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by mehlmao 4y ago
They use Fortnite and Minecraft as something to do while they chat in another client, usually Discord. Modern multiplayer games have largely reduced (or eliminated) communication with people you aren't already friends with.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Who cares if they violated an NDA? NDAs are supposed to protect company secrets, not prevent criticism.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
> in the last decade So since Riccitiello left?
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by mehlmao 4y ago
> I’ve been in the gaming industry longer than most anybody – getting to the grey hair and all that. Few people have driven as many once-successful studios into the ground as Riccitello.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
The last few noncompetes I've been presented with have clauses saying that if any part of the noncompete is found to be illegal, the rest still stands. I wholeheartedly believe that if a noncompete contains elements that are illegal at
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Democratic candidates won the popular vote in 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
The law doesn't require them to behave this way. They have implemented their own system that is more draconian than the DMCA so they don't have to deal with entertainment industry lawyers.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
If nobody feels like their privacy is being exploited, then surely they'll opt in to being tracked, right?
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by mehlmao 4y ago
They're owned by Kape. I switched to Proton once my 3-year plan ended.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
I really love 'I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson'
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by mehlmao 4y ago
The newer Tomb Raider games were all very heavily discounted soon after launch. I think I paid ~$10 for each of them within a year of them coming out.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Is this a GPT-3 comment?
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by mehlmao 5y ago
On any opinion poll, I always write that I will pay for a subscription to the first major newspaper that gives me a 'no opinion/editorial' option.
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by mehlmao 5y ago
A fraction of those games are available on the Nintendo Switch Online, and you have to pay monthly for access to something you previously bought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_... https:&
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by mehlmao 5y ago
They're doing an incredibly slow drip feed to keep people subscribed. There's tons of titles they own 100% and are not available so they can 'add' a new ROM every month or two.
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by mehlmao 5y ago
The Old Man Murray piece "Death of Adventure Games" sums up my feelings on the genre. >Who killed Adventure Games? I think it should be pretty clear at this point that Adventure Games committed suicide. https://oldm
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by mehlmao 5y ago
IIRC there was never a source for the "$50k per day" number.
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by mehlmao 5y ago
Suicide rate was lower in 2020 and 2021 than it was prior to the pandemic.
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by mehlmao 5y ago
It wins over Winston, but not forever. The appendix on Newspeak is written in past tense, implying that at some time it came to an end.
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by mehlmao 5y ago
The Constitution calls for a census (Enumeration) every ten years. https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/Article_1_Section_2.pdf
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by mehlmao 5y ago
So how are the new owners going to squeeze more than $525 million out of it?
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by mehlmao 5y ago
My understanding is that Windows 11 doesn't have Direct Storage yet, and they've announced that it will come to Windows 10 as well.
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by mehlmao 5y ago
Chewy isn't profitable yet, is it? All of the new and successful example businesses (save Amazon) only exist because of money being thrown around, and can't sustain that forever.
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by mehlmao 5y ago
Why would anyone want to play a game like that though? That sounds significantly less fun than playing a game where everyone is on an even playing ground. Also, unless the game itself is open source and any forks / successors honor the
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by mehlmao 5y ago
Elon's vision is being the king of Mars, where the only law is his own. I'm not sold.
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by mehlmao 5y ago
https://twitter.com/iBobbyShell/status/1453531178967846912 It's a hoax.
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by mehlmao 5y ago
Is the malicious individual the NSA backdooring Juniper and other firewalls, is it China, or both?
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by mehlmao 5y ago
The new 'pixel remaster' games Square is putting out have been great so far. Standardizing on a 16-bit sprite style, new music arrangements, and widescreen support. Only issue is the English font choice, but if you're on PC t
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by mehlmao 5y ago
Does that change the facts? Apple banned a channel discussing pay equity, giving the reason that Slack 'must advance the work, deliverables, or mission of Apple departments and teams', which is clearly being selectively enforced.
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by mehlmao 5y ago
Games are more expensive to make and prices have not kept up with inflation, but units sold are at least two orders of magnitude than they were twenty years ago, and individual free-to-play titles have playercounts that dwarf the total user

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