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  • I feel like, though it doesn’t come up much, we should conceptually separate “owning the game” from “having a physical edition”. Some games give you a disc, but barely offer ownership (remember CD keys?) while other games are only sold digitally, but are ultra-permissive with what you do with them.

    I get the sense many indie companies would like to give people as much control as possible, but also can’t afford printing box sets.





  • Katana314@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldEvery. Single. Time.
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    6 days ago

    I mean, it’s the same situation as vaccine mandates. You’re hoping that it’s a perfect system of karma that reflects upon the user, but it’s not. Someone practices bad security or bad personal health, and it might not necessarily be them that suffers the most. (Botnet victims come in wide varieties)

    I think owning your own device is a great ideology and I want to promote it however possible; I just don’t feel comfortable pushing that over general worldwide computer safety.


  • Katana314@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldLiberals right now...
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    While I do believe in this, a common point brought up about civil rights is everything that Malcolm X and the Black Panthers did around the same time. While peace wins hearts and minds, even just passive shows of force can dissuade hateful pushers of violence.

    Even Gandhi didn’t just sit back; his operation broke laws in order to make a point.


  • Katana314@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSteam Reviews
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    I’ma make a daring statement: I think Dark Souls must be a lot of fun once you get into a flow, but I think the game has a lot of bullshit in it that gets overlooked because anybody queasy about it is afraid to get called out with “skill issue” / “guess you want the game to hold your hand” when posting a review.

    I like secretiveness, I like self discovery. There’s still a lot of ways DS applies that that are just lazy and wasteful of player time, and the Souls formula has rightly evolved in the many games since. Some of my favorite games took some design cues from DS (for instance Breath of the Wild greatly amped its difficulty from Nintendo standards) but left other design elements behind.


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    Unpopular opinion: The most-used operating system in the world must automatically apply security updates, eventually even overriding user preference if people never restart.

    Right now it’s Windows. If someday it’s Ubuntu, they should do it too. If they don’t, we’d see giant botnets of every computer that people don’t want to update, all compromised by exploits.

    To be clear, this doesn’t excuse MS for abusing this update cycle to push shitty products or AI features.


  • The video game market is extremely hard to “corner”. It can happen for professional software like document processing, image editing, etc, but far too many startups are interested in making games, and there’s multiple digital stores to sell them. Minecraft and Factorio even sold off their own websites. Clair Obscur recently outsold a lot of big publisher efforts, and definitely didn’t need Game Pass’s visibility.

    They can corner one particular audience like Call of Duty, but can only push so many expectations on them before those gamers consider other games. They tried it with Fallout, complete with subscription, and it was massively unpopular.


  • I still haven’t seen the “no other option” scenario as so many claim. You could say $80 price tags do that, but if all prices are going up, that doesn’t track so much.

    They also discount games if you buy them while you have game pass. So there’s some encouragement to try a game, find you want to keep it, and pay for a permanent copy should it be removed from GP (or the player decides to stop the GP subscription).

    Still, I’m done with them because they’re done with talented studios, and are active participants in the Palestinian genocide.