Is this their workaround for being required to open up the App Store?

MS Paint. Mouse only.

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You can work from home but only to answer us when we contact you. You must answer our contact and must report to the location if requested. If you can do something cheaper (for us the company) and faster (for us the company) then that is the only time you may perform a work duty at home.

I think when it comes to blocking, the best approach is when a blocked user is still able to reply but those are hidden from the person that blocked them. While this does basically lead to "harrassment behind their back," it also prevents users from stifling conversation intentionally by preventing those users from blocking others that may disagree with them so that there is no real discussion or conversation on a comment or topic.

Its a shiniest of two turds option, as the ideal situation is that everyone can be nice and not nasty when someone has a different opinion, thus a block feature not needing to exist. But since we can't be having any "wrongthink," (whatever that may mean to each user is different) and anonymity brings out the worst in people, a block feature the way it currently works is necessary.

One annoying feature is that all replies to a blocked user are also automatically hidden regardless of if those people are blocked or not, which I wish wouldn't happen. Even if the client loaded a dummy comment in place of a blocked user it would be better IMO.

But at the end of the day, there is not really anything anyone can do to prevent other people from reading or interacting with your Lemmy account. They can just not log in, or they can create a new account. They could even create a whole new instance just to keep making accounts. Its like playing whackamole, you just hope the ones you block dont go that far.

It depended.

For classic consoles, if I was in the middle of a game I couldn't save and had to do something else or sleep, I would leave the console on but the TV off. Outside of that though, I just kept it off unless I was actively playing a game on it.

Modern consoles I keep in standby mode usually. Much nicer for the console to do its updates when I am not using it so that I dont have to wait when I have some free time to play.

What do you mean, Lemmy users get feral when they see anything about AI mentioned.

All the visible bugs in the trailers aside, they used a lot of non- Japanese things to make their game set in Japan, which upset many including Japanese viewers, especially when they claimed the game was a historically accurate depiction of feudal Japan (they have since backpedaled from this and course corrected to a "fictional depiction of history").

The architecture they featured was Chinese, not Japanese. Yes they are similar, but Japanese viewers were very fast to call this out. They also talked about how the season was inconsistent with the cherry blossoms blooming, as in Japan seasons are very culturally and agriculturally important. The special trailer designed "only for Japanese audience" had subtitles in Chinese. Ubisoft stole a historic reenactment groups logo (they later acknowledged this and apologized but IDK if they actually removed it from the game since it is still on physical promotional goods), they are reselling a replica of a character's sword from the anime Bleach as if it was a sword from their game. Characters in the game bowing to Yasuke would never have happened historically, as he was a foreigner, but more importantly at that time Japanese towns would have killed a person wearing war armor because some at that time were raiding those towns wearing war armor.

This game has a plethora of other problems I won't mention. Point is, there are a lot of problems. Problems that could easily have been solved had they asked for input from real Japanese historians or even just Japanese laypeople which they clearly refused to do.

Everything is in a tough spot. Wait for the global economy to not be literal garbage and you'll see stuff like gaming consoles pick back up.

That's not a good sign. I mean, I was expecting this, but it's still embarrassing for Ubisoft.

I'd honestly prefer they just cancel it. People have wanted an AC in feudal Japan for ages, but not like this.

They don't want to hire any Bungie or former Halo employees. They might have changed their name, but that doesn't change how rotten to the core 343 is.

No mention of Brandish, unfortunate.

Its not dead. Bruised a bit, sure, but it isn't dead.

Whens the part where the meme turns this into Venom Snake from MGSV?

.>"Millenials Edition"

.>A Cruel Angel's Thesis isn't in the top 10, and barely made it into the top 20 at #20.

I will only do this for games I know I will like, from studios I want to support.

I literally will wait until a sale ends to buy a game made by Yoko Taro or FromSoftware at full price.

"Concord hurt us really badly and we need the money. Please buy our game so you have to have a PSN account so we can sell your data to third parties."

I'll be real, this sounds like a question a criminal would ask.

Super Metroid.

Surface of Crateria has a thunderstorm for the entire length of the game.

Enhanced Edition mod on PC.

Okay, but to be honest DRM was not really something that was stopping me from buying it in the first place.