EnderofGames

I played the demo during Steam's Next-fest. Was good. I look forward to playing it all. I need a good, new, metroidvania.

Imagine how much worse it was before they fought for those spices, though.

AMOLED phone from 2014 with no burn in. Had to replace some components to keep it alive, screen is still original.

I think it has to do with brightness. I only turn it up when I'm in the sun.

If you are soaked, then you are way too hot. Take off a layer or three.

Sweat isn't heat, it's the body's method to remove heat. If you are working out but cold enough, you won't sweat, especially not more than in summer.

uh oh, the hexbears are out to get offended that their lord and savior is next to the big no no bear 😂

Found this while looking around, he either did or did not say it in an interview with The Guardian in 2001, but it was also said by some people a few years earlier.

I'm not entirely convinced, having read the quote from The Guardian in an interview they did with Miyamoto, you'd think that'd be proof enough. People in the associated Twitter thread really decided that it was just unsourced.

Forced server connection/always online DRM really screwed them. It's not like they couldn't have seen that coming.

"extremely expensive" is a bit of an overstatement.

Youtube proper, not the rest of Google, is tens of billions in the black, annually.

They reached this level of control over the market by running without video ads for a long time, forcing competitors to close out or not even open into the market without similar money backing. Turning around now and forcing tracking and ads should open them up to antitrust suits.

It's all arbitrage. If you can afford YouTube Premium's price, and don't mind the tracking, go for it. But all this ad blocking and alternative front ends MIGHT come to half a billion annually. uBlock has around 15 million installs, each installed user- assuming all separate and unique and blocking YouTube- would have to deny YouTube $1000 annually for it to be affecting their revenue.

They can see the percentage of people who watched that part of the video, as part of the video analytics. This doesn't track the user, though, at least not if you have history turned off, or are using another front end.

Honestly reminds me of the South African man at Mandela's funeral doing the sign language interpretation... but didn't know sign language.

Do you use a proxy server through the settings, or just turn on your VPN and run it while torrenting?

I use Nord, and with the former method I was having issues. I reported it in an issue on the GitHub, and even contacted Nord for support. Now, there does seem to be a lot of down time with the regular method, but with the proxy ("better" method normally) there was times where it was exactly as you described- tons of seeds or leeches, but no connections, uploads, or downloads across the board.

In the execution log, there was an error that'd pop up repeatedly. I can't remember or see at the moment what that error is, something about SOCKS5, the proxy connection. But after popping 5-10 times, that's when everything would hit zeroes. I would have to close and reopen qBittorrent to get it to start again. When I used uTorrent before, I never had these issues, so I was thinking about moving on to some other torrent application. Wanting to stay with Open Source programs kept me for now.