I couldn’t read any further, so thanks for more context. I would really love it if we’d share more open articles here so there is the full context to digest and discuss

I didn’t see anything in the article and the X embeds are just text to me, so here’s a video: https://youtu.be/cu9OnPo5IIE

If you like to stay in good spirits, don’t read the comments.

When I initially clicked on the article, it had related articles at the bottom, one of which explaining that the account is a satire account. It’s not there when I click the link again, but I did find it online

https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/featured/mexico-church-sells-spots-in-heaven-starting-at-250/ar-BB1oYLhT

Yeah, Poe’s law also applies I suppose. Anything satirical is taken for truth by people that already believe or want to believe the thing being satirized. Or it already exists but worse, like you mention.

It’s satire

• this is a member only article so people are going to mention the (pay) wall
• this is about a tweet from 2020
• what does expressing overthrowing a country in 2020 have to do with c/technology?

It’s telling how you get downvoted, but someone saying the same shit about Apple in this thread gets upvoted.

I hate shitty practices like everybody else, but please keep them to the same standard.

Which is what everyone with some sense predicted, except Xitter exploded into drama from faking proof that it was directly copying Pokémon to claiming wild things like using gen AI to create the models.

These things are easily verified (or rather, debunked), but it was already too late. I lost a lot of faith in some gaming journalists as they kept perpetuating the wild takes and claims.

We’ll do this all again soon with another game and we will not learn from it.

As someone who found elementor the only thing that was working at the time - any suggestions to do better? I have no coding experience fyi

Slang words that are being subtitled wrong because the locale automatically sets to English (international) instead of English (UK) for a lot of players.

It’s in the article if you bothered to read it

I see the problem, it looks like Amazon. Stop shopping there

Yep, I was only summarizing their angle. Here are the specifics for anyone who wants to read the source documentation: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys#3

The only thing that doesn’t sit right with me is developers stating Steam threatened to delist the game when they expressed wanting to sell elsewhere. I haven’t seen any proof except just the statements, but it would be weird for a developer to lie about that stuff. If anyone has any more sources on that, it would be appreciated

Still didn’t sell any data. And they completely removed OpenAI collaboration from the platform after experimenting with it.

Discord.

I will probably get downvoted because Lemmy has a hate boner for Discord, but they don’t sell any user data.

That’s exactly what they’re trying to say. It could have been cheaper if Valve didn’t have pricing clauses that doesn’t allow developers to price things cheaper elsewhere.

Great list, pretty much my childhood. I’ll add some more:

• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1/2
• Empire Earth 1/2
• Civilization II
• Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
• Theme Park (World?)
• Populous: The Beginning

Total noob here but wouldn’t it be possible to have an ARM device stream the content to your browser? So you got a viewport of a compatible device that shows you how it would look like?

True parity would be impossible without porting it to x86, but that would give you a glimpse if the UX is decent enough

What the fuck why did nobody try this sooner??

Idk any tech support communities, but you should try booting into BIOS to see if your storage drive is detected. If not, it probably failed (read: it’s dead, fam)

You could try to see if you can reinstall the OS but if the BIOS doesn’t detect the drive, I doubt the OS setup will.

While the data loss will suck, a new drive isn’t very expensive. Plus if you’re still on a HDD, it would be a good time to replace it with an SSD.

Nah, you can’t patent gameplay mechanics unless they are super specific and interconnected.

Taking what’s good from other games and turning it into something new (or similar) is known as remixing and it happens all the time. Like mentioned in another comment, Palworld did this by taking the fun elements of different genres / vibes (Pokémon, Survival games, Shooters) and making that into a game.

Even the Pokémon Company had to put a statement out basically telling the Xitter drama seekers to shut up and stop reporting the game for infringement, because there wasn’t any.

Just make sure (like you already mention) not to use assets, sounds, names and other IP related subjects.