Amazon's Jeff Bezos once revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options. Will DRAM prices make it come true?
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.
@Natanox They are very much hoping that people will fail to understand the difference between a phone/tablet and a PC.
The difference is none, fundamentally, but phones are implemented to prevent you from installing anything they don’t want you to install.
At the moment, it is only difficult to do so, rather than extremely straightforward and easy like on a PC. If people stop buying real PCs, eventually the phones will indeed become “beautifully” powerful, in the sense that they will be the chains we wear, the means of social control.
I’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.
We need to get MUDs more popular again. But that would require getting Telnet popular again.
But why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.
Because a MUD that isn’t part of a BBS feels wrong to me.
Can you fill me in on what that means? Searching for mud doesn’t give me useful results.
People were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser.
http://mud.arctic.org/ this one is still around.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon
For a list of still-active MUDs:
https://www.mudconnect.com/
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.
@Natanox They are very much hoping that people will fail to understand the difference between a phone/tablet and a PC.
The difference is none, fundamentally, but phones are implemented to prevent you from installing anything they don’t want you to install.
At the moment, it is only difficult to do so, rather than extremely straightforward and easy like on a PC. If people stop buying real PCs, eventually the phones will indeed become “beautifully” powerful, in the sense that they will be the chains we wear, the means of social control.
Do not be a fool.
@Serinus