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This could be solved by legislation, you know. Governments across the world could decide that not respecting robots.txt is malicious activity akin to DDoS, and treat it legally as such.

...but why would they do that? Governments don't exist to serve you.

When translating things professionally I use the standards of the target language. Informally, though... screw it, I use my own punctuation conventions across multiple languages:

• instead of en dash, tilde for ranges; e.g. 19:00~22:00.
• no em dash either - I use space, hyphen, space.
• generally I avoid single quotation marks, by default I use double.
• nested marks become guillemets; e.g. "she said «fuck this shit» and left"
• nested parentheses become square brackets; e.g. "I'm not buying cheese (although I love it [specially gorgonzola and emmenthaler]). Except if I'm writing about phonetics/phonology, then I simply rephrase the sentence.
• I use the semicolon a fair bit; perhaps even more than the comma.

IMO the biggest appeal of Chrono Trigger is the balance between a well-made story and gameplay that encourages exploration,

This topic is not for me as it's clearly focused on USA alone, but the mention of ambrosia salad reminded me a dessert with the same name:

Made with caramelised sugar, eggs, milk, citrus juice. Iberian in origin, still fairly popular here in southern Brazil.

On chicken Kiev: I know that the dish is supposed to be fancy and all of that, I've seen Marco Pierre preparing it, but frankly? The idea of a deed-fried dish filled with butter definitively does not please me.

I wonder how Reddit managed to fuck the blocking function up so fucking bad.

No, wait, I don't. I know how:

• Reddit doesn't hire people to curb down harassment because that reduces the margins of profit
• harassment runs rampant in the site
• some users want to hide from harassers, and suggest that blocking should prevent the blocked from contacting the blocker
• Reddit be like: "that's cheaper than doing the right thing! Let's do it!"
• new blocking has exploits and more exploits, since it allows unilateral control of the conversation
• Reddit tries to fix those exploits, introducing even more exploits

Anyway. Will Digg enshittify again? (Yes.) And unless the functionality of the site changes upon relaunching, Digg is not a good replacement for what Reddit has become; Reddit is not just a link-sharing platform any more, it's more like a bunch of forums.

Yup, pretty much.

And, as usual, advertisers are to be blamed: they're the ones interested on "engagement", and indirectly siccing platforms to artificially inflate their engagement numbers.

Bob Dylan defence strikes again~ "Steal a little and they throw you in jail / Steal a lot and they make you king."

...yes, copyright laws are awful, in every bloody country. But if they're going to be kept they need to be applied to both megacorpos and us. Not just to us.

I’m pretty sure they mean The Company Formerly Known As Electronic Arts.

Exactly. (I should've used its full name, now I get where Madbrad200 got that "early access" thing.)

I know Stellaris isn't an early access title. And it shows the same problems as EU4: Paradox is so invested on milking players through a predatory DLC policy that the game becomes a sloppy mess of feature creep, without any sort of consistent design behind the new features. Just like Electronic Arts loves doing, except with a niche genre.

it’s also probably their best managed game.

Given how poorly managed the other games are, might as well say "so far the poor management is a bit more bearable".

Hipsters' EA is hyping a game update. "Wohoo".

...seriously, I'm not touching anything Paradox does with a 3m pole.

EDIT: "EA" = "Electronic Arts", not "early access".

And that's extremely sensible from their PoV. Not just to federate with Lemmy or Mastodon, mind you - but to federate with each other.

I think this to be a consequence of forums being isolated from each other, while communities in Discord/Reddit are connected.

If you want to talk about N different topics in forums you need to register N times, check N separated feeds, and establish your presence N times. This quickly piles up, and while you might stick to one or two forums you'll eventually ditch all the others.

In the meantime Discord/Reddit streamline the process. Even if I spend most of my time in r/apples, I'm already able to post in r/bananas, r/cherries, r/durians etc. If I were to subscribe to all of those, I'd see new content from them in a single feed. And people from those comms will see my activity in r/apples and know "hey, this is not a troll", so my presence is already half-established.

The problem is that Discord/Reddit have a single point of failure: the administration can enshittify the whole thing. And they did. Then we get something like the Fediverse picking the best bits of forums (self-governance, no single point of failure) and Discord/Reddit (less isolation).