Another traveler of the wireways.
Unfortunately this has Denuvo to restrict your use of your purchase. Was hoping after their first title getting criticized for this they may have changed course on that, but appears not.
Would recommend waiting till that’s removed, maybe in a GOG release.
Would you add some context/opinion to the body text to bring this in line with rule 4, to better invite discussion?
Pretty much, yeah. Buried by marketing and mostly kept that way by it dominating conversations.
Been occasionally posting creative commons music and some fully free games to try to be the change I want to see.
Technically it may be, in terms of library.
However there are a few alternatives to look into that, while not matching the scale of their library, still have enough to consider.
For older anime there’s Retrocrush, which offers a fair amount of shows to watch for free (but with ads), no account required. Some are only accessible with an account and via subscription, however.
Interestingly though, some of those shows are available on other services no subscription required, like Tubi or Pluto.
Speaking of, it turns out Crunchyroll apparently cut a deal with Pluto, so there’s a Crunchyroll channel on there where you can catch some of their anime freely (again, with ads though). Besides that there’s also a separate anime channel and a few dedicated marathon channels to more popular series like Naruto, One Piece, Sailor Moon, etc.
There’s also lower amounts still to be found on the other general streaming services like Netflix or Hulu, but it obviously doesn’t fully compare.
Also while not newer and their library is way smaller, for some anime movies you might see if your local libraries offer digital services like Hoopla or Kanopy. With those you may be able to check out some great anime movies.
It was being operated by ice spirits to unnerve those that would trespass in their domain
What to call this stuff…
Jokingly:
webweb, 'cause it’s a web of websites.
cross-fora, 'cause they’re like cross-posts but entire forums.
newsvents, 'cause a lot of the activity is venting in news post comments. 😉
memecycling centers, 'cause it’s a lot of reposts of old memes/shitposts.
Realistically:
Whatever instance/site I’m directing someone to.
I’d never tell someone to go to WordPress if I was telling them to go to a site built with Wordpress, that’d be silly and out of touch. It’d also be out of touch to use some jargon that means nothing to them like “threadiverse”.
All the pointing to these backends as though they’re platforms like the corporate platforms shows how much they’ve conditioned people into thinking in their terms. The major benefit to these backends is they’re more open, enabling greater mobility between the instances of them/sites built with them.
The tricky part is, the group-supporting fediverse software and the microblogging software need to improve how they interact for this to be as good as it could be.
Right now Mastodon barely supports group users/actors/accounts, however they’re called, translating stuff from Lemmy’s format in a rather clunky way. Meanwhile Lemmy also has to roughly translate Mastodon’s format to its own, working pretty well all things considering, but leaving clear artifacts (subject line/first line repeating, community mention remaining shown, etc.).
Would you add some body text, context/opinion/summary, in accordance with rule 4?