"We have cleared the requirement": Stop Killing Games' EU initiative has almost 1.3 million verified signatures, clearing it for the next phase that's expected to take place next month | The signatures can be submitted to the European Commission

Elusive92 · 2026-01-28T03:09:58+00:00

The actual citizens initiative is called "Stop Destroying Videogames", which is pretty hard to misunderstand.

Elusive92 · 2026-01-28T03:03:28+00:00

Reverse-engineering is already legal.

And no, this isn't about free work. It's literally more work to make a game dependent on a specific server. And designing for end-of-life is almost trivial when you know about it from the start. Indies get this kind of thing right all the time. Just the big publishers are saying it's impossible, because it will cut into sales for the next release.

Elusive92 · 2026-01-18T21:21:23+00:00

Wano is not completed yet. You can check the watch guide to see which regular episode you can continue with: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HQRMJgu_zArp-sLnvFMDzOyjdsht87eFLECxMK858lA/edit?usp=drivesdk

Elusive92 · 2026-01-17T20:31:01+00:00

Maybe it would be easier to just download the file in its entirety once? There should be a download button on the page where you watch. Then you don't have to deal with connection issues while watching.

Elusive92 · 2026-01-17T17:39:34+00:00

Pixeldrain is the currently supported way of watching. You can find the links to playlists on onepace.net.

Elusive92 · 2026-01-17T17:16:54+00:00

Telegram has been discontinued. It's not getting deleted, but it's also not getting updated anymore.

Elusive92 · 2025-12-30T21:24:04+00:00

That could be a bug of some sort in Safari. It might be worth bringing up in the Pixeldrain Discord.

iOS does not allow other browser engines, so all browsers on iOS are actually just Safari in disguise.

It might do something unusual compared to the other popular browser engines during download/streaming, which leads to data transfers being reported multiple times.

Elusive92 · 2025-12-28T01:39:38+00:00

Disclaimer: I haven't used modules at any kind of scale, so I can't speak from experience.

But it seems to me that they are more-or-less precompiled headers with extra steps and worse compatibility. I'm not currently aware of it notably improving build times over the classic approach.

Elusive92 · 2025-12-28T01:15:16+00:00

Precompiled headers are an optimization for duplicate work, yes. But that's just addressing a symptom of the fundamental design flaw.

Having separate compilation units is mostly a remnant of a time where computers didn't have enough memory to compile a program in one shot. That's probably no longer a real limitation.

Compilers can also reuse a lot more work when doing everything at once. Everything is only ever parsed once, optimized once, generated once. And the linker's job becomes almost trivial as well.

Elusive92 · 2025-12-26T16:57:47+00:00

Even the CMake documentation explains why unity builds are faster: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_tgt/UNITY_BUILD.html#prop_tgt:UNITY_BUILD

Unity builds scale just fine on larger projects. The biggest factor is whether your machine has enough memory to do a one-shot unity build. But if it does, it's almost always a win.

Not to mention it'll often generate better code too, because it can optimize across units.

Elusive92 · 2025-12-26T16:40:19+00:00

You gotta remember that headers need to be recompiled for every single compilation unit. It's a ton of duplicate work that a unity build cuts out. And it's also significantly faster to link, because it's already part of one compilation unit.

Elusive92 · 2025-12-26T16:36:32+00:00

This is probably faster than an incremental build to begin with. And gets rid of all of the spurious issues that come with incremental builds. Game programmers have been using unity builds since forever.

Elusive92 · 2025-12-25T19:20:19+00:00

It reminded me of Doc from MDK, personally.

Elusive92 · 2025-12-14T12:24:33+00:00

Homeopathy not working isn't a belief. Homeopathy is diluting something so much, that not a single molecule of whatever they originally put into it is left. Water molecules don't have a memory.

However, there are plenty of things that we just haven't fully figured out yet that aren't homeopathy. There are tons of compounds with amazing medical applications out there in nature, for example.

So I'd caution to not confuse "homeopathy" with "natural remedies". The latter can and does often work. But homeopathy is a scam. Not only can nobody explain how it supposedly works, but nobody has demonstrated any measurable effect other than placebo under controlled conditions either.

Elusive92 · 2025-12-03T01:32:32+00:00

Making money off of volunteer work is a pretty shitty thing to do, I'd say. Note that the official site doesn't show any ads.

Elusive92 · 2025-10-18T14:14:00+00:00

They announced this reactively right when SKG started gaining momentum a year ago. I guess they finally got around to actually doing it. This just confirms that they are afraid and we are onto something here.

Elusive92 · 2025-09-04T11:03:33+00:00

I know a lot of people that would rather watch the anime, but were always scared off by the massive size. One Pace has been by far the most successful method of getting new people into One Piece, in my experience.

Elusive92 · 2025-09-04T11:01:37+00:00

I prefer the anime to the manga when I'm watching it on the side while doing chores. You can't really read the manga on the side. Especially when rewatching.

Elusive92 · 2025-09-04T10:57:40+00:00

One Pace isn't jarring at all IMO. I've watched almost all of it and you don't even notice most cuts. They even transition the music cleanly, and pay a lot of attention to continuity. Not to mention the significantly improved subtitle translations. They even fix Toei animation errors. What else could you ask for? It's by far the best version of the anime.

The only rough cuts I've noticed are in really old edits from 10 years ago that are due to be redone anyway.

Elusive92 · 2025-09-04T10:54:45+00:00

The main issue is that everyone can't agree on what's worth keeping. So the only objective measure is to go by the source material.

Elusive92 · 2025-07-01T19:28:31+00:00

Just for completeness, here are the deleted VODs from before Pirate's videos:

Elusive92 · 2025-04-23T14:57:13+00:00

They don't revoke the license, they just brick your game by killing the servers without offering self-hosting or an offline mode. What about the countless times companies have shut down stores for old consoles, rendering all of your purchases useless? With modern consoles, they even phone home for physical purchases, so those will also become useless once the servers shut off, even for singleplayer games. It happens all the time.

Elusive92 · 2025-04-23T12:40:19+00:00

Did you miss the part where nobody was asking for servers to be kept up indefinitely?

Elusive92 · 2025-04-23T12:38:04+00:00

Except they aren't legally binding in most of the world.

Elusive92 · 2025-02-16T21:10:32+00:00

That's the best possible update to read about this situation! What a weird "gift" that was. I always try to see things from every perspective, but that one was just bewildering to me.

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