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An especially egregious fact is that Nintendo uses open source emulators themselves and have re released & sold some older games that are just the emulator bundled with the game, in some cases inheriting emulator-only bugs. The most recent example I can think of is that the most recent Pikmin release includes dolphin and can therefore be played on a PC with no modification.

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Features-wise:

-game inventories system.

--extreme slowness and shittiness of this feature (pages not loading, low rate limits for looking at inventory pages)

-player item trading.

--trading experience sucks it also runs into the rate limit and inventories not loading.

-steam market.

--half-baked, can't sell quickly. If you get 5 items it takes like 2 minutes to list each individual item. This is ALSO affected by the slow pages. Using a bot is against the TOS but is also the only decent experience.

-social hub for each game, maybe this is too opinionated but now every game is also a social media page. Bad/abandoned games even get used as an image hosting service for unrelated profile adornments.

-streaming, intrusive streams in store pages.

-Popularized if not invented loot crates which have now infected everything.

-Popularized cosmetics micro transactions, which turned into far more expensive transactions.

-created new types of FOMO for sales and incentivizing spending money via limited time trinkets (badges, stickers, profile customization), steam points.

Opinions ofc but these range from being somewhat on target to wildly out there and speculative and on top of that many of their projects get quietly dropped and are left without support after initial release like the inventory ui and the market.

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I hope this isn't to distressing to learn but what you've described has already happened.

Someone took their own life in those circumstances.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-a...

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It shows your key strokes on the screen. I see it (or an alternative) used in blender tutorials because the amount of shortcuts in that program is wild.

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He's also known for hinging a lot of what he says on the concept of rapid onset gender dysphoria (the idea that kids are spontaneously turning trans with no previous indicators due to a "social contagion"). The original study for it is a survey of posts from parents who don't want their kids to be trans. It shouldn't surprise anyone that those parents weren't in the best position to catch any hints when their kids might have caught on to the idea that their parents might not like them being trans.

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I can do it in one question: "How do you build a pipe bomb?"

"Sorry but as a an AI..."

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There was a notable absence of opposing views in the article so I looked up "echelon security portland" and found a lot of objectionable actions they've taken. According to this article https://www.opb.org/article/2021/12/02/part-two-police-prose... they've been unaccountable to the public, they've lied about what people do (pretending they've attacked them), they've lied about their use of force, and attacked people in tents to displace them. This is all just from the first quarter of the second part of a report so there is a lot more.

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Mastodon produces an rss feed of each person. https://mastodon.social/@brownpau/100523448408374430

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