Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

10 points

Bethesda buying Id Software.

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Motorola, while it was owned by Google, was actually quite good. The Moto g and the Moto x line were started in that era. The original Moto x was one of the best looking phones I’ve ever used.

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Oculus. No way they would have otherwise had the money to make cheap standalone VR headsets like the Quest.

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No way would they have forced you to sign up to/in to meta either though.

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Everything that has a store requires an account.

  • Steam - you need Steam account (also applies to Valve Index then)
  • iPhone - you need Apple account
  • Android phones - you need Google account
  • Oculus before - you needed an Oculus account

The short time during which they required a Facebook account (i.e. an account linked to an unrelated service) was a fuck-up, but they have since reversed that decision. Now it’s just a separate standalone VR-related account.

If anything, that is still better than the current Google/Apple situation with their accounts, which link together a bunch of unrelated services (photos, email, payments, storage sync, etc.) in an inseparable way.

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You don’t actually need an account to use an android phone with Aurora and fdroid And the index is just a headset, you don’t need steam to use it, valve doesn’t do walled gardens AFAIK

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I still refuse anh thing that requires a fb account I will pay more for a vr headset to not fucking deal with that

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Sorry to break it to you bruh, but if Facebook owns the IP, they’re harvesting and monetizing the account data, end of.

This includes all of the subsidiaries like Instagram and WhatsApp as well.

Let’s also not forget that illegal activity exposes user data in addition to greed, and just the fact that your data is in yet another pot increases your risk. Also yes all corporations are greedy and evil but they’re definitely not all equal in how bad they are, and FB is one of the worst

Are you willing to compromise on all of these intrusions into your life? Many people are, but I’m not one.

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BANANA!

Without the many republics and massive damage done we would not have the cheap bananas we all rely on for potassium and low level radiation.

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i really hope you can clarify, are you saying genocide is justifiable to have cheap bananas?

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6 points

I feel my hate for bananas is justified by such behavior.

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42 points

I think it’s sarcasm, mate, but I could be wrong

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16 points

I think he thinks “BANANA” is a company.

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156 points

Minecraft would’ve died under Notch.

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I agree But for a while he didn’t even do anything It was just jeb

And I think it could of worked out But even with all of the dumb stuff Microsoft brought I can’t say it was a bad thing

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3 points

Same with wurm online

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4 points

What what.

I thought Wurm online is essentially still dead 🤔

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1 point

No, not dead. Works for me.

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1 point

Still going strong 🤷

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Man Notch really turned out to me a mess didn’t he…? 😥

I remember back in like 2012 he was one of my personal “heros”.

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15 points

what did he do I don’t know

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Controversy

TL;DR: Racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia over Twitter

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He got sucked into Right-wing extremism. Posting racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic things on Twitter. Also got into Qanon I think.

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75 points

Avoided turning into Meincraft.

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Why explore new chunks? Why raze entire villages? Lebensraum

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Minecraft, not Mein Kampf!

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