"But it also falls under the overbroad definition that PaulT stated as a generally desirable principle."
I said that a private company should be able to choose who is allowed to use its property to perform business, which is true. Then, you jumped straight to things that are both illegal and morally incorrect which have no relevance to the issue at hand.
"That is what is known as a counterexample."
No, a counterexample would be a right-wing platform that opted to not accept speech on their property that they viewed as left-leaning. What you constructed was a poorly erected strawman which has no similarity to what was being discussed.
Yes, they do. For example, "protected class" does not apply to political viewpoints as you tried to shoehorn in, especially when the example given is a single individual company that's not had its contract renewed while other companies with similar viewpoints have not been affected. "Censorship" does not apply to a single private company choosing not to renew a contract with one of its suppliers, even if the reason for that decision is partly due to said political viewpoint.
"If you want to make categorical statements, you better get your categories right."
"So most sensible people would be fine with "we don't serve blacks" signs in Alabama as long as that helps maintaining business with their preferred clients?"
I wonder how stupid you'd have to be to think this is a good analogy, but I am tired of arguing with you online. I don't know if you deliberately say things that are so stupid in a single sentence that it would take paragraphs to explain everything wrong with what you said, or if you accidentally do it, but it does become tiresome for the adults in the room.
"About the only thing that doesn't make gamers jump back to PCs at this point is the PC unique driver issues"
No, the reasons are ease of use (despite your rambling nonsense above, you don't have to do anything with a console that you don't also have to do on a PC), the games actually do just work after you install whatever updates are needed, prices are way lower, you don't have to worry about upgrades within a generation, etc.
There's plenty of reasons why consoles are still better than PCs for a lot of gamers, no matter how hurt your butt is over the fact.
Because he's been told to. For self-proclaimed "independent thinkers", right wingers do seem to parrot the same weak talking points at the same time.
Interestingly, I've not seen anyone whining over the AWE channel being cancelled at the same time, due to the lack of renewal of the contract with the same owners as OANN. Because they haven't been told to be upset about it, or because they're actually OK with the actions being taken if it doesn't affect one of their safe spaces?
"Every time a voice is silenced it’s a blow to communication freedom."
No, a blow to communication freedom would be DirectTV being forced to keep a channel that it doesn't want to host. A blow to communications freedom would be compelled speech, not a company deciding it no longer wants a particular business relationship.
"If Microsoft bought Facebook and banned all anti-abortion discussion would you be happy? What if they banned next PlayStation and Switch discussions?"
What if their servers were made of cheese and you had to eat fondue every time you wanted to post?
That makes as much sense as your drooling nonsense, even if you ignore that all that's really happened here is a private business contract between 2 private entities not being renewed. OANN are free to continue operating as a business and to reach their audience. They just can't use DirectTV's platform to do so. They have many other options to operate.
But, as ever, as soon as private companies do something you don't like, "libertarians" dive straight in to demand government control.
"Not for who was silenced: but because someone was."
If you people keep being silenced, why do I keep having to hear your moronic whining over figments of your weak imaginations? Should you be actually, you know, silent?
Generally speaking, this is kind of doubtful in terms of Activision, at least. Jobs being lost? Sure, that's inevitable since by definition when you combine 2 companies there will be a lot of duplication and people won't be needed any more. But, Activision are notorious for production line product that never seems to go down in price and are almost as bad as EA's annual sports titles in some ways. If CoD and other games go to Game Pass, and Phil Spencer holds true to his promise to resurrect some older IPs that Activision has let die over recent years, this could actually lead to more product for less money for customers.
We'll see how this plays out, but I don't think that getting rid of Bobby Kotick and focussing more on what long term fans want will be a bad thing.
Game Pass is either great value or a silly waste depending on how you personally use it. If you're signed up to play through a wide range of games you might never have bought, or maybe even heard of, were they not on Game Pass, it's incredible value. If you signed up and play Halo and Forza the same as you used to, you're just paying a monthly sub to access games you could buy outright and you've overspent by the end of the year.
No it's not, since they no longer have full ownership of DirectTV. It's more like DirectTV wanted rid of the embarrassment, but had to wait till they were free of AT&T before they were able to do so.
"In my opinion, AT&T removing OANN is a minor for of censorship."
Then, you don't know what censorship is.
"The real question is, should they be censored, or at least be deplatformed?"
No, the real question is should a private company be forced to do business with another private company against their wishes, even if doing so harms their business elsewhere? Most sensible people would say no.
"I have not actually watched OANN but they have to be morons if they started a cable news network in 2020."
Then, you should be happy to learn that they started in 2013, and that's one reason DirectTV have opted not to renew their contract, since the contract was up for renewal.
I don't know how it works on the Switch, but online check doesn't necessarily mean that they're checking every single time you load the game. It might check in the background on a regular basis and cache the result, only failing if it hasn't been online for a certain amount of time.
To give a completely different example - Netflix allows you to download, but the licence will expire after 30 days if it hasn't been able to connect and confirm you're still subscribed. But, this happens in the background and the counter will reset if it's been able to perform a check within that time, so you'd not notice that it's doing the check unless your app has been offline for longer than that.
"Copyright-wise it's very different if you clone something that existed 40 years ago, compared to stuff that was invented last year."
In the insane version of copyright you stick to in your head, sure. In the version that exists in the real world, people are still getting sued for using specific character traits for Sherlock fucking Holmes because a couple of books haven't entered the public domain yet.
It's not even a bug. He's just described a failure in design and marketing, which are two things that no code can account for no matter how well it's written.
A font you created from scratch, or someone else's? I somehow doubt that designing a truly unique, useable font is within your skillset.
"2) the progressbar works odd"
You commitment to breaking the usability of your own software to pretend that you're being clever would be commendable, if you didn't always follow it up with whining that nobody wants to use your deliberately broken software.
"3) fps counter isn't showing the regular 60 fps, but instead it shows numbers like 2342 or somesuch, which measures how much frames would be possible with the engine instead of the actual rate."
Also, "why don't people want to use my software when I deliberately lie to them about what it's doing?" isn't a question that you really want to direct yourself into needing to ask.
"4) score display has 5 digits in it, even though operations are like +1 and -1 for it, so it'll takes hours to get 3 digits used, much less 5 digits."
Scoring systems are by their nature arbitrary, so the fact that you opted to waste screen real estate on a display that you've designed the software never to use really isn't a great boast.
"Basically there's significant innovation in the implementation"
There really isn't. You've simply described how bad you are at design concepts.
"And none of the current games can claim to have invented these concepts"
Nobody else is claiming to have done any such thing. People are just calling you out on your boast that you're doing something different, when you're actually just poorly implementing things that have been around almost as long as games have.
The independent confirmation, as in the linked article where the author states that their named colleague tested it and it gave the error message mentioned?
"Because nothing screams 'patriot' louder than trying to overthrow, violently, an election just because you didn't like the result."
The fun thing is that it makes perfect sense from their point of view, it's just that their point of view is not rooted in any reality we're familiar with.
They've spend a significant amount of time in an echo chamber that pushes the idea that Trump is some kind of hero battling the "deep state". Quite often their obsession drives away any discussion counter to this idea, both online and IRL. The vote comes around and Trump loses. This surely can't be a valid election - after all, everyone they know voted for Trump. So, the election must have been faked or stolen somehow by the "deep state", and they have sworn to fight enemies of democracy...
To the outside observer, familiar with things like the fact that Trump has only ever been a pathetic con artist and that a lot of people were rightly pissed off at the poor leadership and outright damage done during the Trump administration, it's ridiculous. But, I often pride myself in trying to see things from others' point of view and it seems to me that there is some logic in what they do. You just have to understand that they're not coming from a position rooted in pesky things like verifiable facts and objective reality.
"these 'patriots' finding themselves on the receiving end of the system they tried to overthrow like this"
That's something that actually concerning to me. As I say, they're not dealing with reality, so the current consequences for their actions may just be interpreted as further wrongdoing by the "deep state". We already know they will turn to violence if they don't get their way, and as the Jan 6th investigation are moving from smaller players to the people who organised it, I fear that some of their ranks will do something terrible as retribution. I hope I'm wrong, or that authorities manage to stop any attempt, but even the likes of Alex Jones have recently been heard to be talking down the idea of taking matter into his audience's hands.Which suggests it's something on his audience's minds...
Re: The persecution-complex is strong with this one
The constant amusement is that there are so many places that actually do what he complains about. Many right-leaning places will permaban you, and even delete your posting history, if you dare state anything contrary to the echo chamber's thoughts. Yet, here, you're not only allowed to post anonymously and contrarily, but people will delve into the spam filter and allow any non-spam comments that get caught up in it, even if it can take some time with it being a manual process.
Yet, the fact that his posts sometimes get caught in the spam filter in the first place (often correctly, given his deliberately spammy posting methods) is proof of some kind of wrongdoing...
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Re: Re:
"But it also falls under the overbroad definition that PaulT stated as a generally desirable principle."
I said that a private company should be able to choose who is allowed to use its property to perform business, which is true. Then, you jumped straight to things that are both illegal and morally incorrect which have no relevance to the issue at hand.
"That is what is known as a counterexample."
No, a counterexample would be a right-wing platform that opted to not accept speech on their property that they viewed as left-leaning. What you constructed was a poorly erected strawman which has no similarity to what was being discussed.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Thoughts on OANN
"Words have meanings."
Yes, they do. For example, "protected class" does not apply to political viewpoints as you tried to shoehorn in, especially when the example given is a single individual company that's not had its contract renewed while other companies with similar viewpoints have not been affected. "Censorship" does not apply to a single private company choosing not to renew a contract with one of its suppliers, even if the reason for that decision is partly due to said political viewpoint.
"If you want to make categorical statements, you better get your categories right."
Mine seem fine.
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Re: Re: Re: Thoughts on OANN
"So most sensible people would be fine with "we don't serve blacks" signs in Alabama as long as that helps maintaining business with their preferred clients?"
I wonder how stupid you'd have to be to think this is a good analogy, but I am tired of arguing with you online. I don't know if you deliberately say things that are so stupid in a single sentence that it would take paragraphs to explain everything wrong with what you said, or if you accidentally do it, but it does become tiresome for the adults in the room.
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Re: Re:
"In Nintendo's case, it's Android parts."
What's an "Android part"?
"About the only thing that doesn't make gamers jump back to PCs at this point is the PC unique driver issues"
No, the reasons are ease of use (despite your rambling nonsense above, you don't have to do anything with a console that you don't also have to do on a PC), the games actually do just work after you install whatever updates are needed, prices are way lower, you don't have to worry about upgrades within a generation, etc.
There's plenty of reasons why consoles are still better than PCs for a lot of gamers, no matter how hurt your butt is over the fact.
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Re: Re: Re:
"The question is, why should you care?"
Because he's been told to. For self-proclaimed "independent thinkers", right wingers do seem to parrot the same weak talking points at the same time.
Interestingly, I've not seen anyone whining over the AWE channel being cancelled at the same time, due to the lack of renewal of the contract with the same owners as OANN. Because they haven't been told to be upset about it, or because they're actually OK with the actions being taken if it doesn't affect one of their safe spaces?
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Re: Forget not the slope!
"Every time a voice is silenced it’s a blow to communication freedom."
No, a blow to communication freedom would be DirectTV being forced to keep a channel that it doesn't want to host. A blow to communications freedom would be compelled speech, not a company deciding it no longer wants a particular business relationship.
"If Microsoft bought Facebook and banned all anti-abortion discussion would you be happy? What if they banned next PlayStation and Switch discussions?"
What if their servers were made of cheese and you had to eat fondue every time you wanted to post?
That makes as much sense as your drooling nonsense, even if you ignore that all that's really happened here is a private business contract between 2 private entities not being renewed. OANN are free to continue operating as a business and to reach their audience. They just can't use DirectTV's platform to do so. They have many other options to operate.
But, as ever, as soon as private companies do something you don't like, "libertarians" dive straight in to demand government control.
"Not for who was silenced: but because someone was."
If you people keep being silenced, why do I keep having to hear your moronic whining over figments of your weak imaginations? Should you be actually, you know, silent?
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Re: AT&T plan
They're not losing customers or money, though...
Subscriber growth has levelled off, but that's not the same thing.
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Re: A prediction
Generally speaking, this is kind of doubtful in terms of Activision, at least. Jobs being lost? Sure, that's inevitable since by definition when you combine 2 companies there will be a lot of duplication and people won't be needed any more. But, Activision are notorious for production line product that never seems to go down in price and are almost as bad as EA's annual sports titles in some ways. If CoD and other games go to Game Pass, and Phil Spencer holds true to his promise to resurrect some older IPs that Activision has let die over recent years, this could actually lead to more product for less money for customers.
We'll see how this plays out, but I don't think that getting rid of Bobby Kotick and focussing more on what long term fans want will be a bad thing.
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Re: Re:
Game Pass is either great value or a silly waste depending on how you personally use it. If you're signed up to play through a wide range of games you might never have bought, or maybe even heard of, were they not on Game Pass, it's incredible value. If you signed up and play Halo and Forza the same as you used to, you're just paying a monthly sub to access games you could buy outright and you've overspent by the end of the year.
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Re: Re:
No it's not, since they no longer have full ownership of DirectTV. It's more like DirectTV wanted rid of the embarrassment, but had to wait till they were free of AT&T before they were able to do so.
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Re: Thoughts on OANN
"In my opinion, AT&T removing OANN is a minor for of censorship."
Then, you don't know what censorship is.
"The real question is, should they be censored, or at least be deplatformed?"
No, the real question is should a private company be forced to do business with another private company against their wishes, even if doing so harms their business elsewhere? Most sensible people would say no.
"I have not actually watched OANN but they have to be morons if they started a cable news network in 2020."
Then, you should be happy to learn that they started in 2013, and that's one reason DirectTV have opted not to renew their contract, since the contract was up for renewal.
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Re:
I like poking at stupidity occasionally on a quiet Friday.
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"In this version of copyright"
...details don't matter because it only exists in your head.
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Re: Re: Nintendo
I don't know how it works on the Switch, but online check doesn't necessarily mean that they're checking every single time you load the game. It might check in the background on a regular basis and cache the result, only failing if it hasn't been online for a certain amount of time.
To give a completely different example - Netflix allows you to download, but the licence will expire after 30 days if it hasn't been able to connect and confirm you're still subscribed. But, this happens in the background and the counter will reset if it's been able to perform a check within that time, so you'd not notice that it's doing the check unless your app has been offline for longer than that.
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"Copyright-wise it's very different if you clone something that existed 40 years ago, compared to stuff that was invented last year."
In the insane version of copyright you stick to in your head, sure. In the version that exists in the real world, people are still getting sued for using specific character traits for Sherlock fucking Holmes because a couple of books haven't entered the public domain yet.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
It's not even a bug. He's just described a failure in design and marketing, which are two things that no code can account for no matter how well it's written.
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"1) I use different font"
A font you created from scratch, or someone else's? I somehow doubt that designing a truly unique, useable font is within your skillset.
"2) the progressbar works odd"
You commitment to breaking the usability of your own software to pretend that you're being clever would be commendable, if you didn't always follow it up with whining that nobody wants to use your deliberately broken software.
"3) fps counter isn't showing the regular 60 fps, but instead it shows numbers like 2342 or somesuch, which measures how much frames would be possible with the engine instead of the actual rate."
Also, "why don't people want to use my software when I deliberately lie to them about what it's doing?" isn't a question that you really want to direct yourself into needing to ask.
"4) score display has 5 digits in it, even though operations are like +1 and -1 for it, so it'll takes hours to get 3 digits used, much less 5 digits."
Scoring systems are by their nature arbitrary, so the fact that you opted to waste screen real estate on a display that you've designed the software never to use really isn't a great boast.
"Basically there's significant innovation in the implementation"
There really isn't. You've simply described how bad you are at design concepts.
"And none of the current games can claim to have invented these concepts"
Nobody else is claiming to have done any such thing. People are just calling you out on your boast that you're doing something different, when you're actually just poorly implementing things that have been around almost as long as games have.
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The independent confirmation, as in the linked article where the author states that their named colleague tested it and it gave the error message mentioned?
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Re: 'You keep using that word...'
"Because nothing screams 'patriot' louder than trying to overthrow, violently, an election just because you didn't like the result."
The fun thing is that it makes perfect sense from their point of view, it's just that their point of view is not rooted in any reality we're familiar with.
They've spend a significant amount of time in an echo chamber that pushes the idea that Trump is some kind of hero battling the "deep state". Quite often their obsession drives away any discussion counter to this idea, both online and IRL. The vote comes around and Trump loses. This surely can't be a valid election - after all, everyone they know voted for Trump. So, the election must have been faked or stolen somehow by the "deep state", and they have sworn to fight enemies of democracy...
To the outside observer, familiar with things like the fact that Trump has only ever been a pathetic con artist and that a lot of people were rightly pissed off at the poor leadership and outright damage done during the Trump administration, it's ridiculous. But, I often pride myself in trying to see things from others' point of view and it seems to me that there is some logic in what they do. You just have to understand that they're not coming from a position rooted in pesky things like verifiable facts and objective reality.
"these 'patriots' finding themselves on the receiving end of the system they tried to overthrow like this"
That's something that actually concerning to me. As I say, they're not dealing with reality, so the current consequences for their actions may just be interpreted as further wrongdoing by the "deep state". We already know they will turn to violence if they don't get their way, and as the Jan 6th investigation are moving from smaller players to the people who organised it, I fear that some of their ranks will do something terrible as retribution. I hope I'm wrong, or that authorities manage to stop any attempt, but even the likes of Alex Jones have recently been heard to be talking down the idea of taking matter into his audience's hands.Which suggests it's something on his audience's minds...
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Re: The persecution-complex is strong with this one
The constant amusement is that there are so many places that actually do what he complains about. Many right-leaning places will permaban you, and even delete your posting history, if you dare state anything contrary to the echo chamber's thoughts. Yet, here, you're not only allowed to post anonymously and contrarily, but people will delve into the spam filter and allow any non-spam comments that get caught up in it, even if it can take some time with it being a manual process.
Yet, the fact that his posts sometimes get caught in the spam filter in the first place (often correctly, given his deliberately spammy posting methods) is proof of some kind of wrongdoing...
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