It's not just economic globalization, but the global ecosystem's food chains are already starting to collapse thanks to climate change, and our factory farming systems are becoming increasingly prone to virulent diseases wiping out huge crops of both plants and animals. I wonder what happens when food prices skyrocket because half our food supply has been contaminated, and at the same time inflation explodes thanks to plain ol' financial mismanagement
Not sure where you're getting that 80 to 90 percent figure, but most users being on new reddit is not at all a reflection of preference, it's of new being the default option
Yeah I remember instance hopping when I first joined Lemmy, part of the flood of new users when Reddit announced the API changes that killed mobile apps. Not one instance was working 100% of the time; I signed up on at least 4 different ones and had to keep swapping between them.
Are you misreading "preparing" as literally any writing?Even that Wikipedia article goes into fair use. Let's plays are potential infringement because people make money from them. There's stuff like that one Switch emulator that got taken down a while back because it had a direct effect on Nintendo's ability to sell hardware. But there's also stuff like PokeMMO which has been allowed to persist because they don't actually distribute any Nintendo code and Nintendo isn't selling those games anymore.
What effect on the market can there be for a fan remaster of a 20 year old game that isn't for sale anymore? Hard to argue that doesn't fall under fair use.
For sure they might try to send a c&d, but it wouldn't have any legal standing. Whether you have the funds to fight frivolous bullshit like that is one thing, but you can't get a c&d in the first place if you never put your art out. Even then, all you'd have to do is stop distributing it yourself, but at least it'd be out there
Why would it be a problem unless he was making money? People are allowed to write fanfic and make fan movies and whatnot. The line isn't crossed until money changes hands. Seems like a fan game would fall under that same kind of category
What the US did in Iraq and Afghanistan was wrong, no doubt. There's a lot of reasons for that, ranging from who was actually responsible for 9/11 to all the actual violence between the civilians and soldiers. But systematic extermination is NOT one of those reasons. What Israel is doing in Gaza is 1000x worse. Equating it to how the US conducted its affairs minimizes what's actually happening, muddying the water and keeping people from feeling like they should actually be doing anything about it.
Leaving it to rot for 15 years was far more unjust than a slightly less "revolutionary" game. And the concepts they show in the new doc are cool as hell! I would have loved to shoot at blobmonster! They just decided singleplayer FPS games weren't as profitable, and that's fine, I guess. They're a company, they want to make money. But pretending they were somehow doing us a favor by leaving the cliffhanger for so long is utter nonsense. Especially since they wound up simply retconning it so the whole wait was pointless anyway!
Edit: y'all they literally said in the doc that if they'd kept working on it for 1-2 more years they would have been able to complete it, but they were more interested in multiplayer games and went to go work on that. But if you really want to drink the self-aggrandizing bs that Newell spouts, go right ahead
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