I mean that might be true, but those key reseller sites are also often grey-market. Sometimes they are legit, but sometimes they resell keys they bought with stolen credit cards etc.

I personally wouldn't buy from a site that I couldn't easily verify is legit (steam, gog, hb, etc)

Multiple indie developers I've seen (wube who makes factorio has been very vocal about it) have complained about losing significant amounts of money from grey/black market keys since they end up being on the hook for fees when people do credit card chargebacks.

Facts, it's a disgrace to the league to make it a blanket ban in order to cuddle the few homophobes

How likely do we think this is to be the interop format that the big name messaging apps use to support that EU regulation to allow cross app messaging?

As a programmer, the biggest problem I have with crypto is that it adds an (I believe) unnecessary pressure on either compute (for proof of work) or storage (for proof of stake) prices for everyone else in the world, for what is seemingly not a huge gain.

Proof of work in particular is awful, because one of the biggest problems that we actually have in the real world is global warming and adding a financial incentive to using more power is exactly the wrong direction we need to be going in. I realize that a lot of crypto is moving away from proof of work, but it's still there.

Inquisition was a downturn from DA2 but it was nowhere near as bad as Andromeda or Anthem. Dragon Age was the property they had that they hadn't messed up yet, so if Dreadwolf is bad then we're down to 0.

That's true for sure, but that doesn't mean that it's valve didn't do an absolute fuckload of work to get proton to be actually functional.

Getting direct3d and vulkan working with actually useful performance was the turning point for Wine being useful for games in addition to just standard applications.

They definitely spent an ass-load of money on that and the fact that Wine was around for 25 years before that just goes to show that no one else was willing to do that.

I don't think you need mono. Net 7 can complete for Linux natively.

No, I don't particularly want to imagine that, thank you.

I really like this write-up, especially because it goes in depth into the slow transition from "this isn't something that people should emulate" to "even showing that this exists is encouragement for people to recreate it"

That's a super harmful viewpoint in every respect, but especially in sexual contexts.

I mean yeah of course. That character is actually a 9000-year old vampire, not a child

/s

My counterpoint to yours: YouTube Premium is not available in all countries.

Beyond that, I personally used YouTube Red for years until they killed Google Play Music. I was an avid user of GPM, had several playlists and radios tuned there, and when they announced the move to YT Music, I was hesitant but gave them until literally the last minute to add the features from GPM that didn't exist on YTM, but they never did.

I cancelled my YouTube Red subscription the day that the GPM app on my phone said it wouldn't work again, and on that day I swore I'd never pay YT another penny directly.

I would put money on that not happening at all. The suite of changes this time are exceptionally broad and seem 100% targeted at public investment. They can't back-down on deciding to go public, and they can't really go public with some of these things in place.