Preventing this oscillation between governments in power is a strong argument in favour of proportional representation. I would far rather have slow shifts in minority governments where we can actually plan and accomplish infrastructure projects instead of this wild “we abandon what the last government didn’t have time to complete” seesaw.

Honestly, I stopped pirating games decades ago. I just have no desire to install rootkits for games I’ve purchased.

So long as they’re free range humans. Oh, and grain fed.

On one hand, the Duras Sisters disprove your point. Then again, “You have manipulated the circumstances with the skill of a Romulan.” Yeeeeaaaahhh… Point taken.

My Steam Deck convinced me to try Linux (Debian) a try for desktop gaming. So long as you install the latest GPU drivers, it’s smooth as butter. I guess what I’m saying is Linux for everything at this point… for those capable of installing drivers from the CLI.

If Denuvo has no negative impact on sales, what’s the need for their recent PR campaign to “rehabilitate their image”? https://feddit.nl/post/22918778

Denuvo is a deal-breaker for me.

And I can refund the game if I don’t like it. And I can see reviews of the game by those who have been vetted as having bought it.

Depends on how you get it. Consenting adults donating their own they can afford to lose? Vegan. Caged up toddlers that can’t consent? Not vegan.

Steam Deck support?

Don’t forget you can ignore publishers.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DenuvoGames/curation is also useful.

Dug up the paper in question for anyone curious: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216. At a cursory glance, I’m not seeing any of the referenced concerns. But, y’know, down vote away I guess.

Following the trail of your comment: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets does indeed cite https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216, but I’d love it if you could provide more details on your criticisms of methodology.

If the camera really does need to be that thick for lens reasons, couldn’t we at least make the rest of the body bigger with more battery?

Steam still lists Civ7 as requiring a third-party account and stays off my wishlist while it does.

Speaking of unhelpful, eurogamer.net is littered with ads. They add no value to the original Reddit post (https://old.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1emb4ch/valve_is_finally_addressing_bad_reviews_issue/).

Just hold off for now. They might take your money, shut it down, and mandate that you buy “Industrial Annihilation: Titans” for an extra $15.

Just copy/pasting something I wrote in another thread as it applies just as much here. https://lemmy.ca/comment/4835622