There’s no way you’re actually this dumb. Come on. Quit trolling.

For the love of Christ, take it down. Why would you do that to yourself?

It’s definitely that one

Pfft, clearly I was not reading carefully.

+1 for “to’ve”. It’s a good word.

Mm, luckily “vanilla beans” aren’t actually beans. I think the people can handle the idea of a two-bean soup much better, don’t you?

Sure, but it’s important to know when to do what you’re told, and when to quit.

So it’s about the skill ceiling, or just the shape of the difficulty curve, or…? I definitely don’t fall into that group, so I’m curious.

Murder causes people to use internet explorer 😞

The main thrust of it was oversaturation. A whole bunch of companies put a whole bunch of money into video games at once, but the demand wasn’t there, so only a few titles and/or consoles could become hits and the rest were just huge wastes of money. It ended up snowballing and iirc the market receded by circa 95%, resulting in a lot of bankruptcies. Stores either returned surplus, or marked it down considerably, which meant little or no revenue for companies that made the products, and so of course they died. That includes US games, Atari, lots of other famous brands.

The video game market crashed hard from 1983 to 1985 and never really recovered.

That’s the joke, yeah.

Oh, I didn’t think about the fact that they’re a CA. That’s a good point; thanks for the info.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what “behind cloudflare” means in this context, but I have a couple of my sites proxied through cloudflare, and they definitely don’t have my keys.

I wouldn’t think using a cloudflare captcha would require such a thing either.

Is there a reason other than avoiding infrastructure centralization not to put a web server behind cloudflare?

Crawlers aren’t LLMs; they can do arbitrary computations (whatever the target demands to access resources).

In response to your edit.

Yes, or countries could use their cctld, e.g. email@us or noreply@uk.

Or any tld owner could do the same with theirs, of course.

I guess I’ll forgive the misuse of “POV” for the relatively high effort joke. Lol.

A couple decades at least, if things go extremely poorly for them and keep on doing that.

There are; they’re called “stablecoins”.