I hate this so much. Why should they be able to do this?

One thing is stopping customer support and internal software/OS development. But why should they BLOCK compatibility for third party developers?

Economy is going bad, interest rate are up, and all Silicon Valley's company are built upon VC loans and expansion goals. Scale economy is bound to fail, and it's happening now.

While this is true, it is a terrible way of debating with the public.

And while users may not be able to understand game design decision and background, they can well be aware that those decisions brought to a really bad game.

Piracy Shield is indeed brought to us by (soccer) mafia

This is part of the problem, not a justification. You are saying that companies such Nvidia have so much power/money, that the whole industry must spend useless efforts into making more demanding games just to make their products relevants.

Spotify is unusable without premium Xmanager

Downloaded and I will keep seeding it h24 indefinitely. Thank you for sharing!

This made me realize that, besides house services (mortgage, bills), SIM provider and a single website host+domain, I am currently completely subscription free and I think it's something to be proud of. Wow!

For every new release they hire the best UX designers and developers in order to find ways of make your experience worse.

"We decided to hire a shit writer in order to recreate the atmosphere of a true Bethesda game"

perfect

If buying an house was free, you can be sure I would definitely tell that to every fucking anyone.

The only downside is that you won't be able to play online (at least not while using the modded OS).

Upsides are a lot, from piracy, to homebrew apps, emulation, game modding or overclocking.

They don't respect my attention and time, thought

High on the list for sure, near Nintendo BTW

Well designed service and addictive are completely different concept.

Addiction is not about how likely you are to use something and if you like doing so. That's naïve.

You know, I never thought about that

I accidentally scratch those cars with my keys every time.

Honestly, I feel scared because it's actually something that is being exported here.

I feel so sorry for you Americans, but I don't blame you. I don't think this is something you can address by simply voting, the same way we here can't do nothing by voting in order to stop the privatization of everything. This are scary times.

Beat up? Are you kidding me? She's described as a combat trained woman in peak physical performance and she's still being overcomed by the man aggressor. She succeeded in winning buy using a blender as a weapon, and that sounds pretty realistic to me.

For windows, yes. For Linux and OSx, 8gb si still ok for most usecase

It would be cool to see a screenshot or two, since it's basically a webUI! Thanks for sharing, anyway!

Everything is ruined by marketing it's capitalist roots, and game development is no exception.

They push for fidelity just because sells well, the fact that this makes for the need of much powerful hardware is not a drawback for them. It's actually good, since it's someone you can profits on.

Games need artistic direction and vision, much more than they need photorealism (which is great for some kind of games, but not a universal standard).

Oh, we definitively know WHY they are behind bars.

I'm sorry but WTF is a Star Wars credit card? And why?

What's that? Something like Notion, but self-hosted?

same old EEE shit

But if you just want to watch YouTube and shop on the Web you definitely don't need an M3.

An M3 chip with a 8gb RAM is just plain stupid. The problem it's not the 8gb RAM per sé.

How is it delusional?

Digital product are duplicable for free, and we artificially limit that in order grant more money to publisher.

It's like we could duplicate food for free, jesus-like, and we should say "mh no no, I don't care if people is dying from hunger, you can't copy my food without paying".

And don't start with the "compensating the creator" argument. It's a necessity, of course, but there are thousands of ways to do it better than how we are doing today (where basically all the profit goes to publisher and IP owner).

There are a lot of other arguments to make about ethics of Piracy, like the fact that IP owner stop taking care and making available valuable cultural artifacts as soon as they are not profitable anymore (lots of thing would be lost forever without piracy), and the fact that price are set in western standards so that a game or an ebook is like half the monthly averages salary of some countries. The list go on.

Piracy is THE ethical way. The collective benefit are huge, and you can easily compensate for the individual loss (e.g. making donation and direct purchase for small creators in order to support them anyway).

It's latest Android Design Guidelines, also known as Material Design 3.

It's actually pretty good in order to have UX/UI consistency

Oh we are, I'm afraid.

Then you are objectively right

Unfortunately Windows. I want to switch to Linux, I really want it, but it's my first PC game since like 20 years and even if the latest progress are great It's not there yet for me.

That's the point! If you look at Reddit and choose an argument, say for example "pc building subreddit", you could find dozens of subreddit related to that topics. There are 1 or 2 that have the majority of good contents and users, but this happens over times.

Would this mean I could finally ditch what's app and use only Signal?

I did the switch some times ago and I love AntennaPod. Still, I did not manage to have synchronization with a desktop service, and I miss that from Google Podcast.

Everytime the same argument. I don't want to see ads never ever, period. They are useless and annoying at best, sometimes plain evil manipulation.

I recognize the need of income for creators, and they can ask for money in the form of donation/subscription and other methods. I am paying and will pay for everything I want to support. If you decide that your way to sustain yourself is by shoving up fake opinions and useless noise in order to manipulate me into buying something, I don't accept it. It's as simple as that.

The idea of "black list" has nothing to do with black people, to my understending

I escaped from Twitter, now from Reddit, do you wanna make me go away from here too?

Lots of words and lots of assumptions. You can improve a product and release another version with a paid upgrade, while the old version remains completely functional. If your works have made the software substantially better, people will be happy to pay for a new version. If you aren't adding real value, having the last version should not be necessary.