Yes, but do you think they’d buy the shows from those production committees and other organizations if people weren’t interested in paying subscriptions to watch them? That’s like saying Bandai doesn’t get money when I buy gunpla from a store like usagunplastore just because usagunplastore already bought the gunpla from Bandai months ago and Bandai isn’t getting more money from that particular purchase.
Animators being horribly underpaid is a different topic entirely.
That’s without even discussing the fact that not a single penny users give them will end up in the hands of any of the exploited artists who actually made the shows
That’s quite the assertion. How exactly do you suggest they’re buying the rights to distribute the shows then?
given that there are still plenty of passionate fans who would have done it for free
I’d imagine this is a non-starter from a corporate standpoint. I know if I were in charge I’d be terrified of the idea of just trusting community-submitted subtitles to not have random slurs or something inserted. That said I still think it would be super cool if they’d let people source and use their own subtitle files; I now it’s possible because I have a tampermonkey script that lets me do just that.
Yeah but in Bazzite’s case one of those issues (the one from about a year ago) hit over 99% of their users. I really think that all these people talking about how great Bazzite is either haven’t been using it for long enough for the devs to have fucked up or they just haven’t noticed that their system hasn’t been updating for the past year.
The problem with using Bazzite as the solution to new users bricking their Linux installs is I’ve had Bazzite’s update utility break itself 3 times now. I couldn’t possibly recommend this distro to someone after that. I literally switched my desktop back to Arch for reliability reasons. Ridiculous.
Well I’m not aware of any Arch-based immutable distro besides SteamOS so it’s kinda hard to give a perfect answer.
Funnily enough Hatoful Boyfriend has a Linux release. When I try playing that in Japanese though I get a weird issue with fonts not showing up even though I’m pretty sure I have the correct fonts installed. Maybe it’s some weird containerization thing that keeps the game from seeing the font. When I try playing the Windows release it just doesn’t launch… is what I was going to say but I just tried it with Proton Experimental and it seems to work perfectly now. Problem solved I guess?
p.s. - Nvidia, partners old gaming laptop
My condolences.
Really? The only one I’ve had issues with is Persona 5, and even then I was able to get it working. Which GPU are you using?
Edit: now that I think about it I did have some trouble with Hatoful Boyfriend.
With how many things I log into on my phone I think I’d rather have no phone at all than one that’s too old to receive security updates.
Even in the page given as an example here there are two speech bubbles that are pushing their boundaries.
There is no distro that supports arbitrary hardware as well as SteamOS supports the Steam Deck.
It’s not as simple as just releasing something. They need to develop it first, and making it a good experience with arbitrary hardware is actually pretty hard.
They’re just excited because it’s kind of like they released Skyrim again and they haven’t had their fix in a while.
Maybe the reality is that 80-90% of their programmers actively use tools like Github Copilot and the CEO got really excited about what that might mean. I mean, how could he possibly measure this?
Yeah I dropped that one entirely.
Eh. I haven’t listened so much lately anyways since Chris started obsessing over Crypto.
And that’s assuming that all 17 million mormons the LDS church claims to have actually exist. It’s kind of annoying to get deleted from their rolls, so a lot of people who leave don’t bother. Also, many of those 17 million live in much poorer nations than the US.
Okay, but what are the profits? That’s what actually matters here.
You want hardware manufacturers to provide shitty screens in perpetuity just so Linux devs can avoid implementing proper scaling? Yeah, no.
I don’t think there’s an industry on earth where it’s normal for the low-level workers to be paid directly when the customer buys something. It being filtered through a bunch of business stuff is the norm everywhere I’m afraid.