I don’t think people are upset at you calling out Nintendo for their rampant lawsuits, but instead at your dismissive reply when someone provided a list of games to answer your question.

to a point i feels like they’re seeing us as a lesser kind that need protection.

I think you hit the nail right on the head with that observation.

Speaking in accordance with someone’s wishes when they’re not around to advocate for themselves in a private conversation is fine. Someone publicly speaking on behalf of an entire demographic that they know little to nothing about is bigoted as hell. It shows a complete lack of respect by assuming they know what’s best for others without actually taking the time to learn about their values and culture. And it’s super condescending, treating people of the demographic as if they lacked the capacity and autonomy to speak up for themselves.

And the vast majority of the English-language corpus available will reflect Western, imperial core liberal politics.

Oh, I’m sure that isn’t going to be a problem for their goals. They can always overrepresent training data from 2016-2020 and 2024-2028 to add some balance to the model’s political compass. /s

yq can do both JSON and YAML :)

It’s not as useful, sadly. Nohup disconnects standard input, output, and error. With screen or tmux, you can reattach them later.

Knowing how useless the cops are when it comes to doing anything that involves them having to voluntarily fill out paperwork, I imagine the legal avenue won’t do much until after OP has been assaulted. Violence is bad, but it’s hard to argue against results…

Yeah, don’t do this… If the guy is a Nice Guy™, offering up fake nudes is just going to feed into their delusion as confirmation of their approach and make them feel even more entitled. And if the nudes end up being a dick pic, they usually end up getting violent and threatening instead of backing off.

As another commenter said: control the data flow to make it impossible for the guy to tell if you ever received his message and document everything. DIY cyber vigilantism doesn’t do anything to deter crazy fucks like him.

Dbzer0, good. ML, bad. Their admins are trigger happy with instance-wide bans against users who criticize them or argue with them directly about their beliefs.

Neat. The guy’s argument with you has accidentally leaked into another community, with him replying to me and another poster with ad hominem attacks and desires to see us (who never mentioned religion) institutionalized.

I guess, yeah. I will say, though: it feels morally wrong to acknowledge their existence as anything other than a anti-consumer cashgrab, and thus give them legitimacy as a competitor to Steam, GOG, and Itch.

I’m not sure which part of that guys comment suggests anything other other than “fuck epic,” but here’s a short and sweet list:

• Designing a service for their customers instead of relying on paid exclusivity to encourage social pressure or FOMO
• Halfway decent customer support
• Unreal Engine 5’s performance
• Keeping their old of games accessible
• Not scamming kids out of virtual money

The approved competitor to a monopoly is… *checks notes* a wannabe monopoly that’s trying to buy their way into the position by providing less for the customer and instead bribing the publishers for exclusivity?

No, thanks. I would rather stick with the existing monopoly than reward Epic’s anticompetitive and anti-consumer bullshit.

>TOML has entered the channel

Any human-readable format compatible with JSON is inevitably going to be used as an interchange format…

But how would we get through to normie 12-year-olds who just want to play Valorant and not have their face constantly rubbed in the dirt by “hackers”?

I think it would be good for them to be told the truth: you aren’t being killed by hackers, you just suck.

Are they actually going to pay that out?

I don’t think he would make it to trial. The wealthy don’t appreciate those who unite the public against them, and they certainly wouldn’t want him to send another message by having the chance to explain his motives.

Who says it can’t be?

Fair point with neither being publicly traded. I should have been more clear on that.

Unreal the engine, or the game series? From the perspective of a consumer, I don’t think either of them seem to be in good shape these days, unfortunately.

Er… Carmarck is in Id. Epic’s founder and CEO is Tim Sweeney.

“Fucking hypocrite” and “Epic Games”. Never have any other set of 4 words fit together so perfectly.

“Making yourself suffer” by boycotting Steam.

It goes against every fiber of my being to not utterly despise a multi-billion dollar corporation, but I just don’t have the energy that I used to. I have to pick the battles I want to fight, and they haven’t done enough to make it worth it for me to do that.