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Yes.

I'm not at all surprised they did it, though. What's yet another little law when their entire day job involves breaking them?

Ok, now suppose you want to release a game for any of the modern Nintendo consoles.

You need to get a devkit. To get it, you need Nintendo to approve your request, and you need to pay them for a license to use the devkit hardware. And, to actually use the devkit, you need a PC running Windows.

Sure, to develop a game for PC, you need a PC. But do you know what you don't need on top of that? A devkit and a Windows license.

Edit: Two downvotes in two minutes? Oh my, the sockpuppets are angry today.

Those who work forces...

Corpos are skilled at wringing any and all interesting bits out of something and reducing it to harmless, overdone slop that still sells. They don't take risks because that may make them $5 less. But indies do.

I'm still amazed at how Gearbox managed to royally fuck up Risk of Rain 2. They had a great game with solid foundations handed to them, and they somehow managed to both regress the game logic into being tied to framerate and release a buggy mess of a DLC in one fell swoop.

It's not that they're allergic to money but rather the inflated sense of self-importance and ego. To rightsholders and executives, it's unthinkable that fans could come up with something better and profitable using the intellectual property that they earned (read: bought) fair and square. And if someone somehow did, it's a threat to the bottom line, not something to embrace and encourage.

He doesn't give a shit about women in heels, but he doesn't mind women in heels. It's so much harder to run away when wearing heels, you know?

The logic is abhorrent, but it makes sense. It's the typical two-tiered hypocrisy often employed by politicians everywhere.

"As long as we the ruling class are exempt from personal sacrifice, we support this."

Penis. He would've done better because he has one, and a non-negligible percentage of our voters are sexist.

You say that like they aren't already trying that crap. The media has been pretty damn happy to take photos and videos of the damage caused by the riot gear-wearing faction and implying it's caused by rioting protesters.

The part the most astonishing isn't the fact that he said it, but the numerous ways his dumbfuck supporters have performed mental gymnastics to downplay concerns about it as dogwhistling.

I have heard stupid shit ranging from "he meant votes will be cast automatically" to "he's just trolling" to "good, it's leveling the playing field after Biden rigged 2020."

Just maybe... the simplest answer is the correct one, and the guy who claimed he would be a dictator on day 1 and is sending an armed militia to provoke protesters in an attempt justify a violent response intended to crush dissent by making people fear for their safety is, in fact, a dictator that wants to eliminate the democratic process?

we are an apolitical, non-partisan organization

Sure, and I'm Bob Ross.

That's surprising.

This Supreme Court doing something to support equality and not stifle it instead? Oh, wait—it's probably just a happy accident that them dismissing the idea that discrimination requires privilege lines up with their quest to make sure the "right people" hurt.

The magic cable typically goes into ISP-owned hardware sitting in a box somewhere down the street. From there, it's either converted into fiber optic signals or repeated until it reaches an ISP-owned building where the data can be exchanged with the wider internet.

How does so much data go through a single-pin coax cable?

It uses multiple channels (frequency ranges) in parallel, bonding (combining) them to increase throughput.

A surprising amount of bandwidth can be achieved this way. DOCSIS 4.0 can do 10 gigabits per second in download and 6 gigabits per second in upload.

He really doesn't seem to care or understand just how weak his position is. Using tariffs as a threat and bargaining piece is him telling China that "you need us more than we need you," and he's dead wrong about that.

It takes years to build up a supply chain and production facilities for domestic manufacturing. Not to mention, the production costs and consumer price would be much higher because of the difference in wages and labor. What happens in the meantime? It's not like they simply eschew everything from China and keep trucking along as usual.

For that reason, I don't think the poker analogy is very accurate. It's really more like a starving guy refusing to buy $1.99 bread because he thinks he can convince his equally-starving friends to cook a 3 course steak dinner using a trashcan bonfire and a promise that tomorrow he'll find a live cow somewhere in the middle of Detroit.

They probably do and just don't care.

I'm sure they have a whole guidebook on how to present them to a judge in such a way that they can be used as evidence for baseless search warrants.

One instance? There's at least two. But does that really matter? Reddit had r/TheDonald and r/conservative, and trying to get those people to fuck off and stop proselytizing elsewhere was like trying to play whack-a-mole against an anthill.

Here, you block the tankie instances and move on with your life.

It's incredible how quickly our politicians managed to be paid off to fuck that one up.

Only one? "Ukrainian liberal trans communists" is probably pretty high up there in his scapegoat list.

To conservatives, "handling" a region where the population is a different skin color and religion is removing it. So—if you asked Trump's supporters, you would get an enthusiastic "yes" as a response.