patrick
Admin of the Bestiverse
That’s somewhat similar to the plot of the movie Plan 75.
“In a dystopian alternate reality, the Japanese government creates a program called “Plan 75” that offers free euthanasia services to all Japanese citizens 75 and older in order to deal with its rapidly aging population.”
I’ve been slowly building a text based MMO game that I will probably continue working on this week: galactic-war
It’s based on Inselkampf, a very slow-paced game that I played years ago and wanted to play again. Inselkampf just started a new World this weekend, which it does every ~6 months, so I will probably end up working on my virtual clone of it this week while I’m thinking about it.
If you wanted to play too now would be a very good time to start. The userbase has continued dropping over the years it seems, with only a few dozen to a couple hundred players.
I also want to get releases and announcement posts out for a couple of my Matrix bot projects this week, pokem and chaz, but that’s been on the backlog for a couple weeks already
That is a lot of effort to go through to avoid using a VPN.
That just makes sense though? The legit sites have to pay for, fund, or in some way support the content which does cost money. The piracy sites obviously don’t have that cost so they don’t need as much income.
The piracy sites also pay a lot less in infra, since they rely on the user to store, seed to others, and serve the content to the local users. All that infra is offloaded to the user.
Do you think that Amazon gets its content (movies on Prime video) for free? Or do you think that piracy sites pay for their content (stolen movies on torrent sites)?
Edit: To answer you more directly, YouTube pays creators a cut of the ad revenue, and Amazon/Netflix pay the movie/show creators through licensing deals.
It’s definitely instance dependent. I run the servers for my instance at the closest Hetzner data center to myself (west coast USA) for latency reduction and over-size/engineer it for better perf.
My instance is open for registration too, if anybody reading here would find that useful.