BremboTheFourth

PC gamers haven’t pushed back as hard because the basic facts are NOT the same. The ecosystem is entirely different. I’m not interested in defending Steam or its use of DRM, but the fact that something is illegal doesn’t mean it can’t happen. Piracy is one of the big reasons PC gamers aren’t nearly as affected by the lack of physical media being sold: you just make it yourself. I’ve even pirated games I already own just because it’s the easiest way to have an unmodded install alongside a heavily modded one.

But the lack of options for console gamers doesn’t stop there. Not only are the hardware and software environments completely locked down, but demographically, a much greater number of console buyers are going to be those with bad or no internet. They can’t just download whatever from wherever. If they lose the discs, they may lose access entirely.

“Hash backlash” is a great tagline for people disliking datacenters. Too bad they’re not actually doing any cryptography lol

I wonder if Grok is also the justification they’ll start using for claiming that random fishing boats in the Pacific are actually drug runners

The frogs are turning the friggin dinosaurs gay

Really? Damn, I can’t remember the last time I tried launching a Steam game and it didn’t work. What are you trying to play?

In my fantasyland you would pair them with another device, like a phone, and it would do all the work. The glasses would basically be nothing more than a receiver and a display

Explain to me how providing ID to websites is good. Explain to me how this is good for your data privacy. Uploading all your photo ID and whatnot into some private corp or government database, where it absolutely will be linked with your account, which is already grossly tracked across the internet in numerous ways. you’re just asking to have your ID attached to your online activities.

You are clearly not reading the same thread I am. No one is defending those concepts; literally the opposite. You asked “why” in response to the statement that believing government propaganda is bad.

Sure, better parenting is good in a general sense, and parents should be mindful of what their kids are watching, but better parenting won’t stop governments from invading your privacy because they don’t actually do it in order to protect kids. They do it to control people, and they SAY they’re doing it to protect kids in order to keep people complacent until it’s too late. Believing the government when they say they need to protect kids from media is believing authoritarian propaganda.

This, 100%. Never forget that they call Michelle Obama, a literal cis woman who went through multiple pregnancies, trans. They can’t clock you, they just judge you, and want to scare you. And honestly, considering the plastic monstrosities those freaks say they find attractive these days, getting “clocked” by one of them should be a point of a pride: you actually look like a human being, congrats!

What explanation are you even asking for? Why shouldn’t you believe fucking authoritarian propaganda? lmao??? That’s like asking why pushing over old people and laughing at them is bad; if you don’t get it, you won’t get it.

Maybe they’d do better against someone else, but c’mon. It’s GlaDOS. 10:1 odds she wins the whole thing