If you truly believe investing, and especially investing in real estate, is immoral, then you shouldn't do it, the same way you shouldn't eat pork if you keep kosher or halal.
Anything else, especially "it feels more like buying back my own lost value" is such a gigantic cope that I've seen pictures of it taken from the ISS.
Either accept that your beliefs are incorrect, and participate in the market like a normal person, or stick to your beliefs when it's inconvenient too.
This behaviour is morally no better than that of megachurch pastors who preach the immorality of gay sex and get caught paying men to fuck them in the ass.
Probably, but there's clearly not a lot of interest at present, and anyone running one such instance would absolutely incur scrutiny nonetheless.
It'd probably be simpler to send the information to a trusted moderator on some specialized community through some dead drop, rather than going through the hassle of making a whole system for throwaway accounts, at that.
As I said, good for you. Play it, enjoy it.
Not once have I tried to persuade you otherwise, I just explained why I won't and don't.
I expressed my preference, same as you, except apparently my time could be better spent.
Make of that what you will.
I just have noticed a trend of Origins people that come into any dragon age thread just to talk smack, and I think it'd probably be better to just play a game you like instead of focusing on how much you hate ones you don't. ya know?
Eh, there's plenty of time to do both and the games are absolutely worthy of a good thrashing.
I am annoyed at them because they show an utter disregard for the user's time and money. I wanted to like them, and I was exceedingly disappointed in the product.
especially considering how excited people are for the new game.
Are they? All I've seen is suspiciously defensive articles about BG3 comparisons not being fair (despite DA having the full might of EA and the >!soulless husk of the!< company that made BG1 and 2 at its helm) and shittons of astroturf and fluff pieces.
You are the first person who openly calls themselves a DA2 fan I run into in the wild.
I came into origins because it was in a branch I liked, so yeah, I have eaten well in the past and there's more than enough for me to keep eating well for a good long time.
To me it's mostly the obvious lack of care of DA2 towards the lore and even the internal consistency of the world and characters in that same game that made me acutely aware of the downfall of BioWare.
I've since moved on to other things. Mostly indie stuff, and stuff like BG3 which is much more in my general direction.
I'll miss OG BioWare (Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 BioWare, to clarify) but I'll live.
Unironically, good for you.
Enjoy it while your taste is still where it's at, it probably won't stay there but more power to you in the meantime.
Dragon age as a franchise showed promise when it was an actual modern take on a CRPG.
Ever since DA2 it became worthless, casualized dreck gameplay attached to a story written by and for a very specific californian millennial crowd and, frankly, they can keep it.
I'm not suggesting you host a normal instance, I'm suggesting making a fork that makes the instance logless and allows anonymous burners.
The important thing is to be a black hole for investigating origins of posts, right?
A logless instance that does not keep track of accesses/ips/etc would mean that even in the case of a subpoena there's nothing to turn over, and the ability to make burners with just an id and a password would ensure nothing is trackable.
You will need to make some adjustments to prevent botting but other than that this takes care of cross referencing, in my book.
Basically the same stuff that companies like mullvad do for their VPN hosting.
Why not simply set up an instance yourself with the features you'd like to see?
Anon identities may not work in the strictest sense but I'm sure something like throwaway accounts made without email addresses or something along those lines would be doable.
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