That game seems pretty loved, I wouldn’t be that surprised about a remaster. Though it would have to be a pretty barebones if it can’t compete with a ten year old release.

Not really an advocate for piracy but I wouldn’t have any qualms about recommending that route to you.

It’s also worth giving them the benefit of a doubt. It might be just a bug or an oversight.

I don’t see how player data even would be worth risking GDPR fines. But at least you don’t have to worry about it.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives individuals the right to ask for their data to be deleted and organisations do have an obligation to do so, except in the following cases:

• the personal data your company/organisation holds is needed to exercise the right of freedom of expression;
• there is a legal obligation to keep that data;
• for reasons of public interest (for example public health, scientific, statistical or historical research purposes).

Source: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rules-business-and-organisations/dealing-citizens/do-we-always-have-delete-personal-data-if-person-asks_en

You can’t delete your account if you’re banned? Seems a bit iffy.

Every person with a larger online following is absolutely partly responsible to their fans behavior when it happens en masse. Especially if your audience is partly kids. They look up to you and you profit from them consuming your content so it’s your moral responsibility to direct them in the right direction.

Yeah we can agree they both could’ve done better. A lesson learned for the smaller startup at least I believe. And for me if I ever happen to be in a similar situation.

I came on you too harshly, these threads tend to drift always at least a bit off topic which I here interpreted as malicious even though it wasn’t. I apologize.

Would they or should they have known that? Before all this I would’ve assumed LMG to be trustworthy, especially since “prototype” means it’s at least super rare if not one of a kind, and with that kind of baggage you would’ve assumed that people understand that it should be handled with care, especially when you don’t own it.

I guess one thing Billet Labs failed on is to have an agreement before sending the product, which I assume (don’t know) to be standard practice in cases like this.

But originally I was just trying to call out your whataboutism, since it doesn’t really have anything to do with how it was handled on LMG’s end.

Yeah sure Billet Labs is at fault here… Even if their strategy was idiotic what does that have to do with anything? That doesn’t mean they deserve this.

You send a prototype like this out to a big outlet like LTT at least for two reasons: get outside expert feedback (which they obviously failed miserably at, I don’t expect other small brands trust LTT with their in-development products) and garner interest in the product and the brand. For smaller companies this kind of coverage is critical because they don’t have unlimited marketing budgets like the big brands do.

What really bothers me is that Linus is leaning on the parasocial relationship aspect of his popularity. He acts like he’s my buddy in need and not the star of a really big brand.

If I were LTT, I would’ve asked Billet Labs if its okay to reveal that number (not that it’s even relevant) and if I didn’t have time to wait, would’ve erred on the side of caution.

But like LTT said, they’re still them. So I don’t think it’ll get better going forward since they’re doing what looks to me really closely like doing whatever they can to look good despite it potentially hurting others (who they’ve already wronged).

With Google the search is a lot smoother with the app and it gives me search suggestions. It’s just optimal experience in my opinion.

Firefox doesn’t have Bing as a default search option so I had to set it up manually - which then doesn’t give me search suggestions either. Of course if I make my way to Bing.com it’ll give me everything I want but it was way faster and easier to just click the dedicated Google search on the home page – too bad the search is terrible like I said.

There’s of course the chance I’m missing something like I said in op.

If your problem is with getting beaten in the streets you could just wait for it to arrive on the streaming platforms. That’s anyway when the good quality torrents come out. And if for some reason the movies aren’t released in your region, you could always access them through VPN or there are also other solutions.

I don’t really buy the demo effect in this day and age when there’s let’s plays of every game and they’re more accessable than torrenting a game. I’ll admit that some percentage will buy games/movies/media after torrenting so there can be a slight positive effect when it comes to sales. But at the end of the day, people just want to consume everything for free.

I’m not arguing for lost profits, I don’t really care except for the writers and other creatives should get paid. But pirates should just admit that they want shit for free, this holier-than-thou act is annoying and crumbles at the first step. Before arguing for the ethicality maybe come up with a solution or at least disapprove the new media piracy. Because that’s a huge, huge side-effect. More like the effect and media preservation is tacked on positive side effect.

Except piracy peaks at the recent releases. That isn’t about media preservation, it’s about seeing the new shit for free.

For some hard to impossible find stuff it can be useful but that’s not what it’s mostly used for.

I like your humility, this was well explained and easy to understand.

What even was their business plan? I never understood how’d they make money. I guess advertising is always the answer but how…

That’s crazy. Nice that you have an active community.

The calls for defed was because there was some talk that you allow drawn underage content? That’s not people being hostile towards porn, it’s being hostile towards creepy predatory behavior.

Full fledged tagging system would be cool and help with discoverability as well as filtering.