I’m getting an impression that Jordan Rudess has not been up to the task for years now. This song could be carried by Kevin Moore easily despite how boring Petrucci is now.

You are perfect as you are.

It’s a voice-over translation that’s being presented as if it was a dub. We call it „lektor” and it was more popular back in the day due to budget constraints. We got so used to it though that nobody even mentions it.

What I find most interesting about it that it’s done in a way that makes original dialogue kinda audible while the lektor does his impassionate voice-over so you preserve a lot from original acting. Some of the voice-over artists became household brands for particular types of content.

As an example, Tomasz Knapik voiced over loads of stuff that polish TV bought from US in the early 90s so he’s associated with 70-90s TV series. When Kung Fury came out some guys hired Knapik to voice it over to underscore that 80-90s aesthetic even more. You can check it out here.

Perfectly fine reason to pirate, just enjoy your childhood games! If you want authenticity then get OG hardware with mods/flashcarts or an FPGA based platform. Game copies are still 1:1 and you can print manuals if needed.

I’m happy enough with the discourse being „how would we chop Google into pieces”, I know my dream is probably just a dream haha.

YouTube is probably the biggest streaming service out there. They’d have no issues negotiating a sweet deal with some ad company, former Google or other. As of now most YouTube users are products sold to advertisers so we’d benefit from adjusting this a bit too.

I have this radical idea that Threads users are people too.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to move to a server that federates with Threads so that you’re not at a whim of Meta but still able to talk to people there? The point of social networks is communication with friends and those might not be so eager to jump. They might even hear from you how other servers and apps are better and move eventually :)

It really isn’t. Lots of weirdos came out during the pandemic. It’s pretty much a cringier Facebook now. The only difference being you have to be on FB for some neighbourhood groups and you have to be on LI for your unimportant job at a multi-billion dollar company.

All of them do this to some degree unless you quotation mark the shit out of search terms but in my experience Qwant is better than others at this. If they didn’t do it at all many common search terms would be very hit or miss. This is my obviously just my opinion and your mileage might vary.

The biggest downsides you need to prepare yourself for in every other search engine are lack of Google Maps integrations (they’re so far ahead of everyone :/) and no Reddit results. The first one is offset by just how shit Google is now. The other is more tricky but I believe Reddit is so astroturfed that it’s no longer useful except for some niche communities. I do Reddit searches via Redlib so that spez gets none of my data.

It wouldn’t fly anywhere but I’d laugh my ass off if some tech giant did it and then got bailed out by the state in return for controlling stake.

Take a look at what Epic is doing and why - companies that are rich and salty enough are great allies against even bigger tech giants. Whatever remains of Google would still be able to afford lawyers and argue that the same should happen to Amazon, Meta, Apple and Microsoft :)

There’s plenty of good, free and non-invasive search engines. Give Qwant a try!

There’s so much to chop off there. They’re an ad monopolist, cut that. Their YouTube business is self sufficient, cut that. Android and Play Store? Chop chop chop. Cloud Services? Chainsaw goes wrrr. Google, Chrome and assorted services could stay with Google for brand recognition. All of them would be still very big and dangerously influential.

Adding to the other reply - I don’t have a VPN based Adblock on my iPhone, just Wipr and superagent for Safari, and this seem to be working in Voyager internal browser view as well.

Pretty much most of the big tech needs it.

First one was commercial (supported via Patreon), the other two are not even mods.

Those cases are consistent with their approach to current gen emulation. You’re not going to play those without emulators or mod chips they went after. Nintendo drew a line that was not crossed before.

Yes. Have you ever used Apple TV? This thing is leaps and bounds ahead everything of else, even Shield in terms of pure performance.

Even if things go well it will be one thing at a time probably. This news doesn’t sound big because Google is so big but for businesses dependent on Google infrastructure this is a major win, no?

My perspective might be skewed since I live in EU and we mostly won right to our data and privacy.

I meant “next big corpo beaten into submission by regulators”. I don’t think Epic gave up on them yet.