Isn’t that largely just the case for competitive games?

And they’ll keep being the de-facto option if you just keep accepting that they are. In the end, Adobe software and their alternatives are often similar enough that transitioning from one to the other isn’t difficult.

Or better yet, just don’t use Adobe products. Staying in their ecosystem is how they end up getting money anyways if that’s what you know how to use.

I think the thing that’s really getting to me (and probably a few other people too) is the image above. Taken at face value, someone in a wheelchair, seemingly in the role of an adventurer. Well-dressed and can afford a wheelchair, with magic, seems like they could probably have gotten that healed if it were just a normal injury. Healed or otherwise resolved in whatever other manner.

Not to mention, the context certainly does matter and can make inclusions come off as preachy.

It really makes their tests for the higher bit rate “1080p Premium” quality just seem like reducing the current 1080p and locking out the one we already had.

On the other hand though, it’s Valve so they won’t get to 3.

And then getting caught by said worms and being cocooned as you desperately try to break free.

I don’t think they’ll resort to that because that would mean getting rid of their own source of income. YouTube may not be getting ad revenue, but they still collect data and that’s where the real value is.

Something that people miss though is that they do hit some roadblocks that if not for some extremely lucky coincidences, they wouldn’t have any way to do it. Specifically for various materials that just so happen to be around them.

They DO implement all the mobs every time.

No, they don’t? Oh. You mean the modders. Then yes, yes they do.

But I wouldn’t go as far as to say Mojang is lazy.

If not lazy, I’d call them maliciously incompetent. Any modder can put out all three mobs in an afternoon. There’s a bit of a greater expectation for a multibillion dollar company making hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

It’s literally drumming up as much engagement as possible for the least amount of work you can get. How could you not call that “lazy?” What else would you call it?

You say that as if we don’t want other people to enjoy the game that’s there. It’s not a difficult thing to sympathize that these mob votes are a needlessly frustrating thing.

It’s an arms race. They block adblockers, adblockers block the anti-adblocks. It breaks for maybe like a few hours before it’s circumvented.

I’m fairly certain it’s been the same number of hoops to get there. Same with actually trying to buy it specifically.

But yeah, its so sequestered away that honestly, I’d probably just outright pirate it if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s readily available on release and I’m familiar with the methodology of it.

I believe it’s just a depiction of it. Looking around some other similar pictures, there were some images where it showed all “space debris” larger than 1cm as like a white dot. So, it’s not quite the level of fields of metal floating around out there.

Amazon’s Music service, while it takes some hoops to jump through, actually does let you download music. Though I don’t know if that’s a general policy or on a per music/per artist basis.

That’s seldom the case on sites like PornHub these days.

Governments can barely figure that out,

Governments aren’t exactly known for efficiency. A corporation is less likely to bogged down by just the mere fallacy that “other entities can’t figure it out, why should they do it?”

I don’t think that you can make a person into a pedophile, any more than you can make a person gay.

If you really think about it, we’ve seen arguments like that before. That pornography creates rapists. That violent video games creates murderers. And that’s just strictly on the consumption of media.

Stardew Valley may have not implemented any DRM to check for ownership.