I think I’ve backed 4 Kickstarter games. 3 made it to release. I’m not surprised that a lot fail. The one that didn’t make it to release got removed from Kickstarter for not making its goal and being a “sequel” I believe. That game looks like it’s still getting made. It happens. Studios make mistakes or don’t get the timing right or what have you.

It’s important to remember that this is an investment. Investments have inherent risk. It’s not going to stop me from investing in new games or projects I’m interested in. But I recommend not investing anything you can’t bear to lose.

No offense but this was explained many a time during the pandemic, especially in relation to immunocompromised people. If op can’t mask I doubt there are any breathing techniques they can use to prevent them from getting sick. But cleaning anything they touch and washing their hands is as good a solution as any.

I know that breathing through your nose is generally better than breathing through your mouth for the simple fact that your nose has special follicles that act as a filter. But honestly the eyes and nose are most sensitive to infection and that’s part of the reason people are suggesting masks. It’s to lower the number of mucus membrane vectors for infection.

Op is more likely to get sick, especially if the other sick person isn’t washing their hands and cleaning surfaces they touch, and limiting the amount of time touching their own mucus membranes.

How do you plan to prevent bot user comments? I think that’s an important part of how this goes. Several users (including myself) have had hit and miss success with blocking instances. Block evasion is absolutely a thing here with users too. I really do want to understand what the plan is for implementation, if the communities and instances are going to be warned, and if this instance will have admins and moderators and most importantly tools to combat some of the problems I foresee from this.

If you’ve ever tried to read something off a label in the dark and outshined what you were looking at because the light was too bright, you know why.

I’ve got bots turned off. Mostly because organic conversation can and often is stifled by bots. The lack of the karma system doesn’t change that. Over-inflated posting and downvotes still abound here and people dog pile on that even though there isn’t a karma system reward. They still get a dopamine hit from upvoting/downvoting, and they still get one from seeing upvotes etc. So in that realm it doesn’t matter that an algorithm isn’t boosting some content. Not when people can use bots to drown out other people or whole discussions.

People have posited this idea before. The community generally doesn’t seem to like this idea.

https://lemmy.eus/post/176580

https://lemmy.world/post/201879

https://lemmy.ml/post/3716169

That’s not what I meant. I was specifically talking in the legal context because in America we have so few privacy protections for things like this.

Harmless to whom?

It was always hard to point the finger. Basically the problem stems from the idea that for breaches there just are no significant repercussions for the parties involved. They pay for (or set up) some form of credit monitoring and then just go on about their merry way. In the event that they are held accountable at all it’s usually something like a fine, which to the vast majority of these companies is less than a slap on the wrist. These corps consider it the price of doing business.

As someone who’s data has been exploited (and who’s data was actually leaked by breaching the federal government), I’m gonna say there’s just not a lot to be done except doing your due diligence to change the PII you can change (locking your credit, monitoring credit reports, changing PII like your SSN or other ID number etc).

But I doubt even a class action suit would do much in most of these cases.

Ease of use when switching over. The average person just wants a personal computer to work. If they are using or interacting with new technology they will learn that new thing (we saw this with smart phones). If they are interacting with technology they are already nominally used to they want familiarity.

As someone who uses both Linux and Windows, I’m gonna say that going from windows to Linux has a bar to entry as far as it being intuitive that a lot of people just are not going to bother with.

It does not help that a lot of vocal Linux users pretend they are superior in every way to those who use anything else.

Maybe I’m a little confused but robo taxis generally aren’t intended (from news articles I’ve seen) to be ICE vehicles. Instead they seem to be posited as EV’s from what I have seen. Meaning they would contribute if they took the place of ICE taxis (though perhaps not in a meaningful way if this is an attempt to reduce the number of vehicles total).

I don’t really believe in the idea that EV’s will save us either because there’s definitely a human component that got us to this point with ICE vehicles and the EV’s don’t solve that problem they just mitigate some of the fallout.

I also don’t think Robo taxis are a good idea for several reasons, but mostly I’m not sure any company has made them viable for widespread use, so I struggle to understand why this is even a talking point.

I also want to make it clear that we’re unlikely to create large scale EV public transit without the R&D of EV’s, and this includes taxis.

If the argument is against self driving vehicles, that makes more sense to me given what iteration of self driving vehicles we’re looking at in the present.

I’m not trying to argue, I’m looking for someone to explain “the basics”.

If I don’t have to star in it, better for me. Win win.

I’m gonna need a lot of help, as I don’t actually have the motivation to make a sex tape.

I bet the other side is a pull door.

This isn’t up to the stores. It’s up to the gaming developers who own the right to license the games. I have been making this argument for years, and explaining digital (and physical) content licensing to people on the internet for years and almost always get downvoted because they don’t like facts that interfere with their sense of righteousness.

I don’t disagree that is scummy practice to randomly end a license and take something someone paid for out of their library or otherwise deny them access to it. but I cannot stress enough that this is the fault of both parties or the licensing agreement (the license seller and the entity that agrees to allow the license seller to sell licenses to the content). People will always blame Sony or Amazon or Apple. But never Universal, or Disney, or Paramount or whoever. It’s both. They’re both assholes in this scenario. One of them is limited by the law. The other one can offer that content by other means to people who have already purchased it once but won’t because capitalism and greed.

If you want my sex tape that bad, all you gotta do is ask.

I suppose it depends on the Anime you watch or read vs the comics you watch or read. But comics generally have an over arcing plot and that plot goes somewhere. I’m that way the protagonists grow up or get better etc. The protagonist gets harder better/faster/stronger. Some long running comics do this eventually, but they run for so long often that these arcs just become rehashes of things that have already happened. Spiderman runs into most of the villains in his stories more than once (in one run of the comic, I know there are multiple). Batman and Joker, Superman, and just about every other person from his native planet. Hell, Superman and Lex Luther.

But perhaps it’s just harder to notice these kinds of themes repeating in a lot of anime. Or perhaps it’s just my experience or specific anime and manga. I will concede that they generally are more “audience of all ages” friendly in a specific way that American comics don’t.

I’d argue that I’m smack in the middle of the generation that grew up watching Dragonball and Sailor Moon etc. but I also grew up watching Superman, and Batman, and Spiderman etc.

The problem I have with American comics is a whole list.

1. The serial nature of American Comics and the likelihood that the comic will end its run before the story is finished (this happens quite a lot with smaller American Comics, making it difficult to find new material and the will to invest interest in it).

2. Anime Stories may not always grow with the fan base, but enough of them do that they maintain their audience over years as the story progresses. I think that’s pretty important.

3. The most popular American Comic stories are over saturated on their own material. They reboot repeatedly, and have a wrote way that the main character(s) face/handle problems and conflict. You almost never have a full story that’s not just a cyclical thing. A lot of Manga have a beginning, middle and end, even if the story continues afterwards (story arcs finish more often than not). Sometimes they rehash, the same thing arc to arc, but more often than not, because those characters are new and not 50 year old icons, the audience is more willing to invest in that kind of story.

4. There was definitely always this FOMO feeling about anime back in the day because it wasn’t such an outwardly accepted thing. It used to be only the “weird kids” who were into it, so there was a sense of it being scarce, even when it wasn’t necessarily. I think that helped it to be more sought after. It went from weird to cool.

5. Anime often doesn’t have a way to endear you to the characters in a cheap way that’s everywhere, enough for you to invest in buying the media. Some American comics started out in news papers and on things like cigarette packets. They gained some level of notariety and recognition from the public that way. So they didn’t have to give as much effort to a first issue as anime manga often does. This to me is a notable difference.

Superman though is also popular just as an icon, not necessarily (in this day and age) because he’s a comic book character. There are people who have never picked up a comic who knows his name and his general story. They may have never even actually seen a show or movie about him, but he’s now such an icon that this doesn’t matter. People still know him.