This is being blown out of proportion. These sorts of terms are pretty standard for a closed playtest, as it doesn’t represent the final product and the developers don’t want reviews to be published criticising things that will likely be fixed for the release version.

I really don’t get the hate for VR.

Valve these days don’t make things just to make money. They only make things that interest and excite them. HL3 would most likely just end up being more of the same, which isn’t exciting from a designer or developer point of view. They need a hook to get excited about it, and until that happens it’s just not worth the time or effort to do. In the meantime, they’re making plenty of money from Steam sales.

The Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 did okay for themselves with non-square pixels.

So what you’re saying is you were part of the problem?

Dinosaurs without feathers.

This is becoming such a tired argument. There are plenty of non-superhero films being made, so just watch and enjoy those and let the people who enjoy superhero movies watch and enjoy them.

You can’t understand why you need to be a bad guy in a game called Grand Theft Auto, where the main focus of the series is stealing cars and building a criminal empire?

Sometimes someone will argue a technicality just to try to appear the smarter person. You’re just being a pedant at this point.

So out of those users who have both read and voted on this post, 60% voted negatively. It’s safe to assume that the majority of people who did both are those who feel strongly one way or the other about the issue, and statistically it’s more likely that those who disagree will vote, as those who are angry about something tend to be the most vocal. Unfortunately we have no easy way of knowing how many users who read the post don’t care one way or another.

In addition, Lemmy.world has around 21K users per month, and out of those around 1.5K users voted negatively. That’s around 7% of the monthly users who disagree with this news. Hardly a majority.

Do you have any figures to show that the majority of the users on this instance are in favour of piracy? Or do you just assume you’re in the majority?

If every single user of Lemmy.world, or even a significant majority, leaves because they’re no longer able to discuss piracy, I’ll fight both Zuck and Musk in a cage match. It’s all hot air from a very vocal, overly entitled minority.

Sooo… you’d rather someone else do all the work and take on the burdens, but do it the way you want them to do it without contributing in any way?

Why do you assume that only US law applies here?

You’re kidding nobody.

What surprises me is that people think making a community specifically for illegal activity isn’t a problem, and that they should only be called on their behaviour when a copyright holder notices them. There are plenty of places to go for piracy online, so what’s the need to add a community for it here? Or are you people claiming a piracy community wasn’t primarily intended for piracy?

I also find entering numbers on a numpad to be much easier and feel more natural, probably because of growing up with calculators. They definitely have a place on modern keyboards.