stardust @ stardust @lemmy.ca

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Sports fans are willing to put up with a lot of abuse. Probably the segments that is blasted with the most advertisements, gambling, so overpaying for an annual sports game is no surprise. They pay mtx on top of that too.

That's with trusted parties where that type of collaboration is less likely to happen between parties that are hostile to each other. I would not expect blank country to trust any blank adversary countries software and instead be wary of their motives and back doors, and they would be smart not to with both sides seeking each other harm.

I don't think you understand that I am viewing this from how sides that see each other as potential threats view and treat each other. Not talking about countries that are already collaborating as if they were allies.

In case you don't understand. I am not claiming that countries do not spy on their own citizens and seek methods to spy even more on them. I'm talking about how countries can react to countries they label as adversaries.

Headline is misleading since it gives impression Sony is intentionally going out of their way to prevent the game from working through Proton, but this is more the case of multiplayer component not working.

Trying to set barriers seems logical when it comes to outsiders. But, spying by its nature is constant attempts to sneak past barriers, so attempts aren't going to stop. It'd just be called collaboration instead of spying if information was shared freely and spying would be unnecessary.

Maybe we have a different definition of deter. I don't see it as stop, but trying to make it less easier. Why would spies stop trying to spy? I don't expect that number to change. If it did that would be some pitiful spies.

Not saying it is okay. Pointing out that even if hypocritical there's generally a strategic reason for countries to deter international spying. Would be quite a puzzling decision for any country to provide an open door for other countries to spy on them.

I think most countries spy on their citizens and a lot of the same countries probably don't want other countries doing the same due to possible unwanted intel leaks in government and corporate sectors.

Never really understood why companies like Twitter can have thousands of employees for what the product is.

These VR/AR stuff needs to be cheaper but more importantly comfortable like a pair of glasses. When it comes to form factor stuff like the Viture or Xreal come much closer to what I thought Apple was going to put out when they ventured into the VR/AR space.

Yeah was happy to see it solved in only a day.

If that does happen and adblocker doesn't work one work around that works for twitch will probably be vpn to a country where ads aren't shown.

If you have iOS and airplay support you can use safari to airplay YouTube to the TV. I use the 1blocker and sponsorblock extension for safari.

Freetube on desktop has been working somewhat being able to switch to invidious. But for Android I've fallen back to Firefox + Ublock Origin + Sponsorblock.

I use personaldnsfilter which has been good for general system wide adblocking, but I avoid apps with ads these days.

Yep I would try to find ways around. Games my parents wouldn't get me I'd give money to my friends to buy me a copy when they went off to get their own. And that's fine. Important thing is boundaries are something they are aware of even if they break them. That to me seems like parenting. It's not fool proof and rules are going to get broken, but it's not a reason to not make an effort.

Parents not being good at setting boundaries. Not setting times to go to bed, not limiting time spent playing games or on electronics, and not checking in on how they are doing with school work. They are the ones controlling the finances of what can be bought and used in the household, but they just become pushovers.

Maybe because I played it after Witcher 3 but I ended up dropping the first game because I found the characters so dull, and side quests were especially lacking. Funny thing is I played BOTW afterwards and that hooked me despite worse graphics and much weaker story, but the gameplay and exploration I found so fun.

Emulating a Nintendo DS and looking for stylus only games is my recommendation. Games like Kirby Canvas Curse, Kirby Mass Attack, and Warioware Touched are fun.

That looks awesome. That is going to be my next skateboard game.

Yes very important. I miss it when it isn't there.