I completely agree that business ghouls doing business ghoul things make studios make worse games... doesn't really affect my point though... studios are not making games based on a "bar" set by the consumers as described in the original post....
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They are part of the studios.... point was "the bar" is "fun/interesting". The vast majority of people that purchase games don't have a bar as defined by the comment I originally replied to.
Studios can make whatever they want. People aren't putting in orders.
DRM is orthagonal to ownership
Targeted ads are obviously way more effective and therefore generate more money. But it’s not the only way.
I'm not so sure this has turned out to be all that true
I never used npp as my code editor but as a secondary program that i kept notes in and would paste text in to manipulate then move back into code editor. It had a rich plugin ecosystem way before that was common. I use Kate for those purposes instead now
Believing things based on the best evidence you have available (someone told you what they're thinking) and believing things with no credible evidence (religion) are completely different things and one being a good idea does not mean the other one is.
I would say I don't have one. Atheism is not a religion it is a description of a single attribute, lack of belief in any gods. People seem to think it means a lot more than it does.
Sort of alarming how many upvotes this has without anybody providing any reference at all. We have enough privacy problems to worry about without people posting unsubstantiated claims :/
I can't find anything about it. Claim seems sus tbh
To my knowledge upgrading to the newer release of any of those linux distros was not blocked by having only slightly old and perfectly serviceable hardware.