AnonTwo

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Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

AnonTwo, (edited )

...What does the writer think support end means? Microsoft bricks the PC as soon as the support period ends?

They're going to just keep using Windows 10, security be damned. Probably a good number of users who weren't keeping their PC up to date even when Microsoft was forcing updates on them.

AnonTwo, (edited )

Can't really work with this without examples. I don't think 3D platformer quality went down but I also think it's always been all over the place.

Like Hat in Time wasn't that long ago.

let's see...got a picture of "3D platformers in past 10 years"

https://libreddit.kylrth.com/img/ad57oxhe2pfa1.png

I'm looking at it and honestly I need examples as to where you think Ps2 beat out this list so blatantly that there's a clear issue.

AnonTwo,

So...you grew up with Ps2 is what i'm hearing.

AnonTwo,

I mean, I won't say everything is better, but it's not exactly as bad as you're saying either.

Sure, 1000s of games are bad. 1000s of games were bad in the 90s and 2000s too. Bugsby 3D was allowed to exist.

OP isn't even able to say games back in the day were good as he has already bashed N64 and Gamecube (lame move btw, Goemon's Great Adventure I still play every year). He's very much just thinking of PS2.

How many people have missed out on Hat In time exactly?

AnonTwo,

?? That doesn't make a game good. That's just artistic choice

AnonTwo, (edited )

You're...just objectively wrong then. A Hat in Time was one of the best platformers released in the past 10 years, and even if you don't like it you can't base the entire genre on your own opinion.

From what i'm gathering your issue is less that the genre is bad and more that there aren't a lot of "dark, gritty, realistic" platformers...which...there never was.

Like unless PS2 somehow had literally all of them *you haven't given examples other than ratchet and clank) You got Sonic and Mario in early 3D, Banjo Kazooie and DK 64 at the peak of early 3D, conker's bad fur day which is dark but also extremely cartoony...

Then you got platformers like Okami which again...cartoony. Goemon's 3D platformers and thats all cartoon

Like I'm basically trying to say more games in the platformer genre were cartoony than not throughout 3D platformer history and we need more examples of what you really mean

But like you're basically making a claim the entire genre currently is bad over an opinion of something that was never really that common to begin with.

edit: I even tried looking up platformers on PS2 and was greeted with Sly2, Rayman (did that have a 3d platformer?), psyconauts, Spongebob: BFBB

Like great games yeah, but the thing you're basing the entire topic on really seems to be a minority if your issue is a particular art style....

AnonTwo, (edited )

3rd person shooters are already a small niche and that's without even including platformer!

Nobody can figure out what you're saying because you're associating "good" with a subgenre of a subgenre

AnonTwo,

I think they're only worried about like, family or friends finding out. It's not really a concern to them if an entity they don't know has that info.

AnonTwo,

Tells you everything you need to know in the first panels

AnonTwo,

To be fair, it's also just the word for someone you don't have a name for.

Easy name to pick when you can't think of a username after dozens of "name already taken" prompts

AnonTwo, (edited )

How much money do you pay to login to Mozilla/Chrome/Edge to make this post?

Various PC games before and after Xbox do not charge anything just to be online. it's not an outright requirement. To add consoles usually restrict internet entirely, which is a completely different thing from hosting rounds.

Your second sentence is closer to what the actual reason is, and goes more in line with rockslayer's post.

edit: I will concede that browsers aren't locked anymore behind the payment models it seems. But I will still stand by that everyone is arguing as if individual games don't have to do this, but i'm fairly certain still that no P2P or just outright free online games exist on consoles, which makes the argument moot.

I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....

AnonTwo, (edited )

...?

No they couldn't, it's fucking Linux. They'd have to tie the controller drivers hostage to "lock it down", and at that point they'd hit so many hiccups with legitimate users.

Like they'd have to pull so many things from Linux (in particular Proton) to "DRM-ify" the steamdeck.

And as I think someone else just posted, some of the stuff they'd need to lock-down aren't even things Valve has control over. Like I said Proton but Valve doesn't own proton.

AnonTwo,

The...arm-based systems that use a different kind of BIOS?

If even Apple isn't doing it on x86, I don't see why Valve would start.

AnonTwo,

And if you're going to flaunt your title you should probably actually...you know...say something that pertains to that knowledge you have.

This just seems like blind fanboyism. As great as the steamdeck is there's no reason to act like it's doing things it's not actually doing. It was designed the way it was because it had to be, there doesn't need to be anything whimsical about it.

AnonTwo, (edited )

That's not moving goalposts, you're just arguing semantics. People generally think of eliminate when they say prevent in this kind of conversation....

If anything if they went "prevention" and not "eliminate" like in your sense...it would be even dumber because it would just make the steamdeck a more restrictive x86-processor computer compared to the systems people were already comparing it to up until it's release

Imagine how it would've gone down if people were saying "Of course you can do that, it's a PC" if people responded with "Yeah, except it's 10x harder to do things you could normally do on PC". They wanted it to be close to how a PC is, it was part of the advertising campaign.

AnonTwo,

I mean, it probably depends on how happy you are with your life.

Depending on how it works i'd probably just use time stop to lose less time from sleeping. There's a lot of ways to improve your life with time stop before ever delving into morals.

AnonTwo,

Though I don't think that's too big a loss when you're using it to sleep. If you used time stop for something that was both exhausting and wasting your time, that'd probably be worse honestly.

It would certainly become noticeable after awhile since as you said, it's one third of your life.

AnonTwo,

Some piracy sites do have accounts, just mostly small-scale.

Most of this complaint really doesn't have to do with piracy...I mean a lot of account sites don't even have anything to pirate.

AnonTwo,

Not really, it's more internet in general. And if we look at social media, they have accounts as frustrating as crunchyroll to fully delete but without anything to pirate.

Like it's a fair complaint but, to be fair

If you're trying to delete your account you're already going to a different provider (in this case, piracy), so it's not like you would've happily come back to Crunchyroll just because they let you delete your account easier.

AnonTwo,

It's really people trying to take a high ground and feel better about themselves.

They want to know they made a choice where the person they wanted was right. Even if that person doesn't win, and the person who does win happens to be a person who makes it even harder for them to get what they actually wanted in the future.

AnonTwo,

Just a reminder that the popular vote was:
Donald Trump: 62,984,828
Hillary Clinton: 65,853,514

A difference of only 3 million, in a vote with 127m

Now this is not to say the electoral college is not an issue here, it certainly is. But even by the standards of the popular vote it was a close race. It is important to stress to people their vote matters because you don't want people to be wishy washy, getting this close, in a race as important as this...cause this is precisely the kind of situation where yeah, it's very likely the electoral college could come into play.

Basically people act like it was a landslide, but we should be encouraging people to make it an actual landslide next time. Because chances are even in a system where an alternate voting element could mess things up, the popular vote will get in the way if it's strong enough.

AnonTwo,

I'm not sure the person making the meme is even a Linux user, because they act like Windows is the entire PC space.

AnonTwo,

Could be luck, but of those I only found Viewtube and Freetube to be responsive at this time of day to a live stream (the others either loaded endlessly or said they couldn't load the page)

That was only of the web/desktop ones.

Freetube seems to support youtube chat as well, which the others don't.

AnonTwo,

This meme shows up here way too often...like every other day....

AnonTwo,

Also if they had alternating custody what was the plan exactly when custody switched? Especially given that they already got prosecuted for the first time they did it....

Like it required planning and not planning at the same time

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