The only sensible logic I could come up with is where a new version is broken in some awful way, but an older version is not.
But, obviously, that only works if the people haven't already upgraded.
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I like that you're describing an anti-Twitter, where people have to express themselves in over 250 characters, rather than under 140 or 280.
I'll second that. I've been using them for 4 or 5 years, and have been pleased.
There even was a day where there was an outage for my server, and they made it right by giving everyone credits roughly equal to 3 years of service or something. I thought that was overkill, and I guess they'll take a loss on it, but... the instincts are nice. It seems like a place where it's some dude taking care of servers, rather than a giant corporation who is more focused on extracting money than providing a great service for a reasonable cost.
Agreed!
As a child playing this, I got to be decent at the arcade version (biggest hint is to not use nitros, unless doing so would directly result in winning, because otherwise the computer starts speeding up because of them.), and would happily play for an hour on only a few tokens.
And, yeah, it was fun that steering was, "...and now go spin as fast as possible, and grab onto the steering wheel to stop when the truck has turned the correct direction."
It wasn't really accurate, but I liked Super Mario Kart (SNES) and Stunts (PC) for driving things, and a certain amount of unreality was part of what made them fun.
But this post was about the console versions of it, none of which I was able to get into, probably because of it not being like the arcade.
All the same, it's a bit of a white whale for Lynx, and I'd jump at the chance to own it for any moderately-reasonable price. Even though, obviously, I'd want to own four copies for the one random time when I had enough interested people together in the right place to play the game.
Hah! This is kind of like how the one non-telepathic person is still completely unaware. Really is nice that The Onion keeps track.
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Hah, fellow human! I am definitely not a robot and do not need to pass the Turing test.
I, too, am certain a human, and not a robot, who finally got my instance working a couple days ago.
But my server has all of four completely-normal humans (totally NOT robots!!!) who have signed up, so far.
But, yes, it would be nice if more humans like me were to sign up, rather than bots.
Speaking as a noob trying to see if I can respond from another server... Hi!
I spun up an instance for a friend group, to test it out, and while I think no one has a real clue what's going on, it's nice to have something new and positive. And since I or a friend control the server, no worries on the perverse incentives of the internet giants.
So, yeah, hopefully we can learn, and hopefully the ecosystem can grow.
It automatically restoring all those unsaved notes has made me so lazy.