Mostly from ads and tracking you

Edit: especially on TVs. They’re subsidizing an upfront loss to make more from selling data with the Smart TV features

This isn’t the first time that something being the default was considered part of a monopoly case. Most notably internet explorer in the Microsoft monopoly case.

The big thing is that even if there are other options… A lot of people won’t ever bother to change it.

Lemmy.world is defederated from quite a few big instances (most notably hexbear) but honestly most people end up blocking hexbear anyway so you’re not missing much.

Damn she’s been inactive recently

No wonder I haven’t been seeing her around

The guy who started it and other people helping push it have also responded and talked about how Thor doesn’t entirely get it/missed the point.

Here’s Ross’s entire response pasted because it got buried on the video.

“I’m afraid you’re misunderstanding several parts of our initiative. We want as many games as possible to be left in some playable state upon shutdown, not just specifically targeted ones. The Crew was justa convenient example to take action on, it represents hundreds of games that have already been destroyed in a similar manner and hundreds more"at risk” of being destroyed. We’re not looking at the advertising being the primary bad practice, but the preventable destruction of videogames themselves.

This isn’t about killing live service games (quite the opposite!), it’s primarily about mandating future live service games have an end of life plan from the design phase onward. For existing games, that gets much more complicated, I plan to have a video on that later. So live service games could continue operating in the future same as now, except when they shutdown, they would be handled similarly to Knockout City, Gran Turismo Sport, Scrolls, Ryzom, Astonia, etc. as opposed to leaving the customer with absolutely nothing.

A key component is how the game is sold and conveyed to the player. Goods are generally sold as one time purchases and you can keep them indefinitely. Services are generally sold with a clearly stated expiration date. Most “Live service” games do neither of these. They are often sold as a one-time purchase with no statement whatsoever about the duration, so customers can’t make an informed decision, it’s gambling how long the game lasts. Other industries would face legal charges for operating this way. This could likely be running afoul of EU law even without the ECI, that’s being tested.

The EU has laws on EULAS that ban unfair or one-sided terms. MANY existing game EULAS likely violate those. Plus, you can put anything in a EULA. The idea here is to take removal of individual ownership of a game off the table entirely.

We’re not making a distinction between preservation of multiplayer and single player and neither does the law. We fail to find reasons why a 4v4 arena game like Nosgoth should be destroyed permanently when it shuts down other than it being deliberately designed that way with no recourse for the customer.

As for the reasons why think this initiative could pass, that’s my cynicism bleeding though. think what we’re doing is pushing a good cause that would benefit millions of people through an imperfect system where petty factors of politicians could be a large part of what determines its success or not. Democracy can be a messy process and was acknowledging that. I’m not championing these flawed factors, but rather saying think our odds are decent.

Finally, while your earlier comments towards me were far from civil, don’t wish you any ill will, nor do encourage anyone to harass you. I and others still absolutely disagree with you on the necessity of saving games, but I wanted to be clear causing you trouble is not something I nor the campaign seeks at all. Personally, I think you made your stance clear, you’re not going to change your mind, so people should stop bothering you about it."

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Welcome to Tyler McVicker! I hope you enjoy your stay!

Internet Today is a great news channel. Based guys too.

It’s like having 2 friends to watch the end of the world with.

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Vanguard is always running at all times.

Honestly no idea why it isn’t considered malware.

What I found especially interesting was how the movie showed a cycle of violence.

The main cat is being threatened by the boss cat to the point of needing to take anxiety medication.

The main cat then relentlessly bullies and injures his assistant.

His assistant then bullies the person lower on the social ladder than him… Aka his daughter…

His daughter then breaks the chain by not bullying the mouse who in turn doesn’t bully anyone.

At the end of the movie when it’s all ended and the assistant is no longer being actively harmed by his superior, we see him as a loving father again.

What a weird and wonderful movie. Fantastic pick

Slice & dice stole all of my free time for a while. I definitely recommend it.

My favorite genre is hardcore character studies.

I just wanna see some dude living life as some dude… Idk why but it just hits. There can be an external plot but all of my favorite movies are just people surviving.

it’s such a beautiful day is definitely #1

I also loved In Bruges and its discussions of morals.

Mary and Max has a lovely take on what friendship is and a lot of talk about mental health.

Other random movies I love:

Kubo and the Two Strings

The Girl with All the Gifts

The Princess Bride

Sorry To Bother You

The Florida Project

Hoodwinked

This movie was really upsetting for me. I enjoyed it a lot but it’s hard to separate it from the reality of the princess and the frog problem.

Why can’t Disney make a movie about black people without turning them non-human?

I think the hate around grandpa Joe is entirely misdirected…

This 96 year old man (that’s his actual age) hasn’t been working himself to death every day and people are upset about that? Sure he spent the last 20 years in retirement but also that means he retired at 76!

Most of the hate around Grandpa Joe seems to just be “why can’t the poor just work harder and then they won’t be poor?” THE MAN WAS 76 WHEN HE RETIRED! LET HIM RETIRE!

Everything he did while in the chocolate factory was fucked tho I can agree with that…

Edit: nvm I thought about it more and I have no issues with him stealing food given how intensely food insecure his home is.

I used to be a (semi)pro gamer! Basically the college football of gaming… But like… It was Team Fortress 2 so it’s more like the college mens Volleyball of gaming…

Anyway!

RGL Advanced Highlander Season 5 - Grand Finals.

lay civ 5 vs I Hate Mondays

Neither team was favored to win the season but after multiple upsets during playoffs, they both ended up there.

It was EXTREMELY close!

The first round on Ashville went to I Hate Mondays with every round being almost dead even.

The second round, on vigil, went to a tie breaker within the round as lay civ 5 and I Hate Mondays trade blows. Eventually lay civ 5 got the points.

With a score of 1-1 the game went to a tie breaker on swiftwater…

Round 1 went to I Hate Mondays by about 30 seconds.

Round 2 was incredibly close. Both teams had better scores but ultimately lay civ 5 won with literally 0 seconds left on the clock.

The final round… The tie breaker of the tie breaker…

Lay civ 5 starts and gets a solid time. About the same as round 1…

And just like round 1, I Hate Mondays manages to sneak away with an extremely close victory. Making them the unlikely champions of Season 5 Advanced!

Despite division dysphoria having an undefeated score and even Home Depot Esports having more wins than both of the teams in grands… I Hate Mondays took home the gold and I firmly take the credit for it!

Of course… I was playing for lay civ 5… But I promise you… I was the reason that I Hate Mondays won.

I used to like it a lot… As a kid… As I’ve grown it seems more focused on being incredibly in the middle than ever actually making any sort of point…

Matt Stone and Trey Parker are just so incredibly "Enlightened Centrist* that it can be painful at times.

They have some good bits and some of their jokes have rightfully stood the test of time… But God damn… If you’re going to make a political show… Do something other than the most fence sitting thing possible!

1 minute = 60 seconds

60 / 3 = 20

1/20s is 3 times the speed of 1/60s