There weren open test servers though and sites with limited trials but no data limit.

That’s what I used back in the day. Sadly all these trial offers are gone now and demand credit card information upfront.

Just the mention of third parties will make liberals seethe and already blame you for the next lost election.

It’s a shame Usenet has become fully paid. It’s what ultimately pushed me into torrents. And the fact that small communities don’t have all the content out there for you to download via Usenet.

Don’t gotta celebrate. But fighting fire with fire is the only way.

Can’t wait for the big corpos to cry about how selling an actually good game for a fair price is bad and something that customers can’t expect.

Which country are Kagi servers hosted in?

Surely that means they’ll allow more apps onto their own app store with that, right? Right?

I know it’s an opinion piece but why lie. The author says salaries are the biggest cost driver. That is simply not true if you look at the marketing budget of any big game.

Also games should not be made quicker, they should be made slower. Quickly made games leads us to the slop of recent years. Games that are being baked for a dozen years however are of a higher quality, it’s like the good old days. Just because the industry says games should be quicker does not make that statement right.

Neutral is very generous for a nazi and pedophile forum.

I’m not scared of AI ever becoming sentient and acting on it’s own. If it decides to end humanity then I don’t have a problem with going out that way. Saves me the trouble choosing how to do it myself.

What is scary is AI becoming more competent and being used by corporations and governments, not just to kill, but to surveil, oppress and torture more efficiently.

We can’t just mass execute the people who voted Trump into office.

Why not? Obviously you can’t execute tens of millions of voters. But you could execute party members and those who were active during his presidencies and other supporters within or without the party.

That’s the whole issue with how radical is used as a negative term, even slur, by media and establishment politics.

Even nowadays media and “experts” are warning that the youth radicalising is bad.

The truth is, radicalism itself isn’t bad. Quite the opposite. It’s only bad when it falls on the right side of the political spectrum, i.e. fascism or religious radicalism like Christian nationalism or Islamism.

This concept doesn’t apply here. Democrats aren’t on the left. Liberals are not a part of leftist infighting or lack thereof.

That is exactly why I don’t understand why they have an issue with it.

They do not know if someone is using the store to buy porn games. So why care? Their concern should be profit, not national driven policies.

Not a fan of porn games (which aren’t available here anyway), but that is not a good sign.

Why would they even cater to payment providers? They should not be able to determine whether you bought a porn game or a regular game, just that it’s something on Steam.