flavionm

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by flavionm 7d ago
When you objected to quotes around the term you deliberately used to make them sound better than regular updates that any early access game gets.
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by flavionm 7d ago
Then don't complain because people disagree. If adding unnecessary qualifiers to make it sound better is fair, so is quoting them.
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by flavionm 7d ago
Always having some instance of someone messing up is still substantially different from more instances than not being messed up. So it did actually matter quite a lot. Now, as someone who is an avid retro gamer, I play plenty of those old g
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by flavionm 7d ago
Many people bought it expecting more, because the studio promised a lot more. You can say that's on the people for not checking before buying, but that doesn't invalidate the dishonesty on their part. Were it an early access game,
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by flavionm 7d ago
Back in the day, they had to ship complete working games, because the cost to fix it later was too high. Not that they wouldn't mess up all the time, but the punishment for messing up was severe. And paid expansions were often the size
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by flavionm 7d ago
Content updates for a paid game aren't free. They're adding to a package that, more often than not, was incomplete to begin with. And they'll often result in more sales, which is how they pay for themselves. Not that they&#x2
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by flavionm 14d ago
Won't that effectively leak the user's registered age bracket anyway? And if so, what advantage does it has over the current law?
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by flavionm 14d ago
That's exactly what the law will do, but on the device. The parents will input the child's age during device setup, and then every service will query the age range based on that and work in "child account" mode. Without
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by flavionm 2mo ago
That's a very shallow understanding of reading, especially coming from an author. No, reading is not just about getting the idea from the author. It's an experience in and of itself, and the lack of something makes the experience
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by flavionm 6mo ago
We still do that, though, within our own little tribes inside civilization. Most people still love their grandparents, even though they're old. That just doesn't necessarily extend to all of civilization.
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by flavionm 6mo ago
We don't need to have every human care about every single other human to thrive as a species. If anything, if we did, we wouldn't be able to thrive at all. The issues you mentioned are, in the vast majority of cases, caused by the
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by flavionm 6mo ago
> Humans, by virtue of being living, thinking beings deserve lives of fulfillment, dignity, and security. You wanting people to have that doesn't mean that people deserve to have that. Fundamentally, no one deserves anything. We, as
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by flavionm 6mo ago
> The person who did the work deserved credit and compensation. That's the part of the argument in favor of copyright that is inherently flawed. Doing some amount of work doesn't entitle you to anything besides whatever you&#x2