It is possible to play singleplayer. In fact I would suspect most Stellaris players are playing it as single player.

It was about incels spouting misogyny and all other imaginable forms of bigotry. It served as yet another fascism pipeline for a lot of kids.

Don’t let any company which chose to get involved in this blatant scam get exonerated just because they dumped it later. They still tried to pull the scam in the first place, and they only dropped it because they didn’t make any money on it, not because it was a scam.

Always remember this.

You are making the mistake of conflating game quality with profit. He did not lessen the profitability of the games, on the contrary, and that is what the board cares about, not the quality of games.

They have a very dedicated flock of whales (the industry term for microtransaction addicts). They know they have them hooked, and they are obviously intent on bleeding those whales dry for everything they own.

I don’t care how much I liked a game, if any publisher acted in this way I would never consider touching any of their games. This is absolutely criminal behaviour.

Or any chromium based browser for that matter.

Firefox + ublock definitely works.

That is what google uses, after all they attempt to block your adblocker. You would need an ad blocker-blocker-blocker.

They don’t. In fact they get demonitised more and more easily for completely bullshit reasons. The majority of youtubers get paid through Patreon and in video sponsorship rather than from youtube itself.

They suffer voluntarily simply by choosing not to switch their browsers to non-chromium.

Ads in those are also regulated in civilised countries.

I only had to do it once. Haven’t seen the pop up since.

I saw them, then I purged ublocks cache and updated and they have been gone ever since (also on firefox, because I switched as soon as I read the news that they would pull this stunt on all chromium browsers a year ago).

Nope. Non-premium here, and my ublock still works perfectly fine.

Purge cache and refresh does the trick if you have problems with the firefox+ublock combination. Or you have some other active extensions which prevents ublock from doing its thing.

It isn’t blocking my uBlock Origin on Firefox.

Giving in to corporate extortionate practices doesn’t help them in any way either.

It was never a “lefty thing”. It was a right wing libertarian thing from its inception, and that hasn’t changed at all.

Recent events have shown most redditors would be perfectly fine with such treatment.

Lots of cringeworthy American exceptionalism and nationalism in that thread. I especially like this one:

It doesn’t, all of these countries have different definitions on what “Rights” are, most of their constitutions don’t even define a right in the context of a divine power as the United States does, most countries actually believe its the government’s job to assign what rights its people are allowed.

It takes an impressive amount of baseless self confidence to speak with such certainty, yet with such ignorance, not only about other countries but your own country as well.