NightOwl @ NightOwl @lemmy.one

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Having rich family versus none provides a safety net that lessens the consequences of risk taking, and sets a baseline of how bad your life can get.

It's like playing a game with check points versus one that has you start at the beginning if you die. You still have to do all the hard work to reach your goal yourself, but those retro style non check point games are incredibly hard compared to games with check points, saves, or cheating with save states.

I don't see a problem with warnings though as someone who does side load and use F-droid to install Foss apps.

You even got on the Apple side people thinking side loading on iOS is not something they want, since they think it's easy to end up with a malware app when there's plenty of warnings and a function that needs to be enabled on Android.

I don't see it any differently really than warnings for when installing a program on Windows if it wants admin access at the start. I think Android with the terrible security updates and eol period shorter than iOS devices is hitting a nice balance of warning users of risks of installing unknown apps, but providing the flexibility for people to install whatever they want.

Most users are idiots.

Side loading is potentially dangerous though, so warnings are good. Especially for average person who will attempt side loading not knowing the permissions they are giving to the app. I don't see a problem with the current set up, since even with it people install sketchy apks.

Guess being so hostile and arrogant to customers thinking they'll cave and buy from you doesn't always work.

It won't be released on PC for many more years because the double dipping strategy has worked for the past three Rockstar titles.

I have no trust in Bioware with last game of theirs I bothered to get being Mass Effect 3, and being highly skeptical of Andromeda even before the memes over the launch bugs.

It doesn't. But, doesn't excuse parental responsibility either, since they are the one with the final deciding factor. Especially over monetary access.

They are the one that controls finances in the household and what their kids own.

When I saw Alan Wake 2 was an epic exclusive my immediate thought was I can just wait for a giveaway like they did for Control.

I'm surprised since I'd assume most people don't care where games are from and just buy it from whatever launcher. At least that's what people claimed throughout the years.

They started out pissing off Steam users with Metro Exodus going exclusives and pulling it from Steam. Not a great first impression and a lasting one at that. Not everyone will care and will buy from epic, but alienating a whole bunch of Steam's core users off the bat is probably going to ensure they'll never win them over.

I claim games from epic and have bought from even origin and uplay, but I'll probably never spend any money at epic.

Yeah, there's no proper screening process and companies aren't help liable for malicious advertisements. It's the Wild west out there, and companies take money from anyone due to there being no consequences. Internet advertising has no proper screening process like network television.

I'd go for high fps but same resolution. There's some rhythm games that benefit from higher frames with it mostly being just scrolling notes so run on potatoes.

Could just demonitize those type of videos, which would have an impact on submissions. That goes for lot of platforms that have a monetizing incentive to get views. And so many don't bother deactivating the accounts either when videos cross the line as if they want to encourage emulation among the population.

I really can't stand requests for likes, subscribes, notification bell at all. I actually hate it more than ads, and have backed out of many a video that didn't happen to have the segment flagged at the beginning.

Look I hate YouTube ads too, and ads in general, but let's say every user of a service is like you.

I understand the message about needing to fund services to exist, but that stance I feel doesn't always really work too well. Since if other users were like them then it'd also mean there might be a lot of stuff that doesn't exist anymore which could be a pro like microtransactions ceasing to exist and move to subscription model failing.

And for YouTube might be completely different where depending on their taste maybe click baits turned people away if the person hated them, so those don't exist. And long winded videos attempting to take advantage of the algorithm failed if they were someone who didn't like videos that wasted their time, and everyone is like them.

Reddit might still support third party apps if everyone was like them, and lemmy bigger. That's why if everyone was like them argument is just a weird one, since it turns minority actions into a majority and changes way too many things to focus on one singular thing.

My favorite aspect of sponsorblock is blocking the incredibly repetitive ubiquitous script that every single channel copies of like, subscribe, ring the notification bell.

They'll probably think we didn't have enough DLCs and microtransactions to make people happy, and out DRM needs to be more intrusive to improve our sales.

Thank you me for using Adblock. You are welcome me. Couldn't have done it without me. I am my hero. Thanks me.

It pushed me more towards degoogling. Was already using newpipe on Android and ignoring the YouTube app, and now I'm on freetube on desktop. No need for Google account anymore to look at the feed I want.