Bioshock 1 was an actual shock. 2, never finished it. Infinite, differently themed shooter with some twists that already had it reaching out to alternative universes but wasn't so much of a "bio shock".
Alternate universes is the modern version of jumping the shark. Starfield did it on its first go, and look at how that ended. Look at Marvel.
Can't understand why Bioshock got that much attention and System Shock sort of got ditched for other companies to remaster. Now do SoulShock.
That may be the point and reason, but that doesn't eliminate the negative side of it. You won't find me defending clickbait or divisive social network algorithms putting people into their own bubbles, that's what got us into this problem in the first place and it's just going to keep waddling societies from extremes to extremes.
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It has a lot to do with how it would have affected Cyberpunk 2077's release in China and it's huge gaming market. I mean, just look at the downvote count in my previous comment, there are a lot of butthurt factory trolls downvoting it from the red stained Lemmy "Marxist Leninist" foundries. China cannot accept any political commentary, specially coming from Taiwan, and the devs got punished for it. The devs capitulated, but China did not care, so why bother?
Cool, but what I dislike about the MeidasTouch is how they seem to prop up the importance of something against Trump when it's usually something that isn't going to make him flinch. They are giving people a false sense of security when people should be realizing that they will need a revolution to get out of fascism.
If only GOG was this militant when it involved Taiwanese developers (Red Candle Game devs), I would still be using their platform. They haven't even allowed Nine Sols on it, so I haven't bothered going back yet or have even recommended them to the degree I usually did over Steam.
It's not even that they had to censor themselves, it's their woeful attempt at an excuse. It's funny whom they kneel before and whom the are activists against. Were it a China "Many Gamers" matter, do not expect them to have been as willing...
People who focus on just one sole issue and ignore the full consequences and the reality of the say they do have deserve about as much democracy as MAGA. But don't worry, you no longer will have any say at all.
I'm not one to encourage reddit, but its TrumpCriticizesTrump subreddit has basically been this since 2017.
Yeah, it's some serious BS. They are forcing you to hand over and trust Reddit with your personal information, yet I wouldn't trust them if my life depended on it.
At the very least, someone in charge of this legisltion should learn OAuth2 and force the sites they want to comply by only let those OAuth2 accounts access their adult content. If I was in the UK, I'd just pay for a VPN over giving my photo to Reddit. That site is a lobby brigade hellhole whose "we know your dark secrets, we know everything" owner is also probably trading your account details on the side.
The US is already well on its way to fascism, and has already adopted policies that clearly are. Honestly, this is a drop in the bucket.
IMO, blocking should only be limited to hiding comments and prevent them from directly replying to you, and it should also be transparent to other users if the parent comment or a nested child comment is blocked or being blocked. Depending on the person you are blocking, it also shouldn't be permanent but have an expiry date. If they are clearly a hate filled bigot, block for a decade, if they are immature, for a year or two, if they are just worked up in the moment, weeks to a month. Sort of like banning, but at an individual level.
It's definitely real, even if it is just the list of 150 Epstein associates that were unsealed years ago. If there was anything more, it ceased to exist during the first Trump administration.
Isn't this why they left the state in the first place? I fully expect Trump to employ ICE to track them down and bring them back, though and regardless of how illegal that is.