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These people just can’t handle anything, just anything, not being exactly as they like it, and if it isn’t, it has to be some sort of conspiracy.

“Disney had more or less trained audiences to expect big, hot Pixar content at home,” explained Brandon Katz, an entertainment industry strategist at Parrot Analytics.

I agree with the point but not necessarily the reason why.

Pixar movies used to be “can’t miss”. They were a cut above everything else, and incredibly unique. Now they’re just.. Disney Pixar. They’ve watered down so much of what made them great before.

And of course Disney is cutting staff due to lack of box office success without taking an inward look that their imprinting on the company might have something to do with its downfall.

Library of Alexandria burning down for the modern era

The original Kratos was basically one big long revenge story. Almost all of it justified and satisfying, but basically wiping out the Greek Pantheon was his ultimate goal.

His actions were reckless and fury driven, but often went over the top, both in violence and in actions.

My favourite example is from GoW: Ragnarok, when certain characters are reflecting on Kratos’ past, and how the one story of him killing the Sisters of Fate must truly be myth, then he corrects them saying it was true and how they deserved it. The third character then shines a present light on the fact that he did that in the past and says, “that’s the most dangerous and irresponsible thing I’ve ever heard.”

I think that sums up Greek Kratos in a nutshell.

The best part was not feeling like I should be doing something else.

I felt like sitting my lazy ass on the couch watching movies and eating popcorn was exactly where I was supposed to be for once.

Microsoft is a wonderful success story that being one of the first, and being parasitic, anti-competitive and anti-consumer, all while failing upwards by having some of the buggiest production releases out there on increasingly bloated software, is all that really counts to Wall Street.

And most of the world is too afraid to split off from it because it’s what they know.

How? Human error.

Why? Microsoft is just that kind of company and always has been. Their t’s aren’t crossed and i’s aren’t dotted, and people buy their shit because they’re used to it.

The only thing these companies care about is money. These fines need to have teeth to actually make them change.

Not to mention that we’ve been living in a business and economic environment where Fortune 500 companies have been getting it easy both ways. They’re able to work with impunity AND they lobby the hell out of governments to leave them alone.

This money could actually start to swing stuff towards the consumer again, rather than this new world where regular people seem to be fighting against the rich, corporations, and governments all at the same time. Although it could be said that those three entities are one and the same.

And it’s a million times better for people trying to troubleshoot.

1 forum post can solve many problems, rather than having to have each person ask in a support chat that’s not searchable.

Fuck everyone else, you got yours, right?

FOH

Land doesn’t vote

Also you’re not invited to my birthday party

He also mentions in the article that also due to this and their nature they’re very flighty, and have not become return customers, while scaring away regulars.

It’s about the post not about the enjoyment.

R beside name = good D beside name = bad

I think they write it on the back of their hand just in case too

I know I moved off the Xbox version because it was so far behind. Heard how difficult Microsoft makes it to upload and push updates too.

Guess you just have to be an incredible success of a video game to actually get attention from them to work with you.

There’s no way they’re this stupid, right?

You can piss off the rich folks, but most regular people won’t care most of the time, especially since people don’t give a flying fuck about their data privacy anyway, but this is the point where you really put a target on your back.

Stick to casinos, finance and market makers, the general public won’t bat an eye. Go after kids at a non profit? Well good luck, no one is even pretending to be on your side anymore.

They learn their new script from the writers, and don’t bother with anything from the old one anymore.

Or any republican that opposed bills or that had groundswell.

What are they adding to these games to justify new DRM?

Or are they doing new “packs” and are adding new DRM to make it seem justifiable to get that game with a few others?

I just can’t see why they’re doing this now. Unless it’s something they think came make more money than they’ve just spent implementing new DRM.

The Canada convoy crap was definitely degenerate Canadian wannabe magats

They’ve learned forgotten more lessons than they’ll ever remember.

In the last 10 years we still see these behaviours by way of:

• changing over to a subscription model for office then dropping support for older versions to basically force people to move to their new model, locking many prior VLSC or on-premises exchange features behind very high subscriptions
• after releasing the new version of the edge browser are now using their integration in their software suite to disregard the user’s default browser choice and open in edge anyway. Having to now go through an extra menu set to tell their software to respect the default browser set in the OS
• lying about Win 10 being the final version of windows only to turn around and add a TPM requirement which automatically disqualifies a significant amount of hardware from being able to upgrade

This is just three examples off the top of my head, respectively. We could talk about ads in a paid OS, constant nags to please pretty please use their browser, breaking prior software to integrate “new” versions that don’t add any user improvements but do add significant upgrades to telemetry and usage data, and so on.

“Bots!” Musk yelled, as if conjuring them up.

A war against them he declared, but really, he was just building his own army it seems.

Which is one of the only good reasons to still go to the site

I describe what Microsoft does as having all of the correct Lego pieces and still fucking up putting it together, every time.

Then taking it apart to put it back together only for it to somehow be better in some ways and much worse in others.

Lather, rinse, repeat, sprinkle in some anti-competitive shit too.

Man, what the fuck

Hell you can even just change desktop environments to shake things up as well.

Definitely. They’ve gone for the stick instead of the carrot if they’re looking to juice PSN numbers, and gamers are a notoriously outspoken bunch.

How they thought this would just fly without an uproar after such a great launch is way beyond me.

Brave pushed affiliate links to users without consent. They’ve even more recently been installing VPN software without user permission.

For a “user, privacy-focused browser” they’re really missing the point.

There are a handful of features that I really like with qbittorrent but there were plugins I can’t find replacements for from Deluge:

• having items deleted after meeting seeding requirements, as *arr auto imports, but having exceptions for private trackers
• the above without having the *arr stack have a permanent warning
• auto adding public default trackers to any public torrent

I’ve switched back and forth a few times and I run them side by side but let deluge take the reins of most of it because I have it set up to be hands off with the above.

If anyone knows how I can set up qbt the same way that would be great though

Most games aren’t fully baked at release anymore. You’re not getting the full experience unless you play it down the line, sometimes years after release.

On top of that, you have to play games on someone else’s time, that is, their license agreement.

If I run out of steam in the middle of persona 3 reloaded, and need to take a break before I revisit it, I don’t want to have to buy it on the subscription platform again to recover my save, or have to keep the foresight that I might not beat it before it disappears.

It’s games. It’s a distraction, a joy. I shouldn’t have to manage anything else or have to pay anything I don’t want to.

You know what’s really good for making sure thing never explode in your face?

Repressing them and pretending they never existed.

If this is black magic, will I be subject to some sort of witch trial in the near future?

I hate Illinois nazis

I really hope all these commercial real estate entities sink into a deep hole.

They’ll try to blame people for not wanting to come into the office, but they need to die, the parasitic clowns they are.

Agreed. You’re at the mercy of your USB controllers as well as southbridge in that case.

You’re adding more things that can go wrong.

Generally HBA/RAID cards are usually built for enterprise rather than consumer so they’re usually more reliable as well.

The difference is that this isn’t a normal election, Trump has shown his hand and it’s terrifying.

Unfortunately, any criticism of Biden, even if warranted or necessary, is seen as tacit approval or support of Trump, even if it isn’t meant in that way.

That being said, opinion articles are almost always biased in nature, and this one is from someone in the Republican sphere and pushes an untenable idea of what is not a true sentiment about a political rival, regardless of the rest of the content.

That’s not a great foot to start off on if you don’t want to be considered as propaganda.

Iphones can run vpns

That sounds an awful lot like them quietly liking it

If people thought algorithms were bad before, they’re about to get a titans times worse for Reddit.

I have a self-hosted troddit instance I use to check up on smaller communities, or to replace Reddit.com queries from search engine results with abs when it loads the front page vs the Reddit.com front page is vastly different.

There’s no surprise why they got rid of the api, because they’re playing with engagement and need more direct access.

I did this today. Was trying to get a searxng instance running on oracle cloud’s free tier, but it’s so doggedly slow between OS, docker, searxng, that it’s useless and locks up all the time.

And their free ARM option never has availability so I just deleted the instance and started a new one with great speed to burn through my free credits.