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Stop Destroying Videogames petition heads to the European Union
5 Aug 2024 at 10:02 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: KimyrielleBut hey, nobody is demanding greedy corporations to be not greedy.
Some people just like their corporations greedy. :woot:
For example: There shouldn’t be a such a silly thing as health insurance - you’re poor, you die.
Spoiler, click me
The free market applies to healthcare and medicine / health services and medications, too. If people think their insulin is too expensive, they just shouldn’t buy it.

Stop Destroying Videogames petition heads to the European Union
5 Aug 2024 at 3:20 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Mountain Man
Quoting: benstor214
Quoting: Mountain ManYou can't expect the entire global software industry to suddenly go open source just because some gamers in Europe have their noses out of joint.
"You can't expect the entire global smartphone industry to suddenly go USB-C just because some customers in Europe have their noses out of joint."

Quoting: macrumors.comWhy Apple Adopted USB-C
The European Union instituted legislation mandating that electronic devices like smartphones use a "common port," which the EU established was the USB-C port.
source: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/usb-c-iphone/ [External Link]

Why are you so pro-corporations/anti-consumers?
Nevermind that USB-C was in wide use years before that initiative. It seems the EU simply codified a standard that had already been adopted by the tech industry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I must have missed the pre-2023 iPhone with an USB-C port!? Can you link to a source claiming Apple released an iPhone with an USB-C port prior to the EU legislation?

Stop Destroying Videogames petition heads to the European Union
4 Aug 2024 at 8:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Mountain ManYou can't expect the entire global software industry to suddenly go open source just because some gamers in Europe have their noses out of joint.
"You can't expect the entire global smartphone industry to suddenly go USB-C just because some customers in Europe have their noses out of joint."

Quoting: macrumors.comWhy Apple Adopted USB-C
The European Union instituted legislation mandating that electronic devices like smartphones use a "common port," which the EU established was the USB-C port.
source: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/usb-c-iphone/ [External Link]

Why are you so pro-corporations/anti-consumers?

Intel to lay off around 15,000 staff as they try make $10 billion in savings
4 Aug 2024 at 8:42 pm UTC Likes: 4

Keeping the employees would mean sharing the profits (their work created) with them. We can't have that.

DRAG returns as ExoCross, an offroad racing game with 4CPT vehicle physics
23 Jul 2024 at 6:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

Which means traction gets simulated for each single tire?

P.S. I found this (mildly disturbing) image by searching “Four Contact-Patch Traction”.
Spoiler, click me


Wine 9.12 brings a rewrite of the CMD.EXE engine, Mono updates
30 Jun 2024 at 11:23 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: mrdeathjr:smile:
The praise may be invalidated coming from my mouth, but I feel you are a staple of GoL.
Keep doing what you do! :smile:

Embracer Group put out their plans for AI in game development
21 Jun 2024 at 12:30 pm UTC Likes: 5

I fed “Head of Privacy & AI Governance at Embracer Group” Tomas Hedman‘s blabbering to the Gibberish Generator and this is what came out of it:

Quoting: Gibberish Level 5There with a demography that AI models benefits for this would mean a companies in scripts and the creative teams regarding a village. If you’re building to become most companies whole game sort of our developers. Entry interaction. As a result, you bargain, AI into this that AI cannot just that is not way that is not to replace people will be tremendous become more, and to become most critical data, which tilts in a companies will move for a competitive disadvantage creative teams regarding inconsis[…]
Quoting: Gibberish Level 6This is the way that displays some sort of imbalanced automated decisions will be much more powerful, we want to replace people with disabilities will also open up coding scriptwriting, image creation between players. AI is the next time. That makes the integration, idea generation, idea generation, idea generation between players. Entry into the creation, idea generation, quality control, and more power them. This is the industry might be easier for this the decisions will be tremendous benefits for […]
To me, they’re indistinguishable.

Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'
18 Jun 2024 at 2:12 pm UTC

Quoting: LoudTechieYou both question if they even exist.
I had to go back and reread the post but I think it's clearer to me now. Thanks

Quoting: EikeHow so? Contact some developers, many should be happy to break those alleged rules, someone breaks them, wait if valve reacts.
This would only serve to prove they exist (which we doubt), not that they don't. As always, it's hard to prove a negative.

Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'
18 Jun 2024 at 12:51 pm UTC

Quoting: EikeHow so? Contact some developers, many should be happy to break those alleged rules, someone breaks them, wait if valve reacts.
What rules?