So Google’s delisted NewPipe from their search results…
If you’re looking for a privacy-conscious way to watch Youtube videos (or just don’t wanna see ads lol), don’t fall for any of the scam versions of NewPipe on the playstore that slap a bunch of their own ads into the app!!
You can still find the official version on F-droid!!
You can also find my preferred fork of the project, PipePipe!!
Or you can just use Invidious or Piped in your browser!! You can even install them as web apps!!
Don’t let Youtube nickel and dime you to appease shareholders!! Fuck that shit!!
Spotify is owned by a fascist, surprise 2 nobody. Love newpipe bc u can download anything u want
It’s faded into nerd history now but at random times I will remember what Konami did to its best and brightest and then get upset all over again
It is a very, very long story with a lot to read up on, but the summarized version is that Konami was once a real heavy-hitter in video games. They owned Castlevania, Silent Hill, and Metal Gear, which are all foundational series to the genres of Metroidvanias (obviously), horror, and stealth games.
Shortly after Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain released though, people noticed something weird. it was good, but it kind of just left its players hanging, as if it was unfinished. This was a surprise because if there’s anything Metal Gear games are, it’s thorough.
News sites eventually broke the news that Metal Gear creator, Hideo Kojima, and his team suffered from some pretty terrible corporate abuse from Konami. They were reportedly locked into their offices and forbidden to leave, certain developers that corporate didn’t like would get demoted, the crunch conditions they worked under were bad even FOR video games - the industry that loves crunch, etc.
This was reportedly because the president of Konami at the time had grown to hate Kojima, whose games were always hits but cost the company a ton of money to create every time. They wanted to pivot away from these high budget games and invest more into pachinko, which had high returns for minimal investment.
However by the time of MGSV, Kojima was a legendary figure with an enormous following. It would be like hearing Nintendo repeatedly abused Miyamoto because they wanted to stop selling Mario games to build casinos but they needed to drive away Miyamoto first. Public opinion turned on Konami incredibly fast, enough that #FuckKonami was one of the biggest video game trends on social media at the time.
And at that point Konami decided they might as well burn all their bridges. Everything still being made got canceled as the controversy unfolded, including Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro’s co-developed project, Silent Hills (whose demo, /the goddamn demo/ was so fucking good it practically rewrote modern horror games). The Castlevania and Silent Hill devs found themselves working on pachinko machines, and to make sure they pissed on the ashes of their burnt bridge, Konami had another Metal Gear game made without Kojima, which was an incredibly mediocre zombie game called Metal Gear Survive, which killed the whole franchise.
There’s actually way more than this because the controversy lasted for months, but that’s what I remember of just how hard Konami destroyed its own reputation
