Ignoring that, there's basically one democrat that decided to turn into a jackass, while Trump is so toxic there's a long list of party liners (for decades in many cases) openly endorsed a minority female democrat candidate.
I get all that, and that's why I feel weird about it.
Some of the stuff they do only works well with scale, though. And I definitely think at least some other leadership groups would abuse their market position assuming that their critical mass would be very difficult to displace. If they had just agreed to piracy shield, do you really think corporate customers would be scared off?
If I was doing actual stuff state level actors care about, I might still assume they're not "safe", but as a normal person? The fact that pirates can use their services reasonably safely and reasonably effectively definitely gives me a level of confidence that they're unlikely to use their position in a way that harms me, maliciously or recklessly. I have a VPS as well and will eventually use that as a tunnel instead, so it's actually end to end encrypted and I control the keys, but their consistent pattern of behavior doesn't make me feel that much urgency about it.
They have me in a weird spot, because I fundamentally don't really like the sheer volume of information they are MITMing at all times, and don't really like the idea of letting them do so for my small site.
But their decisions with respect to security threats pretty consistently seem well measured and as minimally invasive as they can be (eg they have intervened and rewritten content as a result of a supply chain attack, but were very transparent that it was desperate measures, that they didn't really want to do it, and only did it by default for the free users that were most likely not to know enough to enable it themselves). They've also pushed back against stuff like piracy shield trying to turn them into outright surveillance for private companies.
Yes, it is. The idea that giant corporations "aren't trying" is laughable, and it's a literal guarantee that massively lower quality, noisier inputs will result in a lower quality model with lower quality outputs.
It felt like most non-fromsoft clones in terms of the map, though. No one else manages the feel of opening up the map like they do. Elden Ring is much more focused on the open world, so it approaches the use of space differently, but the way you can look back over some areas and see what you just spent hours battling through gives a similar feel of intentionality to the map design.
Lords of the Fallen not giving that feel is part of why I didn't spend as much time with it as the combat quality would imply.
You can keep hand waving away the statement of fact that lower precision input is lower precision input.
And yes, for actual photography (where people are deliberately still for long enough to offset the longer exposure required), you do actually need different lighting and different camera settings to get the same quality results. But real cameras are also capable of capturing far more dynamic range without guessing heavily on postprocessing.
It's exactly the same reason phone cameras do terrible in low light unless they do obscenely long exposures (which can't resolve detail in anything moving). The information is not captured at sufficient resolution.
For any scenario short of studio lighting, there is objectively much less information.
You're also dramatically underestimating how truly fucking awful phone camera sensors actually are without the crazy amount of processing phones do to make them functional.
They have a lot of perfectly fine games. If they were priced appropriately.
Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid are all pretty good 2D platformers (with Metroid obviously being one of the original sources of metroidvania as a genre). But tech has advanced to the point that one person, or a small team, can make 2D games every bit as good as theirs, many small teams have (with better art in some cases), and there are many better options that start at lower prices than their "huge discount mega-sale" price of $40-45, and discount even further beyond that.
Their games sell well enough, so clearly it works on some level, but it's just generally doesn't make a lot of sense to get a game like Metroid Dread over a game like Ori or Hollow Knight. Games aren't fungible, and I get that, but I genuinely think a lot of indie games are better, better looking, and much more substantial than a lot of their 2D offerings.
Ignoring that, there's basically one democrat that decided to turn into a jackass, while Trump is so toxic there's a long list of party liners (for decades in many cases) openly endorsed a minority female democrat candidate.