Instagram is banned and blocked in Russia but it hasn’t stopped the people from using it at all.

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There are already precedents of software (the Riot games) and the OS itself refusing to work if the requirements are bypassed, so it’s a very risky move that nobody should choose for their main OS.

They absolutely are unreasonably high. My barely overclocked 6700K is sufficient for virtually every new or slightly older game I throw at it, but somehow it’s not enough for the OS?

Since XP, I always upgraded to the next version whenever it came out. The insane hardware requirements of Windows 11 make it the only exception.

The real question should be whether those votes added to another song could have changed its position. If so, its presence was detrimental to every other participant.

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Exactly, though I’d also contest the notion of gaming OSTs being “often overlooked”. Best Score and Music and its previous iterations have been a category at The Game Awards since 2014.

There is other English language songs in the contest, so if I follow that logic, we should ban them too.

If that were my only argument, then sure. And there are even more factors at play than I mentioned, like the fact that Lemmy’s biggest community is Technology, meaning that there is the added advantage of that for a gaming-related topic.

If this is merely for fun, why associate with Eurovision at all? Why have any voting? Just have a sub for highlighting music.

Edit: And there are communities that do just that.

Still not a nation. I think it’s against more than one rule. It being allowed to bypass the language requirement also makes it easier to win since most of the Lemmy users appear to be English speakers, so voting for a song you can understand without the need to translate is a given.

Gaming soundtracks should have their own contest, with all the relevant communities informed so that they can propose and vote.

That’s not right. The same rules have to apply to everyone. If one community is allowed, then every other one should have been invited to participate.

Is Programming.Dev suddenly a country?

Steam is largely driven by Valve’s own games and freebies as well. 1.5M currently playing Dota 2 and CS 2, with the next best being F2P games: PUBG with 370K online, Apex Legends, and Naraka.

In countries like Georgia and Syria, the minimum annual wage is below $100.

Worth trying first. In my experience, almost every app works without the Google store. You can also block the internet access for any Google service or app via its settings.

Rocket League is fully playable on Steam.

The story of most of Valve’s games is finding a mod, hiring the modder, then making the game exclusive to Steam.

According to a Valve quote from the complaint (p. 55), it applies to everything:

In response to one inquiry from a game publisher, in another example, Valve explained: “We basically see any selling of the game on PC, Steam key or not, as a part of the same shared PC market- so even if you weren’t using Steam keys, we’d just choose to stop selling a game if it was always running discounts of 75% off on one store but 50% off on ours. . . .”

Sure, but Valve essentially reserve the right to no longer sell your game if it’s offered cheaper elsewhere. See the quotes on pages 54 through 56 of the complaint.