How to turn your laptop into a desktop with this one, weird trick! PC makers are furious!!

I actually use a T-Mobile MVNO, so I don’t have experience with their customer service.

They seem to have the biggest variety of options for resellers, so if you like the coverage but not the customer service, you have options.

Maybe. Or maybe we’d have less selection but more approaches to solve the same problem. That’s not great because it means games would be less approachable since they can’t borrow what works well.

I think software patents in general are stupid. The implementation is often obvious when looking at the end product, so the whole point of a patent (socialize information) isn’t relevant. The work to build it initially also isn’t particularly large for most things, certainly not to the level of pharmaceuticals. So the only purpose of a software patent is to block competition, there’s little if any social benefit to granting the patent.

Lol.

But T-Mobile is less bad the other telecoms. The enemy of my enemy and all that.

Seems like a video game version of playing H-O-R-S-E in basketball: you need to make it from behind the hoop, with your eyes closed, and while hopping on one foot…

Isn’t this just user-created achievements?

As a teen, I was into law and computers, so I wanted to be a software patent attorney. Partway through my CS program, I did some FOSS work and realized just how awful software patents can be.

I don’t understand how anyone can actually make software patents. What kind of person can get far enough into a software career and not realize how utterly evil they are?

DDLC has something similar as well.

Inscryption

Yeah, it’s technically a deck builder, and that’s the gameplay loop throughout, but it’s not a rogue like deckbuilder like Slay the Spire (well, it kind of is at first). But it plays more like a puzzle game than a deckbuilder, but it’s not quite a puzzle game either.

But yeah, that’s the weakest of the bunch, and I only added it because Pony Island by the same dev is on there (which is technically a run-and-gun?).

Both have a popular genre at the forefront, but the game really wants you to look past that at what’s developing behind the game. And that’s what I think makes them unique. Labeling them as “deck builder” and “run-and-gun” don’t feel appropriate, despite that being the core gameplay loop.

Yup, that would be how I’d play it. But she kinda sucks on policy, so maybe it would hurt instead.

So, is that just a remake of Oath of Felghana? Yeah it’s almost 20 years old, but it’s also already a remake itself.

Edit: Apparently this is a Switch game, so it’s getting localized for the Switch in western markets, and I’m guessing a bit of a remaster from the 2005 version. Still cool.

Yeah, I agree with most of those. Some of my favorite mentions from that thread:

• SUPERHOT
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• Baba is You
• Pony Island - and by extension Inscryption (haven’t played The Hex)
• Katamari Damacy

I’ll add:

• Perspective
• Manifold Garden
• The Bridge

And kind of the opposite, but I’ll list a couple of abstract genre games:

• 140 - platformer
• THOTH - twin stick shooter

When looking at 2020 candidates, she was literally my least favorite, and Biden wasn’t far behind her.

Sure. I’m just saying storage doesn’t need to be overly burdensome. I just toss mine in a box and stick it in a closet. And if the drives die, you have the disks.

What is “handheld” here? It doesn’t seem like the Switch counts, and I doubt Steam Deck does, so is this this the old handheld-exclusive consoles like 3DS?

Also, it’s sad arcade is so small now, I loved arcades as a kid.

It’s not that big, the cases are much smaller than DVD cases. Each case is 12-13mm wide, so on a typical shelf, you could fit >60. You can easily make them two or three deep, depending on your shelf.

I just stick them in a box after ripping them to my HDDs.

The article specifies a JD Power study, which is an American institution. Seems obvious enough…

And it’s especially unnecessary for a big use case for EVs: commuters and grocery getters. It’s only needed for cars intended to do road trips.

And yeah, a phone app is more than sufficient. I do trips infrequently enough that it’s totally unnecessary to be built-in.

They have 38,000 kiosks. So that’s ~$10k/kiosk.

Honestly, that may be a fair price, assuming these machines are profitable. Vending machines make $4-10k revenue/year. Assuming that holds for RedBox, that should make >$2k profit per year, which would make aquisition reasonable. The question is, is that what they’re getting?

If I were in their shoes, I’d expand the options at the kiosks to include console games, and maybe a limited selection of snacks (e.g. popcorn), if it can be retrofitted.

Copyright is not a capitalist idea, it’s collectivist. See copyright in the Soviet Union, the initial bill of which was passed in 1925, right near the start of the USSR.

A pure capitalist system would have no copyright, and works would instead be protected through exclusivity (I.e. paywalls) and DRM. Copyright is intended to promote sharing by providing a period of exclusivity (temporary monopoly on a work). Whether it achieves those goals is certainly up for debate.

Long terms go against any benefit to society that copyright might have. I think it does have a benefit, but that benefit is pretty limited and should probably only last 10-15 years. I think eliminating copyright entirely would leave most people worse off and probably mostly benefit large orgs that can afford expensive DRM schemes in much the same way that our current copyright duration disproportionately benefits large orgs.

Do you really need a custom kernel for the surface devices?