Sure, but how do you solve the problems that patents in turn solved (and brought new problems with them of course)? That as kinda my point, if we just ban patents we can just look back to know which problems we need to solve in another way.

We always told them we want things to be optional, and now this is an extension so I dunno. Seems they’re listening?

Well, you can just… not install the extension then?

Yeah but again, not a copyright lawsuit.

That’s genuinely not as simple as you think it is. You realize there was a time before modern patent law, yes?

So far it’s not perfect yet, but I already switched to it. Very nice.

It’s difficult to say what PP does, last I read about if? One idea was that it’s actually excludes things from server side click metrics, and in that case I would guess I can see point in leaving it there?

I don’t get why, I can’t see this be difficult or costly to run, but then again I have no clue, never ran a Mastodon instance.

I would assume that it’s not worth the small reach compared to running X / Bluesky / Threads accounts but then again, like I said, the cost must be super small. 🤷

It’s 2024, and we still assign significance to streamers and stream viewers. No wonder the world is going to shit as fast as it is…

Yeah that’s true, or at least I wish I could make FF remember my settings.

Yeah I was about to say, just do https? It’s not like getting a certificate is still a big deal in modern times, hasn’t in years.

Me, it makes me a bit sad it’s so low. Reader Mode is one the really cool features of Firefox, but I understand that consuming web content by reading is rapidly on the decline, as a result of the comparatively low information density of video and audio allowing bigger ad space compared to text.

Plus we know from the last 10-15 years how much reading comprehension has nosedived since the proliferation of video content.

It’s just called moderation. Since we cannot show that it could be done better, owing to a mix of human nature, the nature of the Internet and discussions on it, and how moderation generally works.

Live service, as in: you better watch it live or you’ll have missed it! 😅

I don’t mind the difference in functionality, so much as how slow it is, which was already a huge problem with new.reddit.com. Having gone back to old.reddit.com+RES now, fucking hell reddit used to be such a snappy website. 😑

Yeah exactly, it’s all mobile nowadays, anyways. By and large “nobody” is here for the desktop experience. Sadly.

Yeah everything about this is wrong.

They could have had this golden opportunity if this came out the very week OW1 went OW2 and pissed everybody off. Even with the pay-once price and all that.

But now, it’s much much much too late.

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Also, people underestimate just how much art style makes or breaks these games. Concord has some neat hero designs, cool ability sets and smart ideas, but it looks so utterly generic. The heroes are somewhat okay even though they really need an art style that doesn’t look like a leftover CoD asset, but wow the levels and gameplay and weapons and all all look like asset flips.

Artists, Sony. Hire some. Your AI cannot save you, as should be evident at this point. Stop paying the corporate accountant to design level art.

Is this satire? It has to be, right? Considering your comment is entirely unnecessary?

Betteridge’s law says the answer is ‘no’.

The general rule against youtubers too full of hearing themselves talk says ‘I couldn’t give a rat’s arse, not going to click that link either way’.