They’ve been told time and time again that these people aren’t innocent, and they’ve been told it so often and so vehemently that they believe it. They have also been told that there is rising crime and it’s because of these very people. They’ve been told a lot of things. They believe it.

I love how “Three-Star Programmer” is a perjurative term in C/C++ circles.

they actually don’t own the game

This is a fact that has been made apparent repeatedly. We know.

However, you were replying to this:

Make us individual game owners pay license every time we download and install the game?

With this:

This is how it’s been done for decades now?

…which is patently false.

You could, but bees overproduce honey. There’s literally no drawbacks to taking the surplus besides maybe preventing the colony from sending off new queens quite as often, and mildly disturbing the hive when it’s done. (A lot of honey bees are pretty chill about it, even without a smoker.)

I don’t jive with the wing clipping though.

The first, animated, movie. I refuse to see most live-action remakes, and any exceptions are carefully considered.

'Tis such a beautiful day that
thou wilt not wear undergarments
in case thou meetest John in the meadow

Better?

Muppet Treasure Island
A Muppet Christmas Carol
The Princess Bride
The Great Mouse Detective (the most faithful movie adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, fight me)
Inception
Ghost in the Shell
The Little Mermaid, but not by choice. It was my little sister’s favorite movie and she would genuinely watch the VHS tape of it, rewind it, and then watch it again immediately. My brothers and I once entertained ourselves on a family road trip by quoting the whole movie, word for word.

The fact that some vegans think honey is exploitative really says a lot about their lack of knowledge.

They DO know that if bees don’t like a place, they’ll just … leave, right?

Every time a company tries to restrict the number of downloads/reinstalls for a game that you buy a license for, it has backlashed so catastrophically that they’ve walked it back.

So it has happened, yes, but there is no situation currently with game distributors where you pay a license for a single download. They’re all pay once, download in perpetuity.

It may have been for something else, but it’s weirdly applicable here…

Typically, one of the first things I do to a new laptop is wipe it and install the OS from scratch. That lets me install system drivers ONLY, and avoid all the bloatware that isn’t included on the OS install image (and even then I can remove a lot of it with Tiny11). Laptops are some of the worst offenders when it comes to bloat.`

That said, I’m strongly considering bailing on Windows entirely…

I’ve exhausted other avenues of exploration. I’ve long ago hit the point of diminishing returns on my important stats. Upgrading my primary loadout is prohibitively expensive at this point, and switching weapons isn’t helping my damage output.

I have the Claw, but it only lets me parry specific attacks - if I can remember to use it at the right time, and time it just right. Which I need to learn, which is difficult when phase 1 is such a slog.

Usually I can power through and rely on gradually gaining muscle memory against the bosses, but for whatever reason Malaketh is the exception. He’s my kryptonite, and I really, really, REALLY hate that first phase (and the fact that it doesn’t teach me anything about how to fight phase 2).

I wanted to beat him myself. I’m starting to think that summoning may be my only solution.

Yup.

There are very niche situations where a free market actually works - situations where there is no hidden information and no barrier to entry, where monopolies can’t arise due to the nature of the specific market. By the nature of these restrictions, nothing of any importance will ever be supplied by these markets.

So the thing that I learned - which really improved my time with World (I haven’t played Wilds more than ten minutes because I play on PC, and it was TERRIBLE there) was that MH’s combat is all about positioning and early reading of enemy tells. You need to make sure you’re in the right place at the right time to get off a good set of hits without getting punished too badly, and you aren’t going to be able to dodge attacks like you’re used to doing in DaS games. Making good use of your slinger and the environment is also way more important than you might initially think.

There is also, however, the fact that it throws a bajillion mechanics at you without good opportunity to absorb them. It didn’t really click with me until I went through it with a seven-year-old.

LttP was absolutely top of its genre for years and years. It was a drastic refinement of the formula that LoZ pioneered.

OoT was a completely new beast, and had to innovate practically all of its gameplay - gameplay that, I will mention, has been refined since then even more drastically than LttP’s gameplay. It’s rough, and it shows. Unless you played it around when it came out, the adjustment after playing modern games would be … difficult.

all of the main bosses don’t put up that much of a fight

Try fighting Malaketh with strength/faith. I’ve hit a solid wall. It takes forever to get through the first phase, to the point that it’s become boring - and then I last about six seconds in the second phase because I can’t actually learn it when I have to slog through the first phase for so long.

You’re acting as though Biden was just handing Netanyahu a loaded gun unprompted. This is not the case; there were preexisting trade deals and treaties with Israel that were being honored. That’s it. Democrats didn’t want to slap a close ally by shutting down an agreement that was already signed. It’s a shitty decision, but it’s more complex than just being all-in on genocide.

And there never will be. Not so long as it is possible to hide information from the consumer, and any sort of barrier to entry exists for market competition to spring up.

The underlying architecture for Windows has changed like three times since those systems were created. The fact it works at all is a minor miracle.

HDMI audio depends on a proprietary license. The Linux drivers for it are, predictably, less robust.