I think it’s perfectly capable of being used to make a compelling game, but Starfield seems to be a game for which the strengths of the engine AND the strengths of the writers and designers at Bethesda are completely mismatched.

that’s impressive stuff, logic bomb.

I don’t think anything was wrong with Sekiro. Maybe because it’s not online?

I remember reading that quote before the game launched. Weird.

This game was actually never coin-op. I think the designers may have been similarly motivated though- you can make a game last a lot longer if it’s extremely difficult to beat.

The MS-DOS version of this game was actually not winnable without cheats because the jumping physics changed and they didn’t update the level layouts for that.

Yeah, and it also happens to get me access to the tool that was able to summarize this video without watching it. But most people would probably choose the $5 tier, I think.

tl;dw

• Cory Doctorow coins the term “enshittification” to describe how platforms start out benefiting users but eventually abuse users and business customers to extract all value.

• Facebook started by prioritizing user privacy over ads but now prioritizes profits over all else.

• Network effects are a double-edged sword - they lock users in but also make platforms vulnerable if users leave en masse.

• Low switching costs due to universality and interoperability allow competitors to reverse engineer platforms and plug in competing services.

• Mandatory interoperability and limiting data control can curb platform power by distributing control to users and smaller companies.

• Recent antitrust actions aim to roll back decades of lax merger policy that let platforms consolidate power.

• Breakups will take a long time so interoperability is a faster way to restore competition.

• Laws should limit abusive behavior rather than rely on platforms to self-regulate.

• Federated open services fail gracefully and encourage migration to better platforms.

• Political will is growing but change will be gradual - focus should be on harm reduction in the near term.

I’ve been loving Kagi, but I have no particular need for their browser.

ETA: Oh, I see it’s only for iOS and macOS anyway. Maybe that ecosystem needed it, but I wouldn’t know.

And that basically confirms that it’s a remaining problem with admin accounts taking remote mod actions. l suppose in the mean time I’ll try to have an admin at lemmy.ml give my @bilb@lemmy.ml account moderator status as a workaround. The other original moderator who could do it isn’t very active.

I couldn’t find an open bug ticket for this on Github, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one. I’ll take another look and report it if I still can’t find anything.

They don’t make real coffee

The coffee at Starbucks is real, I’ve seen it in person

The vast majority of people on Lemmy right now are directly from Reddit and they act exactly like the bog standard Redditors they are. Stop deluding yourself.

I don’t think so. Enforcing two-factor auth to be allowed to do certain things with an account just makes sense. It’s definitely not an attempt to squeeze profit out of users per se, but rather an attempt to limit liability and the risk of costly support problems caused by passwords being compromised.

Green is not a creative color

We should fully ignore any reddit publicity stunts

I remember thinking it was bizarre how angry people seemed to be about that, like it was a huge scandal. It doesn’t matter, it’s not important! Go do something else!

we cannot

Seriously what the fuck

I will never eat a strawberry sando

It’s impossible to tell what the other two are but the strawberry sandwich makes me scared

migadu

I have to use Windows for work, and I choose to use Linux for all of my personal devices. Windows is trying very hard to corral me into using bing, edge, cortana, etc. and gets in my way when I try to use the tools I prefer instead. It intentionally obscures what its doing with updates and security. That is unacceptable. This is my computer, not theirs.

No Linux distro that I’ve tried does any of that shit. They have never tried to push my behavior in one direction or another, they aren’t watching everything I do to help their product teams develop an even more annoying desktop. The various Linux distros I’ve used have felt like nothing but a way to let me use my damn computer.

I do have a small partition with Windows on it to play the occasional game I can’t run on Linux with Proton. Thanks, Valve!