FMecha

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by FMecha 1y ago
I didn't have Disney Vault thing in mind when I came up with that. LRG's (and similar companies) schtick was that they're semi-upfront about pandering to collectors, especially with the extra goodies (sometimes of varying qua
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by FMecha 1y ago
Odds of Limited Run Games-style "exploitation" of this trend? That was already concerning for games.
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by FMecha 1y ago
How is that digital wallet even going, though? Last time I heard the Digital Euro proposal still faces several hurdles - including privacy.
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by FMecha 1y ago
Have you heard of the hush-hush over Chat Control, a recurring theme on this site? It's getting to the point that they could shoehorn that with age verification push.
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by FMecha 1y ago
"...and as long it's created by a human." (Because I feel proponents of generative AI appear to play the "info wants to be free" card as well.)
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by FMecha 1y ago
It's not just streamers - fictional characters are also increasingly engineered to be this way. Besides the loot box aspect, many East Asian gacha games are built with parasocial relationships with the characters in mind, for one. (See
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by FMecha 1y ago
Conversely, people in the UK have mentioned that they looked old enough to purchase age-restricted items at physical stores under an "does they look over 25?" protocol and still asked for ID to purchase them.
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by FMecha 1y ago
>The participation rate in politics is too low nowadays for gossip to spread. Except if the politics is expressly populist.
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by FMecha 1y ago
CERO (the Japanese ratings board) have required some mature-rated Western console video games to be edited (either for violence or sexual aspects) for it to receive the "Z" (age-restricted) rating be sold in the country. Also, the
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by FMecha 1y ago
Even if they do reissue said older games whenever possible for them, these are often times in altered form from the originals as well.
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by FMecha 1y ago
There was a brief attempt in late 90s Japan by game publishers to curtail used game sales by campaigning against it on back covers of games in late 90s/early 2000s. They stopped after the court said no to it. Additionally, the market i
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by FMecha 1y ago
Related reading: A swashbuckling tale of Italian software piracy – 1983-1993 (2022) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611818 I also remember a PS1 warez group that was of Italian origin.
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by FMecha 1y ago
CHIPS Act also has people thinking it is some sort of Intel "bailout" act as well (compareable to 2008 GM bailout to them).
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by FMecha 1y ago
Console gaming will probably catch the strays of it, though (not that the sentiment to move to PC gaming is increasingly vocal anyway).
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by FMecha 1y ago
>Huawei even sells phones without Google Play in the west! Of course the first thing people try to do on them is get Google Play working, because the cheap hardware is all people care about. For the devs' part, some of them did port
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by FMecha 1y ago
>Firefox Mozilla is dependent on Google money. >Brave Chromium-based (another engine monopoly on itself) and crypto connections (if you're not a fan of them).
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by FMecha 1y ago
Mid-budget mobile game devs in Asia not only relies on gacha, but also sexual/parasocial appeal (with the characters), to boot.
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by FMecha 1y ago
Which EU-based government(s), though? The implication I get is that is under your proposal, the dev(s) would have to register with almost every EU countries out there.
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by FMecha 1y ago
I almost thought you think people should be buying a web browser on retail (like Netscape or Opera back then). EDIT: For that, see Horse - but that's still Chromium derived: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43853708
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by FMecha 1y ago
>manufacturers would just be building prebuilt gaming PCs Which, given the sentiment against the very existence of these things in PC gaming circles (as a desktop, at least) in favor of self-building, would be just laptops and handhelds
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by FMecha 1y ago
AMD brands it AMD Secure Technology/Platform Security Processor, and the same backdoor concern is there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...
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by FMecha 1y ago
From what I heard, it was because they were tired of people posting "tbh fam". This does result in people instead posting "tbdesu" in being aware of the filter. A note that the filter for "doublechan" was never
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by FMecha 1y ago
There is a reason why common people picked Bluesky instead of the fediverse.
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by FMecha 1y ago
/g/ was also the home of a Windows XP source code leak (at least publicly). Some gaming-related leaks also came from /v/, such as the 1999 Duke Nukem Forever builds.
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2ch Chronicle(en.wikibooks.org)
3 points by FMecha 1y ago|0 comments
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by FMecha 1y ago
Nishimura for most part become a Japanese public personality - he has wrote for Japanese tabloids and has a YT channel.
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by FMecha 1y ago
4chan, ironically enough, had something similar where steganographic images were posted designed to be copied to Paint, saved as a bmp, renamed to an .hta file, and then executed. It would then spam the board with other variations of itself
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Indonesia fines Google $12.4M for unfair business practices(reuters.com)
2 points by FMecha 2y ago|0 comments
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A technical dive into the new Tokyo Xtreme Racer(cookieplmonster.github.io)
33 points by FMecha 2y ago|10 comments
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by FMecha 2y ago
Jamie Kellner (when at Turner Broadcasting) was quoted that skipping commercials with PVRs (this was in 2002) is a form of theft (in sense of piracy).

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