As someone from a jurisdiction with some of the most sophisticated VPN blocking technologies (Russia), consider hosting your own VPN - it can be as easy as firing up a VPS anywhere and inserting one string, like with Outline for example.

Yes, but images and other files are hosted on the instance to which the community belongs, so any pictures embedded in posts will not be visible.

That’s what happens with DRM and digital licensing, which was considered by the exec to have most players already onboard.

Here, he was talking about gaming subscriptions, i.e. paying a monthly fee to have access to a library of games. Once you stop paying, games become unavailable, and games outside the subscription are not available either. His idea is to make more gamers comfortable with the subscription model despite it taking away any possibility to play when you stop paying.

A year ago Ubisoft exec gave an interview where he said that the next leap in gaming industry should be fueled by gaming subscriptions, and that gamers should get comfortable playing by subscription as opposed to buying and owning game licenses.

He then proceeded to give an example on how players got comfortable switching from physical media and full ownership to digital licenses.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-new-ubisoft-and-getting-gamers-comfortable-with-not-owning-their-games

This caused a massive player backlash on the wave of protests against the migration from ownership to subscriptions (aka “You’ll own nothing and be happy”). Ubisoft has got a financial dent as sales and subscriptions dropped, and is now facing a problematic financial future.

What is the good reason for military to exist, in your opinion?

All of those can be taught in a civilian way, ideally in school. As much as I personally hate exercising, schools do need more PE and more sports and civil service events that would tie people together. Discipline, too, is part of a solid school background, although, and this is the problem with the army too, it must not be confused with obedience.

I’d argue that most racists are transphobes, but most transphobes are not racist. Can be wrong.

Math is pretty solid

It also strives in the world of censorship, it just serves the dominant force then.

We still live in a world with mandatory military service in many countries. I’d trade it for that.

But otherwise thanks, I’d rather have neither.

As a scientist (i.e. someone who went through a lot of academia) who’s strictly opposed to taking a gun, especially in the name of a state, hell no.

A better idea would probably be to advocate for peace, so that people wouldn’t have to learn these things to begin with.

Military is not productive labor, it’s just draining countless lives and resources in the name of some guy’s fucked up ambitions.

Veronica is long in my playlists, never disappointed

True; however, the point raised is probably about the claim made in the article that ND would not keep up with rising costs of AAA game development on its own.

So, according to co-founder, it was not a case of a successful company pumping in even more revenue, but rather ensuring its very survival. At the time, plenty of even large indie companies have closed, so this is somewhat believable.

I feel like it’s a double-edged sword.

For as long as there are people willing to tip more, the company can get away spending less and shifting it onto customers.

As a result, workers get highly unpredictable and generaly low income and customers feel guilty for leaving low tips. Everybody but the company loses.

High-quality food. For me, food is one of the main sources of enjoyment, and if instead I’ll have to shove something down my throat just to satisfy hunger, I’ll get very depressed very quickly.

I wonder what’s your definition of “education”, then. I am familiar with several sources on anarchist theory, which is seemingly what you appeal for.

Policemen are instruments of law, of course. But not having them means all laws become impossible to enforce - and I’d kindly like to be protected from murder, arson, robbery, assault, fraud etc.

In an established anarchist society it is theorized to be possible to go without laws by various means, but our world is not that.

In before times, crimes were easier to stop as people primarily lived in small communities and it was easy to find out and exclude people, which then often meant death.

But even still, plenty of today’s crimes were rampant. As much as I’d love to see anarchism in action, this requires core changes to the structure of society, and we’re not at the point where getting rid of police will be a positive step forward.

“The state’s will” in most cases is to stop a murderer or a robber or whatnot.

People work for the police not to become the instrument of the state, but to prevent actual crimes. The rest sadly often comes after.

Y’all acting like cops are just useless parasites - good luck surviving a week in a modern word without them.

I’m not saying their leadership is wrong - I say they are not socialist, and New Economic Policy was also not socialist, but rather liberal. Whether the tradeoff is worth it is not up to me to estimate.

Neither did I say that Mao was a perfect example of a strictly socialist leader; it’s just that Deng Xiaoping has moved Chinese economy into a more liberal territory.

You getting disappointed in your choice over a while

For example, if your wish is to live forever, genie can grant you that, and you meant to live forever and you will, and only over time you realize you made a hell for yourself.