I’ll just refer you to what I said to the other guy. So if you see this, you should be able to click through to the thread, see what I said to the other guy, and read my reasoning there. No need to split the argument/debate into two threads.
That’s a good point. But the issue is, it’s always going to be a moving target. Every year I could reassess the streaming services and quit the one I’m on and go with the one that best meets my needs each year. And each year it could be a different one. Ethically, that would be the superior option. But, I’m not perfect, I’m barely ideal, and I use a family plan to help justify my cost. Sure, I pay more, but I also get my wife and a couple other family members the gift of perpetual music as well.
So if every year, or every, however often, I were to reassess, and drop one service, and start another one and ask them to dump the app and get a new app and let me add them on that, all of us are losing our entire library every time we switch across. It’s a lot of work. Sure, there are tools to convert your stuff over, but it’s still a bit of work.
At this point it’s not about who’s the actual absolute best at the things that matter the most, at this point it’s just which one’s good enough for our needs. Also Apple is one of the few streaming services that doesn’t give a hoot if your family all lives with you. We had Spotify before and at that point — this was years ago — you had to retype the address every month, and if, say, my niece mistyped it, she’d lose access to her premium benefits for a month. At one point I just sent her an email with the exact text to copy and it was fine, but like if she accidentally left a space at the end or something, if the text didn’t match 100%, it was this whole thing — and of course I wasn’t compensated for a family member being denied their benefit for the month. Apple does not care. You add the person and they get the benefit without ever having to physically be at that address. I just hope that doesn’t change.
(Also, I think Napster pays artists the most now, ironically?)
Okay, so aside from the fact that you’re stalking me across communities for whatever reason — if I write a loophole in your employer’s code, like a patch, that keeps them from having to pay you, and they like not having to pay you, I haven’t done anything egregious or unethical? Or it’s only egregious or unethical because it’s happening to a company you don’t like?
If the law doesn’t apply without prejudice blindly and equally for all, what good is it? And who decides who is deserving? Some pathetic Internet stalker? So given your lack of ethics, would you then agree it would be fair to take your wages as well? Or do you draw the line between companies and people, or how much someone makes? Because we might find some common ground there. But on the surface, it appears you are the one throwing dog shit from that which is covering you.
Yeah, they write smaller checks than Spotify. Spotify has more subscribers. But Apple pays more per stream.
Spotify sponsors Joe Rogan, and Apple’s CEO sucks up to Trump. There are no winners here with regards to politics.
Some say you can’t separate music from politicians, and I suppose that’s fair. I still pay for music, and if my same ten bucks a month or whatever it is now is gonna go in some small part to some bad fuckers, if more goes to the artists with one than the other, I can consider that the lesser of two evils.
Though you’re not gonna hurt Apple and their Trump boot licking by not paying for their music streaming. Nah, you do that by only buying the phone you need, when you need it, not a new one every year like some people like to do. You can only hurt Spotify by not buying Spotify Premium. I like my iPhone okay, but it wasn’t as big of an upgrade as the last one, and my next smartphone probably won’t be an iPhone at all. Though I won’t need to make that decision for another five or six years.
The funny thing is, if her family is wealthy, they’ll just take care of it. It’s poor and brown/Black girls they want to keep barefoot and pregnant. It’s not about oppressing girls — that’s just a side effect they’re glad for. It’s about maintaining the class divide.
So when I went over and I was working on the localization, I would sit with Mr. Miyamoto and a translator and they would be going over the changes I had made and I would explain why I was making the changes, and one day, Mr. Miyamoto just said, ‘Is Peach a bad name?’ And I had to tell him, ‘No, but you know she is called Princess Toadstool in the US’. I remember he said, ‘Well, I really like Peach as her name’. So I came up with the idea to say, ‘Why don’t we call her Princess Peach Toadstool?’ Then we could refer to her informally as Peach.
I’ve never heard this. I always heard that “Toadstool” was offensive in Japan somehow so they used Peach over there (even though peach, especially the emoji, has a sexualised use in the US). I do know that it was with Mario 64 that they dropped “Toadstool” entirely, which annoyed a lot of western Mario fans, since she was princess of the mushroom kingdom, not princess of the fruit/peach kingdom.
We really wanted to maintain “Animal” in the name. And we did try to keep “Forest” in the name too, but legal told us, ‘No, that’s not going to happen.’
Shame, they never say why “Animal Forest” was accepted for use in Japan, but the same company rejected it for use in the west. That is what Animal Crossing’s Japanese name translates to. She also says in the interview that they also proposed “Animal Acres” and that was rejected as well.
Then again, I guess I wouldn’t be able to say “those animals aren’t going to cross themselves” or “it’s crossing time” when I go to play Animal Crossing.
3.1GB on macOS. BTW, thanks for mentioning the Mac port! I think it’s more true that the Switch 2 port drove the Mac port (both use ARM64 as opposed to PC/Xbox/PlayStation using x86-64) but one exists because CDPR saw a market for the other and I’m happy my computer can run it without jumping through hoops. Though it’s not really a “gaming” computer I’m glad I have the option.
No PC (/Mac) elitism here. I haven’t seen Switch 2 gameplay hands-on, but I bet it runs better/smoother/prettier than my M2 Pro runs it. As it should — the M2 family is from 2022. The chip in the Switch 2 is probably somewhere between an M3 Pro and a base M4, if I had to guess. What I’ve seen of the Switch 2 is pretty impressive graphically.
The bad:
I don’t think a “Nintendo Switch 2 Edition” would convince me to spend $450 on one, but if it added a boatload more content, like what they did with Mario Wonder… I’d at least think about it. (I mean, I just got the Switch OLED last October, so it was never gonna be an easy sell.)
(Also worth noting that Animal Crossing is not hard coded to the Switch 1’s specs. Apparently on good computers, people have gotten it up to 8K, which is wild to me. But, that being said, the game does get benefits of running on Switch 2. Notably, if you go to a Treasure Island or if you happen to have an island that is equally dense with decorations, you don’t see pop-in and you don’t get frame drops. I think they showed it running at a stable 60FPS even on one of those show-off islands with something going on literally everywhere. And of course load screens are reduced since those are also not hard-coded and are tied to system performance.)
As an older guy who struggles with slang… I’ve seen it used by guys and gals alike, but sometimes it seems to be the girl equivalent of wanker.
Worth noting that wanker is predominantly a British phrase that refers to a masturbatory act but generally refers to a person who lacks certain social graces. Like a jerk. I like saying aho in Japanese — same thing. But wanker has a class all its own, along with most British slang. You get it or you don’t.
My current understanding of the term gooner is that it means “porn addict” of any sex, gender, identification, or orientation. And while gooning does seem to refer to the masturbatory act, it seems to specify while porn is being watched or otherwise consumed.
I wouldn’t expect Spotify to just let people use premium services for free. Fuck Spotify, right there with y’all on that, but this isn’t egregious or unethical behavior for them.
Use Spotify since it has a free tier, for music discovery if you like, but get FLACs and self host. I like Plex for that and it works with what I use.
Music is actually one thing I will always pay for. I use Apple Music because they pay artists more and they offer better quality. And they don’t care, if you’re on a family plan, if not all your family lives with you. I also self host because backups are nice and I can’t access Apple Music at work. I can, however, access Plex. (It’s not that Apple is blocked. It’s that Apple requires 2FA and I can’t bring my iPhone into work.) But, point is either way, self host and stream everywhere. Sucks that Plex went up; I got Lifetime for $80 years ago. (Now it’s $250.)
Murder is killing with malice. Assassination is killing for political capital. There can be crossover but it isn’t necessary.
Take a head of state — not strictly a current one, not wishing here. Just as an example. He’s giving a speech, it’s an assassination. You caught him in bed with your wife and shot them both — that’s murder.
Still just Animal Crossing on the Switch! If it ain’t broke…
So my question is, do we want ISPs to be liable? If they are, they will be more likely to cut alleged pirates off. If they aren’t, then a legal door is open for the rights holders to go after individuals directly.
Nope, my wife uses Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Discord.
Can’t get her to adopt Fediverse equivalents.
I’d say I choose quality over quantity, but she mostly is in artist communities that don’t want to move off the old platforms. They say they were there before the crazies, they aren’t the problem, so they’re not gonna move, even if the people who own those platforms are straight up fascists. I couldn’t do it.
“Agrees” and “forced under duress” are not the same thing. An agreement before both, I think.
They were sued. Nintendo won. The people don’t have a chance against corporations.
I’m not a nurse. Nurses are a different breed.
But as for me and my answer, I don’t let other people decide my happiness. That’s really all it is. Someone wants to be a jerk to me, I let them, I smile, and I go about my day. Because they do the things they do because of who they are and I do what I do because of who I am. Sounds cliche AF but it works for me.
Interesting video, and I watched the whole thing. And even as accurate as the Nintendo Switch NES emulator is, there’s still lag. Mario still runs like he’s on ice. On actual hardware, you have pretty tight control, but on the Switch, there’s a lag that makes the game unplayable to me. Still talking about SMB1, but the lag is in all the games. I find it unplayable.
The Super NES Classic, which I have (and I have modded to run other games, but it still runs the same emulator — it’s not running RetroArch, which I believe it is capable of doing) is good enough for Zelda 3 (as is NSO), but for Mario… it’s not quite there. I was so good at it when I had an NES. Not world record good, but good enough to beat the game without warps and without dying. Did that a few times for friends.
That doesn’t sound accurate. Plenty of places use ballasts and those are legal. A ballast is a barrier, typically concrete but some are plastic and filled with sand, and they are commonly used to keep cars out of pedestrian spaces. You might not even notice them sometimes, but if you think about what keeps cars off the sidewalk or out of parks, you might notice them.
I’m pretty new to this, so I can’t really game it out in my mind what the effect would be. My first instinct is to say that they would pour money into one instance, probably the biggest one, and the rest of the federated instances would just go about their merry way.
In fact, there are corporate federated services… I mean Bluesky is kinda federated, so is, I think Threads by Facebook/Instagram? But a lot of services don’t federate with it because they don’t like the people behind them.
Can’t you get a terminal on Android? I did once upon a time. It’s a rather clunky way of doing things, but it’s essentially Linux so this shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
I’m a Mac/iPhone guy, but it’s the same shit. I use jdownloader2 (a Java downloader that uses yt-dl and others, it’s basically the Swiss Army knife of downloaders) to pull the video down on the computer, then send it over the air to my phone. It would work exactly the same way if the computer was running Windows, and/or if the phone was running Android. I can also get files wirelessly between Android and iOS going both ways. Both the top video players (Outplayer on iOS and VLC on Android) can be turned into web servers, so I just put both phones on the same network, open a web server on one and connect to it with the other, send stuff right across. Android is, of course, a bit better with its file picker, but iOS is better at the server stuff, being basically UNIX, I guess. Either way, it’s not a challenge to move stuff between them. But the actual downloading? I do that on a computer. And as you might guess from the name, Jdownloader2 uses Java, so it’s the same app on both Mac and Windows and presumably Linux as well.