lawtalkinghuman

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by lawtalkinghuman 7y ago
He's teaching people how to profit off of getting people (including kids) into virtual gambling, microtransactions and other addictive behaviour, and exploiting "whales" (who are actual human beings). Historically, there was
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> If we ban loot boxes in video games, why dont we ban Magic/Pokemon card boosters that you can buy from physical shops? Video games are always available. You can purchase lootboxes 24/7 without any real effort. They use the sa
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by lawtalkinghuman 7y ago
Yes, I’ve used it to send photos/videos I’ve taken to friends while outside in places where there are no wifi networks.
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In 1999, I could go into a game shop and pay £40 for a finished game with a story. In 2019, it costs £60 (or more for a "gold edition" or whatever). It isn't finished, has colossal bugs that require 50 GB patches just after l
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by lawtalkinghuman 7y ago
Without microtransaction and lootbox revenue, developers might have to not build essential features like ensuring horse testicles shrink or enlarge to match the ambient temperature. How would players cope with this lack of equine testicular
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by lawtalkinghuman 7y ago
Any reason you chose negligence? I mean, they don't have a duty of care. (They probably should have, but they don't.)
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That's about $4 more than some of the pre-GDPR settlements in various European countries...
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...and saccharine fakeness, mixed in with paid promotion of utter nonsense. That said, Instagram with just friends and no influencers is pretty good.
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And then they end up with vapid, shallow, self-obsessed life philosophies - see, every self-help guru peddling individualistic nonsense. Part of the purpose of teaching philosophy is you get rigour from actually testing those ideas out in a
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by lawtalkinghuman 7y ago
This seems like very basic contract law 101 stuff. The promise of payment is the consideration. A contract is literally an exchange of promises. When you go into a car dealership and buy a car, they are exchanging a promise (you get a car!)
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by lawtalkinghuman 7y ago
Not exactly. If you close a company with the intention to avoid legal consequences of your actions only to then spin up another company, there's often some kind of law in place to prevent you from benefiting. In the UK, these are gener
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by lawtalkinghuman 7y ago
You have a contract at the point of agreement, not at the point of payment. The question is really whether it is IP transfer on final payment or not. If the contract specifies IP is transferred only on final payment, then the developer keep