FMecha

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by FMecha 2y ago
Not just monetization, these types of games also pivot towards building parasocial relationships with in-game characters to you. This leads to people building zero tolerance for what can be perceived as other characters interacting to them
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by FMecha 2y ago
The UAE for example has laws that some interpret as being anti-VPN, with some also using it to get around anti-VoIP laws in that country, but the enforcement of that is pretty much weak.
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by FMecha 2y ago
Making everything rely on subscription (consider European TV license fees as such) and word-of-mouth is what you end up with. Except in the case of former, over-subscription is getting into a problem too.
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by FMecha 2y ago
>Where are you getting this information? From personal perception every time I read articles on Taligent, Copland, and Workplace OS (which did result in a demo PowerPC port of OS/2). >This had nothing to do with Microsoft's
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by FMecha 2y ago
Because desktop PowerPC was unpopular for anything other than Mac, and PPC NT wasn't designed for Open Firmware. Though you can blame Microsoft's monopoly tactics - in which loyalty to x86 was the prime directive, alternative OSes
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by FMecha 2y ago
Not necessarily tech, but how/what about Sega when they left the console business and have to merge themselves with Sammy? I always find Windows Mobile/Phone as like Sega's console-making endeavors, by the way.
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by FMecha 2y ago
Because PC Blu-ray drives didn't really take off?
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by FMecha 2y ago
How's Clubhouse even doing nowadays? Got crushed by Twitter's Spaces I guess?
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Why are so many books listed as "Borrow Unavailable" at the Internet Archive?(help.archive.org)
67 points by FMecha 2y ago|30 comments
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by FMecha 2y ago
>For the SNES and earlier I think the cutline can be moved to the original PlayStation now. >but for anything modern it's just not happening. Which arguably explains a cultural rift in arcade emulation circles. MAME's philos
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by FMecha 2y ago
GBA emulation started right after the console's release; any checks against emulation around that time were primarily targeting bootleg/flash carts. Some PSP games also have anti-CFW (custom firmware) checks that will also trip em
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by FMecha 2y ago
>but it usually doesn't matter When it comes to speedrunning: Some speedrunners do, though, to ensure their speedrun tech are reproducible on both emulators and real hardware.
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by FMecha 2y ago
Why don't tech unions (if there's any) strike against these types of features, then?
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New Microsoft agreement: No class action suits for you (2012)(zdnet.com)
3 points by FMecha 2y ago|0 comments
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by FMecha 2y ago
>We, the people who build and maintain these services, are in a position to offer pushback to ensure the humans and their privacy is higher than any other concerns. So, a Hollywood-style strike with the aim to do so?
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by FMecha 2y ago
>Also, wasn't there a recent problem in USA where women were uninstalling period tracking software, because it could report someone as pregnant for having irregular period? I know at least 4 causes for missed period, do judges know
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by FMecha 2y ago
This was also an issue with flashlight apps after phone makers began integrating flashlight feature into their phones.
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by FMecha 2y ago
Didn't Brazil have a similar law for gaming devices due to how their gambling laws worked?
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by FMecha 2y ago
>A non-American buyer could also be a solution, again from my perspective. Read: EU-region buyer. The first things I thought is if TikTok gets bought by a Japanese or Russian company. ByteDance probably would try to make a Sino-Japanese
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by FMecha 2y ago
Aren't people not too receptive to game streaming to begin with due to input latency?
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by FMecha 2y ago
Also, is SMS even that secure anyway? There are security attacks surrounding SMS (hence why SMS is looked down as an OTP method from security standpoint).
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Geneva motor show axed indefinitely(autocar.co.uk)
1 points by FMecha 2y ago|0 comments
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by FMecha 2y ago
Russians, given the VK app plug in the announcement.
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by FMecha 2y ago
See Waits vs. Frito Lay.
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by FMecha 2y ago
> An even more cogent long term strategy is to collect all this data and set up your own governance boards and policymakers to enshrine your business decisions into federal law, making it nearly impossible for any independent organizatio
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by FMecha 2y ago
Given that this was required by the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement as pointed out, is it safe to say that the U.S. federal government accidentally mandated tobacco companies to make a brand-new form of youth smoking dogwhistle?
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by FMecha 2y ago
Considering advertisers had pull over potentially objectionable content in other types of media, would you consider advertisers also potentially having a pull over the game's content as well?
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by FMecha 2y ago
This isn't new for EA: https://screenrant.com/burnout-paradise-2008-release-obama-p...
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by FMecha 2y ago
>using a VPN to create it goes against the ToS, and people get banned Though that seem to be enforced less often than people think it is, one Philippine player (a country that did not have PSN) was ejected from Sony's live esports e
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by FMecha 2y ago
Even if they did that at launch, I can still smell backlash.

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