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

Please explain to me how not voting would have prevented your scenario.

Agreed. While not voting is technically a choice, it’s not a choice you should take if you want change. Let’s put out the wildfire first, then we’ll work on putting out the dumpster fire.

Unless people have a realistic third choice we can make. Ignoring the problem until it goes away isn’t going to work though.

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

Legally, you might be right. I don’t know; I’m not a lawyer and I don’t care enough about this case to learn about it.

But I’m not talking about legalities here. I’m talking about calling this person’s moral character into question because he decided to go this route, which I don’t really agree with. I don’t care that it is built on top of Rockstar’s code. Everything is built on top of somebody else’s code. Again, not talking legalities here; but I don’t see a difference, and don’t agree that Rockstar should even have a say in this. They should sit back and be thankful that somebody created whatever this is which might just sell them a few extra copies of the game through no investment of their own.

I don’t like DRM. I don’t like people charging money for what is built on top of FOSS. But I also think it’s the creators’ right to choose how they distribute their work. /shrug

Eh, it’s his code, his work. I believe he’s within his rights to decide how he’s compensated.

I personally think this method is a bad idea but then again I don’t pay this game and don’t even know what the mod does. Maybe it’s the second coming or whatever and he knows his business more than I though. Either way, it’s his right.

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?

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?

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.