cybernihongo @ cybernihongo @reddthat.com

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Gaben gave us DRM and games you don't actually own.

THANK YOU for saying this. Their launcher based DRM scheme and its direct attack on ownership, physical and used games has been a scourge. Don't forget their popularizing the F2P economy model and lootboxes, leading to more US-grown harm.

So this is how I learn that the Tim asshole ALSO has yachts. TIL. Thank you.

Also the fucking yacht owner owns multiple of these, for your information.

Good thing I never subbed to them, or other streaming services.

I wish I lived the after Linux part of this meme. I've been on debian for two years and it's still before Linux :(

Fucking yacht owner.

Why do y'all go with the absolute worst options to avoid YT ads?

Use NewPipe on Android. Use FreeTube on PC. Failing all those, use an invidious instance from any web browser that isn't fucking Brave - I recommend inv.nadeko.net.

Okay so this is something I've been thinking about for a while and I found this community. The names you find for DRM-free digital PC games are GOG, itch.io and Zoom-Platform - only the first is Polish, the other two are American. There are smaller stores like the Swedish Fireflower Games, but the three up top are the big names.

I already don't spend money on the various DRM launchers, of which the majority are American. Don't get the point of buying a game if I need to use some online launcher connecting to a third party service to even be able to run it (unsurprisingly an idea grown in the US), I like owning my stuff, thanks.

But should I keep not actively spending money on itch and Zoom-Platform as long as the US is not even trying to get rid of its fascism? Not that I'm a big spender in any case, but it's still worth thinking about.

My phone's weather widget is based on AccuWeather and it seems to me it's been about three different times that it predicted clear or overcast weather only for me to find out there's rain, and in one case, heavy rain.

With these steps, you might as well unlock your bootloader. WTF.

Yeah, dictators are known for promising good things after enduring "just a few months of pain," as this pain becomes the signature of their rule.

I hope this was worth it for you, Americans.

I remember using it once, and I never got it to run with the GOG installers I had. It either tried to get the game from valve's drm store, or attempted to download the game again from GOG. To be fair, it was a couple years back but it looked like it was a fundamental part of its design.

If this succeeds, loot boxes would vanish almost overnights, right? Bring it on.

It kinda feels like that for me.

Dangnabbit, I knew it! Thanks

I grew up with the Sega Genesis, PS1 and then PS2. The PS1 side had games that were more lively, less lonely than SM64. Compare the game to something like even the first Spyro the Dragon, and SM64 immediately feels empty. Add to that the overtly creepy level Big Boo's Mansion, or the less creepy Hazy Maze Cave, or the surreal Wet Dry Town with the creepy cave music, the infinite stairs at the top of the castle, rooms that are huge but sport almost nothing except paintings, only a single big clock, a population of only one or two servants to the princess, levels like Lethal Lava Land which is just otherwise inhabitable platforms on top of a lava ocean - the game ends up feeling creepy whether the programmers lawyers at Ninten intended or not. How about the room with the Tiny Big Island paintings, one side is huge while the other side's wall is within arm's reach? Also Mario is always being recorded by the Lakitu cameraman, and you're watching him through that lens.

Besides, creepypastas were all the rage during the 2010s, and the 3D Mario had just enough ingredients to make them work - the ultimate culmination of all this being the B31133 romhack. (Correct me if I got the numbers wrong).

I love this romhack, but it gets really creepy a lot of the time. Also no N64 emulators on Android can play the current version which is... fun. Would've loved to just pull the game out at any time of the day.

I wasn't looking to revert the tab view, but still, I learned something new today and that matters. Thank you.

HECK YEAH

I hope Valve loses.

With that out of the way, I hope for the rest of the series to make it to GOG!

Hell on earth.