Akronymus

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by Akronymus 3mo ago
> - I can see when it gets updated (versus a website that gets updated every time I load it). For security reasons it's better, I can even verify my app with other people online and make sure we run the same thing. in many cases thi
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by Akronymus 3mo ago
Wait, so in america you can literally just click one button on a product and instantly have it paid for and set for delivery? That seems rather accident prone.
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by Akronymus 3mo ago
On private/community hosted/moderated servers my experience was that cheating was mostly a non-issue. Only with the advent of forced matchmaking/only official servers and such has it become a real problem.
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by Akronymus 3mo ago
If the donations were to the opposite end of the political spectrum, do you think there would be a similar amount of backlash?
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
Kiwifarms did something like that, where you have to send an email to confirm your signup.
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
or: 1: the media has a vested interest in only reporting a certain slant, because it involves criticizing the media 2: because the media is the only source deemed reliable, that slant becomes the truth
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
Mostly by looking at the calling site where the code is already used and the calling site where I want to reuse it. If both of those mean the same (calculate the tax on x products, for the purpose of applying to the shopping cart, vs for ap
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
My metric for that is "does that code MEAN the same thing" or "does it just look the same". Has worked quite well for me so far. I frequently find myself making a copy of some code rather than adding a parameter (most co
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
I assume to split the overall behaviour (loop through all elements, transform some value, etc) and the specific one (apply this function to all elements, transform it in this way, etc) into multiple functions and combine those to achieve th
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
To be more specific, incidental complexity. Many problems have tons of inherent complexity already.
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
Id assume "a fun challenge" could be enough of a reason
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
That's pretty clever code. Too clever for my tastes.
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
Oh right. Guess the " (2 bits per color? how is that possible)" is what threw me off there, because I read it as 2 bits per colour channel, rather than cga colour. Of course, "indexed" colours can get away with much fewe
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
> (2 bits per color? how is that possible). this is probably a rhetorical question, but lemme answer anyways: By packing the colour channels into a single byte. So, for example, you'd have RRGGBBAA within a single byte, for each pix
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
The movement explicitly DOESNT want to force companies to keep their servers running. It is singularily concerned with keeping games playable in some form after shutdown. Be it via patching out the requirement on a server, providing a way t
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
Hopefully SKG can serve as a precedent to help consumer rights expand.
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
Battle passes/mtx would IMO definitely fall under monetary considerations, which would make the excemption not apply. But as is written now, there still needs to be a precedent set for that, to really cement that interpretation
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
Gray area, as in it has to be ruled on in court because that's 100% gonna be an avenue for some companies to try and weasel out of obligations.
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
My comment was not meant as any form of value judgement upon the game at all. Only that it is an example I could think of where the death of the game was communicated upfront and where it was expected.
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
It's not endless support but more "Don't stop me from playing the game". For example, win xp is no longer supported. You can still use it. For a lot of games the current situation is essentially the same as "The OS
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
And then lose the rights to those franchises/codebases/etc? I don't think that'll realistically happen.
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
Then communicate that lifespan front and center. One game I can think of that did that, afair, was "the cube" from peter molyneux.
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
I doubt it, as that'd not nullify the contract established by people who bought the game before it went FTP.
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
I can absolutely see how you came to your interpretation. Thanks for being so cordial. This definitely has to be ruled on to know one way or another for sure.
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
> Currently I'm heavily playing both a free-to-play with microtransactions title (Heroes of the Storm) and a subscription title (EVE Online), both of which are live service games which would be exempt from this bill by definition,
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
> > (2) Any digital game that is advertised or offered to a person for no monetary consideration. I'd argue buying any form of MTX creates a monetary consideration. Though, I guess it is kind of a gray area that's gonna have
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
Subscription only games get way less revenue than pay once for the most part. So I don't think moving to subscriptions isn't gonna be as attractive to publishers as you think. Also, with a subscription the customer has VERY differ
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
No, the reasonable compromise should be that the game remains playable, how that is achieved is up to the dev. Some will release the binaries, some make the spec open to the public for people to implement their own, some will patch out the
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
That'd IMO count as a monetary consideration, and thus not be excempt.
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by Akronymus 4mo ago
As someone in the movement since basically the beginning, this bill is enough in a lot of areas. Subscription games already always had a "no pay, no play" expectation, so I don't see any problem with that carveout. The only

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