This is like saying “Easily available drugs from deep web is nothing new”, but after deep web protocol got integrated into the chrome with black market set as homepage

I understand your core argument, but it’s weak. Fentanyl exists for 70 years, but only in the last 10 or so years it became problematic due to availability

Evil shit that was hard to do 20 years ago, is slowly becoming accessible to every dumb jackass you know that doesn’t know what command prompt is

OS doesn’t need permissions to access hardware

You somehow missed the original argument. No one is forced to use the app store, which is what this is generally about.

Fair, but there is an argument to be made about how hosting things are now cheaper than ever, by a huge margin. When 1GB used to cost 1 dollar, they had 30% cut. Now when that’s 0.01 not 1, 100x the difference (while games have gotten like what, 10x bigger?), it’s still 30%.

But you know what is the most damning argument against their cut? Steam earns more money per employee than next 3 companies combined and Gabe is buying fleet of yachts and multiple submarines, not even getting into real estate, while indie devs are going broke one after another. That cut might make a major difference for devs, but at this point Gabe has already too much money and won’t suffer from having less of it, which is really not consumer or developer friendly thing to do, basically hoarding riches like other billionaires

You’re not really buying the code, you’re buying userbase, rights and patents (if any)

Why does he eerily, slightly look like musk in that picturr

Israel is like a city in US. They have 10 million population. They are local, not global players.

I fully expected you to say Xi

I was talking about CGI. Video editors and special effects, not actors. The editing part. You know - software?

Just to give you an example, some 15 years ago I tracked and positioned objects in footage frame by frame, which used to take a lot of time. Then Mocha came along with AI tools that automate it all, and now instead of spending 10 hours, I spend 10 minutes on a scene

Why would they change? The AI tools in movie industry have been doing miracles for decades. Especially when it comes to tracking and replacing things in footage, which jumpstarted the new era of CGI. OP, do you also want to ban movies like Avatar?

I’m genuinely not aware of a single country that takes vehicle volume into road tax calculations, but that sounds like a damn great idea

Well I was mostly browsing deep web (/j just in case)

(by Masego) Mystery lady in my ass

They cost next to nothing to package and distribute (or are distributed digitally.)

Steam takes 30% cut. This, of course, does not apply to nintendo, but still

Seriously, I’ve been dreaming about world-scale videogame (world generates as you explore based on every useful satellite data we have) where you can just drive around.

Flight simulator comes close, but it’s flying.

I feel like nearly all russian porn I’ve seen consists of something unconsentual, like deep web of porn

That would make some sense if not for overwhelming proof of evolution of both, animals and nature that started out with pretty much nothing

Kenshi. There is really not a single game out there that I can really compare it to and they have a very strong community, showing the game has a high replayability value

Interesting how the AI flop made the first guy hold his hair

I’m genuinely not aware of most things you mentioned, but to be fair I live in east Europe and my head is full with Russian invasion right now

I actually can’t tell you which one is worse if someone asked me that question. Israel is definitely trying to make nazis proud, but at least they would not personally execute my whole family just because I’m not a muslim who listens to music.

One personally wants to kill me, other one is doing the killings already

While they’re victims, obviously everyone including me leans towards giving Hamas benefit of doubt, but I feel like if roles would be reversed, you’d see a genocide on the levels not redditors could even defend it

Note that I’m not talking about Palestinians, but Hamas, which is a different breed