axtualdave @ axtualdave @lemmy.world

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As an Xbox junkie, I want more stupid games on the Xbox platform.

But even I can recognize how bad this is for the industry.

In finding Comer liable to Bungie for those costs—as well as over $80,000 in legal fees and $25,000 in statutory damages—the court also laid out the basis for "a new common law tort" that paves the way for other companies to do the same. As Tewson describes it in her Twitter thread, "the Court has created a path for those with the resources to identify stochastic terrorists and hold them accountable to do exactly that and recover their costs in court."

I am rarely on the corporation's side, but in this case, the outcome is the right one. While there's still a bar in that you need to be able to identify the person and have the resources to sue, this case sets a precedent that the behavior isn't okay.

Here's to hoping it stands on appeal, presuming the defendant bothers to appeal.

It's a skill those of us from the IRC days cultivated.

I'm glad I'm not good at it anymore.

Disco stick, as in

"Let's have some fun, this beat is sick / I wanna take a ride on your disco stick."

We tried separating the food and water.

The cat just went to where the water was and howled. We'd show her the new spot, shed drink, and do the same thing in 20 minutes.

Just moved it back, less howling and she still drinks.

Cool, I'll continue to get my life-saving medications shipped overnight and eat primarily a vegetarian-based diet and not feel bad about it.

I'm hoping that as the platform matures and we start seeing various apps and even more web-based interfaces like _wefwef Voyager, the signup process will be handled by those apps themselves. Like, a bunch of instances agree to be listed or something, and the app randomly selects one to present the new user on signup as a default, which both distributes the "load" across instances, but also provides a simple default.

I know the above proposal has problems; it's a 30-second spitball idea, not anything I'm spending more time thinking about seriously.

Let's put the edit history on the blockchain!

The first one I played was Zelda, on a gold cartridge, on the original NES.

The oldest system I played on was an Atari.

The oldest system I played games on was an Appie IIe, and it was Sticky Bear Basket Bounce. That game is like, my youth.

I'll pile on with a "Yup!"

While I fell into a pattern where I intend to upgrade every 2 years maybe 5 or 6 years ago, I've noticed in that same time frame that both the cost of new devices has gone up significantly and the durability of those devices has dropped.

I'm very easy on my phones. They spend a vast majority of their time on my desk, or plugged into my car. I'm old and boring enough that "going out" involves sitting down at a table at a nice dinner with friends and then going home. That said, the battery life on my phones starts to degrade after about a year. Various flaws start to creep up in the device. I've already had to replace the screen on my Pixel 7 Pro once -- though, to be fair, it took a tumble from the couch onto a hardwood floor, but even that, really, shouldn't turn the screen non-functional.

It's disappointing to see that planned obsolescence rearing its head.

I don't either. But I tend to use (La)TeX to typeset documents.

It was invite only for too long, and then, suddenly, it was required for everything Google.

I'm just glad the multiplayer in everything fad seems to be dying off.

Not some reason. Republicans control the House and are a single accident away from control of the Senate.

They are complicit.

The worst part was it wasn't even good gay porn.

What is "that"? The other person is mad things in the past, unrelated to the destruction of chemical weapons, are bad.

What would these politicians do? Invent time travel and change history?

How about moving forward, acknowledging the past, and trying to do things right... Like destroying chemical weapons stockpiles?

Your contribution is nothing more than whataboutism.