Fonzie!

Isn’t this from Twitter?

“Deaf” just means that you have such profound hearing loss that you can’t communicate verbally properly, most deaf people do register sound albeit very badly.

I, for instance, have about 75 dB hearing loss, I don’t hear people walking, and barely register high heels on tiles, I don’t hear cars driving either, but I do hear it when they sound the horn; to give an idea of my deafness.

But I do know what spoken languages sound like, and what rhyming means. And how weird English spelling is, compared to its pronunciation. (English is my second/third language after Dutch and DSL, if that matters)

That said, there are people who really can’t hear anything, I know someone who’s ossicles (bones inside the ear, vital for hearing) don’t make contact, he’s never heard anything. He’s aware certain words sound alike and (in Dutch) mostly when their spelt the same, but only because school / people around him told him that.

Some hearing people don’t have internal monologue, either!

Yep, and there is sign language poetry in lots of different sign languages!

It’s a beautiful and unique artform IMO

Most people who are medically deaf can still hear a bit. Also, deaf and hearing are proper nouns, no need to capitalise them for the NAD’s odd outbursts.

I’ve had Black Desert letting me play a bit with an outdated version (I didn’t know there were updates, I hadn’t used the launcher for a while) but it gave my account a time out of 10 days after my play session.

I was also surprised it didn’t just go “Nope, update first!” immediately, I kind of expected that would be the case if I didn’t use the launcher.

Man I had to scroll far down for this. I know her appearance and character is a bit hard to take seriously but she makes great points in this video.

This works by replacing assets, config files or even by injecting binaries into pre-compiled games, as well.

Minecraft is in a pre-compiled language (Java), but so is Skyrim (C, C++) which is famously modded (although most mods are written in Papyrus which is an interpreted scripting language, the game itself wasn’t).

Most mods for Tekken (C++) also work this way; they simply replace assets and config files.

This also works with any Unity game which prefers to launch through a launcher.

If it’s an online game, like an MMO, they might put your account on timeout if you keep playing some outdated version of the game, though.

upsell other products

I don’t think I’ve seen games do that, not even to advertise other games from the same publisher/developer. But then, the only five games I’ve played with a launcher are three MMOs, Genshin, and Honkai Star Rail.

Sometimes updates require a game to be restarted. With a launcher it never needs to REstart, it will be started fresh afterwards anyway.
I’ve noticed Genshin Impact on Android (which doesn’t have a launcher) regularly needs to restart after updates, while the Windows version (which does have a launcher) never requires in-game updates nor restarts.

It’s also in general a good place to centralise account management (esp. if parts of the game would need to be reloaded if another account is logged in!)

Lastly, although this is more of a side-effect, but it gives a good place to shows recent news/posts of the company about their game to players, such as when there’ll be downtime, in a way that’s practically impossible for the players to miss.

They can and do that without a launcher LMAO

That’s interesting, indeed! I’ll keep an eye out!

Who are you? The poop police?

Not if the managerial position paid 50k and changing oil pays 150k

Awesome, thanks!

She knows what makes men happy

Over 30 anime piracy websites shut down

Holy crap! Are any private trackers hit?

streaming sites like Aniwave

Oh so nothing changes for me, gotchu. They could’ve been clearer in the title.

I am Dutch, I approve this message.

and at least with a pc you can control it

True.

most people don’t

Also true, and why I was skeptical.
Heck, you have people saying they control their computer but Chrome is going around scanning their entire system without them realising it!