What makes you think he’s an idiot as opposed to lying through his teeth?
- ‘It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it’
By the same logic however, mods would have no power to actually moderate. Their moderation ability is directly proportional to their potential for abuse. And I think we can all agree we’ve long passed the point where communities are able to survive without moderation, at least in their current form (which is what OP is discussing).
If you’re going to remove 90% of the content on lemmy, is there even a point staying on it?
BTW, you get a DRM free copy even if you buy from steam. You just need to link your Factorio account and you can download the installer from their website
You could just buy it direct from their site
Some craftsmen the dwarfs are if they couldn’t tell…
Not familiar with multiplayer. What’s the reason for saving a local copy of the game?
You do not. Assuming the devs didn’t implement DRM, you can dig through your Steam folders to find the executable and launch it directly.
There’s nothing shiny about factorio, everything’s semi-rusted.
It’s a standard YouTube video, what are you going on about?
Really shitty scaremongering article. I’d like to know how exactly increased investment in fusion could potentially make it unsuitable for public use, as the article claims?
You can still get them done, the expansion isn’t released publicly yet
For all intents and purposes, (…) as close to a real person as technology can create.
Again, I point you towards video games and how they got blamed for violence. You could have used the same statement about them 20 years ago.
The biggest danger with allowing people to do whatever they want to a sex bot is that it has the possibility to encourage dangerous behavior in some people to the point where they are comfortable doing it to a real person.
This tired old argument gets trotted out with every new technology and hobby. D&D, Video games, VR, etc etc.
The current global population growth rate is unsustainable.
That’s a myth. The current global population growth rate is dropping precipitously and is expected to hit negative rates within this century. The fertility rate per woman is at 2.3, from a peak of 5.3 in the 60s. That’s barely above replacement level. At current trends we’ll be at replacement level in a couple decades.
An NPC in a game has intelligence
By what definition of the word? Most dictionaries define it as some variant of ‘the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.’
nearly impossible to actually find the few good games within the massive crush of shovelware
So exactly like gaming in the 90s and 00s? You can’t have it both ways
None of those reasons apply to electric cars, though. What’s their stance on that?
Aren’t there already records of all your border crossings? I don’t see the difference, what am I missing?
Steam DRM doesn’t have quite the same history of maliciousness towards end users that Denuvo does