I’ve got so many layers of adblock it’s hard to know which one(s) are responsible for blocking the ads.

Dang, was hoping for the new Doom. I refuse to play it with Denurvo, but I don’t trust anything out there.

I have hopes from these reviews, although I do wonder how much of the score improvement is due to From Software’s new reputation.

Unplayable mess? I never said that. However, more than a few people had game-breaking bugs in Skyrim and had to restart or hope they had a save from far enough back.

Obviously Skyrim was playable enough since it was an immediate critical success. I can’t really speak for fallout 4 since I never played it and didn’t bother following the news for it.

That being said, there are memes older than some people on lemmy equating Bethesda and bugs. They’ve earned their reputation, but good and bad.

I’m excited for Starfield but buying a Bethesda game on release week is probably a bad idea. Let them get a few patches out first.

Assuming Armored Core is as polished as many of these reviews suggest, it might be a great game to tide me over until then.

Also renewing license plates/licenses. Basically if you need to make a yearly or monthly payment to keep using something it’s a scam in my eyes.

Not sure about where you live, but where I live, that money goes towards road upkeep. That money has to come from somewhere.

Eh, you’ll still need something that allows you to search for a file/torrent and gives you a hash or magnet. Right?

Lol, that’s fair. If I would have spent significant hours researching all the changes and the new config files, I probably could have had a better time.

However, around that time I decided that dist-upgrades were: 1) for the birds, and 2) like Windows in that it’s easier & better to wipe and reinstall.

That’s basically what I did. The only change was I installed Arch instead. No more dist-upgrades!

I feel like the people that perpetuate this meme have never used Arch. I’ve ran it on multiple computers for just over a decade and only once have I had an issue. And that one time, it was my fault. It’s been the most solid OS I’ve used.

Meanwhile, my headless Ubuntu server couldn’t do a dist-upgrade without shitting all over itself. I only ran Ubuntu because of the constant “never use Arch for servers” talk. I wish I had never listened to that. Everything I own runs Arch now and it’s so nice.

Jesus Christ, did Microsoft rename Lync again?!

With what money?

I know spez is running it into the ground, but it was valued at $10b last funding round. I don’t think he’s got the liquid capital after blowing it all on Twitter.

Jpeg is already compressed, so compressing them again won’t do anything but make it impossible for people to selectively download just the image/folder they desire.

Metadata on the other hand sounds like text files, which compress very well. Wether the space savings is worth it is hard to answer without more info. I’d personally lean towards not archiving it.

I presume it’s cool to post magnet links in here?

I wonder if we’re wrong to group entertainment and physical goods into the same category though. They’re wildly different things.

If I make you a pair of shoes, I need to charge you money to account for my time, my effort, and the materials it took to make them. If I make a thousand shoes, it doesn’t scale; the price per shoe has to stay the same.

If I write an ebook, I would charge for the time and effort it took to write it, but there’s no material charge. It scales entirely differently because I can make a billion ebooks for the same cost as one.

Considering that, the old way of thinking that I should be able to resell an ebook like some shoes I bought doesn’t seem to apply logically. We’re buying entertainment, not physical goods. I don’t bitch that I can’t resell the experience of going to a concert, so why do I bitch (and I do) that I can’t resell digital media?

I just wish the publishers would price media accordingly. If they all worked out a deal with stremio to get ten cents whenever I streamed a movie, I wouldn’t think twice. But instead I need to sign up with multiple services and pay $20 to stream one, and I just realized I’m bitching to the choir so I’ll end there.

Am I the only one that has never gotten this software to work worth a damn? The interface is impenetrable and it never finds what I want.

Maybe it’s because I’m not searching for Steven King or whatever super-popular author? Either way, I’ve yet to find anything that is as easy as just going to library genesis and downloading manually.

I don’t agree with the punishment one bit.

But it was never about getting their money back. Instead they just wanted a life-ruining sentence and large number to give to the media to scare people into not fucking with Nintendo.

Nintendo knows they’ll never see even one million of that 65. Hell, they’ll probably never even make enough to cover the lawyer fees. They don’t care as they’re playing the long game. They’re trying to prevent the next Bowser before it happens. Which won’t work, but they’ll never understand why.

That’s fair, I didn’t specify DRM-free. Still probably better than buying through Amazon.

But I’d prefer to use my own ebook reader.

Can you even buy ebooks these days without going though Amazon? Aside from an incredibly small amount of indie authors (who probably got kicked from Amazon for unknowingly pissing off some algorithm) there’s no place to download them and support the authors.

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