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  • I get the joke but I never understood the idea that gaming nowadays is “bad”. Just as there are many games that have shitty practices or are just bad, there are just as many that are good. Indie gaming is booming for a reason.

    Sometimes I wonder that if the people that keep parroting this idea are just… Getting old? Getting fed up with gaming? Or maybe it’s just a nostalgia thing? All of these combined?

    Anyway, Clair Obscure just came out and it’s a great JRPG, highly recommend it

  • This is wrong. Google will now share Android code after each new Android release, instead of releasing over time in real time. This is not uncommon in open source projects.

    I’m not defending, or claiming that they won’t try to make Android closed source eventually in the future, but right now what you said isn’t correct

  • A one-week boycott is completely ineffective by design.

    Amazon's executives aren't sweating over losing a week of your business. They're a trillion-dollar company that thinks in quarters and years, not days. They'll gladly wait out this symbolic week of inconvenience.

    The moment you put an expiration date on your boycott, you've surrendered all leverage. They have zero incentive to change anything because they know you'll be back ordering Prime deliveries next Monday.

    Real - actual - boycotts work by creating genuine economic pressure that forces companies to reconsider their practices. They require commitment, not just temporarily pausing your shopping habits.

    Emphasis on >habits<, because we're not talking about political parties, it's a shop. A humongous shop for sure, but still a shop, and you can buy what you want from other places.

    If you want to actually impact Amazon, you need to be willing to walk away indefinitely until they address your concerns. Otherwise, it's just performative.

  • That’s so stupid. Boycott only works if it’s indefinite, because you want the company to try to win you back.

    If you say that you are coming back, what exactly are you expecting to happen? They’ll change nothing because you already said that you are coming back

  • I’m under the impression that the idea of an unified EU army is that they would be able to act independently in case of an attack, no need for votes or bureaucracy.

    If that’s not the case, then yeah that’s a problem

  • Long story short, there were two main issues that people had with Epic:

    • they made exclusivity a thing inside pc platform (this was the main issue for most people)
    • Tim Sweeney is generally disliked

    The first issue speaks for itself. The second needs a bit more context.

    Tim Sweeney has an history of being arbitrary. One year he says one thing, the next another. Relevant to this case, Tim was openly against PC gaming back in the day, while Valve was pushing for PC gaming. We’re talking around 2010, where console gaming was predominant, most publisher favored consoles against PC. Valve at the time was one of the few companies betting on the PC platform.

    Now, he’s suddenly pro PC gaming. People see this as him doing a 180, and trying to take the spoils from Valve’s work.

    Then there were also some comments that he made that aged like milk, but generally speaking this is why people take an issue with Epic but not Steam

  • This meme says:

    • windows 8 somehow is more beloved than Windows 10 (lmao)
    • linux is just one single OS, instead of an agglomerate of hundreds of distributions
    • and implies that every single one of them got better with time (lmao)