It’s not for me either, but i guess not being strung along by the main story line and instead being able to just go anywhere and do whatever is appealing to people who just want to immerse themselves in the games world.

Looking at history, after they unsuccessfully tried to invade Russia in winter, while at the same time trying to take over Europe.

I’d say it depends on whether or not the voice actor whose voice the AI is imitating has agreed and is fairly compensated.

I’m imagining a game, where instead of predefined dialog choices, you talk into your microphone and the game’s AI generates the NPCs answer.

The best MMO for Halloween IMO is secret world. unfortunately it is pretty dead, so finding people for group content is near impossible, but the solo quests are pretty well done and a lot of fun.

Reviewers rave about a game, I pick it up and play it, and they’re raving about a new one before I’ve finished that last one.

That’s why i only wishlist games that i’m interested in. by the time i get around to them, there’s usually a sale and/or price drop. Some games have been on my wishlist for years, while I’m working through my backlog, waiting for their price to drop even further.

If instead you would be paid for the making of the music regardless of how many copies of a digital file you sold by a better system that’s not based on private property

And how would that system decide how much you get paid and where would the money for that payment come from? How do you make sure a carefully crafted piece of music, that brings happiness to millions of people gets paid fairly compared to someone just putting together a song in 5 minutes by pressing random notes on the keyboard?

Yes. Germany for example requires a proper age verification with id, but since stores don’t want to implement that, they just block these games. At least GoG lets you buy them through a VPN. Steam is much more thorough and won’t let you buy them if the account has German payment info or a German address linked to it. You can create a second account with vpn and buy the games on that account using gift cards, but you can’t gift the games to your main account.

A Chinese company doing what Chinese companies do best.

“The word ‘copyright infringement’ doesn’t translate very well into mandarin”

And how many people will actually see it? when he releases a video, i get it on my feed. but i have never seen a text post from any of the creators i’ve subscribed to.

A petition I don’t think will do much.

This isn’t just any regular change.org petition, that can be ignored. It’s an official partition based on EU rules, where EU parliament is forced by law to listen to the initiators and talk about the topic, when it passes.

I think he’s talking about all the other shows and movies on the platform, that he doesn’t watch

firstly, in the comic, none of the streaming service has the movie, so a site telling him this doesn’t change that point.

second, even if one streaming service has that movie, it might not be the one you are subscribed to. so instead of "just watch"ing, you have to make a new subscription on that service and pay for all their content although you just want one movie

thirdly, often it’s not a matter of whether or not someone wants to pay, but how much someone is willing to pay. This depends on many factors, which boil down to how much they want to watch the movie and how much they can afford. imo there are two acceptable ways to charge for entertainment: paying once for that particular piece and you get to enjoy it as often/long as you want forever, or you pay a monthly fee and get access to everything for as long as you pay. unfortunately, thanks to the fragmentation of streaming services, option b has become quite expensive and not a lot of people are not willing to spend that much, but they would be willing for a lower price.

That may be true, but that wasn’t the point he tried to make. The problem is that netflix used to have everything at a good monthly price and once they dominated the market, enshittification and price hike started, plus all the other companies wanted in on the action, starting their own service.

Now MS is trying to do the same to the PC gaming market.

I think it’s a joke abaut how closely related the countries were, when they started the first 2 WWs (and maybe Hitler being Austrian)

Not out of the box, AFAIK, but there is a plugin. I never got it to work though, because you also need some up-to-date certification file.

How has no one mentioned the tetris theme? Dum dada dum dada dum dada dum dada dum di da da da

Also many young people are so used to games requiring online connection and being shut down, that they can’t imagine a better way.

There’s Epic or you can buy directly from the publishers store front (e.g. EA), but GoG is the only one not forcing you to use a shitty launcher. ignore that, i missed the “not American” requirement in your post.

unfortunately not all of us. few weeks ago 20% voted for our nazi-party and another 30% voted a party who’s leader is willing to cooperate with the nazi-party.

Boycotts by individuals are legal.

For now…