Notices by Gardiner Bryant (gardiner_bryant@mastodon.online)

The culture of the Fediverse discourages people (me) from replying to things to things with which I disagree with bullshit, snark, and sarcasm. I love that.

Twitter is just god-awful now. And Threads is worse in a different way. Thank #FOSS for Mastodon.

I am in favor of a corporate "death" penalty. Where corporations that actively pursue monopolies are seized, nationalized, and/or auctioned off into pieces.

https://www.guru3d.com/story/microsoft-reportedly-readies-billion-bid-to-acquire-valve-steam/

@killyourfm @popey @cassidy if Nintendo truly cared about preventing "piracy," they'd sell their games on PC. But they don't, so we can deduce that this is about intimidation, bullying, and maintaining an illegal monopoly over their artificial market.

@killyourfm @popey @cassidy what if I told you that, whether Switch emulators exist or not, people would still play pirated games on [clutches pearls] **official hardware**?

That is to say, Yuzu wasn't encouraging piracy. Nintendo's own business model of hardware exclusivity is.

@ThePlant @killyourfm @thelinuxEXP I'm game. Wanna do one this weekend?