When you consider that left leaning folk are more likely to lean into voting apathy that the right-wing, the DNC were fools to assume they had all the left-wing votes in the bag without actually doing anything to appeal to them.
For Christ's sake, Harris got in because people wanted change over Biden, her campaign was for change, yet the first thing she says is she doesn't plan to do anything different to Biden - and if that's not a momentum killer, I don't know what is.
Considering even MySpace and Digg stuck around despite falling into irrelevancy, I doubt Reddit will ever truly die off...
But I suspect that even irrelevancy won't happen anytime soon, simply because there's no slot-in replacement for Reddit.
As much as I like the Fediverse, we're not a slot-in replacement. Decentralisation helps make us more free, but it limits how big we can get as a platform.
You would need a centralised competitor, something like what Xitter is going through right now with BlueSky and Threads. But for as much as Spez is a piece of shit, he's no Elon Musk just yet.
Damn, I'd be salty too if I'd been fined just for having an expandable suitcase.
That gate operaror was daft - why the hell would anyone bother to go through the entire process up to the point of boarding with the case unexpanded, just to expand it on the flight so it wouldn't fit into the cabin??
The only shame (for me at least) is that this is a VR title, so I won't be able to play it despite being hungry for another Metro game since finishing Exodus
Oppressing fascists and their ideologies is a price I'm more than willing to pay to keep freedom for everyone else
The people that refused to vote entirely on the basis of the Gaza have effectively shot themselves, and everyone else, in the foot.
There was never a real choice to stop Israel on the ballet, but now with Trump in office, even deescalation is off the cards.
It must be great for these folks to be able to wash their hands of it like Ponchus Pilot, whilst Trump gives Israel the go-ahead to annhilate the people of Gaza.
Microsoft got the grift of a century. Make Win11 so bad that people will literally pay you NOT to force them onto it! /s
Seriously though, fuck Microsoft - $30 per year to roll out the occasional security update is obscene! They can go stuff themselves with their $3 trillion market cap
Look, I'm not here for a pointless back and forth where we just call each other wrong over and over again, so I'm making one last comment then I'm leaving it at that.
The interviewer asked him to give an explanation for why people hate Denuvo. The reasons are varied, so no matter what he says, that answer is not going to represent every single gamer.
Yes, his major hypothesis being that the most vocal people about these apparently non-existent issues (their critics) are the pirate community who want game publishers not to use Denuvo's software, and as such influence non-pirates who don't see any benefit to using Denuvo (because it adds bloat and messes with their games).
Basically, two different parties are going into online discussions with their own relatively biased goals of changing opinions about Denuvo. [...] He's making the point that pirate groups are the other.
Which is to say that he thinks the ones trying to influence people away from Denuvo, as in those criticising Denuvo for its issues, are pirates.
You grasp that, yet when I say the quiet part out loud that they're implying all their critics are pirates, you disagree with me.
Nowhere in that paragraph that I quoted did I see anything even implying "All gamers are X"
And nowhere in my post did I imply he meant all gamers were pirates. I said he believes their critics are salty pirates, as to dismiss those in the gaming community whoare vocal about thinking Denuvo hurts their games.
Lastly, what did you even mean about burning a bridge?
This whole article is about Denuvo attempting to win back over the gaming community, so them turning around and effectively labeling the most vocal in the community as pirates is (in a phrase) burning the bridge with thr gamimg community they're claiming to be trying to fix.
Clearly we disagree on the interpretation of what this guy said, and I doubt any comment I could make would sway yo on that front, but I don't think it's a very hard conclusion to draw based on his own words.
RPS: Why do you think Denuvo has garnered such a poor reputation?
Andreas Ullmann: I think two main reasons. First, our solution simply works. Pirates cannot play games which are using our solution over quite long time periods, usually until the publisher decides to patch out our solution. So there is a huge community, a lot of people on this planet who are not able to play their favorite video games, because they are not willing to pay for them, and therefore they have a lot of time to spend in communities and share their view and try to blame Denuvo for a lot of things - trying to make the gaming publishers to not use our solutions so they can start playing pirate copies of games for free again.
Yeah, people don't talk like what you said, but they do make implications, like he did exactly here. He isn't directly stating all their critics are just salty pirates, but he sure as shit is implying it.
He goes on to say about the plight of gamers, but stating this first and foremost makes it very clear what he thinks.
Logic-wise, this whole article is about their "attempt" to reconcile with the gaming community - so while I also don't get the logic behind burning the bridge while claiming to be trying to fix it, that is what they're doing.
1 - Those age restrictions work about as well as a gate with no fence
2 - Teaching kids about the dangers of social media and introducing them properly, rather than expecting them to simply abstain because the law says so (a historically very effective technique /s), would be a whole lot more productive.
Denuvo has the reputation it has for a reason, and labeling their critics (most of the gaming community) as salty pirates is not going to help them any.
When it comes to performance claims, why on Earth would I believe the salespeople for Denuvo over the people forced to play with it? The former has every inventive to quash any and all claims of causing performance issues.
Anon discovers that life often isn't all that fair...
Being smart and hardworking can bolster your odds, but your lot in life really boils down to how lucky you are, and how well equipped you are to capitalise on that luck.
Unfortunately the right combination of extreme luckiness and ability to capitalise on it doesn't come up all that often, so most people simply won't ever get that lucky break.