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- Comment on Plan N 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t it that if they start accepting Palestinian refugees, they’re helping to empty Palestine and helping Israel take the land?
apnews.com/…/palestinian-jordan-egypt-israel-refu…
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi made his toughest remarks yet on Wednesday, saying the current war was not just aimed at fighting Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, “but also an attempt to push the civilian inhabitants to … migrate to Egypt.” He warned this could wreck peace in the region.
… Their refusal is rooted in fear that Israel wants to force a permanent expulsion of Palestinians into their countries and nullify Palestinian demands for statehood. El-Sissi also said a mass exodus would risk bringing militants into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, from where they might launch attacks on Israel, endangering the two countries’ 40-year-old peace treaty.
… But Arab countries and many Palestinians also suspect Israel might use this opportunity to force permanent demographic changes to wreck Palestinian demands for statehood in Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which was also captured by Israel in 1967.
El-Sissi repeated warnings Wednesday that an exodus from Gaza was intended to “eliminate the Palestinian cause … the most important cause of our region.” He argued that if a demilitarized Palestinian state had been created long ago in negotiations, there would not be war now.
“All historical precedent points to the fact that when Palestinians are forced to leave Palestinian territory, they are not allowed to return back,” said H.A. Hellyer, a senior associate fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Egypt doesn’t want to be complicit in ethnic cleansing in Gaza.”
- Comment on New Playstation firmware is going to make it harder to play games offline. 5 months ago:
A decent number of titles I’ve seen on there don’t have DRM.
Which games on GOG do you think have DRM? GOG’s whole deal is they sell DRM-free games.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 5 months ago:
Wouldn’t you know it, there’s a wikipedia article for that. I personally have used 7digital and bandcamp, but qobuz has been mentioned several times in other comments and hdtracks seems like it might work after you create an account.
- Comment on California will force companies to admit you don't own digital content 5 months ago:
They’re the might be most common because they’re the easiest, but there are also still plenty of people actually paying for the games. I’ll never be convinced that piracy is an actual threat to making money. Piracy has never been easier, just see /c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com for proof, and yet pretty much all forms of entertainmment are as profitable as ever.
- Comment on California will force companies to admit you don't own digital content 5 months ago:
It shouldn’t be that hard, gog.com manages to do it
- Comment on "Modding is pretty big" says Baldur's Gate 3 director as over 1m mods are installed in less than 24 hours 5 months ago:
By accepting these terms, you acknowledge and agree that you do not own or have any proprietary rights in the Game or any Mods you create, except as specifically mentioned here. Any Mods you create are your property only if they consist only of your original creative work. To the extent that any element of your Mod includes or is derived from the Game’s intellectual property (such as code, themes, characters, names, stories, dialogue, locations, artwork, sounds, music, and visual effects), you agree that all intellectual property rights therein, whether they are registered or not, are owned by Larian Studios and its licensors.
I’m not sure I believe you about your first point.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 6 months ago:
The Black Pool is a game I decided to try recently. It reminds me a lot of Returnal in terms of visuals and gameplay, but I don’t expect the story to evolve much beyond the initial “kids lost in the woods trying to get home.”
It’s a 4-player roguelike where you get to choose random elements to slot into different abilities, namely a Primary, Secondary, and AOE attack as well as a jump, dodge, and once-per-world ‘rally’ buff. Each element makes the ability act differently, like a light primary is a slow charging piercing laser while wind is a projectile with knockback, and you also get to upgrade your elemental abilities after each stage you clear. I’m only about an hour into it so far, but I definitely think it deserves a little more than the 29 player peak it got right after it launched.
- Comment on Valve lifts NDA on Deadlock, streaming and talking about the game is now allowed. 6 months ago:
I think that’s what makes it such a good point of comparison though. It’s titled differently and we were promised it would be different, but all that really happened was they changed their monetization tactics. And maybe it’s just nostalgia, but I remember liking Overwatch when it came out, but now I have almost zero interest in playing Overwatch 2, even though I’ve gone back to it a few times just to give it a try.
- Comment on Valve lifts NDA on Deadlock, streaming and talking about the game is now allowed. 6 months ago:
Honestly, paying for a (primarily) multiplayer game isn’t a problem for me. I actually might prefer it when you look at Overwatch vs Overwatch 2. But I wasn’t about to sign up for a playstation account to play my Steam game.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 6 months ago:
Do online multiplayer video games count as a commercial use? I kind of like those
- Comment on With Shared Software, Landlords Are Teaming Up to Raise Rents 6 months ago:
If you plan on moving out anyways, why not just sell the house? It’d give you a large up front sum of money, and you would never have to worry about maintenance or bad tenants again.
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 7 months ago:
Apparently Australia only got around to it last year, but they’re requiring it to be implemented a lot faster.
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 7 months ago:
transportation.gov/…/nhtsa-announces-final-rule-r…
If by “new” you mean decided a decade ago and implemented 6 years ago, then yes.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 is finally bringing back 6v6 with tests to decide OW’s future 7 months ago:
Starting Season 10, all new heroes will be immediately unlocked when they launch. All existing heroes will also be unlocked for players. This means that heroes will no longer need to be unlocked through the Battle Pass to be playable in all game modes.
New players will still need to complete the first-time user experience to unlock heroes as they learn the ropes. Once the heroes from the original Overwatch roster have been unlocked, all Overwatch 2 heroes will also become available.
So unless there was another change, new players still need to play/win games in order to unlock the full roster.
- Comment on Overwatch 2 is finally bringing back 6v6 with tests to decide OW’s future 7 months ago:
They actually changed that a while back, new heroes aren’t in the battlepass any more, everyone gets them for free. I don’t know how that works with the “new player experience” where you needed to win games to unlock the base heroes on a new account though.
- Comment on A story in two parts 7 months ago:
The raccoons seem to agree with you
- Comment on Tesla Steers Onto Train Tracks It Apparently Mistook for a Road, Police Warn 7 months ago:
not all of them
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 9 months ago:
I don’t know how to use this site. Samsung is a Korean company, so I look there, but I don’t see anything about samsung or phones. Clicking on “mach & elec” or “consumer goods” doesn’t seem to help either.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 9 months ago:
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 9 months ago:
It’s not like netflix is the only one that can offer that kind of service. You’ve still got gamefly, 3D Bluray Rental, cafedvd, redbox (if you’re fine with going to a kiosk), your public library, and probably others if you care to search for them.