Ease of installation/use, I think, is the main big one, and one of the biggest obstacles.

People who want to give self-hosting a try aren’t going to be particularly fond of having to jump through a whole bunch of different configs, and manually set everything up.

They want something that they can just set up and go, without having to deal with server hosting, services, and all of that. Something you can just run on your computer, leave it be, and use it with relatively little fuss.

Second to that, would definitely be a case of better documentation/screenshots. A lot of self-hosted things, like Lemmy, didn’t provide much documentation of what the actual user side of it does, only what you need to do to set it up, which isn’t going to make me want to use the software, if I have no idea what it’s supposed to do, and how it compares to other things that do the same.

Mustn’t forget the limited edition pre-order special shelf wallpaper.

They really want to force gamers to buy the old games, just as they were, because those are next to free to adapt to a different platform and people will pay for them.

Nah, if they had wanted that, they would continue to release them in that format. As it stands, they don’t, so you can’t buy those old games from the publisher either.

You can’t have criticisms about the game if you put it on a shelf instead of playing it.

Libraries facilitate widespread piracy of books, by allowing people to read them without a distribution licence, or even take them home!

This is a clear violation of the DMCA, and thus must be stopped immediately!

It doesn’t help that people don’t tend to clean their phones like they do their toilet, but will take their phone into the water closet anyhow.

And that the requirements for those minimal improvements are vast. If you need to pull down 200GB for a minor graphical upgrade, that’s just not really worth it compared to an older game that is a bit graphically worse, but is both smaller, and runs better on newer hardware.

Particularly with the modding scene. You can’t exactly do a randomiser with the cartridge.

Or it turns out you accidentally left caps lock on, and now you’re locked out for a few minutes.

Just make the screen one gargantuan pixel, and infer the other 2-million.

Basically. DEI (Diversity, Ethics Equity, and Inclusion, IIRC?) is the new “woke”/SJW bogey.

Having an woman (with exposed skin, no less!) is causing all entertainment to be ruined forever, etc etc, that kind of thing.

EDIT: Equity, not ethics, whoops! Thanks for the correction.

That’s… it? You can get knighted for being “fairly good” at your job for half a decade, and then quitting?

Yes. Knighthood is generally up to the whims of the monarch. Although to make it there, it’s generally expected you have an achievement significant enough to be befitting of one.

But from what I recall, there’s little stopping his majesty from conferring a knighthood onto Chief Mouser Larry for his research into the napping suitability of 10 Downing Street’s furniture, if he wanted to do that.

Is there a Wrong Dishonourable title?

Highly unlikely. Minecraft has a lot of quirky code, and the mods would have been built around that code.

For all intents and purposes, the clones are a different game entirely, and unless the mod author specifically goes out of their way to make their mod compatible with the clones, or a different version for it, they won’t work.

Even before that, considering the music division put copy-protection rootkits on CDs that often broke computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

It’s out for a while, but people find it to be not as good as the first game.

i’m pretty sure the subtext of “woke” is “there are women and non-white people here”

Or that the women in it aren’t explicitly tailored to their tastes. There’s a post going around some places about someone trying to “correct” the image of one of the characters to make them less “woke” (they were wearing a baggy jumpsuit). The resulting character’s back-end looks like it’s been plastiform sealed.

The box what goes bang if you poke it wrong.

The computer is inaccessible, and if you did that, the best way to fix it, while also avoiding any other potential issues stemming from that, is just to reinstall the thing.

If the embedded system is old or poorly-maintained enough, there might be more Rust than you’d think.