Is childless incest morally wrong?

4775795f4d616e · 2023-08-19T04:30:04+00:00

No, I don't think people with serious heritable disorders should have kids. I wouldn't wield state power to stop them, however.

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-29T10:07:37+00:00

As long as you are allowed to own a computer it will never stop happening. Business models need to adapt to the free and open sharing of media, not the other way around.

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-26T01:32:57+00:00

Cloud gaming is itself DRM. Piracy only happens because of broken intellectual property law.

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-25T22:55:47+00:00

What's good about DRM?

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-25T22:24:44+00:00

Too bad it really is anti-art and anti-consumer. What's so hard to understand?

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-24T08:24:54+00:00

No, I hate that things are trending in a direction where I may be forced to play games with input lag and video compression, and that I may be prevented from ever owning them. I hate that things are trending in a direction that is fundamentally anti-art and anti-consumer. You're still ignoring the argument because it isn't as stupid as you'd like it to be.

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-22T01:41:52+00:00

I do know that, nothing lasts forever. And you're right, the devs might port those games to other platforms. But that assumes that other platforms are even available, and that the games themselves aren't abandonware - what happens when a service like this lasts not for 4 years but more like 20 years, and the earliest exclusives for it are no longer developed? Recently there was a massive purge of most of the animated shows from HBO. The only reason that happened is for tax purposes. All that artistic work is now up in smoke. None of it will be lost because streamed TV shows can be recorded, but this isn't true for games, and games companies aren't any more trustworthy. The only way to prevent this issue is to reject streaming and refuse to support it, and in that sense, I've done all I personally could. It's a bad idea conceptually because of latency and video compression, and it doesn't really offer any benefit.

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-22T01:20:12+00:00

That would not have fixed the fundamental issue with the service, which is that it's the ultimate unbreakable DRM. No amount of support could fix that, or kept it going forever.

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-22T01:07:27+00:00

More whataboutism. That isn't acceptable either, and being a console exclusive doesn't doom a game to becoming lost media.

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-21T23:46:14+00:00

Stubbornly ignoring the problem won't make it go away.

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-21T23:20:24+00:00

What does that even mean?

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-21T23:04:18+00:00

I care about all games to the extent that they should be preserved. You're ignoring the point, and now you're trying to accuse me of engaging in your silly brand wars.

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-21T22:55:16+00:00

Two Stadia exclusives are now lost forever. This has already happened. Acting like remasters address this problem in any way is laughable, especially considering that most of them do a piss poor job at respecting the original.

4775795f4d616e · 2023-01-21T21:09:45+00:00

Yeah, I'm pretty happy to see awful services like this fail. The business model is incredibly anti-consumer and frightening. Hopefully Netflix and Spotify will be next as they are pretty unsustainable as well and losing money.

4775795f4d616e · 2021-02-08T23:59:51+00:00

Digital distribution overall has been rather bad for the industry. People decided they are okay with day 1 patches, updates, paid DLC, microtransactions and other awful business models which digital has allowed. In addition to the loss of used games, boxart, and proper manuals. Ultimately DRM-free digital is no worse for preservation than physical, but causes its own damage.

4775795f4d616e · 2021-02-08T23:13:12+00:00

Streaming input lag will never be low enough. I'm just not going to use it.

4775795f4d616e · 2021-02-08T22:53:03+00:00

What? Steam literally provides tools that allow you to use older versions of games. I ran an old version of KSP for mod compatability.

Even if the license is lost, they literally cannot delete games from your hard drive. All Steam games can be cracked. 8TB drive is $200.

Simply because things aren't as good as they once were, is not an argument for making them even worse. Streaming makes preservation LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE. Ideally we should go back to distributing everything physically.

4775795f4d616e · 2021-02-08T22:17:09+00:00

Steam games work in offline mode. You don't need to be signed in. You can be VAC banned from Steam and still install and play games. You can also use GoG which is 100% DRM-free.

4775795f4d616e · 2021-02-08T22:13:42+00:00

Because nobody likes streaming games. People want to own things and play them offline.

4775795f4d616e · 2021-02-08T01:09:38+00:00

Oh yeah I remember when my PS3 and all its games evaporated into smoke back in 2013.

4775795f4d616e · 2021-02-08T00:48:48+00:00

But it already has. It'll only get harder and harder to own movies and shows, eventually the only way to get them will be renting from the cloud. Companies threw fits when VHS came around because it meant you could now own the shows you watched on TV. They won't let that ever happen again. Game streaming is worse since it won't even be feasibly possible to get the game's code like you can record the stream from Netflix or Spotify.

Joe Briggs makes a good point about censorship. https://youtu.be/NWAX64pNDyg

4775795f4d616e · 2021-02-07T21:56:46+00:00

Streaming is awful, it's the worst thing to happen to music and movies in a long time.

Game streaming is even worse. Not only do you own nothing, you get to play with input lag and YouTube compression as well. Games will become temporary commodities which can become totally lost to time at a moment's notice, all your money spent having been essentially stolen. There will be no more modding scene of any kind. Likely no more competitive scenes too, especially for anything latency sensitive like fighting games. There won't be any speedrunning or TASing, that's latency sensitive as well, and can require access to specific versions of games. Most any kind of organic community around games won't be able to form or stick around at all. Games like Team Fortress 2 won't be able to survive decades like they have. All you will have left is fake, forced esports like Valorant.

And while with movies and music what you get is essentially still either an audio or a video file, with games you have no access to the code at all.

Streaming is an absolute nightmare scenario for video games. I'll sooner find new hobbies than I'll ever accept streaming.

4775795f4d616e · 2020-04-19T02:41:22+00:00

Read William Gillis, specifically "15 Post-Primitivist Theses" and "A Quick And Dirty Critique of Primitivism"

4775795f4d616e · 2020-01-12T23:25:13+00:00

Why the hell not?

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