Completely off topic: Stockholm syndrome gets its name from a hostage situation where the police seemed to show no care or concern for the hostages' safety and the captors did more to protect them than law enforcement. Of course the hostages' felt more empathy towards their captors.
According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police were acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages' safety. This forced the hostages to negotiate for their lives and releases with the robbers on their own. In the process, the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than the police negotiators and subsequently developed a deep distrust towards the latter.[9] Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire, and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire.
He failed, and he's a young white guy with the experience of a millionaire trying to be "homeless" in a place that never experienced -20c temperatures.
While being followed by a film crew, given a place to stay for free by a fan, a positive background check for his office space, and investors who knew who he was.
But it's quite horrifying to see people around the world having been taught into thinking that everything should be "free"
Maybe the businesses shouldn't have created the expectation that everything was "free" then.
YouTube used to be 1 skippable ad at the start of the video. Now it's multiple unskippable ads throughout the video. If the 1 skippable ad wasn't a viable business model then they shouldn't have been pretending it was and then changing things later once people have gotten used to the "free" system.
They are still using it and costing YouTube money in aggregate
The poor company only making $31.5 Billion a year has to eat the streaming cost for someone using as ad blocker? Won't somebody PLEASE think of the billionaires?!
YouTube could easily avoid AdBlockers by simply having ad part of the video itself. Not pulling it from a different server, not hijacking your video player to prevent user controls, just part of the video like any other part of the video and AdBlockers would not be able to detect it. They're not going to do that though, because then users won't be forced to watch an ad they have no interest in.
Same way I used to pay for YouTube and currently pay for Podcasts: A small number of ads, at a designated spot, that I can skip through if I don't want to watch.
It would be trivial for youtube to stop adblockers by making the ads indistinguishable from the rest of the stream: Coming from the same source and behaving like the rest of the video (your controls don't get locked). But that doesn't grow their every increasing hoard of wealth fast enough. The product must be made worse for profits to grow more, and according to you I should be thanking them for decreasing the quality of their product for me. $30 billion is not enough! The company demands infinite growth in a closed system! (Or as biologists call it: cancer)
Why does it have to be more of the same shit that everyone hates now?
If everyone hated it it wouldn't sell. There's plenty of other things being made as well, I haven't played Sands of Time but I would guess the God of War reboot is a similar genre.
Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives a leased Chevrolet Bolt. He’s never been responsible for an accident....
Warner Bros. Discovery is telling developers it plans to start “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon. At least three games are under threat of being removed from Steam and other digital stores, with the fate of other games published by Adult Swim...
One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users' piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go "lolno, they probably would have been...
Video game piracy has led to more purchases from me, because I'll download a game to try on a whim that I wouldn't have purchased, find out that's it really good and buy it
Best way to get me to not pirate your game and buy it is to have a decent demo available. Against the Storm is a bizarre pitch (Rouge-lite City builder), but they had a good demo that allows unlimited play on the standard biome with a level cap. Was incredibly easy to try it and play enough to decide I like it.
During a visit to lobby legislators on transgender issues, Senator Carden Summers (R) knelt down and told a child he would protect her. When he learned she was trans, he backed away....
I would argue that for game purposes, having an E on your character sheet means "I like inter-party conflict so much I am willing to instigate it"
"Stupid Evil" is not a valid alignment anymore than "Lawful Stupid" Paladins. Decent players can role play a party with both Good and Evil characters in it without it constantly descending into bickering and threats of violence.
That all sounds reasonable, but you don't have to have Evil in your alignment for inter-party conflict. Some of the best story telling happens when different characters are trying to do the right thing, but disagree as to what that is.
Not caring if someone dies from your actions is the same as gleefully killing them.
Giving 100 gold to a beggar and donating your time and 10 000 gold to an orphanage are not the same thing, but the existence of the 2nd option doesn't make the first option neutral.
Good aligned characters aren't "forced" to help people if they have a reason not to. Nor are they "forbidden" from stealing. A single act does not determine an alignment and alignment isn't a cage restricting player autonomy.
In the end, the KIA car company made its cars into subscription models, I really hate this because in the end the car we buy with our own money doesn't feel like it belongs to us....
My car has remote lock and unlock on a FOB, no reason for an app and subscription.
I also get the feeling that the diagnostics are done on board by the car, it's just refusing to give you the information unless you're paying the sub.
That’s why it’s an additional subscription feature.
So why is it worth a subscription? You're defending it as something that is not a basic feature that validates the subscription, but asking what the feature actually provides is somehow a strawman?
I don't know what makes you think I wasn't asking, and I still don't understand what you think a strawman is, but thank you for actually answering the question.
Personally I can think of better uses for $150 a year then "I don't like having keys in my pocket/near the door" but I guess there's a reason we keep seeing more companies trying to profit off subscriptions...
I wouldn't use a definition that includes some kid prancing around race track pretending to be a horse. That's just kids being kids and politicians need to stop sexualizing them.
Tom Tyler, the interim town attorney, claimed at one point that if the the Pride flag was allowed to be flown, “ISIS could come in and want to display one, the IRA…basically anybody. You’d have to be content neutral and let everybody." He then went off-topic to accuse schools of trying to indoctrinate students with “transgender ideology.”
"This has nothing to do with it being a Pride flag! Now I'm going to go on a transphobic rant which, as I just said, has nothing to do with this!"
U.S. presidents cannot be prosecuted for selling pardons or assassinating political rivals through SEAL Team Six, personal Trump lawyer John Sauer argued Tuesday.
isnt it weird that trumps lawyers are going along with this...??
The only lawyers he can get are the ones stupid enough to work for Trump. Competent lawyers would require payment and for Trump to follow basic instructions like "don't threaten witnesses, the judge, or opposing council."
“He would have to be, and would speedily be, you know, impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution,” Sauer replied, setting a pre-condition for such prosecution in Pan’s hypothetical.
Meanwhile, Republicans didn't impeach him because "the courts should decide."
They don’t need wands. It’s a first level spell that can be cast as a ritual. 2 guards with at least 1 level in Wizard can always have detect magic active.
Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing ( www.techradar.com )
Windows is hell, i need to do something
Yo linux team, i would love some advice....
'Real men wear diapers': Trump supporters wear nappies ( news.sky.com )
Millionaire who made himself homeless and broke on purpose to prove he could make $1MILLION in 12 months for YouTube clicks QUITS his bizarre social experiment over health concerns ( www.dailymail.co.uk )
YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked ( arstechnica.com )
New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
Rogue-like Prince of Persia reportedly on the way from Dead Cells studio Evil Empire ( www.eurogamer.net )
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies ( www.nytimes.com )
Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives a leased Chevrolet Bolt. He’s never been responsible for an accident....
Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles ( www.polygon.com )
Warner Bros. Discovery is telling developers it plans to start “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon. At least three games are under threat of being removed from Steam and other digital stores, with the fate of other games published by Adult Swim...
Fox News guest decrying “migrant crime” previously arrested after getting violent over a grilled cheese sandwich he deemed too cheesy ( www.mediamatters.org )
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Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy ( arstechnica.com )
One thing that leaps out at me about this ruling is that courts understand the internet a lot better nowadays. A decade or so ago Sony would have probably gotten away with the argument that Cox profited from the users' piracy; nowadays judges themselves use the internet and are going to go "lolno, they probably would have been...
Georgia Senator Vows to Protect Girl, But Then Runs Away After Learning She Is Trans ( www.erininthemorning.com )
During a visit to lobby legislators on transgender issues, Senator Carden Summers (R) knelt down and told a child he would protect her. When he learned she was trans, he backed away....
GOP Congressman Says Dead Palestinian Babies Aren’t All That Innocent ( newrepublic.com )
Tasha's alignment ( startrek.website )
I hope someday we'll find a way to pirated a car ( lemmy.world )
In the end, the KIA car company made its cars into subscription models, I really hate this because in the end the car we buy with our own money doesn't feel like it belongs to us....
Oklahoma bill would require 'furries' be picked up from school by parents, animal control ( www.oklahoman.com )
Film studios demand IP addresses of people who discussed piracy on Reddit ( arstechnica.com )
Flying the Pride flag is a gateway to ISIS, a Connecticut official claims as town passes ban ( www.advocate.com )
A Connecticut town council voted to ban the LGBTQ+ pride flag in government buildings almost immediately after coming under Republican control....
Trump Attorney Tells Judges Presidential Immunity Would Even Cover Assassinating Rivals, Selling Pardons ( themessenger.com )
U.S. presidents cannot be prosecuted for selling pardons or assassinating political rivals through SEAL Team Six, personal Trump lawyer John Sauer argued Tuesday.
Joe Rogan Mistakenly Blasts Biden’s Mental Fitness Over Something Trump Actually Said ( variety.com )
Texas AG Threatens Seattle Hospital With Jail Unless It Provides Trans Patient Data ( www.erininthemorning.com )
“We’re gonna need a bigger jail” 🤦
Okay this is annoyingly clever ( lemmy.world )