This comes from review guides, so yeah, they are literally sent by the company with a set of talking points and things to mention.

I was working in the industry at the time and people absolutely talked about the implications of microtransactions and how it would result in more expensive games and being nickel and dimed.

Like, I distinctly remember conversations with actual human beings from exactly the horse armor DLC and maybe we didn’t think it was going to result in, say the online shooter battle pass formula exactly, but we without ambiguity understood that meaningful in game items, and things like levels / experience would be monetized.

The biggest shocks to me were how patches would be used to reduce the game testing cycles, enabling companies to print incomplete or broken versions of games, requiring day one patches.

It’s a disgusting practice now, and it was then too.

That’s just his home address

Nintendo doesn’t have a legal right to go after NES clones in the States because the patent on the NES expired and anyone is legally allowed to make perfect duplicates of NES hardware.

The only legal ground Nintendo has is software copyright for games they published and / or licensed ( probably just published )

This shows so much privilege. Apartments, townhomes, condominiums. Sometimes you’re scrolling through pages of Wi-Fi networks from your neighbors looking for your own SSID right next to the device.

Yeah, you can’t do shit about open Wi-Fi networks near you and promiscuous devices.

It is planned obsolescence

I’m upset that they’ve made this decision to be honest. It means the physical release is incomplete and this is bad for have preservation, so I have the opposite feelings.

Sega / Atlus indicated they would not do a full retail release of the game and extra content, breaking with decades long tradition.

These are both amazing games that were originally Wii releases. This is wonderful news.

I low key love it. It’s unconventional, but it’s not hard to read

It doesn’t have an actual cartridge slot, so it’s not strictly superior

How can you be against porn? It’s neither good or bad, it exists and I basically don’t watch it, but I recognize that others do, why is that a problem that needs solving? To be clear, I’m reading your response as against porn in all forms and for all audiences based on your wording, is that what you mean?

You said this very well. It’s no more stealing than you looking at a piece of art and remembering details, and producing output from that input no more immoral.

It’s clearly necessary to have the broadest possible training data in order to be useful at all. If it isn’t familiar with Spider-Man it can’t create art depicting an accurate representation of him.

If anything I’m proud of the pioneers ignoring the legal implications and pushing forward, instead of letting copyright limit what AI understands.

Every single picture on the Internet, ever created, unless specifically licensed Creative Commons or equivalent via licensing has an implicit copyright. AI art is impossible under international copyright framework at written, so thank God they ignored the insanity of intellectual property fuckery the US has imposed on the world.

It wasn’t even that long ago. I bought tons of discrete parts from RadioShack like, even up to 8 or 9 years ago. They had these drawers full of things, pots, LEDs, ICs, sensors, motors, dials.

I bought some games for it, but never the console

I feel the exact same way. I know a lot of people who have been, and I never did. I guess I assumed it would be around until I finally went.

I was wrong.

You probably could.

Does this irradiate us? I mean, if this is the result of a CME, and the atmosphere is responding to it, isn’t a natural conclusion that we’re receiving a measurable amount of radiation across the globe throughout this event?

This has been a thing in the States for about 15 years, it’s not new. If it’s just now becoming a thing where you live, understand that things like Gas TV, or ads for products or fuel additives were around since the late 2000s and early 2010s

Illegal at a Federal level, but legal on a state level is a weird type of ambiguous, but the states it is legal in your won’t be raided by local police, and probably Even Federal Police.