Libdirect has a list of alternative frontends that it can pick from. I've been using it to redirect xitter links so I found that helps when one goes down.

To be fair, the primary means of earning points by that platform is to just search with Bing.

Are there even any games in the past decade that are available purely physical without DRM? You're gonna be locked to digitally only on PC in any case so I have no idea what you're on about.

If Discord is going to be abandoned by people, I wish we'd go back to proper forums that's much more accessible and searchable. Continuing down this road is just going to lead to the continued burying of useful information behind these services.

Is this really a surprise to anyone outside of the AI hype machine?

That's not the point they're trying to make I think. It's more of an attack on perfection. Like "the alternative is not perfect either so why not just stay with Chrome". It's not a very strong argument in general but it might be enough to keep people from switching.

I'm assuming they mean authorized by the resort rather than the government.

Nintendo does, GameFreak and The Pokemon Company on the other hand..

Man what in the world are they doing.

This all just sounds like the publisher or MBAs speaking. Did they ask the actual developers on their opinions?

Adblockers apparently

Why can't they just put the information in the alert directly? That's what the Koreans did when I was there. Why this extra indirection in the first place?

Eh this is nothing new since the biometrics portion has been part of the process for a few years. The only new part is that now you can skip the passport. The terrifying portion had already arrived many years ago unfortunately.

As someone living in Asia, the US losing influence is a really scary thing. China has been increasing their aggression in the region and the US's presence has always been the counter to that. It was a good balance but a weaker US will tip the balance to China's favour. Not to mention that the US has been a key factor in getting Korea and Japan to work together on security matters. Unfortunately, there's no EU or NATO equivalent for us to rely on.

Reddit and lemmy like to say that but I doubt any noticeable portion of the player base is going to bother. Has been for almost every game with denuvo lol

While the GPU's created aren't used for gaming, the wafers that the dies are made with could've been allocated to produce the dies for consumer level graphics cards right?

Don't forget the potential oxidation issues.

I'm pretty sure BetterDiscord or Vencord would very quickly add in a plugin to disable those ads.

Sure but you still need to turn it on though?

Apple said EVERYBODY MAKE ARM APPS NOW, and compatibility problems lasted a year. Not ten years.

Because Apple's priority has never been legacy support and backwards compatibility but Microsoft's whole business model and key advantage with Windows is legacy support and backwards compatibility. It's a different beast when you're marketing to the enterprise instead of personal users.