Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
When it comes to games, I have no guilt anymore. I enjoy some games and despise others. I think the only one that comes to mind for this category is E.V.O. The Search For Eden (SNES). I prefer it with a patch to improve the translation.
Okay. Are they going to do the same thing they’re doing in Android now? Are we going to need to use ADB to install software without their consent?
I don’t know how old you are, so I’ll just have to state my experience here. I’ll liken it to television, because with the way Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc., have become some of the most visited sites on the Internet, it’s likely that people are using a lot of these devices like TVs.
Commercials have been part of TV since the beginning. First it was sponsorships (if you watch old shows, you’ll find sponsor segments not dissimilar to modern YouTube), then slowly we transitioned into commercial breaks. Then we started doing both - product placements being the biggest ones, but also some shows that still had sponsors. Game shows and news shows are notable for this. If you wanted to avoid commercials, you either timeshifted (VCR, DVR, etc), or you watched PBS - except that PBS has not only their begathons, but for the last 30 years has had what amount to sponsorships and commercials between programs.
And when you got the opportunity to pay for TV, cable first was educational and ad-free. Now, there’s just as many commercials, and you’re paying for it monthly.
Radio was the same way as TV. Dragnet was sponsored by a cigarette company, Sherlock Holmes by a winemaker. And then there were ad spots. If you listen to terrestrial radio still, you’ll find commercials. I don’t know if any of the satellite providers have started running ads, but I wouldn’t be shocked.
Newspapers before that were ad-filled too. You bought the newspaper knowing that fact. Comic books had (and have!) ads. Magazines are another ad vector.
We’ve been bombarded by ads for so long as a part of media that they blend into the background. And for my own self, yes, the commercials are annoying and I have always pirated or timeshifted to avoid them across all media, but I don’t really feel the same level of hate that I do for the tracking and privacy concerns. People don’t object to advertisements - look at QVC and HSN. What we need to do is shift the conversation away from “ad blocking” over to “privacy protection”.
Why would you buy such a device, or continue using it now that you know better?
Money. The economy is tight right now, and many people don’t have the money to change devices because of what, sadly, amounts to a single flaw. If it does 99% of what you need/want, many people are willing to trade off what they see as the 1% they don’t like.
I’m not disagreeing with you, I’m just making sure you and others understand that this isn’t a question without a good answer. I would be happier with devices that are more under my control, but money is the main limiting factor.
Can’t wait until it becomes a 120-month phone lifespan, or people not being willing to upgrade plans and look at budget providers instead.
9/12 was a day of forcing ourselves to live. That’s what she’s doing here. Living.
Threshold officially never happened. They never passed Warp 10.
Sub Rosa, it wasn’t a ghost.
What implications? That Spock, Sela, B’elanna Torres-Paris, Miral Paris, K’Ehlyr, Alexander Rozhenko, and the one Klingon-Romulan colony exist? We’re all related here on Earth too. The ones you should worry about are the ones who created the planet “Miri” happened on.
The only buffer I have is the buffer on a transwarp probe.
Not nearly as much as my wife, admittedly - she’s a scientist and I’m not. But there’s been a few small things.
Trek isn’t amazingly bad, but it’s definitely got low points.
Transformers. Is “energon” a crystal, a liquid, or something more nebulous? Are Primus and Unicron one being? Did the Quintessons create the Transformers? Where do the Go-Bots fit in?
And don’t get me started on the Allspark vs. Vector Sigma…
The comic might be better for that, when it gets away from the show.
Good. There should never be one company hosting half the Internet. If your site goes down when Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, and Google are gone, you don’t have your own website - you’re just making money for a megacorp.
If the guards coming in aren’t just backup for me, they had better have class levels or they’re gonna have issues with the traps.
So your new tactic is the same as the Acrobat from AD&D? Congrats on rediscovering what existed thirty years ago.
The easier way is to do it in your browser.
I would normally say ‘may’, as in ‘must be able to’, especially since the classical senses are a little wonky anyway.
Literally Rachel’s vibe.