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  • After reading the rest of your comment, you are reading the wrong thing from it, the physical parts of the amusement park would be the extant binaries you already have. They still run the same as they did before, but without maintenance they will deteriorate and become non-functional or only partially operational. In an online system there are server bits that might not be available to the end user and those pieces also need an operator.

    To make a slightly more specific analogy, with a water park we could imagine a separate water treatment facility that would need to be run to keep the water in the water park safe. That treatment facility could also have plans and schematics.

    The actual facilities in these cases are not independently valuable in the software case. It's the plans and schematics (the source code) that has value... but in both cases you only need the facilities and operators/maintenance to allow people to attend the water park/play the game.

    Could the game company also give away a physical treatment plants so that an independent organization could buy their own servers and run their own game servers so that they could still play in their own private water parks? Sure.

    Should they? Maybe. But it's specifically the entitlement to the plans/schematics that gets me...

  • This is a good distinction.

    Online only play models are difficult for the consumer. I personally don't play that many online only games for partly this reason... and partly because I don't play many online games at all.

  • Edit2: Jesus people, please engage with the actual argument... not some strawman argument I didn't make.

    I must be missing something here.

    1. Company buys land, designs and builds theme park
    2. Company operates theme park.
    3. Theme park isn't profitable.
    4. Company closes theme park
    5. ???
    6. Company must give away designs and schematics to theme park rides for free so people can build theme park themselves that might be in direct competition with new theme park company is trying to build???

    Edit: I do think that abandonware should be opensourced at some point... but I don't understand this level of entitlement.

  • We aren't criticizing lonely people. Go take your strawman elsewhere.

    Incel/NEET/sigma/Redpill "culture" 100% deserves as much and as frequent derision as fucking possible. The only remotely positive thing these horrendous ideas perpetuate for their target audience is the "grind mindset" (which in itself is horrifying). The only reason the "grind mindset" is helpful in these situations is that it helps people stuck in this world get into the real world.

  • Actually there was a steam script that deleted your Linux root drive... that was a real thing.

    I could also totally see a botched install script for win95 totally bricking a win98. Install...

  • Waaaaat? The Texas power grid is price gouging again?!? Who could have foreseen this??? After all that work they put into the power grid after the last time this happened? It's almost like someone should regulate this power grid or something.

  • This probably won't help you since you live in a small town.

    Finding a doctor in the united states sucks. Literally the worst experience I have ever had was transitioning to a PPO insurance policy after being in a combine managed HMO / healthcare group.

    People told me for years "oh, that health care provider sucks. You get sub par care and nobody ever knows your name." You know what else I got? Same day doctor visits and same day specialists, literally anytime I wanted or needed anything. I had reasonable medical care at a reasonable schedule for a reasonable price.

    When my insurance switched to a PPO, people told me "oh, you will love this doctor! He is so great!" And... every... single... time... it is exactly as you described. "New patients are 6 months out." And when I finally got a primary care doctor, they would recommend specialist who were their friends also in private practices with 6 months waiting lists.

    Private practice medical care is an absolute joke. It's another shitty system the boomers saw their parents use successfully that simply doesn't work today.

    The solution was to find a high quality medical group in my city. It took me nearly a year to figure it out. Same day doctor visits? Done. Same week specialists? Done. Same system / in network urgent care at the same price as a regular doctors visit? Done.

    I don't care which doctor I see, I just need medical care.

  • I didn't say JavaScript... and I certainly wouldn't choose TS for a personal project because I personally feel that its organization is terrible but I would choose TS over vanilla js for work projects because it does produce better group work and is easier to maintain long term because of the structure imposed on it.

  • Some people think better with typing information explicitly written out. Some people don't. In my opinion it is a creativity thing. Some people like to make art that is photo realistic, some people like to make abstract art.

    I understand both viewpoints. In my free time I vastly prefer late bound, dynamically types languages with robust reflection engineers built into their interpreters. For work, I heavily prefer late bound, strictly typed with reflection optional or minimal.

    Different people think differently.