“This Ring of Fire Resistance should protect you, Sir Bolden. And you know who else can protect you? State Farm!”

Zero

The venerable Atari 2600.

Dude you’re gettin’ a Riff!

Buying only a download code is essentially a gift card.

Seems like this is forbidden by rule 2: No spam.

Don’t you worry about profits, let ME worry about blank!

Github was around for a long time before MS bought it.

Wayback Machine archive - you’re welcome.

Yeah it sucks that the Internet won’t let you create your own better posts about more modern games.

Translation: “We were just shitting you, so don’t buy our game.”

Maybe you can take comfort from the extremely low incidence of laptop battery fires in spite of millions of people leaving them plugged in all the time.

Okay I’m just gonna call somebody out - Imperious_melange just deleted a thread with over 200 upvotes where a thriving discussion was underway. It was about whether people perceived a pro-China and anti-west sentiment on Lemmy. I tried to post a reply and the site said “deleted by creator”. The thread was just gone. They also seem to have deleted their account, so I can’t even PM them. That’s all just a huge dick move.

I know right? Yes i would like the full story but I don’t want all the stories, so no.

Bingpot! Features trump objections, which is how any industry knows it doesn’t really have to listen to users all that much. Deep down, addicts really don’t care if their heroin is ethically sourced from sustainably managed small-lot producers.

BREAKING - Release 0.1 of DON’T is now available - DON’T does absolutely nothing when you start it, except to present an enormous Consent List of everything it can do if you let it. Outraged digital freedom advocates are criticizing what they call excessive download times, sluggish support, and that the app takes up memory space without doing anything.

BREAKING - developers just released DONT on an app that does absolutely nothing unless authorized. The When you run it, it just sits there but has an enormous checklist

And yet free opensource software exists. Lots of knowledgeable people are happy to help others during their free time.

I spent many years as a software dev contractor working through agencies, but I still don’t see the parallel.

Somebody pointed out that the person might be afraid they gave so much info that their post gets de-anonymized - but IMO people afraid of that shouldn’t post on public forums to begin with.