I feel awful for those being laid off, but honestly this was inevitably coming for SWTOR sooner or later. I’m just thankful they aren’t outright shutting it down. My personal experience of the game is that it was never a great MMO, but it’s an excellent single player game with occasional multiplayer interaction. I’ve gone back multiple times just to replay the numerous single player storylines.

Can’t believe we’re coming up on the 11th anniversary soon. This has always been my favorite MMO.

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It will use ActivityPub

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Trusting this thing would always be a bad idea.

I’m about to the point where I’m just going to go back to pirating. The value of streaming services was in their convenience. I was willing to pay money for that, but the more fragmented and complicated all of it gets, when I can just pay for 1 VPN and go to a site and click a few links…

I’ve had a Flip 3 for about a year and I honestly love the phone, but more for the style/fun factor of the flip over the actual usefulness. I was a huge fan of flip phones in the feature phone era and hated having to switch to candybar, lol, so I had to give it a try!

Pros for me:

• Looks very cool, flip phone nostalgia value
• I have some mobility problems and being able to set the phone on a table to use it as opposed to having the weight stressing my hands is nice
• Great for reading ebooks in a 2-page view
• Can see notifs, quick check music, dismiss alarms etc without opening
• Fits great in small pockets

Cons:

• This particular model is so ridiculously slidey on the outside that it won’t even stay still on a level table so a case is 100% required, but hopefully other foldables will avoid this lol
• Relatedly, not exactly a big case variety for this style of phone
• worry of “what if the screen cracks” hanging over my head

It’s been a fun purchase, but I’m not completely sold on the necessity or usefulness yet. If my screen is still okay by the time I’m ready for a new phone in a couple more years then I’ll call it a good purchase. So far I haven’t had any problems or signs of issues at the folding point, hopefully the trend continues, but I do make a point to leave the phone open most of the time when I don’t specifically need the folding functions.