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  • No offense but maybe you didn't pay close enough attention, since I got all of that but it relies on what I said for it to be true wholly.

    This is my rough summary of what I watched yesterday, as I'm not going to go back and watch it again:

    The video starts with him stating that objectively the game, in context of its development is a complete mess.

    Then he stated that he found he was enjoying the 20 hours he spent with the game and asked himself why?

    Then he stated factually that the game was fun because it is just flat out cool to be a pirate.

    He described the things he thought were cool about being a pirate all of which I found to be lame.

    Then he used those lame pirate things to justify the argument that in a vacuum the game isn't bad.

    He lost me at "it's cool to be a pirate" which was the foundation of his argument that the game is OK.

    Plus even if I had turned it off, that's like most of the way into the video. So it's kind of far to expect a person to watch something to get the "the game is fine, don't pay much for it" result.

  • Lost me at "it's cool to be a pirate."

    Not that there's anything wrong with other people romanticizing that era but I've always found it kind of a lame one. So if this wholly relies on that to get around it's flaws then it's more reason for it to be a pass for people like myself.

  • I have an even more cynical take, in that the layoffs are the one lever that they have to try and get the interest rates to go back down so they can get free money again.

    Flood the economy with people who can't afford stuff to get consumer spending down and then rates can lower again.

  • It's almost impossible without sideloading, requiring heavy social engineering and it is lockable by Apple. Whereas it has the possibility to become common-place with sideloading as it's requested in the lawsuits from Epic and by most of the anti-Apple folks on reddit/lemmy.

  • What safety does several layers of effective safety that removed this threat quickly and obviously prevented it from becoming a widespread issue provide?

    And that is not what people are pushing for for sideloading. People want to be able to have alternative app stores with their own sets of rules that will not require test flight or MDM vectors.