‘The unborn’ are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn." [Methodist Pastor David Barnhart]

Yep, absolutely!

IMO the purpose of age verification is to legalise social media companies data collection before they get in hot water over it.

That’s why Meta has been spending millions on lobbying for age verification.

Good old Gerald :D

This is a fan remake. The original shut down 9 years ago.

LMDE would indeed be a bad recommendation for a newbie. Regular Mint benefits from Ubuntus better hardware support, GUIs for drivers/updates, PPA support and if you have AMD graphics it’s not a newbie nightmare to get the most up to date Mesa.

It’s a perpetual license for your copy of the game. That’s why it’s a license because otherwise you would be buying the game, not just a copy.

It’s just like buying music on CD. You’re only buying a licensed copy.

The big question with this stuff is what would happen if Bungie or any other ‘live-service’ game company were taken to court over their licensing. Bungie has no subscription, everything is a one time purchase and there is no expiration date for the software license sold. In theory they should get destroyed in court but ehhh… capitalism, so who knows.

Here’s a great video from the guy that started Stop Killing Games that explains it better than me.

I have many things I’d like to say about the Pope and The Catholic Church. But Stephen Fry says it better.

How could Balatro be seen as gambling? It’s a game you purchase once with no DLC or microtransactions and there’s no gambling in the game.

The idiot MBAs running companies think that piracy is lost sales and they probably got bamboozled by a Denuvo salesman’s pitch.

DenuvOwO

lmao

Depends what you mean by playable.

Take Forza Horizon 4 for example. I think many people who have played that would consider the ability to collect all the cars a requirement for it to remain in a playable state. If you run it in offline mode though you can’t access the Forzathon shop, Backstage pass and weekly seasonal events that you need to buy many of them.

None that I could tell, I was just giving you the link ;)

https://lemmy.nz/post/37532081

the exact same comments

Huh?

If we assume that PC gamers on average build a new PC every 5 years then each year 20% will build a new PC meaning over 2 years 40% will build a new PC therefore 60% not building one in 2 years is exactly as expected.

I don’t think so. It’s been around for a while but was unmaintained for a bit so it wasn’t compatible with Plasma 6. That’s why it was removed from the Debian repositories. It’s just been a case of someone who wanted to maintain it coming along. AFAIK it’s mainly aimed at Smart TVs.

Yup, it disappeared from Debian repositories in 13/Trixie.

FYI this won’t be out until June.

https://theonion.info/