The article says that it may have been a translation problem

Chinese audiences didn’t hear the same speech we did

Isn’t everyone avoiding X? It’s a ghost town

More lame by adding an optional game mode?

If you want role playing style, play that way. If you want a story on rails play the new mode (or one of the old versions that worked like that)

If the password hashes aren’t salted they can be cracked with a rainbow table - every password up to (whatever length the rainbow tables go up to now - 10 chars?) is easily cracked in seconds

I expect Internet archive salts their password hashes.

It doesn’t matter if the salting method is known, all salting methods are known and it’s easy to see what salt a password is hashed with as you need to know so you can hash a received password the same way for validation

The real advice is to use a password manager to generate random passwords and store them for you, so no two passwords are the same, and the only password you need to remember is the one to unlock the password manager

I use keePass as it’s open source and available on all operating systems. Also you can move the camel case in your head to make it keepAss.

I play freeciv (an open source civ 3.5 clone) much more often than civ 5 which I bought. I’ll agree with you. Newer civ isn’t all that attractive.

Official stuff, sure, but not system generated email from giant companies like Microsoft

I’m amazed at how much better the official launcher is on Linux than on windows.

Windows:

• complains if your logged in account doesn’t match your game account
• Requires you to log out of one account to log into another in a not very clear or user friendly way

Linux

• No logged in account to complain about
• Lists all your accounts and lets you swap by clicking on the one you want in the accounts list

So take MS to small claims court. Get an order for them to restore your account and user name per the licence you presumably still have a copy of

I have gotten more free accounts on Minecraft than any other game. I bought it twice on Java (not counting copies I bought for family) and once on bedrock, so when they moved accounts to Microsoft and gave every Java account a bedrock account and every bedrock account a Java account, so I now have three on each version. A second (or third) account is useful for rescuing your main account in some circumstances

They need more than email verification. Some privacy minded people signed up with throwaway email, but probably have other proof of ownership

A search in Gmail (which that used) finds stuff on spam. Also Gmail won’t put a Microsoft company’s mail in spam

You can get the artifact with no problems at all by telling shadow to wait in camp

Licences are different than physical goods.

But isn’t piracy exactly identical to stealing? I’m sure I have seen advertising saying so.

The idea is that since the company is French and France has excellent consumer protection, The Crew is the best example of this practice to fight

It’s not about whether the game is good, it’s about Ubisoft being French

Or you can spin up your own and control your own data

Glad to have escaped, with gladness tempered by the awareness of the suffering of those who have not escaped

All those religious ads for people “interested in religion” by their participation in /r/atheism

All those political ads for those participating in /r/worldpolitics

Sports ads for members of /r/SuperbOwl

Why don’t I expect Reddit to do this well?

The only thing keeping the main community that I still visit reddit for (not nearly often enough, since I only look at it on old Reddit) on Reddit is discoverability. People search Google and the Reddit community is in the results, so I don’t think they’ll make it log in to view

That same community will probably leave the platform when old.reddit (with Reddit Enhancement Suite) is closed, unless Reddit actually adds comparable mod tools

There are some special interest subreddits still running almost like before. Subs with a population of a few thousand, with the active members using names that pertain to the sub

Those haven’t moved, at least the non-techie ones haven’t