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If every game had patented everything that they came up with, we probably wouldn't have reached 1000 total games by now.

Some early game would probably patent "revealing more of the world as you move horizontally/verrically" and we would probably be confined to a single screen for every other game for decade.

Then some other game would patent "using an input source to move a gun's aim/targetting on the screen" and we would never have had any fps. A "first person view" would probably be patented soon too. Leveling up? What a cool concept that I wish more than one game ever used.

At best, companies would all be paying licenses to each other for all of those mechanics - just like it works on hardware today where Samsung (for example) for a long time made a ton of money out of their main competitor's sales. And games would probably be so expensive that a lot of them could even have their own dedicated hardware made specifically for them, without affecting the final price that much.

Modern day Nintendo would surely enjoy that. They could make gimmicky hardware for specific games and simply call it a toy. Games like Guitar Hero would probably only be playable on toy guitars (as some other game would've already patented translating basic inputs into something rhythm related).

In a way I could see some pretty cool games being invented for a while in this parallel reality, with the patent restrictions forcing people to think of new stuff like the hardware restrictions used to do last century - but we would never had Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Rimworld, Factorio, Dwarf Fortress and 99% of the most beloved games out there.

First time I heard about the NSA was on a Simpsons episode, the joke was that they spied on people. I also had the misfortune of reading Digital Fortress some time after that and again it depicted NSA as spying on people.

I didn't get why people were so shocked when it turned out that NSA was spying on people.

Fuck you in my head in my ass.

Best option on Latin America on pretty much any standard. Progressive laws, good weather - main negative thing I can think of is that rent can be quite expensive. I've considered moving there in the past but my Spanish is awful.

Some people see numbers instead/along with colors, and different people see different numbers, so I guess the colors might be different between people too

I would do 720 + 3 * 70 + 3 * 2

The other publishers were all eagerly waiting for gta6 to take the blame for the price increase. Nintendo just doesn't care about that and weren't gonna wait for a third party before announcing their new prices.

Gamedev here:

For a digital copy, the devs may get between 50 and 90% of the game's retail price, depending on several conditions like what country they are from and what treaties they have with the country of who bought it. Less than that if they have a publisher to share the profits with.

For a physical copy, between packaging, shipping, storing and the margins of all the other companies involved in this process, the devs may end up with as little as 5% of the game's retail price.

Of course these numbers are higher for Nintendo as they are the platform owners as well.

• Never listened to music on a CD;
• never listened to a vynil record;
• never listened to a walkman
• never listened to a boombox (had to search what this was)
• never sent a postcard

36 years old. Just grew up mostly without access to music until I got my first PC. But I did have the opportunity to use a radio with a cassete tape player a few times as a kid.

Even Nvidia drivers have come a long way recently. I used to always have a windows setup and used it more than Linux whenever I was off work, but this year I was finally confident enough on Linux to ditch it. I have Nvidia gpus on all my PCs, with both Intel and AMD cpus, and they are all working perfectly fine with multiple 4k screens.

So far there were only two games I was unable to play on Linux - Demoncrawl and Inzoi. And the second is filled with reports saying it works ootb for other Linux users, so if I had tried to tinker I could probably get it to work. (I haven't had to tinker with anything else tho).

I agree with you in general, but there are people out there making specific distros with that sort of stuff in mind too. Ublue's OSs is pretty much that: "just use it and leave the tinkering to us". And I would argue if you're not a developer doing advanced stuff, those work just as smoothly as windows does.

The longer they stick around, the less safe they'll be.

If they make higher premiums specific for teslas, then those dealerships can just stop working with teslas.

In most of the US they have HOA who likely forbid such things for an absurd fear that a slightly uglier house down in your street will tank your property's value.

I agree about the Democrat party, but I wonder if the regular people of those states aren't closer to Canadians in their views. If they were to join I imagine the existing party wouldn't carry over and new ones would need to be organized.

And they did hold back that day, after the first 4 goals +/-, just to avoid embarrassing the host that much further.

When they do the exact same thing after you already forgave them before.

Also when they were given plenty of warning before doing whatever they did.

So, for both cases, it's when they show that they are OK with breaking your trust because they expect to be forgiven afterwards.

Just because you see similar effects in multiple scenarios doesn't mean they are all caused by the same thing. It might be something doze related in 90% of the cases and then something else entirely happening in some specific situation.

Because the US doesn't have any opposition parties or any local leadership that can organize anything. Protests in other places are usually organized by unions, for example. In America everyone just sits at their own couch thinking "someone should be doing something by now" and it never crosses their minds that they should be that someone.