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That's definitely fair. I've thankfully not seen that content.

The only content I've found that I care about were some of the more active folks on Twitter that had insightful takes or were occasionally funny like Popehat, Mike Masnick, and Kashana.

Why would that prevent them from moving and thriving? They just invite their friends.

I've seen a few posts from folks complaining about the culture on mastodon and effectively getting harassed there.

Are they still thriving there? I've seen a few, but there seems to be way more on bluesky.

Someone in another thread said he has a mastodon account. Dunno if he posts there or not.

I think this was intended as a joke about the current state of things.

German and English are the two I can fumble my way around. Having lived and traveled some, I could fumble some basics in a few others like Dutch. I know a bit of a few others. I can read enough to figure out what's going on in some contexts, and maybe speak enough to get around, but definitely can't carry on a conversation in them.

It's tough. There's only so many hours in the day, and while I do get to watch some videos on occasion, I sometimes have too many things going on. I used to watch movies I knew well in other languages, so I already knew the context and could piece together words and phrases. I don't have time for that anymore though.

Ive used pihole and also just removed the network’s settings.

If you want to stream, i don’t know how useful any of these mitigations are. You’re giving them some data to subscribe and use. Even if you share accounts, who knows what the apps collect.

Yeah, i agree, but this is the new “free”. It’s like people paying for Amazon prime for “free shipping”.

This is one case where I almost posted a summary from another source that linked to it, but there seems to be a (loose?) norm here around posting the original sources.

Eh, only 2 sorta well. I've tried learning a bit more, but without being immersed regularly I lose them relatively fast. I can still read a bit of some of them, and hear things in movies or tv shows that I understand.

How about you? You have to have a couple you can at least get around with?

That only works when hardware companies have access to the game game before the release to test, and it doesn't sound like that was the case with Starfield. Intel, to their credit, got a patch out before most people even had access.

Many developers probably aren't even testing on Arc because it's new and that only exaggerates the problem. If they don't test, they can't alert Intel to the issue.

My point aren't standards like most people think of them. They're often poorly documented, have lots of ambiguity, and many times they contain bugs/mistakes themselves. Intel potentially fully supported DX12 as far as we know, and these are all just weird exceptions.

I don't really fault Intel for this more than say Bethesda. Both AMD and NVidia still supply a number of game-specific fixes for crashes, glitches, performance improvements in their drivers for new and old games. They've been doing this for decades now and still has to release driver updates to fix game specific issues.

The fact that the API is a "standard" doesn't mean everything is clear-cut. Developers often use these APIs in unexpected ways which were never accounted for or even mentioned in the documentation.

Sadly, it is very often the people at the bottom who deal with shit-stain policies like this.

this and policies like anti-abortion policies rarely affect rich or middle-class people, who have money.

Maybe you just know how to charm people?

lol. so true

Same. I’ve only bought one game at launch in the last 10 years i think. Not worth it.

A lot of the article is focused on how games journalism has adapted to meet the current business environment (read advertising). Gaming is certainly not alone in that. Newspapers were hit a long time ago, and we've seen the same issues there too.

I'm curious -- what value do most people get from games journalism? Would people really miss if pcgamer, kotaku, or eurogamer just disappeared?

I'd really love to see a detailed balance sheet for some of these orgs to see what the actual operating costs are and how much is going to exec salaries.

That's effectively what I was trying to say, but in a hurry and with much less detail. Re-reading it, I guess I focused more that it's legal for states to make their own laws (like this one) which wasn't really the question the person was asking. But you're right, they can't punish you for things done in a different state, which I tried to touch on with the dry county & Louisiana topics and just dropped the ball.

Thanks for adding to this.

Sure, but if it's infinite money, it won't matter, right? :)

In this case, it's closer to paying to beta test.