Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Way more even. Just look at emulation on Android, you can play good damn Sekiro on it by now.

  Even if they manage to take away our desktops, Smartphones become beautifully powerful and can be docked to TVs and all via USB-C easily.

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• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We need to get MUDs more popular again. But that would require getting Telnet popular again.

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.

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    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Because a MUD that isn't part of a BBS feels wrong to me.

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  • fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Can you fill me in on what that means? Searching for mud doesn’t give me useful results.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      People were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser.

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    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It means Multi User Dungeon. It's a networked multiplayer game, usually focused on dungeon-crawling as the name suggests. Early ones were based heavily on BD&D and AD&D, but others got more creative.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon

      For a list of still-active MUDs:

      www.mudconnect.com

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