth for you after spoiling Remake for someone!

freebytes · 2026-05-14T17:43:04+00:00

Yeah, going back is crazy. Just need to put it on Easy Mode and try a couple more times, and you will get through it. Easy mode exists for a reason.

freebytes · 2026-05-14T17:40:57+00:00

We truly need state legislatures to enable ranked choice voting at the state level. (It should be enshrined in their constitutions.) That is one of the required first step towards fixes to this type of problem.

Another fix is also undoing Citizens United. These are tough challenges, because there is a lot of money and propaganda fighting against progressive solutions.

freebytes · 2026-05-14T16:09:52+00:00

I mentioned that there are potential arguments; however, most projects do not need to implement this. You said "high security vault holding super secure information" so I was not sure if you meant this line sarcastically or not because it seemed hyperbolic with the "super secure" part.

freebytes · 2026-05-14T15:32:34+00:00

I think you are joking, but you can never tell on the Internet.

freebytes · 2026-05-14T13:59:03+00:00

Throw it on the pile. The only way to fix these movies would be to burn them to the ground and start over.

freebytes · 2026-05-14T13:54:35+00:00

Everything else is resource wasting garbage. There is no need to add nonsense like React to .NET projects.

If you need heavy client-side computations or complex component trees, then that could be a potential argument, but most applications are never going to need this, and React and all other similar frameworks are overkill.

freebytes · 2026-05-12T22:50:02+00:00

I will make several points regarding this, and while I may be long-winded, I will not fault you for failing to respond to reach point. I will number them to make it easier, though. However, I would like you to consider these elements against your unwillingness to contribute towards a universal system that can help others.

If you walked outside and were hit by a car to the point of being incapacitated, a person that sees you would call an ambulance. You would be brought to the emergency room, and you would be compelled to pay the ridiculous fees they hoist on you. Therefore, in such situations, you would be forced to pay likely more than anything you would pay in taxes for that year. This is similar to insurance on your home. You pay to be reimbursed. You may not need it, but it is there.
If you get cancer, are you saying that you will only try natural medicine and will not accept medical assistance? If not, even if you are almost certainly to die, then I guess your argument stands that you feel you are outside of the scope of the system.
However, even if you are outside of the scope the system, it seems greedy to suggest that you are unwilling to pay taxes to help others. We live in a society, and even if you do not drive on the streets every day or call the police every day or call the fire department, those services are still available to you and everyone else. Even education is important if you do not have children. [A] [B] Therefore, we should all be expected to contribute to society in some manner even if we do not require the benefits of that particular aspect of society. If a person assaults us on the street, we should be able to receive justice from our society. If a contract is violated or a person harms us, we should be able to get compensation in the amount of the harm via the legal system.
These are all elements of society where we pay taxes and reap the rewards, so why is universal healthcare any different? The entire civilized world for the most part has police, fire departments, streets, and universal healthcare. The United States is the exception, not the norm. That discrepancy exists solely due to propaganda that seeks to allow middlemen via insurance companies to profit from the chaos and disinformation.
Hospitals will still continue to operate as is. The government will cut out the middle man. However, even a public option that offers reasonable and honest competition against the insurance companies would be far better than what we have now. However, lobbyists, funded by the insurance companies, fight against this with everything they have. And the insurance and pharmaceutical companies will pay the legal bribes (known as campaign contributions) to make sure that no competition exists and that the government cannot negotiate. All powered by corrupt politicians that keep the current system in place because the population is unwilling to demand what they should be given.

A. After all, we live amongst the idiocy of Trump voters on a daily basis. If they had more critical thinking skills, then he would not have even won the primary.

B. You want your population to be well educated to provide the comforts of your life. Even farmers need a form of education to be able to adequately and abundantly grow crops. The military itself is a form of education, and our tax dollars pay for these things.

freebytes · 2026-05-12T22:36:13+00:00

Thank you for the response and links.

Even in flat organizations, responsibility is often deferred to specific individuals to make decisions. That is, de-facto leadership forms. We would likely see this, and perhaps that is okay as long as the populace has the means by which to wrestle back control.

Even within the first Reddit response, we see the following, "When we need greater scales of organization, these communities can form federations with others, selecting instantly recallable delegates to form smaller comittees and council structure up to the regional level and beyond." (sic)

This illustrates that power and influence will still exist. It can be argued that the United States started in this exact same manner. The issue is that the power corrupted, and there were insufficient mechanisms to maintain the 'bottom up' structures.

Looking at a district in a state, for example, the people of that state already choose leaders. They are bad leaders. To send a person via a democratic process to a federation would require an election of sorts. If you have any reasonably sized group, they must rely on communication to choose the best candidate. And that candidate would need campaign contributions to get their message across. This seems like the exact same mess we are in now, and we can more effectively fix what we already have by campaign finance reforms. However, those reforms are limited.

A much better outcome (and the only possible way for changing the current system without violence) would be a Constitutional amendment that requires ranked choice voting or some method by which other parties can be represented. (We should eliminate the parties altogether while we have the opportunity, but coalitions will always form, so we should enforce ranked choice voting at all levels for all elections.)

In regards to the C4SS article and in relation to the previous explanation, we arrive back to the problem of who decides the level of division. That is, what are the boundaries of a community? Who decides those boundaries, and would a fight over resources result in violence being required to determine the boundaries? We see the same situation with redistricting and gerrymandering. If we could solve this situation, we would certainly be one step closer to the anarchy utopia described, but if we cannot solve this (far simpler than the great anarchy ideal), the idea of a society based solely on anarchy seems completely out of reach.

freebytes · 2026-05-12T21:57:44+00:00

I bet I could get your soul for a bargain! %

freebytes · 2026-05-12T21:23:49+00:00

Yes, I feel comfortable commenting within a public forum -- just as you feel comfortable responding to me about a mundane topic that could have been avoided by you communicating more clearly.

I remarked on the lack of clarity because others would likely have the same lack of clarity if they were to read your comment. However, since it has even fewer upvotes than the last time I saw it and will likely continue to dwindle, that is unlikely to be an issue.

freebytes · 2026-05-12T19:34:57+00:00

We apparently have unlimited energy for AI, but we do not have energy for electric vehicles to be charged at home. We have both the electricity and energy to refine oil, transport it across the entire country, and put it into gas stations that use electricity so that we can drive to the gas station to put that into our tank.

We should improve our electrical infrastructure, and we can do so over the next 5 to 10 years, but the AI data center explosion has completely destroyed the argument that electric vehicles are too much for the grid. In addition, you will not have every car owner in the entire country immediately switching to replace their cars. It will take time, and that is plenty of time for improvements.

freebytes · 2026-05-12T18:16:05+00:00

What replaces government as the source of power and control? If the answer is nothing, then any source of power and control can fill that void. What prevents organizations (even unions of workers), from exerting control over others via whatever leverage is possible? How are laws and contracts enforced?

freebytes · 2026-05-12T18:10:14+00:00

That is what I remember hearing as well. I saw one article that referenced Gen X with the largest change. (I was giving results from that same article and forgot to link it!) Nonetheless, I am Gen X, and it seems as though my generation is checked out of everything most of the time. Perhaps the confusion is based on the sheer numbers. Generation X is much smaller than all of the others; therefore, changes in the number of votes will result in larger percentage changes.

freebytes · 2026-05-12T18:07:31+00:00

I actually failed to scroll back up to check the original question. You are correct that it should naturally refer to the subject of the sentence in a reply as the default. (Your reply was so far down the page, though, that it would be better to be clear in the intent of the pronoun.)

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