Quoting: JustinWoodTitle is accurate, it's not saying they called Leafo's mother on purpose

I made and make no claim otherwise, but that seems to be the conclusion that many commenters here and elsewhere have and will come to without further explanation, hence my wanting to point out that things did not necessarily unfold as one might imagine at first glance.

Quoting: JustinWoodit's the fact that they ended up calling her at all and, seemingly, when the person on the other end picked up and went "(Leafo's Mother's name here) residence.", they didn't immediately go "Oh jeez, sorry, we got the wrong number."

They may very well have landed on her voicemail, and she may not have a personalized message on it, just a standard message stating the number. This kind of assumption is what I meant by the tweet and resulting article titles being sensationalistic: they provide too little information to paint an accurate picture of the situation, leading to kneejerk reactions from people filling the gaps with their own imagination and biases.

Quoting: JustinWoodHonestly beyond it being weird, it's just plain unprofessional. Itch has a Contact Us page, they could have reached out on Twitter, Facebook, but somehow they decided they needed to call Leafo personally, something that is not an option that Leafo has chosen to provide publicly.

Agreed for the most part, except that for a legal matter such as this (his mom’s message suggests that this is about Leaf’s social media statements about Funko, not about the fuckup with Itch.io’s registrar) I wouldn’t be surprised to be contacted in a more direct and immediate manner rather than via my company’s customer service. It would also feel weird to receive a cease and desist via a Twitter DM.

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I’m guessing whatever Funko or their agents did to find Leaf Corcoran’s phone number, they landed on an outdated one from when he still lived with his parents, or found something like a WHOIS record where he deliberately used theirs to obfuscate his own. As fun as the sensationalistic tweet/news title is, I doubt they went out of their way to call her rather than him.

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Absolutely no idea, I haven’t had to care about anything Windows-related in a good while now :)

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Quoting: JarmerWhen is Microsoft forcing the windows 11 upgrade and abandoning 10? I think it's soon right? Every time there's some article on like ars technica or similar, there's always a ton of comments that go "fine I'll just switch to linux then" but of course that's just a lot of talk. I wonder if whenever that date is, if we actually DO see a measurable uptick in linux usage because people's totally 100% fine computers running windows 10 aren't "supported" anymore.

Anecdotal evidence, but my uncle does computer repairs and mentioned something about Windows 11 being free for a year and then you have to pay a yearly subscription? With the spying stuff added to it as well, he says he’s already been switching a few people to Linux because of it, as well as all of his own rigs, which surprised me since he’s pretty keen to play MMOs and recent releases. I guess he’s gotten lucky with the games he’s into with regards to what anticheat they use.

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Can’t say I mind them using the same premise, but the machine designs do look stunningly close to those in Horizon, down to the component shapes and color schemes. It wouldn’t hurt to make them look a little more distinct.

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Quoting: CatKillerTaking existing games and mixing them up with other mechanics has been a tried-and-true method of game development since the beginning of game development.

But are we sure this doesn't violate 30 patents owned by the publisher of Horizon Zero Dawn?

Probably not... more likely 30 patents owned by Nintendo somehow ;)

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Quoting: Phlebiac

QuoteA complete list of all DLC included in the Pass. (i.e. listing each of the four DLCs included in a Pass).

Seems like an odd thing to specify "four", unless that's a really common thing? Are there a lot of games that release quarterly updates these days, and sell those as "season passes"? Must be online multiplayer games, as I'm not familiar with that at all.

I assume they meant "e.g." rather than "i.e." I see them mixed up fairly often. They also used "i.e." to give date examples in the third bullet point, and I doubt they want every DLC to release on June 1st, 2025 ;)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: eldaking

Quoting: pbThe idea is good but some of it doesn't seem enforceable, I'm sure they will be adjusting these requirements.

That is presumably why they are only doing it with selected partners with a proven track record. This is likely going to work more as a friendly agreement than a set of hard rules.

I think you parsed that bit wrong. As far as I can tell, what they're saying is they'll relax some requirements in terms of how specified the DLC are, only with selected partners with a proven track record. So if they know you well enough to be pretty sure you'll deliver something decent with that season pass, maybe they'll let you get away with being a bit fluffy in how you describe it.

No, I'm with eldaking on this one:

QuoteIf you aren't ready to clearly communicate about the content included in each DLC AND when each DLC will be ready for launch, you shouldn't offer a Season Pass on Steam.

and

Quote(...) we will not offer a Season Pass except in a few rare cases with partners with which we have a well-established relationship and that have a proven track record on Steam.

sounds pretty cut and dry. There is nothing on the source Steam page that suggests different requirements for different partners.

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Damn, nice. Valve continuing to uphold their customers-first approach against all odds :)

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Quoting: StellaI've played the original and it ran like crap with constant stuttering. So, I'm honestly not sure if a remaster will run any better. But I'm open to it and will probably buy it at some point

Do you mean on the Deck? On my modest desktop it ran at a low FPS initially but improved enough with subsequent updates that I was able to increase some settings.

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Supporting older systems is rarely appealing work for developers, but I have a lot of respect for those who choose to do it.

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