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  • DLC is literally just DownLoadeable Content

    So like... I don't get the hate for a specific method of providing content. Like, there's obviously a difference between Factorio's Space Age, and what The Sims does, even though they are both DLC.

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    Kamala Harris unveils populist policy agenda, with $6,000 credit for newborns
  • True, but giving money for free isn’t a proper way of fighting with poverty.

    It literally is. Study after study proves just giving people money with no strings attached gives massive benefits for essentially no net cost.

    https://college.unc.edu/2021/03/universal-basic-income/

    The fact that you don't know this proves you either ignore this, or don't search anything to confirm you're correct.

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    US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'.
  • Steam has no competitors because nobody is competing with them, not because they are forcing nobody to compete with them.

    Steam isn't abusing their dominant position to prevent competition. Other companies could make their own storefront and compete with steam. Nobody does in a way that's actually comparable to steam.

    Steam has a monopoly, but it's not because steam is actively keeping it that way.

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    The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal (as well as training any kind of AI on copyrighted content)
  • The whole purpose of art is to be an outlet for expressing ourselves as human beings. It exists out of this need for expression; part of what makes a work worth appreciating is the human person(s) behind that said work and the effort and skill they put into making it.

    This is completely and utterly your own opinion, not a fact. I know several people who can't draw for shit, due to various reasons, but now AI allows them to create images they enjoy. One of them has aphantasia (They literally cannot imagine images).

    This is basically trying to argue there's only 1 correct way to make "art", which is complete and utter bullshit. Imagine trying to say that a sculpture isn't art because it was 3D printed instead of chiseled. It makes 0 sense for the method of making the art to impact whether or not it is art. "Expression" can take many forms. Why is this form invalid?

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    The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law
  • And devout jews still have rabbis suck the blood off the freshly circumcised baby as tradition dictates.

    Jewish babies get an immediate bj to make up for being circumcised?

    What

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    Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch
  • Dolphin runs pretty badly on low-end hardware in general. That being anything worse than mid-grade desktop hardware.

    Depending on the specific game, it may be playable, but I wouldn't bet on it.

    As a specific example, I have a laptop with an i5-1335u, and it can't run Twilight Princess playably at all, and Metroid Prime 2 doesn't work great either.

    But my previous 10600k desktop had no issues.

    And as a general rule, phones are less powerful than even low-end desktop hardware.

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