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Honestly, one of the things that’s stopping me, is the lack of knowledge about the lore. Between all the worlds, timelines, deities, there’s just so much. It’s fleshed out, but very daunting.
Some people like to rag onto Canonicals bad decisions. These include:
- Putting ads in the terminal
- Use of Affiliate links in the DE
- The forceful use of Snap
- The proprietary Snap infrastructure
- The feeling of being abandoned, in favour of the server market (lack of desktop innovation)
- Lens search, that allows company (eg: Amazon) tracking.
- Anti-privacy settings enabled, by default.
If anything, they’re worse.
- Brave is an advertising company, that blocks everyone, but them. Forcing over people and companies into their system.
- They’re heavily in the blockchain ecosystem, with their own worthless crypto.
- They take from open source projects (uBlock, Chromium, etc), but threaten legal action when someone forks them.
- They install bloat/spyware on your Windows system (later claimed it was a mistake).
- Brave, and its CEO is right-wing, lobbying against things like same-sex marriage.
I could go on.
It applies to most business.
- You give a positive face to the market you’re in (Game Pass, Phil Spencer, pro-dev vibe, etc).
- You buy chunks of the market (Activ-Bliz-King is a massive chunk), while saying it’s good for the industry.
- You squeeze the company of its IP, while bleeding the market dry of money. All of which kills, or at least hurts that market.
Right now, Micro$oft is in the Extend phase.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Yeah, YT is the last holdout for me. It’s literally the only Google service I willingly sign up for. I’ve tried Piped/Invidious, but they don’t match YTs quality.
any technical solution short of DRM is provably impractical and unworkable.
Don’t give them ideas.
I heard about this several years back, and lost all hype when I heard its based on Fallout 4. Now after seeing this… alright, I’m on board. Just… please… let me shoot a certain PM, responsible for Brexit. Give him the Gary treatment, so I can do it over, and over, and over, again… oh god, he’ll be one of the faction leaders, won’t he? The Nat-C (National Conservatives) party will be the radroaches of the game.