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  • "We leveraged the fact that many people know about the world and story of the original Final Fantasy VII when we designed the remakes," Hamaguchi told me during the leadup to Rebirth's release. "In this title, our general framework follows the original storyline, but at the same time we incorporated elements clearly not included in the original, such as the Whispers and Zack." This creates a unique opportunity for a remake: uncertainty. "That sort of thrill is very important for this title as a piece of entertainment."

    We have a name for that, "reboot". Or more cynically, "cash grab"

  • Since the title gives nothing away:

    This is an extensive article by Ed Zitron on how the technology that you're required to interact with every day has become explicitly user hostile. It's a 42 minute read, but IMO worth reading at least the first section.

    Ed Zitron also has an excellent podcast on the topic of tech companies being awful called "Better Offline"

  • It is a legal requirement in Australia that ISPs record all your "metadata" which will reveal torrent activity. The bittorrent protocol necessarily makes your IP public to peers. Copyright trolls are known to leave bots as fake seeders and peers to collect IPs to mass report people.

    Tl;DR: not a good idea

  • They call out making spoofing harder, although they don't specify how.

    It's a normal thing for people to sideload apps that are distributed through the play store - that's exactly what tools like Aurora do.

    You are right that they are up to developers, but that's the problem. It should be up to users how they run their software on their hardware.