I can’t speak to the specifics of it, but Bedrock and Java editions are functionally entirely different games. They’re designed to function nearly the same, but under the hood, the only real similarities are in the graphical assets. Past the user interaction, they’re not really comparable at all.

Since OpenNIC resolvers are user-run, doesn’t that mean a bad actor could theoretically pop up at any time and log any request that goes through them?

Gallery-dl is another option.

Dorsey was on a tear yesterday, unfollowing all but three accounts on X while referring to Elon Musk’s platform as “freedom technology.”

Ah, I see. He went insane.

I recommend you learn how to make an argument that actually suits the context before commenting on the media literacy of others.

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The problem is, that doesn’t make sense for digital media. A large part of resales is media degradation. You pay less, but you take a risk upon yourself for it. Being able to refund a game that isn’t for you seems fair, though.

Plays include tone from the actors. Similarly, books include tone from context. One sentence does not.

This isn’t a Windows thing, it’s a firmware thing. It’s HP’s doing, and HP is well known for screwing with the usability of their devices. In my case, on my Victus, it’s F10 that opens UEFI, but the menus are incredibly stripped down. Looking online, F10 seems to be the key to access it on your device, too. Maybe you just aren’t getting the timing right, sometimes you gotta mash the absolute hell out of that button to get it to register. Once you do get it, setting a post delay will make it easier in the future.

They’ve been talking to Tencent, I’m gonna stick with “no.”

Their online tech support these days is no better. Just a maze of dead links and broken, 503-ing pages.

HP anything is a bad investment. I bought a HP gaming computer because it was on clearance for less than it’s graphics card alone, and learned that they lock the bios down to the simplest, most useless options.

It strikes me that this attitude might carry more weight if it came from a company with a better library… I mean, they have a handful of good games, most of which are quite old, and otherwise, mostly act like a cheap sequel machine.

Arguably a positive in cases like this.

Hrm… Ya know, you’d think the extensions would move off of GitHub after everything…

the fangame runs on nintendo licensed hardware using nintendo licensed SDKs.

Legally shouldn’t have ever been their problem. If I, without any permission, ported Mario 64 to the Xbox, it would make zero sense for Microsoft to raise issue with Nintendo over it.

A lot of fangames that mod valve games don’t use any steam tools and Valve is still completely fine with the mods.

Statement’s a little incongruous: I would take a fangame that mods Valve games to mean something like a Sonic game built on the Source engine. Regardless, I’m pretty sure I get your intended meaning, and the fact is, there really aren’t that many to reference. I can only think of two notable ones off the top of my head, both of which are flash games, and both of which Valve ultimately did profit off of. After digging for a short while, I came up with two others, one being a short celebration of the series made for it’s 25th anniversary by a very well-known fan site, and the other being an obscure Unreal Engine project. The only other thing I can think of that might apply is Xash, which they definitely aren’t fine with, they just don’t have the legal standing to get rid of it without legally endangering every third-party tool made for their games.

So Valve takes down any project related to their IPs that isn’t made utilizing their tools and done in a way they like and/or can profit from?

How is that different from Nintendo with things like Mario Maker?

Ya know what? I hope they do it. That many rich assholes with more ambition than brains in one place? It’ll burn from the inside.

Damn, I don’t remember that part at all.

GOOD.

Most people don’t understand and are put off by the concept of federation and the difficulties that can come with it.

You have to find a suitable instance. Many instances are specialized, require applications, or simply don’t allow new users at all. I myself have yet to find a well-suited instance, and instead, I’m on an instance where discovery of my content is impossible.

With Twitter, if someone shares their profile, it’s two clicks to follow them. With the fediverse, you have to get their profile, then manually search for it on your own instance. In some cases, this doesn’t work reliably due to federation errors.

Its possible you’ll find yourself in the off-putting position of being unable to follow some people you’d like due to instances being defederated. This can make the process of finding an instance harder, or for people who are unfamiliar with the concept, result in them declaring the whole thing broken and moving away.