dads asking for advices from other dads

There is !dads@feddit.uk that could work - though not too active.

Also !parenting@lemmy.world might fit this need

There are many great shows that could take the nr 1 spot but SG-1 just has a special place in my heart. At least up to 8th season.

Not any more than your average school kid I’d say. There are many subjects that are or can be interesting that are thought in schools, but can be taught in the most boring way. They enjoyed DADA with Lupin quite much for example.

There are also other subjects not related to practicing magic directly.

Not sure if it technically counts but… shaved head.

Mid 30s male, rocking this “hairstyle” over half of my life now (hair started to go when I was 15-16). And honestly loving it (certainly better than a bald patch lol). While I sometimes wonder, how would it be if I had hair, I couldn’t go back even if all my hair magically got back.

I’ve seen “post factual” thrown around the most

That’s my understanding, yes

The age of Notepad having a paywall has arrived, with the simple writing software now prompting users to sign into a Microsoft account to access new tools such as Rewrite, a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to rewrite highlighted text.

It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft account, and users can go as far as removing the Rewrite icon completely from Notepad.

Mildly interesring? More like mildly horifying

By definition it is selfish I’d say. BUT! Huge “but” here, like you wouldn’t believe - sometimes it is alright to be selfish. Sometimes you just need to put yourself first. This is most definitely one of those times.

There are also countries where it is not - for example where I live last I checked downloading is legally ok, though some would say it is a grey zone moraly. It’s the distributing of a copy without proper licensing deals and stuff that’s illegal.

So downloading of illegal copies using torrents would be illegal in most cases as you would be seeding and thus providing the illegal copy to others.

Direct download is a-okay in the eye of law as long as it is only for your personal use

I will provide a point of view of someone who is a bit more pro “live service game” concept.

While I agree these can be scummy it depends on the game. I see them as evolution of the subscription model on which most MMORPGs functioned back in the day (and few big ones and several niche ones still do). You used to pay monthly sub to be able to play the game, now you have the opportunity to pay for the season pass. Depending on specific game you get content for free (no neex to pay the sub to access the content) and alonv with the content they will launch a season pass which gives you some goodies for playing. Gives them engagement numbers and expectable revenue stream.

In the above model, I usually decide whether I like the content that they bring and if I would realistically play it enough to get majority ofnthe rewards from the pass (because, and this isnthe worst part - once the season ends in 99% of the cases the pass goes away and its rewards are gone forever if you didn’t have time to earn them). Then there are also games like Destiny where the content is not free but tied to the pass, so you basically purchase x months of content (+the rewards from the pass).

There are many shades of season passes - some could be considered fair, some are alright, some are ignorable and some are bad. All of them are made to make money - which in a live service game is I think fair, as they need to fund the ongoing developement. It all depends on the way they want to takenyour money: can be used as a nice bonus you can purchase if you are enjoying the game - in which case I’m fine with it. It can be used so they want to manipulate you through various way to feel forced to purchase - in which case I’m very much oposed to it.

Though I think we all agree that the part when the rewards you purchased are only available temporarily is a scam and shouldn’t be a thing - and I do realize I will be called out here for sometimes purchasing them. I try to view them as simply making a voluntary payment for the content I got from the devs. And the rewards tied to it a bonus.

Let’s call it very localised cleaning.

If it can be defined as vandalism, it’s a harmless kind

Gonna hurt OP more though. I say do it if you can afford it but it’s not worth it to shoot yourself in a foot just to make a statement.

Well it was never as clear as now

I would be kinda excited if I got asked this personaly - and I’m more of a fantasy guy myself, though I love me some scifi sometimes.

Though leading with being so specific might be a bit much maybe ask first about hobbies or what they enjoy in free time in general first, to eatablish if this more specific question even makes sense? Though I do get the logic that if somebody is really into tech they will enjoy scifi

I’m quite happy with the products. Not as happy with the company after the event you mentioned. I upgraded my plan not long before that happened (they had a pretty good deal going) so I will stay with them for now but I will need to consider what to do once the prepaid time is up.

Sea(gate)^2

Ok, I’m not Polish (hopefully somebody Polish will chime in soon) but from neighbouring Slavic country so tried to figure this out with some translator help. My gues it’s something like “tam idzje” (or close to it, might not be comoletely gramatically correct), but pretty butchered - I understand your father doesn’t speak the language but probably heard someone in family as a kid say it and tried his best to mimic them? I’d expect it not sounding quite right.

I think I can get reasonably close to pronouncing “tam idzje” weirdly enough for it to sound something like “yadja”.

Even minor revenue cut is a revenue cut, that’s true. The creators would need to be believers, or YouTube would need to do a fuck up.

Realistically though, best we can hope for for now is them crossposting to both YouTube and PeerTube

Might be wrong but doesn’t majority of the money come from sponsors and such? I was led to believe ad revenue was just a nice little bonus.

Biggest issue probably will be how small it is so it would not be worth it to sponsors.