The statement "People, the SERVER IS THE GM!!!!" is simply wrong. I suspect that the poster has not actually played tabletop RPGs (or is merely trolling here). The point of the GM was never to do those things which a computer does well: make dice …
By "a little digging" I assume you mean you looked at the pricing sheet. You obviously don't know what the concept behind the Platinum servers is, and you probably also don't know that the price for those used to be $80. The BASELINE price for the…