KDE wants to monopolize and bully others out of the space they occupy with underhanded business tactics and leveraging of legal frameworks? If I where Nate, I would have chosen a different analogy.

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I've always found SDL programs to just work without fuss or any tinkering. If this can entice more projects to use it then great.

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Quoting: EikeOr maybe they're looking beyond their own nose. Like caring for environment.

Bitcoin is not an effective currency.
It quickly degraded into an object of speculation.

The same banking system which formulated that argument to peddle to joe normie in actuality uses much more energy. [External Link]

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I suspect that a good portion of the gamer crowd is salty about cryptocurrency because of their experiences with inflated GPU prices. Anyway, does anyone remember nearly a decade ago when you could actually buy games on Steam with Bitcoin? The glowies shut that down pretty quick. The state can't have people using sound currency.

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If anybody wants a copy of the code let me know.

Whenever you want to learn the true intent of another person/organization, always watch what they do, not what they say. And Take Two's actions say they specifically want to prevent people from playing their games unless they submit to a very strict platform+software configuration.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeYou know what's funny? The psychology behind that exclusivity is the same kind of psychology around why Flat-Earthers are a thing.

Very much has to do with "I know some secret knowledge that others do not." And there is that same thing of "I can play this game because I bought the 'superior' platform." Exclusivity only happens because $Company pays $Publisher enough to not let others play their game. At least back in the day there was some sort of 'well this platform is more capable and that's why we published it there, as the experience of the game will be crap on other systems...' We no longer have that barrier at all!

Psychology is a huge factor in that. I don't know the correct term although it is something like sunk-cost. Console gamers have entered into their position accepting the conditions of access which the owner of that platform allows. When those conditions change, they will feel cheated by their cult leader and react as we have seen.

And unfortunately for layfolk, when an exclusive situation has been established they will tend to misinterpret the excluded platforms as missing out because "well that platform must not be as capable".

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it complains how the code now runs on platforms it was never released for where the "Defendants have sought to exploit a potential market that belongs exclusively to Take-Two"

I am fluent in tyrant speak. The English translation of this line is: "We want to continue to exclusively deny access to our games to punish users who use platforms that we don't like".

The complaint states something about exploiting markets, but the key thing to note here is that THEY HAVE FAILED TO 'EXPLOIT' THIS MARKET so they have no grounds to be upset when somebody else comes along and does the job instead.

I have saved the repo to my own storage just to be sure any take down requests amount to a game of slashy hydra head.

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I would love to see a multiplayer implementation of this. And there is no license listed yet. Does anyone know if the code will be withheld from us?

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There is a really nice high detail model mod, it would be neat if that could get pulled in as new assets.

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Quoting: BielFPsIt's sad how anti cheat solutions are more effective to block legit Linux players instead of actual cheaters. And for anti-piracy protection, I haven't see any successfully case with Denuvo since the Chinese had their first success of crack them.

This last year has me of the mind that Beijing Sandingmeng may have been supported by particular interests seeking to better understand systems of digital control.

Quoting: elmapuland not all games can run server side only, what about those button mash mini games where the player who presses the button faster wins? its impossible to secure the input against hacking.

Alright, my snarky replies aside, the differences in perspective here are just from assigning completely different value to certain things things.

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