Reposting my comment from the other post:

Stores should only provide DRM, and anything else that they do must be optional.

But earlier:

I would rather pay a fraction of the price to play a game for one month than pretend digitally distributed games have the lifespan of a boxed physical product.

So, DRM is bad… but acceptable if it’s only DRM?

If DRM is a critical failure point for game preservation and ownership, then a store providing only DRM is still part of the problem.

In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve… Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers.

Game Pass is the epitome of temporary, self-updating, DRM-heavy software that you can’t patch, mod, or preserve. Yet it’s presented as a solution?

Valve does not expect users to delete their account; they think… nobody will ever hold them accountable.

Then:

They claim that upon deleting your account, your community posts will remain and will be attributed to [deleted], however this is not true…

Wait, isn’t it contradictory to say they didn’t expect users to delete accounts while criticizing their policy on deleted accounts?

Because the Steam client patches itself… their DRM prevents running Windows 98-era games on original hardware.

That shit is 25 years old. Does this goober really think it’s reasonable to expect support for an obsolete operating system?

Also, is this really a steam-only issue?

Valve’s… design deliberately hooks and blocks access to those APIs as part of Steam Input’s initialization.

This is typical behavior of API abstraction layers.

If Steam Input replaces lower-level APIs, that’s exactly what it’s designed to do. Epic, Microsoft, and others do the same. The difference is the option to disable it - not the architectural behavior itself.

In summation: This dingbat is a walking contradiction with an axe to grind.

I havent played 3 personally, but I’ve heard the story is kinda botched because its so inconsistent, and the pacing is fucked.

With 1 and 2 you had the anime-bullshit layered between the disney-bullshit.

Apparently with 3, it goes:

anime-bullshit > (disney-bullshit * worlds) > heavy anime-bullshit with loads of exposition.

Curious George was transgender?

This is such a terrible take.

Of course AAA and AA mean something in the gaming industry! I’m hardly going to power my controller with a fucking 9V am I?

Its simply a matter of harm mitigation.

It simply isnt fair to the rest of society to place people who actively seek harm onto others, back on the street.

I think this is less of a case of ‘dont keep them in prison for the rest of their lives’ and more of a ‘we should improve prison conditions’ type of argument.

Sure, but I wouldn’t exactly categorize speeding as an ‘evil’ act - just reckless.

But then there are malicious crimes. These kinds of crimes are driven by motivations which regularly transcend punishment.

I remember listening to an episode of hardcore history about capital punishment, it detailed public executions throughout the ages, and the takeaway is this:

You could literally publicly rip people limb from limb with horses and rope, people are still going to steal, assault, and rape.

If seeing someone getting skinned alive isn’t enough of a deterrent, I don’t know why prison would be.

Installing Arch ‘the proper way’ is a pilgrimage all Linux users should take. After that, they can fly with EndeavourOS at their convenience.

Lol OP didn’t get the good ending.

Lol could you fucking imagine? People would be fucking pissed. I doubt it a lot, even hoyo knows “it was all a dream” is shit storytelling.

RIP

(Also, nobody’s really dead, right? Everything is gonna get reset and the loop will restart?)

I’m curious as to what you’re asking it that it would waste your time.

I’m fully convinced that if you’re saving time by wading through SEO sludge (which is mostly bloated ai shit anyway), then you’re just asking bad questions.

Can you give me some examples of questions it answered which were wrong? I want to test it myself.

That’s exactly my point. Evrart wants to paint this picture like he keeps order and his supporters like him, but him and his brother are mob-bosses, they muscle out anyone else who tries to make changes in their territory.

He weaponises a faux-socialist movement, but he will exploit and manipulate everyone for the purpose of his own gain. He cares not for the plight of the working class, he only pretends to.

He’s not complex because he might be good - he’s complex because he’s so good at faking it. That’s the brilliance. He’s a mobster who makes you feel like you owe him a favor for getting mugged.

Everart has to be my favorite character in the game besides Kim.

He’s so well written, the dialogue about the mega rich light bending guy is just fucking perfect lol.

He knows exactly who he needs to pretend to be in order to manipulate everyone, that makes him incredibly dangerous to the naive.

If you think he’s got anyone’s best interests besides his own, or might believe he is who he says, I think you’re in need of a second play through once your high wears off.

TLDR: the checkbox for “enable proton for all other titles” is forced on, and hidden.

If you already have this enabled, there’s nothing to gain from the beta client.

I respect that he burned a giant hole in Konami’s pocket and tried his best to block them off at each turn.

Then they fired him before the game was finished and released Metal Gear Survive lol.

Also respect that he made a fucking AAA hiking delivery game, with fucking jar-babies, and Princess Beach.

The classic example is email; Imagine if you could only email people on Outlook, from another Outlook account. It’s intuitive how shitty that would be, but for some reason we give social media a free pass for doing exactly this.

The benefits are (analogously):

• if you notice Yahoo users send you a lot of spam, you just block all of Yahoo. Sure, you might miss something important, but that’s their fault for using Yahoo.
• if some dickhead like The Zucc releases a new email service (Threads) then maybe your email service (instance) will do you a favor and block them (defederate).
• pedos and bigots look for instances which is known for hosting shady shit, effectively acting as a containment barrier (most instances defederate these by default). Would never see that happen on Twitter (thank you Elon! /s).
• if an instance crashes, that sucks. But there are many others hosting federated content, so Lemmy will never be ‘down’.

Perfectly good dirt, awaiting seed deposits

Why would I ejaculate on cement?

Yep, and they fuck themselves over academically because lecturers notice how their time spent in online-learning platforms doesn’t match their assessment submissions.

Students inevitably get questioned about their content, only for the lecturer to discover they don’t know shit, because they cheated. Had the student actually used it properly, they might know enough about the content to scrape by.

In any case, I’ve seen this happen five times lol. One of them because my lecturer asked one of my classmates what ‘frivolous’ and ‘multifaceted’ meant, and fumbled before saying they used a thesaurus.

She was then asked in plain speech what she intended to say, and ended up with an “I don’t know” - boom. Academic integrity compromised, investigation into her Learnline metrics, and cross referencing her work from two years earlier. Termination of her course followed two weeks after.

Most students use it; the lecturers know this. The difference is whether people use it as a tool, or a replacement.

In any case, essays are supposed to be a metric of knowledge and evidence of independent research. In practice? A good essay really only reflects one thing - the student is good at writing essays. I know people in early childhood education who suffered through university, who have more intuition and emotional intelligence than people who got by on academic prowess.