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by bentley 4y ago
Games for Nintendo consoles aren’t overpriced relative to games from past generations, but are expensive relative to PC games today. Sales promotions on PC platforms like Steam and GOG are more frequent and provide deeper discounts than Nin
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What feels most offensive to me is that people’s previous digital purchases of classic games through Virtual Console are permanently stuck on their Wiis and 3DSes, and can’t be transferred to the Switch, which only supports emulating classi
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Theoretically plausible for an American developer, but it’s worth pointing out that in that era (and maybe still today) video game rental was illegal in Japan.
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Yes, I mentioned DRM‐free publishers for that reason. Tor, for example, has a no‐DRM policy and remains a big player in [copyrighted] fantasy. Some people will still want to read ebooks that aren’t available DRM‐free from anywhere. I don’t
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by bentley 4y ago
> No, I mean we haven't paid any extra for MK8 on the Switch beyond buying the base game Yeah, I misread your original comment, so I edited my response a minute or two before you replied. My bad.
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Another reason to produce DLC is that it keeps market attention on your existing game (thus diverting eyeballs from your competitors) without having to devote the resources required to develop a whole new game since most of the base is prov
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by bentley 4y ago
Mario Kart 8 is an interesting case actually, because 16 of the 48 courses in the base Switch version (a full third) were originally paid DLC when Mario Kart 8 was on the Wii U. That doesn’t mean Mario Kart 8 is a bad deal! I think even the
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by bentley 4y ago
I’m sure Nintendo wouldn’t have complained if people did that, but trades with friends were how the game was marketed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Oh4YiMNNw I was as big a Pokémon freak as anyone, lived in an extremel
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It feels like there was a sweet spot in between the arcade era (where gameplay was tailored to get your quarters) and the mobile era (where gameplay is tailored to get microtransactions), where game designers saw the most success by providi
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Nintendo has high‐profile DLC coming out this year for both Pokémon and Mario Kart.
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Although it’s not their usual style of game design, this is not new even for Nintendo. The first blatant instance I can recall is Pokémon Picross (2015) on the 3DS, which was free to download, but unlike normal Picross, limited how many blo
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by bentley 4y ago
New Mexico is known for its drug problems (including alcoholism). 30% of fatalities involve alcohol on the part of the driver or the pedestrian, and 14% involve other drugs (these percentages might overlap). https://gps.unm.edu&#
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by bentley 4y ago
The situation has gotten better over time as the OS manufacturers have locked down permissions and made background operations more visible. But many privacy leaks have been only recently fixed or remain unfixed—for instance, it was only in
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The loss of privacy comes not from actions taken at the Amazon store, but from having the app installed on the phone 24/7, including when you’re not at the Amazon store. A somewhat similar example would be using Facebook purely throu
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You can access an Amazon locker with a barcode printed from the Amazon website, or even from your confirmation email. The app is not required.
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You misremember. Barring legal exceptions like fair use and secondhand sales, the copyright holder has exclusive control over reproduction of a work for the full duration of the copyright term. That doesn’t change if the work becomes commer
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-books-deemed-offensive...
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I’ve always loved physical books, and the serendipitous discoverability of volumes on a shelf can’t be beat. That said, ebooks provide worthwhile benefits in their own right. Fulltext search, text‐to‐speech, changing fonts and font sizes, s
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by bentley 4y ago
For those who aren’t aware what you’re referring to: in 2021, after the Dr. Seuss estate decided to stop publishing several books due to of‐their‐time stereotypes, eBay chose to also prohibit sales of those books on its platform.
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by bentley 4y ago
I read 27 books last year, mostly relatively short novels. At that speed, I’m not going to work through my backlog of public domain classics before I'm dead in a few decades. Particularly since copyrights have started expiring in the U
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The rewrite of the Oompa Loompas is different for two reasons: it was Dahl’s own rewrite, not performed by a soulless corporation; and it made the text better, not worse. Even an author’s own revisions can be heavily criticized when they di
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by bentley 4y ago
These days nearly all ebooks I read are copyright‐free editions from Standard Ebooks and Project Gutenberg, precisely because I can (and do) fix typos and make other improvements, freely shareable with no restriction.
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And in the future, don’t buy customer‐hostile, DRM‐encumbered media. Use your money to support those publishers who sell DRM‐free ebooks instead, so that you can preserve multiple revisions of the digital books you pay for without the need
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On the other hand, the seven‐continent model is dominant in the Anglosphere. So it seems the sensible thing to do is what in fact is already normally done: in Spanish and other such languages, use “América” to refer to North and South Ameri
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by bentley 4y ago
Do I have to shut down my Patreon and demonetize my YouTube videos or risk being fined?
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I experience the >100% bug nearly every time I update Matrix Element (most recently yesterday). It’s happened regularly on my current phone and my previous phone. And yes, I do see F‐droid update itself, and I’m using only the default re
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Valve has an input translation layer called Steam Input, originally mostly used with the Steam Controller, now well integrated with the Steam Deck. Keys can translate to buttons, mouse movements to analog sticks/touchpads, etc. Users c
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Goebbels is an unreliable narrator who had strong incentive to promote the idea that freedom of speech makes a nation weak. The problem is not that the Nazis were allowed to speak (in fact, hate speech against Jews was often punishable unde
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What you describe is not really an accurate description of the political situation that resulted in 1930s Germany.
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> What about: yelling "fire" in a crowded room Yep, that’s pretty dangerous, and people could get hurt. That shouldn’t be protected by the First Amendment. Oh yeah, and protesting the draft. That’s pretty dangerous too. Governm

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