mnemonicmonkeys

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mnemonicmonkeys , to Ask Lemmy in Lemmings do you feel like you are falling behind in your area of expertise?

They deliberately drove entire herds of lemmings off clips (which killed the lemmings) and recorded video of it. That's because they wanted a "fact" about lemmings for a documentary and didn't care whether it was true

mnemonicmonkeys , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats

My guess is funding from Russia/China and libertarian foundations run by Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers

mnemonicmonkeys , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in A New Documentary Traces How Piracy Overhauled the Music Industry

Tbf, that's not really Spotify's fault. After operating costs and the cut to the various app stores they're on, the larger record labels hoover up all of the profits. Spotify has actually operated at a loss the past few years.

mnemonicmonkeys , to Games in Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley

He has hired a few contractors to help build out features like co-op, (though the first few versions were entirely him on his own). That would eat into profits a bit, but even if he paid each of them $100k for their work there are few enough for it to be a drop in the bucket

mnemonicmonkeys , to Games in Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter

If it's literally the first thing on startup, anyone annoyed can just refund it

mnemonicmonkeys , to Games in Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble

Japan actually has a rather conservative culture, particularly in politics, so comparing them to US Republicans os very apt

mnemonicmonkeys , to Selfhosted in ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

Well, not digital piracy. Ye olde piracy absolutely was stealing, plus a medley of other crimes

mnemonicmonkeys , to Games in Ghost of Tsushima, on Steam, will be unavailable in countries without PSN

c/patientgamers

It costs them money to include, so they'll take it out eventually

mnemonicmonkeys , to Gaming in The Real Reason Your Favourite Game Studios Are Getting Closed Instead Of Sold

Or they're ConcernedApe

mnemonicmonkeys , to Technology in Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

You say that as if the garbage gets downvoted

mnemonicmonkeys , to Technology in Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

One time I was went on there to figure out an issue in Arduino. The answer one guy gave was "I don't know how to do this in Arduino, here's how you do this in Java". Not only the the mods prevent any other answers from being posted, I tried the guy's suggestion in Java and it didn't even work

mnemonicmonkeys , to Gaming in PlayStation Reversing Course On Helldivers 2 Is Both Smart And A Sign Of How Inept It Is

Or resetera

mnemonicmonkeys , to Games in "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"

You have to put in an actual support ticket. There's examples of people who wrote something like "The publusher is forcing me to sign up to a 3rd party and I do not consent"

mnemonicmonkeys , to Games in "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"

Comedy is just tragedy + time

mnemonicmonkeys , to Games in "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"

Also earlier this year they stole purchased content from millions of their customers

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