AnonTwo

To be fair, only a handful of publishers were able to take their cards and go elsewhere. The media companies were a lot more on top of dragging their products off of Netflix.

Nobody would be on steam just for Valve games, after all, and indie has a much lower barrier of entry.

While they could certainly distribute their current products better, a lot of the issues they have now (see: belated frogs comment) aren’t things they really had control over.

I mean,

I don’t think psychology is meant to help people.

It’s neutral, neither good or evil. While you can argue it’s pretty dark how deep the psychology can go, it’s hard to go into a deep evaluation of that.

No, it was indeed with the idea that someone would cut you with a knife which would require stitches.

It’s like 30 years old from when hospitals were…expensive still yes, but not that bad.

Well, the problem with the glitches I was thinking of was basically:

-You have to play a worse version of the game. This was a majora’s mask glitch. It relied on a bug that allowed you to “wrong warp” to the Japanese Debug Menu. The problem was basically it required you to increment a hidden index to over 8000. Which crashed the N64 version. The second issue is the debug menu requires the directional pad, which isn’t mapped correctly on the Wii version. Which basically meant playing on the Wii U version which has input lag among other issues that make it…not very fun to play when speed running. Basically it doesn’t play right.

-The other was an RNG glitch in Ocarina of Time. It worked on trying to get a bottle by the deku tree, which allowed you to do a very broken glitch that brought you right to Ganon to fight the final boss. The problem with that one is that it required you to trigger a pickup sequence in a specific way that allowed an enemy to knock you out of it. The only enemy drop that does this is the first deku seed of the game, and the enemies that were found using this method…had a low rate of dropping the deku seed. In theory it was the fastest run at the time, but on it’s first showcase it went over the allotted time because the seeds didn’t drop correctly until 30m into the run.

So in one case you had to use a version of the game that played awful to increment a hidden table 8000 times. And in another case you had to hope glitch went off without a hitch or you started over. And aside from the drop rate for the second glitch, it could also fail if the deku seed just dropped in the wrong place.

Glitches aren’t cheating. They’re using knowledge about the game’s internal workings. This is how the combo system that became the core of fighting games came about.

Maybe you could argue TAS (tool assisted speedrun), but I’ve always gathered thats more for proof of concept

And it’s probably worth mentioning that glitches still need to be fun. There have been speedrun scenes hurt because the most optimal method made the game less fun to play.

I feel like your last sentence is a pretty big problem that doesn’t require a “what else?”

We should be trying to make sports safer for the people being exploited, not less.

Because those hormones are also involved with making people want to do those things. Just because you associate them specifically with fight/fuck doesn’t mean thats all they do. “humanity” is heavily tied to those hormones.

Like i’ve been stressing for this entire discussion you’re hyperfocused on two things for a subject that is far more multifaceted than that.

We’d die out. It’s clearly a question that’s hyperfocused on the worst aspects of it.

…Nobody would exist, those hormones are what allowed humanity to survive and reproduce long enough to ask this question.

As crude as those things are when you look at the worst parts of humanity, they’re necessary.

I don’t get why people think this is an issue. armed Americans are generally shown going against incompetent, untrained police officers. Not the Military who is also just armed better than Americans are legally allowed to be.

Most gun law defenders also tend to overlook this too in fact. If the government wants to make armed citizens stop, they will do it.

…Do you…do you want there to be a correlation with “not supporting genocide” and "antisemitism?

Because if not, I don’t see why there is any issue with protecting the jewish sites. They should not have to suffer because of people who are falsely correlating the two.

I said that in a confusing manner, but basically: There’s a good chance people are using the war as an excuse to perform antisemitic acts. Just because we don’t associate with those acts doesn’t mean they aren’t going to happen, and we should still be encouraging those acts be prevented.

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.

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.

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.

…?

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.

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.

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.

Nobody said they were.

edit: okay crazy people on a lemmygrad site said they were. But that page that guy linked looked about as nice as a 4chan site…

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.

I don’t think anyone was able to spin why this would be a good idea when it was first announced.