To me it’s gambling even if you can’t exchange it for currency because the things players are gambling on have worth to them and psychological mechanism is exactly the same. If the law didn’t catch up in some place yet it doesn’t make it any less wrong.

TikTok allows you to set likes and favourites being private/public separately and you’re allowed to share nothing but knowing Meta there will be no opt out.

There’s no way to trade loot boxes between players but there’s gambling on consoles in the same way as on PC. Even if you count Steam Marketplace transactions fee there’s definitely plenty of EA Football Club players on consoles offsetting this.

Besides the ad revenue on TikTok is almost non existent even compared to Youtube. It was never a platform that you could realistically become successful with even if you got views.

If TikTok was widely known for being bad for making money then maybe it pulled some people who didn’t care about money like on old YouTube.

I think we haven’t seen anything other than the shape of the thing so it sounds pretty alarmist. Remember all the sensors packed into Joycons that nobody uses anymore? It enabled stuff like Nintendo Labo and other neat toys. We’ve only seen that the new Joycons have an optical sensor so far. Who knows what else is there and how is it going to get used.

They can moderate by boosting certain opinions and downranking others. It doesn’t need fact checkers because it’s platform owner interests and not facts that matter.

Looks like Nintendo quickly whipped out a video that shows only the things that leaked so far. Way more interested in the announced Nintendo Direct where we’ll see actual new stuff probably.

This TickTick looks awesome and does multiple things I wished such an app did, thank you. On principle I don’t use apps I can’t buy outright but I might make an exception if subscription can be shared with family. My biggest problem with finding a good shopping list apps is that they are rarely well translated into other languages so you have to look for something local. Groceries is something that’s just funky to do in a foreign language no matter how well you know it haha.

did you know that there’s a conspiracy theory about a Nazi base in Antarctica?

This being a conspiracy theory is so disappointing to hear, I prefer my nazis far away.

I don’t speak Mandarin so I just share what I’ve heard from a friend who does. Supposedly there are very little rules to explain and other than writing system and how exotic it is, it’s one of the easier languages to learn. All of this sounds perfect for Duolingo. Obviously once you get the basics there’s no other way than immersing yourself in a language but that first hurdle should be easier to overcome.

This was the most important news here!

Shopping list app I used stopped working and disappeared from the App Store so my adulting is in shambles.

To top it off I’m down with either a stomach flu or just having a flare up of my chronic illness so I argue with random people on Lemmy to distract myself from it. Got a referral to hospital but first free slot is in April. I won’t qualify for the expensive but the only effective treatment because I live in a country with one of the lowest healthcare expenditures in Europe, yay!

Isn’t Mandarin grammar super easy? It is relatively easy to speak, definitely less so to read/write.

If that was the case people would be using Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts but they are just bad copies that don’t understand what features made TT popular. „The Algorithm” will be impossible to copy and that’s what kept people there.

This guy is getting downvoted for truth. TT is the only big media platform that consistently promotes socialist policies and openly attacks western status quo. If there are any truly ideological reasons to ban TT it was because of that. We’re being ruled by the oligarchs and their interests were threatened but let’s not kid ourselves - China has their own who’d happily take their place.

There’s a multiple additional arguments why Nintendo behaves the way they do in regards to trademark and copyright but mixing in Pokémon Company and GameFreak just detracts from the conversation. Those two companies have vastly different game design philosophies and while Pokémon is intrinsically linked with Nintendo hardware, those games are not Nintendo games.

The argument from people hating on Nintendo is usually self contradictory. Nobody could be so hung up on Nintendo if they didn’t like their games. I don’t like sports games so I ignore them rather than trying to torrent latest game of football.

Drugs!

Pokémon is not made by Nintendo.

Yes, Nintendo is famously bad at making games and are short on cash so they have to earn money this way now. Sad state of affairs. That’s probably why nobody wants to emulate those games on PC.

It didn’t survive the 70s economic crises but it’s hard to tell what stage of collapse you’re seeing. It could take a really long time regardless.

There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen. - George Galloway