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I love the two episodes per week schedule. And I never was able to get into adventure time, primarily because it didn't appeal to me. I like this show a lot and have enjoyed every minute of it.

Getting real sick of the high road bullshit

The Alt-Right Playbook: You Go High, We Go Low by Innuendo Studios

If your Plex server was hosted on Hetzner and only stopped working very recently, this is probably what happened.

They are as well!

I only ever hear people say the opposite. The comment you're replying to is I think the first time I've seen someone say google is better than ddg in the wild. I keep feeling like I'm going crazy when people say ddg is better than google. Google is the only search engine capable of actually finding the results I'm looking for. Half the time it feels like it's reading my mind.

I genuinely don't know what people are searching for that yields better results on ddg than google. Every time I've gotten someone to give me an example, the thing they supposedly couldn't find was the first result.

Few reasons. First, the United States is huge. Texas alone is twice the size of Germany. Second, the U.S. has three main power grids. The left half, the right half, and Texas. It's a little more complex than that, but the important part is that Texas is on its own. Third, Texas hates people. They let companies deregulate to hell and back, even at the expense of its residents.

The combination of being on its own power grid, deregulating that power grid and the companies that maintain it, and not taking proper precautions to protect its residents all leads to a less-than-reliable power grid when it gets hit with any non-standard weather. Texas especially needs to prepare for climate change, but things could definitely be going better…

Kopia actually has a GUI option too! I use it all the time! I pair it with a docker webdav server running on my server pc across the room.

Easy-Anti Cheat prevents modification to the game. Some people used malicious mods that could, for example, grab every single grabbable item in the instance and teleport them to one spot and crash people nearby as a result. Most mods were not that and everyone I know hates those people.

Some people say mods allow you to upload crasher avatars. This is not true. You can just upload an avatar with an absurd polygon count or custom shader that crashes people — no mods required. People who use these avatars are "crashers" and while they're not as common nowadays, everyone hates them.

Some people say mods allow you to "rip" (pirate) avatars from other people, even private ones. This is partially true. Most (all?) ripping happens by taking VRChat's local cache, de-obfuscating the avatar (or world) you want, fixing it, then re-uploading it to your account. Mods can automate this process, but EAC doesn't stop ripping. Recently, VRChat announced that they've made some changes to make ripping harder, but they didn't explain what or how. Hopefully this becomes less of a problem.

Sidenote on piracy: it's really easy because of how Unity packages work. Ripping is a form of piracy, but piracy doesn't necessarily mean ripping. Don't pirate VRChat avatars or worlds. People put a lot of work into making this stuff and they need an income. There are good free avatars you can find on gumroad/payhip/etc.

tldr: malicious mods could let you be malicious. except for game worlds, you can't really "cheat" at vrchat, but you sure as hell can make the experience worse for everyone else. most mods didn't do that, which is part of why there was fallout when they implemented EAC to eliminate modding.

Hi, I'm one of the people who stopped playing when EAC (Easy Anti-Cheat) was introduced. I and most of my friends stopped playing for 6+ months. It genuinely became unusable for some of us between the time that EAC blocked modding and the time that most of the features that mods added were finally implemented into the game natively. The development speed and communication also shifted drastically since that event and it genuinely feels like a different team. We know what's going on behind the scenes now and get to actually have an input in upcoming features in a way that we didn't get to even just a year ago.

A lot of us have decided that these changes in development speed and communication are enough to warrant coming back. Those who disagree have left entirely for alternatives like ChilloutVR that explicitly allow modding. Things died down because the situation changed. The problems that were caused by the decision have for the most part been fixed. The people who still don't trust VRChat work on ChilloutVR now.

Also, VRChat has had a sizeable increase in its playerbase. People leaving the game was noticeable, but any lingering effects have been smoothed over. There are just a lot more people playing now.

tldr: yes, things have changed a lot. no, the people who were angry didn't "go back after a week" like some other comments suggest. a lot more people play this game now and the developers are more transparent with what they're working on. the problems that were caused by banning mods have mostly been addressed.

do… the rest of you not milk your urethra after peeing? i thought we all did that >.>

You could also imagine a malicious actor phoning home to that API to drive up "installs" for a game and make a small studio or individual deal with massive fees. If a company is making these kinds of changes against the better judgement of their user base AND their internal analysis (lots of stock was sold two weeks ago), I'm doubtful they even care to properly deal with those kinds of problems.