There are a bunch of free channels on the internet that some TVs can just stream without a dedicated app. These channels are supported by ads like cable/whatever channels, but not locked behind a subscription. VLC is supporting whatever formats they use to allow (or make it easier; IDK) people to watch them if they want.

The other part is that they're working on web assembly to allow sites to use VLC as their embedded video player.

If you don't immediately throw someone who doesn't flush off of your property to never return, you're nasty too.

The list of words in order also definitely is.

And a lot of them are trying to stay matched to the real one.

Discord supports threaded topic based formats as well.

The reality is that for a lot of interactions, a live chat feels better than a forum post. You can very easily do both on discord, though.

It's not perfect, but the alternatives that aren't a whole project by themselves building a tool don't have feature parity, or the user base.

"Monitors" are smaller.

And the minimum cost of entry to anything reasonably sized is double to triple. Changing some settings is well worth it.

It's really not.

In poor countries sure, but not the US or Europe. You will get sued and you will pay if you do that at any scale.

One company can't be a cartel.

It's decidedly not free if you have to buy physical products to get it.

The friction of a physical purchase is relevant.

But all the rest of the slot machine mechanics in terms of dopamine juicing sounds and animations are still there, and they're the biggest issue.

That's a loot box with extra steps. You get loot box physical trash and loot box digital trash. TCGs are the original microtransactions.

Now, the extra steps are a small barrier that makes it slightly less bad, because you have to physically go to a store or at least order and wait to get them. But it's not that much less bad.

No they didn't.

"You have to rebuy your games, that you can't play anywhere else" isn't just "not the best way". It's straight up horseshit with no possible way to be valid. It's also the biggest reason it tanked.

The only thing about stadia that was in any way redeemable was the fact that they didn't mess around and gave full refunds for any game purchase.

It's already proven. Repeatedly.

Nintendo and every lawyer involved should see obscene fines for the blatant harassment.

Emulation is not piracy.

There is an abundance of precedent that emulation is not copyright infringement and is not in any way illegal. You can absolutely make money on an emulator and there is absolutely nothing they can do.

Emulation has also been litigated to hell and is also very clearly legal.

It's a far cry better than Google or Amazon making you buy the game on their service specifically.

It's still cloud gaming. So it still sucks. But at least they're not trying to force you into a shitty locked in storefront. (Though not keeping your Steam login is definitely a pain point.)

There isn't guesswork involved. They know for certain that people will. They have network effect on their side. Their entire audience is captive. Anyone willing to leave already has after the hundreds of different "revelations" of how fucking disgusting everything they have ever touched is.

They aren't selling anything but your privacy. It's Apple's limitations on being overt malware that they'd be bypassing, and it is absolutely guaranteed that they would do so the literal minute they can.

Yes, it would.

They don't leave the play store because, and exclusively because, Google allows them to do anything they want. Apple does not. The literally exact day a similar law goes into effect in the US, it's an absolute guarantee Facebook leaves the App Store with every single app they have. There's not even the slight possibility they stay there.

Black flag, more ships/weapon paths, maybe some fleet commands for bigger battles, expand the shipping jobs thing to feel like you're really commanding a fleet.

Or none of that and just call it a pirate game.

If it was actually like Black Flag I'd be all over it.

But it's live service shit.

The other dumb part is that when their manufacturing capability does significantly improve, AMD will happily sell similar chips to other people. And Valve won't care in the slightest. Because all they want is people on PC so they buy games, many of which are through steam.

Linux being relevant is a bigger benefit to them than any revenue from the deck, and they've already demonstrated that it's capable of pretty much any game that doesn't actively exclude it.