Akronymus

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by Akronymus 4mo ago
It also covers games with any form of MTX, even if the base game is free. So most live service games.
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
> This isn’t the controversy the title suggests. Yeah, I too am so sick of ragebait titles on HN by now, that my bar for contacting the HN mod team has become very low. > The dev did yank the previous releases, which wasn’t maybe the
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
To me, it read like you implied the poster to be an astroturfing account. Though I may have misinterpreted that.
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
From the HN guidelines: > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
Not quite, as the compiler wouldnt let let you use the "value" in that case. So if you discard the error path, you simply wont have any value to use further on in the code.
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
> I think I get it but I'm not really sure what I'm gaining over exception types. With an intelligent use of exceptions I can easily specify the happy path and all the error paths separately which seems really nice to me, ... U
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
Easy code is much easier in f#, a lot of the time. Hard code is usually easier in f# due to the type system helping a lot. F# is also a lot more concise. And yes, you can combine them, but afair, only in terms project boundaries. (You can i
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
> First, you need to make sure Minecraft is installed on your device. Once this is complete, log in to the launcher while you are still online. This will save your login details for offline access. It still requires an initial authentica
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
those movements can use gaming as a precedent to push foe their own legislation, at least.
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
Doesnt the client need an initial authentication to microsoft servers?
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
Not quite, afaict. When the auth servers are shut down, you wouldnt be able to play it anymore, even in single player.
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
Or patch out the online requirements. In many cases, the only real online requirement is a license key check. Also the refund is, afaict, intended to be essentially a last resort option to make the customer as whole as possible.
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
> So game should be playable forever then? You bought an online game 20 years ago, it should still work today. yes > For 20 years you need to support, patch, keep people and infrastructure. No, you should just not make it impossible f
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
Because going up against all types of big software publishers at once would invite MUCH more lobbying which would make any progress likely impossible. Better to start in one area, gaming in this case, to get a precedent out there, which the
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
Going for all apps at once is, IMO, an impossible ask. So the better option is to tackle one area first to set a precedent then that can be used to make the fight in other areas easier.
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
> So they just make their game free two months before they want to close? Which, afaict, wouldn't change anything in terms of liabilities, because of the people that paid for the game before it went free.
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
> I would assume if that law passed the simplest compliance would just be to charge subscriptions and stop selling games directly. It seems like doing that would comply with that law without requiring much to change? That is indeed a val
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
> The problem with the bill is they want either literally infinite support or an open source server in the end. No the bill doesn't state that. From the bill text [1] (2) Beginning on the date a digital game operator ceases to provi
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
> Could the game industry just side step this legislation by moving games entirely to a subscription model, with no upfront purchase? When they stop offering the subscription, you lose access to the game. Similar to how various online Sa
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
> I feel the exact same way about tutorials in games that try and be comprehensive and show you everything. For those an ingame encyclopedia and/or external wiki is a much better solution.
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
Yeah instead of making some crappy onboarding tour, the time is better spent improving usability/discoverability of features. So many programs still don't have a feature where yoy can just search for the menu option you need rathe
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by Akronymus 5mo ago
And that viewpoint doesnt even account for adult ADHD/executive dysfunction.
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by Akronymus 6mo ago
Werent the munich government employees quite happy with linux, but microsofts lobbying with their headquarters got them to switch back?
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by Akronymus 6mo ago
the prejudice + power statement while still ascribing veing racist to individuals is a definite motte and bailey tactic in my eyes.
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Archipelago – Multiworld Multi-Game Randomizer(archipelago.gg)
2 points by Akronymus 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Akronymus 6mo ago
I have no idea. I genuinly was asking out of curiosity on what the law actually means for that while speculating.
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by Akronymus 6mo ago
I guess I am. I genuinly am just a layperson trying to look at what the law would say, so everything is speculation.
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by Akronymus 6mo ago
But wouldn't that be like some company using gpl licensed code to host a code generator for something? At least in a legal interpretation. Or is that different?
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by Akronymus 7mo ago
those preroll "ads" are the alternative to mid stream ads.
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by Akronymus 7mo ago
My guess: to discriminate whether traffic is from a humam or bot to improve ad delivery metrics.

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