A more apt comparison would be with film reviewers. Before the internet, knowing what a movie was about, if you didn’t care about spoilers, would require either someone watching and telling you, or reading a piece on a newspaper (or, in some places, watching TV). It’s almost the same with “professional” game reviews and how they completely lost space to random dudes on the internet.

Also, watching a video usually feels more like entertainment, whereas reading a review or walkthrough feels more like doing some research.

Let’s see if the physical disc once said anything about needing an online connection for single play. Oh look, it did not, the subscription required was only for 2-8 players network play.

Let’s compare with Destiny 2’s back cover, a game that is a MMO and thus “cannot be owned” by the players. Hey, a “Online Play (Required)*” sticker that is not present on The Crew! The fine print has a bit that states that “Activision makes no guarantee of regarding availability of online play or features, and may modify or discontinue online services at its discretion without notice.”

FF14 also had a “Online Play (Required)*” sticker on its back cover. It clearly states on the rectangular bit above the T Rating: “Users are granted only a limited, revocable license and do not own any intellectual property in the game or game data”

You deceived consumers, Ubisoft. “Online Play Required” is not there, so the game should remain playable offline.

I feel like I only have the old lady who’s fed up with all this shit

Not to mention the many deals with hardware manufacturers in order to avoid competing OSs to have any chance. They managed to kill BeOS and dominate the Japanese market in the 90s

Isn’t that exactly what’s happening as soon as you install win11?

I did buy a number of fake flash drives, so they’re definitely up there. Luckily I’ve always won the disputes and got my money back from every one of them.

There were also a number of headphones whose sound was so fucking bad, listening to stuff off my phone’s speakers was better

I filled the survey as well. It’s mostly focused on “games preservation”. I’m not up to pay subscription for anything they’re willing to offer and even made sure to tell them that I’m willing to pay a premium for whatever useful content (games) end up exclusive to subscribers

Someone high up in WB asked for it, clearly someone who knows better than all those developers and consumers

/s

Time to teach him about torrenting. No continuous streaming, but no ads, full hd and full length

Those old computer dungeon crawler games, like Wizardry or Might and Magic 1-2. Jesus, they’re absolute exercises in patience. You don’t even have to play anything very recent to see how poorly they aged, even SNES JRPGs of 1992-4 were much better.

Brazil is currently fighting to increase the income tax of the top earners. I don’t expect it to pass because congress and senate are, by and large, protector of the interests of the wealthy.

To me, some NSFW forums, like F95 and LoversLabs

I remember that the dev of Legend of Grimrock added an option for movement with the mouse because a disabled gamer wanted to play. Maybe that second friend should check that and the 2nd game out.

Using a mouse with your non dominant hand is annoying…

Yeah, for PC they’ll probably have to grit their teeth and power through the discomfort. An alternative is getting a hand in some old emulated games. Anything from the NES era can be mapped to 4 movements + 4 buttons (start, select, A, B), which on a keyboard could be WASD + Q, E, R and F. Dunno how to set something similar on a Deck.

Great shitpost, wrong community tho

Thoughts and prayers

I do have the impression that Japanese people have a much stronger “social responsibility” with public stuff compared to most westerners.

Yes.

No, that’s Firefox’s built-in translator

If that’s your point, I counter it with AROS

As so many other things, what makes education a tricky thing to manage is the many different ideologies and agendas that demand to have a say in it.

The market wants the bare minimum that creates a never ending pool of cheap labor, preferably one that cannot fight back. The right will often demand something “patriotic”, “religious” and ban loads of “subversive” content, in some cases praising military teaching as ideal (see Brazil). The left usually wants kids to learn social stuff, like sociology, philosophy, etc, things “without market value”, but which can help them realize why some stuff is the way it is. Then you have school directors who may swing any each way and individual teachers who may comply or try to “subvert” the higher ups.

One of the things that annoys me a lot about education is that, in much of the world, it still works on a assembly-line logic. Make kid pass through process, test to see if it passes minimal quality assurance, proceed to next step; if not, repeat the entire previous process (imagine redoing a whole fucking year because you couldn’t be arsed about one of the many things that are pointlessly taught at school). Maximize production, reduce costs (1 teacher per 40 kids)

“When education does not free a person, the dream of the oppressed is to become the opressor.” - Paulo Freire was so damn right that, to this day, the Brazilian right demonizes him, wrongly accusing public schools and universities of being “breeding grounds of communists” for using his method (which is bullshit, his method was aimed first at teaching adults how to read and, afaik, no public schools ask the kids to “bring their home experiences” so they can be contextualized in the teaching)