There are several legit reasons why you’d do this. Unit tests, for example: override getRandom() with an implementation that always returns the same series of numbers, and now you have repeatable tests without touching the production code.

What kind of game is it? Is it like Minecraft/roblox as the screenshot suggests?

IIRC that’s the whole point of luxury car commercials during half-time breaks. 99% of watchers can’t afford one, but the ad is there to remind the owners of that very fact.

As the dude from this picture, let me tell you that piracy was reeeally different 30 years ago (more like 25 for me). We were years away from DSL, downloading a piss-poor CAM rip of Star Wars ep1 took hours. Then you’d invest in a CD burner and exchange movies with your friends.

When I cancelled my subscriptions a year ago, I found out about Jellyfin and the *arr stack, took a couple of hours to set them up, and now I can download a whole show in a couple of taps while my friend is telling me about it, and watch it on my TV in 4K, or on my phone in the subway like 15 minutes later.

Sure, the underlying methods of acquisition haven’t changed much since BitTorrent came out, but the ecosystem is on a whole other level.

Most geeks were running 2000. Windows was easy to pirate at the time, you just needed a valid key, no online checks or anything.

Well I tried it before commenting, and I see the same thing as OP… I’m on Firefox stable 145.0.1.

I have a really hard time understanding how he considers any of that a problem.

Very important step you missed: be scouted out by the financial elite early on, then have them groom you every step of the way.

Sharing is much quicker than copy/pasting manually, especially with direct share targets.

It might not be the end of the world, but Mozilla really should have made the “feature” opt-in, or at least give us a heads up.

It’s only for links shared via WhatsApp for some reason. Not sure how they know you’re sharing to WhatsApp… (Edit: firefox implements a custom share widget instead of the one provided by the OS, so they get a callback when the user selects the target)

OP is wrong about the “unique” part tho, I get the same URL as them.

This implies some respect might be due. OP’s version leaves no room for doubt.

With good ear protection though, or the pain will remain.

Still better than the morons who took their baby to a Taylor Swift concert…

From time to time I’ll still look at their steam page during sales, because I’d like to play a blockbuster single player FPS where I can mindlessly mow down bad guys, with good story and production value.

But the price point and reviews always turn me off… Do you have a good alternative to recommend?

I’d argue that if the app is not monetized, you deserve whatever the dev feels like giving you, for free.

How about some blackgaze then? Alcest and Deafheaven are amazing.

Do we?

First one is an AA game I guess. Better production value than an indie title, but far from Skyrim or GTA.

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Yep, that’s what I meant.