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In this same spot.

When a rerelease of a Gameboy advance game can't be launched offline, that's a problem. (MegaMan battle network collection)

As Gabe Newell said, piracy is a service issue. Why would I buy that collection when I can emulate my old copy instead? It's a few extra steps, so I would rather have had it just work on steam, but Denuvo kept me from doing it. This mattered recently because I went on a vacation with the steam deck and didn't have internet at a few points.

Sure, DRM isn't inherently evil, but when it makes the experience worse for paying customers when compared to pirates, it really looks that way.

Also note that in this case, emulation is not piracy, but if I wanted to play the collection edition offline then piracy would have been my only option.

Am I selfish for paying money and wanting to use the software I bought a personal license to on my own, without internet? I think it's selfish of the company to demand that I play their originally offline-only games online-only. Am I selfish to want to play the Spyro Reignited trilogy without aggreeing to an arbitration clause? I think companies have gotten selfish lately and paying customers have no choice but to either not play modern AAA games, pay and have a potentially worse experience when paying, or pirate and not deal with the technical and legal/privacy garbage surrounding modern AAA releases, including DRM. I didn't even mention yet how if a game you purchased a Denuvo license to does not get an update to eventually remove the protection, it will become unplayable when they shut the activation server down.

I remember my first awful experience with DRM with the game Spore, where I had a period of time when I moved between or upgraded my computer enough to where I ran out of activations and could not longer play my physical copy of the game despite there not being a single current activation of the game out there. There was nothing I could do about it, because there was no way to deactivate a copy even if you knew you would be changing hardware soon. I didn't have income then, so it left a very sour taste in my mouth. We came from physical copies we could resell, to this? DRM lets companies manage game licenses on their terms, but their terms suck.

I can't speak for the KingKong other than that I have a friend who has one and loved it enough to buy another.

I can speak for the 8bitdo Ultimate Wireless and Pro2.

Although the ultimate wireless is the better wireless controller for latency (2.4ghz) and most features (hall effect sensors, ability to wake the switch) - I still prefer my Pro 2. I find the triggers less fatiguing for long sessions of racing games and the controller is the most comfortable I've ever used. Plus, the convenience of having a switch on the back for 4 (though I've only used 3) Bluetooth compatibility profiles is so convenient, it's the controller I bring with me when going to a friend's because I know that as long as they don't use playstation I can use my controller.

The positioning for the dpad on the Pro2 also makes Tetris much more comfortable.

Both controllers are great though, it would probably come down to whichever one was more comfortable in your hands.

Don't know if this solves your problem but you can go into the android settings app and make newpipe the default handler for YouTube links if it's not already.

My favorite game's awesome story made me feel things, and I like it for that

I'm not super upset since AMD's solutions are at least available to everyone.

o7 thank you for your service, sync

Took me a second but great joke

"who gets to say what's worth banning and what not?"

Just like with privately hosted services like Twitter and Reddit, it's the person/group hosting the content. The decentralized nature means that if you disagree, you can voice that, or host your own instance, or move elsewhere that aligns with your viewpoints. Some people have multiple accounts spread out across instances to see different kinds of content.

Rambling below, you can stop reading here if you want.

Being federated doesn't mean moderation can be ignored on either end. Some groups may not want to deal with certain content that others want to (could be for personal or legal reasons), and that's OK. Since individual posts can't be moderated across instances, if there are big patterns of moderation disagreements, then defederation is the only option and that's usually not fun for anyone, so it's generally in everyone's best interest to stay generally acceptable to everyone else.

Of course, nothing is forcing that. There are currently instances defederated from my home instance Beehaw, for example. I'd imagine they're still doing just fine without that federation, too. It can be argued that it's against the spirit of federation, but at the same time you really can't expect people to want to host data on their server that may not be morally or legally acceptable to them.

(This is all ignoring purpose-driven instances. People can choose to make an instance where only a specific kind of content is available, too. It's much easier to manage that kind of instance due to the smaller scale, but as with anything there are downsides to that, too.)

Why not investigate all of them on a regular basis, while we're at it? They have terms for life, we should probably make sure none of them are taking bribes or are otherwise unreasonably biased on on cases they rule on.

Oof, ouch. Good post.

Also if you pay for the subscription you are never allowed to go back to the trial.