Cevilia

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[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Cloanto, the company that owns the rights to the Commodore Amiga line, have a legal emulator that they sell called Amiga Forever. It's about half the price of one modern AAA game, and when you download it, it comes with about fifty games of varying notability, and there's many times more you can just install and play. And it's all legal.

I would love this to be the industry norm, imagine being able to download a NES! It's annoying that if we want future generations to be able to experience games of the past (whether to learn from them, or just for pleasure) we need to teach our children about piracy.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

There is a known strategy called EEE (Embrace, extend, and extinguish).

First, they embrace the open web. Millions of people who never would've joined the Fediverse (and, probably, don't even know what the Fediverse is) flock to Threads and start to interact with us.

Then, they extend the open web, adding features to Threads that aren't compatible with our servers. People on Threads don't understand what's wrong with our server (even though it's Threads that's the source of incompatibility).

Finally, they decide they're "having trouble maintaining compatibility with third party servers" and start to break off from us, leaving us with no way to interact with our new friends. Unless, of course, we make a free Threads account...

Google Talk is perhaps the most relevant example of this. Here's more details.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

That's not stupidity though, that's malice, which is a whole different tub of bananas.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I have long believed that the only stupid question is the one that hasn't been asked.

I feel it's better to ask the question (and feel stupid for a few minutes) than to remain stupid for the rest of my life. :)

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

It's already making things hard. Unless you live in a cave (and even if you do, quite probably, IDK) you'll have noticed an increase in the frequency of what's euphemistically called "extreme weather events". These things are bad for us, but even worse for crops, and they're going to keep on getting worse.

 

Yet another argument in favour of piracy…

 

Do you use Lemmy or kbin? If your answer is "Yes", we'd love to have you!

Formal link: !inclusiveor@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, same here. The community is just so much nicer here. :)

 

Price of the Skyrim Anniversary Edition in the UK: £17.19

Price of buying the Special Edition and the Anniversary Upgrade separately in the UK: £8.99 + £8.00 = £16.99

The pricing is slightly different but similar on Steam, and in other regions. But, in general, please make sure you know you're paying the right price for you before you buy, to avoid feeling ripped off later. <3

(also, the Special Edition is extremely good without the Anniversary Upgrade, you can always upgrade later if you wish to :) )

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

You appear to be missing an arm. Here, take this one instead: \

 

Seeing as Wednesday seems to be literal piracy day around here, here's a couple of classic videos on how to be a pirate.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Fitgirl's repacks already contain the necessary files. These steps are unnecessary. There are also alternative ways of sourcing the files. :)

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

In what way does yuzu require a Switch? That hasn't been my experience.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

YSK you can use /srs or /serious. :)

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The customer is always right! /sarcasm

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about Chekov! Editing my comment now. Thank you!

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