To be fair, only a handful of publishers were able to take their cards and go elsewhere. The media companies were a lot more on top of dragging their products off of Netflix.
Nobody would be on steam just for Valve games, after all, and indie has a much lower barrier of entry.
While they could certainly distribute their current products better, a lot of the issues they have now (see: belated frogs comment) aren’t things they really had control over.
It’s probably because I generally saw the sub shutdowns as a result of the protest, and not as an ongoing protest. Reddit clearly wasn’t in any talks with the mods at that point and vica versa.
Honestly i’ll just go with it being months. I’m basically just arguing semantics at this point.
I mean, I remember it being weeks myself.
But it’s not as if things went back to the way they were either. There were definitely effects due to those weeks.
I still use redirects to visit Reddit (I don’t bother if they don’t work), mainly because one of the main communities I track didn’t really move here.
Does Youtube count? That’s pretty much the only other thing I could think of.
I’m not
I can’t even try using an alternative redirect because apparently all of them are blocked.
Pretty sure you have to do random things without actual intent.
Like if you were an actual Eagle owner and actually lost your eagle. All the time.
Meanwhile someone will be eating gummies to cure themselves of some modern disease instead of using actual science-proven medication.
The first time I gave up was basically just too much back and forth with Windows. Wine was still not there yet and Proton wasn’t even a thing yet though.
I’ve used it a lot on laptops still, but haven’t gone to a desktop mainly because friends still like to bounce between games that I have to worry if my system will even support (for anti-cheat reasons not for normal compatibility reasons)
Currently using on steam deck and it’s great, am planning for next PC because it feels like too much work to do on a current one when everything is already working the way I want it to.
Gnome’s current state is too far from the UI interface for people who only know windows. Maybe if it was Gnome2.
So basically they’re protecting you from something that’s only possible, because of something they shouldn’t have done.
Normalized???
It’s still literally rated as less family friendly than watching blood and gore murder.
If anything I’d argue that sexual repression is still going as strong as ever in some places. In some cases to unhealthy amounts.
For some reason that made me think that if aliens ever wanted to take over the earth, they just have to become CEOs. Nobody would be able to tell the difference.
I mean maybe you’d need an adapter if for some reason it doesn’t have the RYW plugs, but these things will generally work on whatever TV you plug them into. TV manufacturers obviously didn’t want to have to tell consumers that their products would stop working moving to LCD.
But a common factor is the console doesn’t know the difference so the screen size will usually be stretched. But thats about it.
?? Historically it’s been an issue where you need to prove you didn’t do it, because otherwise the companies would bury you in legal fees trying to defend yourself. You’re like…trying to argue an alternate universe to how this normally plays out.
That’s…not a legal excuse.
In fact that’;s an open and shut end to a project if you’re caught doing it.
Hasn’t ReactOS been accused of using code that was not reverse-engineered multiple times? If they became too big MS would probably just sue them.
Well, the problem with the glitches I was thinking of was basically:
-You have to play a worse version of the game. This was a majora’s mask glitch. It relied on a bug that allowed you to “wrong warp” to the Japanese Debug Menu. The problem was basically it required you to increment a hidden index to over 8000. Which crashed the N64 version. The second issue is the debug menu requires the directional pad, which isn’t mapped correctly on the Wii version. Which basically meant playing on the Wii U version which has input lag among other issues that make it…not very fun to play when speed running. Basically it doesn’t play right.
-The other was an RNG glitch in Ocarina of Time. It worked on trying to get a bottle by the deku tree, which allowed you to do a very broken glitch that brought you right to Ganon to fight the final boss. The problem with that one is that it required you to trigger a pickup sequence in a specific way that allowed an enemy to knock you out of it. The only enemy drop that does this is the first deku seed of the game, and the enemies that were found using this method…had a low rate of dropping the deku seed. In theory it was the fastest run at the time, but on it’s first showcase it went over the allotted time because the seeds didn’t drop correctly until 30m into the run.
So in one case you had to use a version of the game that played awful to increment a hidden table 8000 times. And in another case you had to hope glitch went off without a hitch or you started over. And aside from the drop rate for the second glitch, it could also fail if the deku seed just dropped in the wrong place.
Glitches aren’t cheating. They’re using knowledge about the game’s internal workings. This is how the combo system that became the core of fighting games came about.
Maybe you could argue TAS (tool assisted speedrun), but I’ve always gathered thats more for proof of concept
And it’s probably worth mentioning that glitches still need to be fun. There have been speedrun scenes hurt because the most optimal method made the game less fun to play.
I feel like your last sentence is a pretty big problem that doesn’t require a “what else?”
We should be trying to make sports safer for the people being exploited, not less.
Advertisers are the best at spreading word.
It’s probably why award shows (which are also smothered with ads) get so much publicity.