AnonTwo @ AnonTwo @kbin.social

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To your edit, you doubled down hard in later posts, so I wouldn't say the hostility isn't completely undeserved.

I think you just really expected something different from what this was supposed to be, even when people explained to you exactly what it was supposed to be.

Given Activision was already letting groups come in to do Blizzard games, I'm sure they'd still do the same for the RTS games.

...Microsoft has already remade/made several RTS's since Starcraft 2.

Age of Empires.

I don't think anyone was able to spin why this would be a good idea when it was first announced.

Wasn't this pretty recent? Did they buy the company just to lay people off??

Man, you'd have to be a real shitty Executive to have your 100+ year old company sunk because of a single strike....

Couldn't you just use an everdrive cartridge? Those can hold roms and even the actual N64 can use it.

We also didn't expect ongoing development of games after they were shipped though, aside from bug fixes (sometimes even then )

You're right, people won't care.

But i'm not being sympathetic, i'm being realistic. I just know the end-point is going to be bad and leave everyone disappointed. Google isn't going to try less, and none of the alternative sites popping up are remotely able to keep up. Many existed in youtube's time and either died out or they're still around and nobody cares.

I'm sure one day youtube will go away and take all the videos of 20 years with it, as well as leave people with nowhere to go just rubbing their heads trying to figure out where their content can go.

I will say though: Youtube needs users. Google doesn't need users. They can go to any of their other products if they ever determine youtube isn't worth it.

I feel like that answer is for you and you alone, and not for actors in general. Personally I don't really see why I would be worried about this after I die (after all, I'm dead ), and if it helps my family a bit then it'd probably just make me rest easier if anything.

...That...doesn't bode well when they already have an alternative revenue option. It sounds like the adblock is hurting their revenue, and the alternative options aren't making it up.

Like that doesn't sound like they have a good reason to stop trying.

They're not recycling anything though. They're hosting it. For 90% of therm they're not even charging the person to host it.

That's only possible because of ads, because it's not out of the kindness of their hearts. If there was not just value but negative value in Youtube, they would just shut Youtube down. Yeah, they make a lot more money than they need to maintain youtube. But they'd probably prefer to put that money towards the things actually making them money.

And yeah, it would be nice if some site existed that wasn't corporate driven, but most of them either have no content, or are just siphoning off of Youtube's content anyway.

And yes, you can say Youtube's (users) content, and it virtually makes no difference in the grand scheme of things. Hosting the content is still required to do.

To be fair, he was talking about live streams, as in watching people in real-time.

That can be a fairly different experience, especially since downloaders don't grab the chat at the moment. Also for unarchived streams, they can only be downloaded if you are aware and able to download at the time that the stream is still active.

Thanks for the clarification!

What exactly is the difference?

Like I looked up Telework and the first definition is exactly what I'd assume remote work is.

It says he sent a refund, not that he received one.

How many people are going homeless while giving themselves a plethora of other issues all in the name of sticking it to capitalism??

I feel like the reason these equations exist is because you're trying to justify their existence to sociopaths. Most people don't need any such convincing. Just hearing the idea of extinction is itself reason enough to worry.

To be fair, just because one article exists doesn't mean other articles can't exist. Not every article has to be of equal importance.

I don't know the methods myself as I haven't used them, But yeah I have heard something like that can bypass the live account requirement.

And yeah, i disabled onedrive myself because due to how old my stuff is I have a ton of stuff in the documents folder that...basically caused me issues and at one point nearly got all that stuff deleted when onedrive capped out.

But that's another story I guess. I can't say i'm using it to it's maximum ability.