Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@sun You just made me realize something. Reducing piracy did nothing to improve the quality of entertainment media.

There's been less piracy in games (thanks to Valve and GoG), movies and TV series (thanks to Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Disney+, etc.), and music (thanks to iTunes and other music streaming), and yet the quality of entertainment has dropped more and more.

Anyone trying to argue that piracy reduces the revenue for the people involved in these productions, and thus leaves them with less money with which to fund good future projects and harming the quality of entertainment, has been debunked.

If anything, there might be a better argument to be made for the reverse. The threat of piracy is more likely to force producers to make good shit, because people are more likely to want to spend money and reward people who make good shit, even if they could get it for free.

@Suiseiseki @get @SuperDicq
>I personally have a stake in wanting child abuse to end

That's a good position to take. No issue there. But the reality is, your discussions here aren't gonna affect real life. At all.

Take your point on the distinction between predators and pedophiles, and how to focus resources.
By the word "pedophile" most people do include 100% of the people who predate on minors. That's included in their definition of the word. So when they say "focus on pedophiles" they already include 100% of the predators too. So your point, while maybe true (the hell do I know), it's completely pointless. Nobody is "supporting the arrest of only 10%" of predators.

In reality you're arguing with no-one over nothing. You're being uselessly pedantic, and that's coming from someone who can be autistically pedantic about word use too.

@Suiseiseki @get @SuperDicq
It makes you look like you have a personal stake in the discussion. I just ignore those topics.

@Suiseiseki @get @SuperDicq
You don't get the point. The point is, WHY would you even need to do research into this topic in particular? WHO spends that much time talking about pedophiles that they need this accurate information? hhhmmm.....

@Suiseiseki @get @SuperDicq
I initially assumed he was just trolling you, but now I'm wondering if he was telling the truth.
Like... why in the hell do you even know all that?

@get @SuperDicq
Don't know how Mario 64 PC or OpenRCT does things, but Doom and Quake sourceports make you install the original games and extract the resources from them yourself.

@get @SuperDicq
>In what way?
In the using "muh ebil closed source Microsoft resources" way. Also, I'm pretty sure this is violating some copyright too.

@get @SuperDicq Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of "muh open source" in the first place?

@SuperDicq
Do their textures still look far worse than every single texture the real Minecraft ever had?

I guess we can do a good thing every once in a while.

Romanian university SNSPA announces Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Donald Trump
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It used to be I never read readme.txt files.
Now I make my own readme.txt files because I know I'll forget how to install or config a program, and readme.txt files are always the first thing I open.

@matrix Does he actually realize he was wrong about something, or is this just clickbait?

@MK2boogaloo
>meanwhile, every Survivor season that tries to split women in their own team...
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@maxmustermann
Depends on how you define "engineered".
If you're like Thunderf00t, that pretends the only way to mess with viruses is CRISPR, then the evidence so far seems to be still that it hasn't been engineered that way.

The issue is, there are other ways to do gain-of-function, and change viruses. Easiest being, just let it replicate a bunch, while in the presence of all sorts of tissue from various animals. This wouldn't leave any clear sign of engineering, like CRISPR.

@nyanide
I'm with @maxmustermann on this one. Why would you say that? Why would you post that anywhere? My rule concerning piracy is simple: I won't ask if you did it, I won't moralize about it. But DON'T be the moron who publicizes about doing it.

@coolboymew
Yeah, the seed stuff is quite fascinating sometimes. Apparently some guys managed to find seeds that are unbeatable (in older versions of Minecraft) because all the End portals get overwritten during world generation by ocean monuments.

@coolboymew
I'm getting them too. I watched regular Minecraft stuff, and some videos on Alien lore and other monster horror stuff. So in my case, it looks like a logical combination.

@BasedLunatic
I guess just biting your face off can get kinda boring.

@PinochetsCommieCopter
If women didn't lie to the men around them, this wouldn't be necessary.
If I'm gonna commit my life to providing you love and security for the rest of your life, I'm gonna need to know if there's something potentially compromising in your past that can affect the safety I provide to you.
And if you're gonna say that you don't need or want me to protect you... please stop. You're a bad liar.