Newell also has overseen Valve as one of the pioneers of the most predatory monetization in the video game industry (lootboxes, etc.).
There are no saints at this level.
Getting it done with the power of friendship since 1991.
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Some suggested Lemmy communities:
Discord for Japanese-style role-playing game (JRPG) discussion: https://discord.gg/vHXCjzf2ex
Newell also has overseen Valve as one of the pioneers of the most predatory monetization in the video game industry (lootboxes, etc.).
There are no saints at this level.
In the short term? Possibly.
In the long term, it opens up space for competition, which is better for end users, advertisers, small business, and more.
You can also read about Lina Khan, the current chair on the FTC side of antitrust.
Just spinning off Android would shake up map software. It’s how they get traffic and other data.
Funny thing is, out of all the disc “cleaners” we sold while I was at Gamestop, we got very few complaints about it. Make the discs look like they went through hell but the product worked.
It’s hard to top the inkjet printers I’ve owned. I still can’t believe 30 years later home printer tech is not only unimproved but worse between lower quality production and squeezing people on ink costs.
Lenore from the Castlevania Netflix series.
Tons of consent issues for sure, but she’s gorgeous and smart as hell.
That there are divisions and prejudice within the community. It’s better for everyone involved to put on a united front, but unfortunately people get put down and marginalized even in supposedly queer-friendly spaces all the time. In my own circles, it happens a lot with bisexual men and non-binary/gender non-conforming persons in particular.
If we define the end of the Cold War as the collapse of the Soviet Union, that was over 30 years now. Considering other potential flashpoints (e.g., India and Pakistan), I’d say it’s more nuclear deterrence in general. No one wants to be the first to get into sustained conventional, symmetrical warfare with nukes on both sides.
We also seem to be seeing a shift in soft power. Now that raw footage of conflict is readily recorded and broadly accessible, regimes aren’t able to control messaging like they used to be. Still need public support to wage war, and it’s that much harder to obtain when people can see the faces of the people you’re killing.
Having grown up on Sierra adventure games, I still have a part of my brain thinking about saving and loading in bad situations from time to time.
One regime’s political-dissident-by-speech is another’s dissident-by-drug-addiction. America’s “War on Drugs” was purely political disenfranchisement along racial lines, and it’s a major reason why the US continues to have higher incarceration rates than the USSR had in many of the years the Gulag system was operational.
By the way, prison rape jokes have long been a part of those late night comedy shows, to give you an idea of just how ingrained the American prison culture is.
Seems things have shaken out (for now) regarding defederation, including less chatter about Threads than there was. I don’t anticipate much change on that until the next big influx of users, whether it’s people coming in directly through Lemmy/Kbin/Mbin or a new player joining the Fediverse.
Other than that, I’ve just seen steady growth in my communities.
Sometimes we get immediate benefits. It took a while for capitalism to take over the Internet.
Went back to college last year and Joplin’s been amazing. More off-topic, but the only thing I wish it had was better search result organization.
I sold a copy of Golden Sun to Venus Williams once.
I rarely shop Best Buy as it is so it’s not like avoiding them in the future is difficult for me, but I fear that a lot of big corps have something like this tucked away somewhere.
Part of the concern is deceptive/astroturfed content developed as advertising showing up in Lemmy communities. While those same actors could theoretically be based on lemm.ee, that’s a lot more work than simply scaling up operations when you’re doing it on Threads anyway.
I contribute far more now. I already have more posts on Lemmy in nine months than I did in all of the 10-ish years I was on Reddit. My rate of commenting is about the same.
I’ve also changed the way I get my news; I went retro and use RSS feeds now. I do fear there’s a risk of over-curation with a minimum of sources leading to narrow viewpoints. Even Reddit’s news bubble was more expansive than what I’ve got coming in. But my feeds and Lemmy’s bubble are what I’ve got for now.
Correcting someone’s English also almost never adds anything to the conversation at hand, which is the literal purpose of the downvote.
That’s exactly the issue here. ChatGPT’s current training set ends right around the time the Meta Quest 3 came out. It’s not going to have any discussions in there of No Man’s Sky with tech that wasn’t out yet.