coffinwood @ coffinwood @discuss.tchncs.de

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BOTW is a beautiful game. But the complex controls and the fact that all weapons simply break would have had me sinking hours over hours into the game.

You *have * to try Blood and Wine. Simply put, it makes up for everything before it. The bright, warm, Southern France -inspired map, great quests, and finally a homestead.

Try Witcher with some QoL mods, like easier fast travel, auto harvesting, auto-applying of oils. Everything that lets you play the game instead of plucking flowers all day.

I'm not a mindless consumer (aka sheeple) for making a decision someone else doesn't approve of.

The alternatives to YouTube Premium are

• Ads: won't happen
• Ad-Block: won't work (anymore)
• no YouTube: there are no great free or cheaper alternatives

They compare platforms from time to time, mostly indirectly. Android gets a mention concerning OS version fragmentation.

That's it, for Apple the mere mention is already too much. Why would anyone want compatibility if they also just could buy an Apple product?

Also the reason why ipads and Vision don't support multiple users: not only should you buy an Apple product, but so do your partner, parents, kids, etc.

It's a service / product I value at a certain amount. That sounds like a bad thing?

Because they don't know the difference. People don't tend to use expressions or sayings wrong on purpose. Most never investigate the meanings or etymology, they're using them and are understood by the like-minded.

That's the point. You cost them money, because streaming is really expensive and skipping or blocking ads doesn't make money.

The moment I was presented with an ad-blocker notification by YouTube, I subscribed to Premium. I won't watch ads. If it gets too expensive I'll quit.

Hit it!

Haven't seen a video of any of these, did I really miss out?

They promise at least five years and everybody else first has to make their promise come true.

I remember Google killing off their 'Pixel Pass' even before any customer could take advantage of it. That'll be long 7 years.

Why not make it public domain? They're millionaires or even billionaires already anyway. And Queen also had essentially no new musical output since exactly the day Mercury died. All they did was grabbing every tape with Freddie's voice on it and sell it.

Shall we take a guess at who the poor fella will be that has to work night shifts only because some bourgeois shoppers can't be bothered with the fact that full shelves don't appear through magic?

As a fellow German I can rest you assured that not even we all can read her name correctly on first try. I had weaker Wi-Fi passwords.

No, too easy. I'd only accept bets on how much of what material is found - like "31 Terabytes of furry porn" or "452 illegal WW1 weapons".

Depends. Where I live even signed contracts can be deemed illegal in parts if a clause is still seen as unexpected or surprising for the customer.

If Google included a clause that states the customer loses a kidney to them, wouldn't make it legal just because it's written there.

I don't defend the situation, I get along with it. Is it not possible for some people to have an issue with a product and still be able to use it?

Launchers aren't perfect, not even Steam as the pack leader. But they're a **minor inconvenience **.

I haven't got a single game installed that uses nearly as few resources as all the launchers. Mass Effect LE alone is around 100 times bigger than Steam on my drive. That's not bloatware, that's a mini tool in comparison.

Curseforge/Overwolf takes less than 500 MB of RAM, when I launch Minecraft through it the game takes 20 times the amount.

Tell me where the problem is. If your computer can run and install the game it can do so with the launcher too. Some of us can deal with that even if it's not a perfect situation.

Good grief just read and reflect on the first sentence of my previous post.

I don't claim it's not an issue and yes I can ignore it perfectly.

Compared to what amount of resources most modern games require, a launcher or store app needs a tiny fraction of that. The issue is overblown IMHO.

I agree, launchers are one superfluous piece of software that require additional resources.

Steam takes half a gig of RAM. From my 32 gigs available.

Also around 1 or 1.5 gigs on my drive. Many games take 50 to 100 gigs.

It's a minor inconvenience. If one can't afford one gig for a launcher how would a game be installed anyway?