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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Time to switch to Marvel Flatpak

[–] [email protected] 6 points 47 minutes ago

finally, I was getting tired of using Marvel AppImage in protest of snaps! :P

[–] [email protected] 3 points 27 minutes ago

Rumor mill is already spreading like wildfire.

Commenters are concerned about League of Legends and every other Chinese owned game studio without a US backer.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 minutes ago

Trump will fix this. After a small payment from the companies. And then just ignoring the law.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

I dunno about that.

There's gonna be a bunch of angry Unstable 12yos uncertain what to do now that their gacha crack was torn away from them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 minutes ago

Crack taken away from children, what of value was lost again?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It actually looks like ByteDance is blocking them to generate uproar. The law only required to remove the app from app store

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago

It prohibits other companies from providing support services to them too.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

huh, had no idea it was made by bytedance as well

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah. You might want to look into some other foreign owned companies as well. Tencent owns a metric shit ton of "American" companies for instance, I bet there's several on that list that would surprise you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I recall that tencent had like a small stake in Reddit too. Like 10% or something like that. Or am I remembering wrong?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

As of their last filing in September it is 10 to 12%

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They invested money, I don't remember hearing that it got them any share of the company.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

That’s typically what you get in return for an investment. The only question is if it’s enough of a share to give control or at least influence.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Tencent I'm aware of, there was quite a bit of controversy about them a few years back

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Tencent happen to own large portions of nearly every video game company on the planet to start with, and a ton of other large companies, 600+ of them in fact. Large enough positions to directly affect board decisions if they wanted to. And that assumes overt sudden changes and not more subtle things.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago

IIRC the reason for this is that China requires that games published there be published by entities that are at least some arbitrary percentage Chinese owned. So basically if you want access to that huge market - that loves video games - you have to cut a deal with Tencent or someone else like them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

It's not made by Bytedance. It's made by one company and published by a second, different company who is owned by Bytedance.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Why does nearly everything entertaining support oligarchs

Nevermind, rhetorical question. There's no ethical consumption yadayada

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You have it backwards, oligarchs are controlling the media

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

Yea. Backwards samewards, omnidirectionally

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Man, even the government are tried of capeshit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Oh damn it affects CapCut. Glad I’m not American, I’d have hated to lose that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Glad I moved on to davinci a couple months ago, f davinci for taking away the free user created addons tho, its only in premium now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I love DaVinci, but if I’m doing something quicker on my iPad I prefer CC