China is subsidizing the transition away from fossil fuels which greatly accelerate climate change and if not taken seriously immediately will lead to the deaths of tens of not hundreds of millions in the next few decades. The speed at which this transition occurs is vital in saving human lives and preventing infrastructure losses previously unfathomable. Their actions towards green energy adoption both domestically and abroad are one of the few things that provide any sense of hope about a better renewable future.

On the other hand: BUT AT WHAT COST

If you gamify something people with addiction and addiction-adjacent problems will inevitably interact with it in the gamified way. This was the first state of the karma system harming the site.

Then in the second stage once karma started getting more “serious” (preventing users from posting/commenting and being used as an “authenticity” check- what led to farmed and sold accounts) which led to a further breakdown of the karma system.

The underlying issue is despite being an absolutely useless measure in reality- the site itself ascribed value to them and caused people with (what we’d probably refer to as bad) economic incentives to act on that behavior then rationally acted.

I’m hoping the EU takes them/other digital storefronts to court at some point about my right to sell/transfer my licenses to all these products.

I should absolutely be able to sell my license to a game to another person. It’s bizarre that I can in the physical world but not the digital world where the actual “transfer” is 1000000x easier.

Also from just a platform standpoint it’s absurd I can’t disable updates on steam. I know some games offer alternative solutions to this through the beta branch feature but that is a band-aid over the full solution.

The United States is completely aware of the atrocities being committed and no amount of additional war crimes will change its position.

Its interests in the region that it views as necessary to maintaining its global hegemonic power are viewed as more important than any action by an allied actor even to the extent of what a decently large portion of its populace deems genocide.

I’m glad blue sky exists for two reasons:

1. It will likely contribute to more Elon meltdowns
2. It acts as a containment zone for celebrity and brand worship that’s marginally less bad than twitter

Best way to play the game. I really wish other games leaned into this gameplay loop as well. If anyone is aware of others who even sort of tried to do this I’d love to hear about them

Preventing the updates is also another benefit of airplane mode if youre planning to jailbreak the kindle eventually.

Strictly because the tooling doesn’t exist in an easy enough way to go from blu-ray -> full-sbs encode at this point.

I’m constrained by knowledge to only use tools like BD3D2MK3D to create full-sbs encode in x265 which I watch in VR.

If AV1 were an option in this tool I’d consider it, but the additional encoding time might not be worth it to me as the person actually encoding the files.

If anyone has knowledge of F-SBS or F-OU AV1 content or tooling please let me know as I’d be glad to learn.

AV1 when available for everything other than 3d content which is ideally x265.

Honestly it blows my mind that x264 is still as popular as it is.

Portal: Reloaded

I think it’s the single best puzzle game ever created and the fact that it’s a free Portal 2 mod is astounding.

Do you have access to a computer that could either play ports of those games or is strong enough to emulate those games?

This would be my answer to that question

In fact I’d come up with a list of all the exclusives that you’re interested in playing and use that in your reasoning as well.

Thank you for checking even though it didn’t turn up anything

Much appreciated for helping track down leads. Thank you

The federated decentralized nature of Lemmy and it being open-source means that when this happens the users laugh at whoever paid for an instance and celebrate whoever got the bag and all migrate to a new instance.

See AdBlock -> AdBlock + -> Ublock -> Unlock Origin for a story of idiot capitalists donating massive sums of money only to buy a product that is quite literally drop-in replaceable by design… and Lemmy makes this process even easier than that.