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by dwild 7y ago
> There are many many ways to monetize creation including but not limited to subscription, donation, live shows, advertisement, and commission. But then it would be legal to duplicate it and thus you can remove paid subscription and paid
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by dwild 7y ago
> exactly, there is a difference between the "right" way and the "way that works" His post wasn't about the way that works, it was about the "only way that works". If that was a post about how he made g
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by dwild 7y ago
> How is he supposed to develop an eye for art? Which is exactly why the CEO of Ubisoft has quite an eye for art (he actually may have an eye for art, but my point is he don't have to...). You can hire someone to do this, even part
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by dwild 7y ago
> Why is it ok for games to lack a good story but not ok for them to lack good art? Personally I think that both are okay. Even more so when someone seems to be doing such a good job on one of the aspect. What's not okay is going ar
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by dwild 7y ago
> Did it ever occur to the critics that Jeff's customers may not actually value the quality of artwork in his games all that much? At least not as much as the storytelling. > His repeated success does. Nobody is questioning that
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by dwild 7y ago
On Google Opinion Rewards most of my survey are about whether I did go to a specific shop, which would make sense if theses shops pay Google to know that information, but then ask how I paid. I'm pretty sure they use that to feed their
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by dwild 7y ago
> Watch ads before and during the content Which service does this? That seems quite crazy and you even define that as "often"! > Honestly people loved to pay $50+/month for cable before. That's the price of 3 servi
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by dwild 7y ago
> Yesterday I wanted to watch a movie that was in theatres in spring. That's sadly most likely the issue. I bet it was a big movie? Most likely they are just keeping the good old traditional schedule. Release at the movie Theater, f
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by dwild 7y ago
> we're losing the thing that made Netflix revolutionary: loads of quality and diverse content under one subscription. You are forgetting at a amazingly low price. People are cancelling Netflix because it's "too expensive
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by dwild 7y ago
It could even try to optimize the cost by buying/renting movies on others platforms like Google Play. I can get GoT season 8 for 23.99$ CAD on Google Play while it would cost me (and it did) 2 months of 19.98$ CAD service over Crave +
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by dwild 7y ago
> Movies like infinity war make several orders of magnitude more money at the box office than home release. Your example is the world record at the box office... they don't all gain as much. Plenty of movies and TV shows depends on
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by dwild 7y ago
> By contrast the music industry manages to cooperate and get their content available across the various streaming services and consequently I haven't pirated music for a long long time. You can get pretty much any TV shows or movie
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by dwild 7y ago
> No, but it only takes a minute to turn on if you're going to be sharing unsupervised access to a computer. This is not something that 99.99% of Steam users would do though... It would still be possible to retrieve the encryption k
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by dwild 7y ago
> In fact by default the files in a user's home folder (including Documents, Videos etc.) are inaccessible to other (non-privileged) users on Windows. Sure that's certainly right but physical access doesn't force you to be
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by dwild 7y ago
> And Windows has useful account-based file encryption too. Is this on by default on Windows? I haven't needed to access my files from another Windows installation for a long time, but I'm pretty sure the last time I tried on m
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by dwild 7y ago
> A good artist will make anything look good, pixel art, card games, all the way to photo-real 3d (of course depending on the artist). That's so true. It made me also realize something else, that a good artist can also works with mo
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by dwild 7y ago
> The simple reason is that those Nintendo and Sega games weren't played on 27" 4k LCD monitors or 65" OLED TV's but on on the barely 14" CRT in my bedroom. We didn't have huge pixely sprites, they were smal
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by dwild 7y ago
> Their best move is to acknowledge that they don't care and do so with pride. Everything else just feels at best insecure and at worst somewhat disrespectful towards devs who care. You put your finger on exactly what felt wrong for
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by dwild 7y ago
Wouldn't you be able to do the same simply by looking at the file system without any access to admin privileges? I'm not arguing that this vulnerability isn't one, it's a privilege escalation vulnerability, however in yo
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by dwild 7y ago
> unleash the full scale of their creativity What if their creativity is about making amazing stuff with limited resources? You suggest giving essentially unlimited resources, seems like a good way to use badly that creativity. I remembe
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by dwild 7y ago
> The clones were so bad to the point that they literally decompiled my app, loaded in their own assets and published it. Why not send a DMCA to Google?
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by dwild 7y ago
No need of faith, there are so many products that proved that you can trust rechargeable batteries. I'm considering buying a Volt right now and seems like that even the 2012 models are still keeping their ranges. I wish I could say tha
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by dwild 7y ago
A rechargeable battery can easily live just as long as the LEDs inside it. I would still use a capacitor personally, but I said batteries because they could certainly work and Ikea does have a battery-powered light bulb with a button on it
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by dwild 7y ago
> Hmmm... Nope, I can't see a problem with getting people to stick a paperclip into holes around mains electricity! Sounds perfectly safe. What say it needs to be in the socket? A battery or a capacitor is all you need to make sure
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by dwild 7y ago
> over-price and they don’t sell anything Well, that depends on the service itself. I often buy from Amazon not because it's cheaper, but because I know that shipping will be quick, even if it's imported the charge won't b
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by dwild 7y ago
The funny twist is that it seems pretty hard/even impossible to handle GDPR laws and could be punishable under GDPR to have enough verification. All you know about a user is its name. How can you verify someone identity while still not
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by dwild 7y ago
> But can't the airlines then introduce random price spikes into their own algorithm just to abuse Google? reply If they only guarantee the price of the same airline (which make sense considering that different airline offer differe
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by dwild 7y ago
> Well you'd usually need to work to get access to a room to look through the window, so that's not a given :) There's plenty of ways to enter in many buildings without "working there". As long as the physical se
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by dwild 7y ago
> all debit cards nowadays have the same protection Sure but then you will be missing that cash until that protection can be dealt with. On a credit card, it's not your cash that has been stolen, you don't have to care, you mov
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by dwild 7y ago
That seems like a pretty good way to handle this vulnerability! I was thinking about how hard managing this risk was and except removing all windows (which I hope everyone will agree is quite bad), it's hard to protect ourself against

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