AnonTwo

To be fair, only a handful of publishers were able to take their cards and go elsewhere. The media companies were a lot more on top of dragging their products off of Netflix.

Nobody would be on steam just for Valve games, after all, and indie has a much lower barrier of entry.

While they could certainly distribute their current products better, a lot of the issues they have now (see: belated frogs comment) aren’t things they really had control over.

That’s not moving goalposts, you’re just arguing semantics. People generally think of eliminate when they say prevent in this kind of conversation…

If anything if they went “prevention” and not “eliminate” like in your sense…it would be even dumber because it would just make the steamdeck a more restrictive x86-processor computer compared to the systems people were already comparing it to up until it’s release

Imagine how it would’ve gone down if people were saying “Of course you can do that, it’s a PC” if people responded with “Yeah, except it’s 10x harder to do things you could normally do on PC”. They wanted it to be close to how a PC is, it was part of the advertising campaign.

And if you’re going to flaunt your title you should probably actually…you know…say something that pertains to that knowledge you have.

This just seems like blind fanboyism. As great as the steamdeck is there’s no reason to act like it’s doing things it’s not actually doing. It was designed the way it was because it had to be, there doesn’t need to be anything whimsical about it.

The…arm-based systems that use a different kind of BIOS?

If even Apple isn’t doing it on x86, I don’t see why Valve would start.

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No they couldn’t, it’s fucking Linux. They’d have to tie the controller drivers hostage to “lock it down”, and at that point they’d hit so many hiccups with legitimate users.

Like they’d have to pull so many things from Linux (in particular Proton) to “DRM-ify” the steamdeck.

And as I think someone else just posted, some of the stuff they’d need to lock-down aren’t even things Valve has control over. Like I said Proton but Valve doesn’t own proton.

Not really, it’s more internet in general. And if we look at social media, they have accounts as frustrating as crunchyroll to fully delete but without anything to pirate.

Like it’s a fair complaint but, to be fair

If you’re trying to delete your account you’re already going to a different provider (in this case, piracy), so it’s not like you would’ve happily come back to Crunchyroll just because they let you delete your account easier.

Some piracy sites do have accounts, just mostly small-scale.

Most of this complaint really doesn’t have to do with piracy…I mean a lot of account sites don’t even have anything to pirate.

Could be luck, but of those I only found Viewtube and Freetube to be responsive at this time of day to a live stream (the others either loaded endlessly or said they couldn’t load the page)

That was only of the web/desktop ones.

Freetube seems to support youtube chat as well, which the others don’t.

…but how do you argue point 2 and still buy netflix? Netflix has also gotten considerably worse over the last few years, just in different ways. And they not only charge for it but increased the price several times.

I mean, if you use creators without quotations, it gives them a bit more money and gives you no ads.

Vs having no ads and giving them no money.

Sure it’s still not great, sure if you like the creators they deserve more, but it’s not the worst thing in the world if you have the money to spare.

So is this basically saying youtube isn’t allowed to detect an adblocker?

I’m not sure I really follow why that specifically is something they’re policing.

I think we’re just saying a mainstream D&D game lets players do more than you do, with the story fullheartedly supporting it.

And you mean your D&D table, because there’s definitely a few people here who don’t think this is for all players.

Dark Urge can make some characters much more difficult to keep, yes.

I think you can wake up one day and one of the NPCs is just dead before anyone can do anything.

The idea is to play around that, either try to stop their tendencies or yeah, get rid of them.

Ironically I’m pretty sure Baldur’s gate supports PvP, right down to having the “Dark Urge” character who absolutely would screw with the team by existing.

But adjusting is how EVERYONE should be playing…not everything about every character is positive. Some might have a curse, some might have culture, religion

You have to adjust for all those things, and if the characters aren’t disagreeing at some point then that would make for a pretty boring character makeup wouldn’t it?

What matters is what you do when that conflict occurs. The only thing i’ve really seen that would be a hitch would be that “what if PvP isn’t allowed?”, since that would put the hoarder at an unfair position in the group. But if the group is allowed to interact normally, then the other players should be able to step in if their characters don’t like how the other one is acting. It shouldn’t need to be handled at the meta level.

Aren’t you lacking imagination too? You can’t make any story that works around a selfish character?

This meme shows up here way too often…like every other day…

I’ve been in discussions regarding anti-cheats, and there’s definitely an audience who outright complains if a game does not have anti-cheats.

The arguments usually being willing to deal with the risks, because they don’t see a way to make games fair without it.

Isn’t this ignoring the whole thing in the link about negative responses being removed?

Sure you can’t have mods being vigilant 24/7, but the link seems to be arguing they’re being vigilant in keeping the bad link up.

Can it tell you what it learned, or does it copy billions of conversations online of what other people learned?

If it can’t interpret, it’s not learning.

All you get is the most basic form of data retention, if it retained millions of examples.