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I don't think Signal is interested in doing that.

It's the fault of copyright. Restricting what shows you can stream to your users instead of, for example, being required to pay a royalty, inevitably leads to this situation. Netflix being the sole company allowed to stream every show and film would result in a monopoly that would be bad for everyone as they progressively sought to increase profits year over year. One company having all that power would not be a good thing for anyone, including content holders.

The solution is simple: every streaming service should be allowed to stream every show/film in every country. Then, piracy can only compete on price. That requires significant copyright reform, however, and is very unlikely to happen.

I somehow missed A YEAR OF SPRINGS, which is a fantastic visual novel by npckc. It's discounted by 29%.

I must admit I only looked at the pictures, looked at the specs, and looked at the reviews. I didn't read the description at all before I posted this. After reading it, I can see how it could be seen as exploitative:

“Ms.Izuho…What does it feel like to be in love?” Konami Izuho was suddenly kissed during her teaching training internship by a student, Ema Serizawa, when they were alone in the classroom.

Konami later found out that this student happened to be the popular illustrator “Ema”, of whom she was a huge fan. On top of that, Ema would soon ask her, “can you help me with my drawings?”

Although Konami thought she would get to look at the new works of her favorite illustrator, what Ema asked from her was quite different. Kissing, bathing together, and sleeping in the same bed were just some of Ema’s requests that left Konami’s heart pounding.

“Huh? Help…means k-kissing or sleeping together?”

Konami’s encounters with Ema confused her and made her go back and forth between feelings of admiration and love. Now, the curtain will be raised on this Romantic Drama.

I can't find any mention of ages, but it seems to be set in a high school, so one of the characters, in the best case, is 18 years old. The student teacher is probably somewhere between 19-21 years old. It's common for visual novels to be set in high school and feature sex scenes between teenagers (though there are plenty of great VNs that aren't), but there is a power imbalance here not usually seen in those games, even if the age gap is small.

I second Neo by saying that if you have an issue with the content of the game, you should contact GOG about it. MangaGamer and itch.io also carry this game. For now, I've marked the post as NSFW, as the GOG page does have some suggestive pictures.

I can hope...

👀 An easy way to buy Fate in Japanese, and not tied to the Switch like the Tsukihime remake.

I'll add it to my wishlist once it gets a page on Steam. Hopefully it's cheaper than WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT...

I don't disagree, but this video is absolutely worth the watch. I've read a fair bit on X history but there's a lot in here I didn't know specifics of or didn't know about at all.

Those instances defederated from lemmy.comfysnug.space. @neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space contacted them and a few others about refederating a few months ago; I don't know the current status.

Relevant threads:

• https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/305019
• https://lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/334195

Kernel-level anti-cheat drivers for games, mainly.

Fossify Messages has a release on Github too.

Motherfuckers!

I don't really have a least favorite distribution. I mean, I guess between Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, openSUSE, Manjaro, and Gentoo, the least appealing choices to me are Manjaro and Gentoo. Manjaro is just Arch but worse, because the packages are old and likely to cause incompatibilities with AUR packages that need really up-to-date system packages, and I...don't trust the maintainers to have configured everything better than I could have myself. Just based on history.

Debian has ancient packages. That's the only reason. I'd just end up using Flatpak packages or compiling from source.

Any other distribution I could use, including Gentoo, but Arch is the sweet spot for me.