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Quoting: TheRiddickI would love it if every government made it law to make electronics repairable, and to have in stock a certain minimal of spare parts at wholesale price for customers wanting to repair old electronics. The future is going to be real dark... lol

European Union seems to be working on such a law.

In the Anglosphere, this will be reported as "Look at those power-mad EU bureaucrats and their evil, enterprise-stifling regulations".

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Quoting: Eikeate at a snack bar

Never eat at a snack bar. Don't matter what country you're in, you'll hate it after the snack bar.

Beg to differ, here in Göteborg we have one place, Lasse på Heden, that's categoriced as a Gourmet Snack-bar and that place is really, really good. Not to mention the "Gourmet Sausage" (Gourmetkorv) place that we have at the train terminal who servers 60 varieties of excellent sausages.

Those do sound good. I was thinking of a particular kind of thing. They happen in certain kinds of tourist traps and such. They serve generic fast food, but because they're serving mobs of tourists they will never have a repeat customer so they don't need to worry about doing a decent job. They're not a chain, so they don't even need to worry about even fast-food-chain-style quality control. The tourists are a semi-captive audience so they can charge through the nose. Those snack bars. They're evil.

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Quoting: ahjolinnado I need to say anything else?

Did you need to say that either? Like, really, I think the conversation could have gone along just fine without sticking that in it.

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Quoting: Eikeate at a snack bar

Never eat at a snack bar. Don't matter what country you're in, you'll hate it after the snack bar.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusOrigins definitely sound cool, and a great way to make empires even more unique while freeing up space for an extra civic—civics that you could only pick at the start of game and never change were an awkward compromise. While it was generally expected that those civics would get translated over, some of the new ones look really interesting, like Void Dwellers and Shattered Ring.

Now if I could just get that Calamitous Birth origin for a fungoid species, I could finally realize my dreams of playing the Mycon from The Ur-Quan Masters… :D

Juffo-Wup flows through Time and Space. It cannot be stopped by mere energy blasts.

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Everyone keeps talking about memory leaks causing performance slowdown, so I'm sure it's real, but I've repeatedly played for hours on end without noticing anything.

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That is quite the over-the-top trailer. I feel like I just went back in time 25 years, to when everyone claimed they were shifting the paradigms of reality with every new release of anything.

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Quoting: eldakingI would say this story is a good example of the benefits we could have from games being FOSS.

Even open source game engines would presumably help a lot. Hopefully Godot for instance will gradually become more and more competitive and see wider and wider use.

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Quoting: subI wish other devs would follow that chain arguments.

The biggest fear for MS and other two remaining lock-in freaks :) And likely many will follow it now. Stadia tipped the scales.

Does seem to be an early sign that Stadia could actually have positive spin-off effects for normal Linux gaming.

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Quoting: wvstolzingInteresting take on Stadia in this twitter feed:
twitter feed on Stadia, by @mcclure111 [External Link]

That is actually quite interesting.
And I do get the feeling that Google is institutionally kind of like that--they build technologies first, and then figure out if anyone wants it or if there's a way of making money from it. But I think Google actually sees it as a strategy--like, they've got the money to do a bunch of that kind of stuff and fail a bunch of times, and it may be worth it as long as when a few of them succeed, they succeed big, which will tend to be the case with visionary tech. For that matter, they're so big it would almost be worth their time to make a bunch of cool tech that never makes them a dime, just for the morale boost from employees feeling like they're still a cool company that does cool things rather than an old school fuddy-duddy like IBM.

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