Sort of, but only if you're launching through Steam. You can launch DRM-free Steam games through the executable file without launching Steam if you already have the files downloaded.
Games on Steam don't require Steamworks or any other DRM, if your game won't launch without Steam running that's a choice by the game developer and not a restriction imposed for Steam.
What a ridiculous argument. They're not saying big tech companies are necessarily as abusive as those other organisations, they're saying people might want to avoid them in the same way.
By contrast your comment, intentionally or otherwise, suggests the only valid reason to avoid interacting with an organisation is if you were literally raped by them. Now that is fucked up.
In place of cookies, Google has introduced a new set of tools that makes the Chrome browser itself keep tabs on what you’re doing online.
So instead of cookies which can be blocked or deleted relatively simply there's spyware baked directly into the browser. How is this an improvement for the user?
Ironically enough it's the opposite. Banks answer to shareholders, building societies answer to its members. Building societies compete with banks, if they're unheard of in the US that certainly does explain the state of the US banking system.
Okay? But you presumably do still have an account with a bank or building society, right? So why use a third party when you can request a transfer from them directly?
Why use a third-party at all? It's been trivial to send money via bank transfer for a long time, check your banking app or website and you'll likely find a way to send money with just an account number + sort code. If your country has a system like faster payments the transfer will be near-instant too.
If you would have reacted the same either way then you're not criticising a person simply because they're Jewish, meaning your initial premise was wrong. Treating someone worse because they're Jewish is antisemitic, treating a Jewish person the same way you'd have treated anyone else in the same scenario is not.
If you're truly only saying that because you "don't like Jews" then you would be okay if a non-Jewish person committed the murder. In which case yes, it is antisemitic to be against a killing only when that killing is carried out by a Jewish person.
Being okay with murder would also be a bit of a red flag on its own but that's a different conversation entirely.
You're not really arguing against the whole crowd there, a lot of people (wrongly) hold the same opinion. The problem is thinking of the door swap as an independent event when it's not; the result is directly related to the original choice of door. If we label the doors A, B, and C and put the prize behind door A, here's the possible options:
Edit: I see you added a table to your comment, but you're miscounting pretty badly there. You're giving double weight to initial choice being correct.
It is technically true that when you pick A the presenter can open either B or C, but then you need to account for that in your odds; it's 50% either way so the win/loss rate is halved. In other words:
As shown, including which door the presenter opens does not affect the odds. When sticking, you win (16.5% + 16.5% = 33%) and lose (33% + 33% = 66%), when swapping you win (33% + 33% = 66%) and lose (16.5% + 16.5% = 33%).
Seems fine to me. RAW disadvantage gives you -5 to a passive check, so a sleeping creature which normally has 10 passive perception would have an effective 5 instead. With the help of one of the strongest stealth spells in the game you rolled 12, beating their perception easily.
A natural 1 isn't an auto-fail unless it's an attack roll, so unless there were other alarms or noisemaking devices you cleared the encounter. You don't have to fight everything of you don't need to, if you're using xp levelling you'll generally still get full xp for clearing an encounter without combat.
It was big news when Netflix decided they no longer allowed people to share accounts. Is that not making it harder to stream?
They also attempt to combat VPNs by cutting out mid-show. That definitely makes it harder to stream.
You're technically correct that the studios are the biggest reason Netflix's catalogue has went to shit, but as a consumer that's really not my problem. If studios want to make it difficult to pay for media I'll simply go somewhere more convenient. That might mean studios get less money from me but that's something they did to themselves.
I think you read that backwards. They're not saying there's no alcoholic cider in America, they're saying it's an American thing to say cider when refering to non-alcoholic apple juice. If you look for cider elsewhere you will get a fruit-based alcohol, you will not get apple juice.
Public transport too. It really seems like every time a public service is privatised it goes to shit, almost as if for-profit motives aren't aligned to public interest.
I think you may have quoted the wrong thing. The section you highlighted above states that clothing was fumigated with the same gas later used by Nazis to exterminate prisoners, it makes no mention of it being a way to "medicalize" or make exeuctions "humane".
Again, I'm not American so I'd appreciate it if you highlighted how this is related to "American Liberaism" which you initially criticised. As it is it appears you're assuming whatever actions the someone in power in America takes is "American Liberalism", I'm not sure that's something I agree with.
The article you linked is about brutal mistreatment and forced "disinfection" of people crossing a border. As horible as that is, do you truly believe that is the same scale of evil as systematic genocide?
I'm not American and that article doesn't mention liberalism, so I'd appreciate it if you highlight the connection there too.
Sort of, but only if you're launching through Steam. You can launch DRM-free Steam games through the executable file without launching Steam if you already have the files downloaded.
Games on Steam don't require Steamworks or any other DRM, if your game won't launch without Steam running that's a choice by the game developer and not a restriction imposed for Steam.