BB being able to protect itself from the big players is actually a success story of patents. The 800 lb gorilla’s of the industry never made as good of a keyboard, but if they could have copied BB’s superior design, they would have stomped them in a heartbeat.

There’s a lot of shit about what happens for a dying company and selling patents and so forth that absolutely is scummy. Serious discussion needs to happen there, but calling for them to be abolished? That’s just naive.

Shout-outs to the updates that have come along to fortress mode as well. More soundtrack (and it’s so good) and so many little quality of life things.

They’ll be going back to more regular updates to fortress mode now as well.

Agreed! But then again, it depends on the player I think. Someone that loves DND and never played SimCity I guess… maybe? I come from a background the other way around XD

Good.

Here’s my try: Anthology movie. Each one fights larger and larger hordes of enemies while trying to find loot and spells.

Meanwhile death does the narration and the whole time waxes on about mortality.

No vampires ever appear on screen.

Showerthought: Someone somewhere probably attempted to sell “meat that cooks while it’s shipped!” with radioactive plates/packaging.

Early 20th century snakeoil salesmen were wild when it came to radioactive shit.

Boots up gaming PC

Windows: “YOU IN DANGER ZONE! NEED WINDOWS 11! BUY NEW PC U SCRUB!!!111”

Load up Steam

Steam: “Hey, I see MS are being assholes - click here to install SteamOS instead”

Reboot PC

Millions of people never run windows again

I’m dreaming but that would be amazing. That would make this the year of the Linux desktop. C’mon GabeN, make it happen!

“Wink wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean, know what I mean?”

I’ve noticed this and really thought it was the website. All sides lose.

Enshittification at its finest.

Once I get the family loaded up and on the road. Wife rolls her eyes every time. 😁

The first positive signal comes when you first boot the application, pitching a simple question: are you using this for gaming, or productivity? With this one choice, the app immediately reorients what it presents you with, making sure the settings that actually matter for you are front-and-centre.

Well, what if I want to do both? Selection anxiety will leave me deadlocked on this question for an hour while I look up what the difference means!

Vile. Disgusting.

I feel so bad for the minority of people there. But the majority apparently, instead of seeing “fuck yeah, Kamala, she could be beacon of democracy and progress in the world” decided “nope, orange man hate people me hate so FUCK YOU OTHER PEOPLE”.

It’s so sad.

I feel like some journalist got high as fuck with a dev, wrote out a fucking fever dream of… drivel and then the editors were like fuck it, Tim Sweeney pays us to post some hit pieces against Valve and this is all we got this month so we’ll just run with this.

Copyright of code doesn’t work that way. Now if some idiot goes and uses that code in a game, yeah, they’d have a rough time in court.

If Nintendo thought there was infringement already, and wanted to prove it in court, there are means to securely prove it with redactions and NDA’s and so forth as it would be considered trade secret.