Yeah it seems it’s conservatives who are the ones who like to obsess and make it the topic of discussion to make their followers think it is the left’s primary platform of focus.

And then they also fixate on entertainment like games or movies to further play up how everything is woke as though it’s the left politicians making all that.

And it’s because that’s really the only compelling thing they have to play up to their followers who too make it their entire identity of conflict, since their other policies aren’t working class friendly.

Yeah that’s the thing that stands out so much. That almost everything mainstream is either US or China. Come on rest of the world step up.

They try to sell this image of being open platform suing Apple and Android, but then refuse to actually properly support something like Linux. And then remain quiet about cuts when it comes to Xbox and Playstation.

Epic made headlines when Metro Exodus that was set for a steam launch and even had physical copies with the steam logo, abruptly decided to pull their launch after entering into a deal with Epic.

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/aqyjac/physical_copy_of_metro_exodus_for_pc_has_a/

Then came the contracts to not release on Steam. And from the DARQ dev turned out that also included GOG too.

I was contacted by the Epic Store, proposing that I enter into an exclusivity agreement with them instead of releasing DARQ on Steam. They made it clear that releasing DARQ non-exclusively is not an option. I rejected their offer before we had a chance to talk about money.

https://medium.com/@unfoldgames/why-i-turned-down-exclusivity-deal-from-the-epic-store-developer-of-darq-7ee834ed0ac7

Free games are nice, but that doesn’t guarantee affection when it comes to paying customers. It wasn’t like this was some small indie company but another billion dollar company trying to pull a Walmart, so some people just weren’t won over by the free games into being happy with the exclusivity deals. Those people weren’t happy having choice forced away.

I still haven’t spent money on epic but I do claim the free games. Yet I will probably never spend money there even though I’ve spent money at GOG, uplay, bnet, and origin because the first impression and approach they took rubbed me the wrong way. So even people who don’t only buy from steam were turned off with the strategy they took.

Now some people don’t care and will buy from there, so this just the point of view of people who dislike Epic.

There was a time they played without helmets and

Between 1965 and 1969, more than 100 players at all levels died of brain injuries, an average of about 20 per year—about the same number as died in 1905, but from brain injuries alone.

https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/may-2012/a-brief-history-of-football-head-injuries-and-a-look-towards-the-future/

So it’s just a stupid sport to begin with whether there is padding or not due to the whole bashing into each other from opposite ends every single play.

Yep lot of sports streams I’ve seen straight up don’t have commercials and goes to dead air during breaks, since they aren’t streaming regular broadcast channels.

Really nice ones switch to stadium cameras during breaks so showing what’s going on with the crowd and arena.

They may not be politicians but they spend money to get themselves into positions of political power as these few days have shown with Musk. And these people get most of their power from the masses that are dumb enough and bigoted enough to be swayed by a shared common hatred of groups to scapegoat for everything.

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Even greedy Amazon is providing games that don’t require a constant subscription to play even after you cancel Prime.

Yeah, I’d do the same if I needed a card with the price being good, uncertain supply, and potential tarrifs. Been multiple generations since a GPU has had a launch where stuff is available, didn’t have scalpers, and then price hikes.

No more evga around either to be able to reserve a spot online to buy at retail price without having to fight bots and camp out at stores.

Most effective would probably be spread of memes of Musk and Nazism being spread making the site so strongly associated with Nazi imagery that companies become afraid of their brand being associated with Nazi support. Brands being tarnished due to strong association is the only type of stuff companies tend to respond to.

Excellent. It’s nice to see active moves to reduce direct visits to Twitter that are often the result of submissions providing links there.

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For people who love ads and being shilled to and watch infomercials in their free time.

I like that pipepipe provides an option to use a Google account fall back for videos that are age verified, since those don’t work anymore without an account.

And they got a content filter update too so can block channels and keywords.

I was going to recommend android apps until I saw iOS. I don’t know anyones that let you keep a local subscription like newpipe does without needing to sideload. So if there are I’d be interested.

I think Möbius Sync might work to get syncthing working for iOS.

As far back as I can remember razer has had the reputation of expensive unreliable junk that breaks down. Not sure if they’ve improved in reliability but it’s why I always stayed away from their products.

A cheap slim case I got for my Steam Deck so the side seams don’t get filled with gamer gunk. It also made the grips a little thicker so they felt more comfortable than without the case. And then some random joystick covers which provides some grip.

I claim everything since free is free. But I don’t have the launcher installed, since I have a lot of other games to play so haven’t gotten around to it.