JakobFel

This is why you should only ever buy physical or DRM-free, rather than streaming. If an artist goes in a direction you don't like, you can still enjoy their older work without giving them active income via streaming.

I'd say it's only useful for older and less intensive games. Most modern games need an SSD, not just for load times, but for performance as well. I have a 2tb mechanical hard drive for storing my 300gb of music, documents, virtual machine ISOs and pre-2020s games. Everything else goes on SSDs.

I love them if they're done right. Bethesda and CDPR do it right every time. I do really enjoy Ubisoft's open worlds back in the day, such as the old AC games (Rogue and before), Watch Dogs games, etc. Of course, RDR2 is also a masterpiece in this design. You mentioned Days Gone and I enjoy that one too, it's designed in a way that doesn't feel exhaustive.

Problem is, because of the scope of the games, it tends to take too much time. If the devs don't make the exploration and side activities fun and worthwhile, it's easy to lose steam and get burned out.

I do find some of them great for killing time, though. I'll sometimes load up Watch Dogs 2 and free roam, do multiplayer activities, hunt down collectibles as I listen to cybersecurity podcasts. Same with RDR2 if I'm listening to podcasts about America or traditionalism.

I personally see Peertube as something that'd be better as a small-scale, reasonably low-key way of storing and sharing videos if you're not interested in monetization or views. For example, documentation for a passion project.

For everything else, a different form of decentralization makes more sense, such as Odysee (though we'll see how the Arweave migration goes).

Anything but promoting homeschooling or arming teachers, amirite?

I respect your choice to do that (kinda sick of arguments in general) but honestly, that's part of the problem. Seems not too many people are willing to have civil discussions these days, it's all so polarized. Have a good one.

Sure, but Odysee is an American platform. And ultimately, the only reason your viewers would blame you for others on a platform is because we've infantalized the internet over the past decade or so. Used to be that netizens knew that trolls and bullies exist online and wouldn't blame individual platforms for it.

Yep, this is pretty much what I was expecting to hear. You know you can block channels/accounts you don't like, no? I don't believe in censorship of legal speech. As long as no violence is being threatened, as long as drugs aren't being sold and as long as children are not being harmed, it falls under the first amendment. If I don't like what someone says, I just block them because that's what the internet was always about: free expression, even of ideals we don't like or agree with.