It all comes to how anonymous you are on the net. I’d say having a mainstream social media account is right now a high risk if you live in the US, specially considering that Kethamine Karen owns one one of them.

This to say that deanonymizing you might be cheaper than you think, making it more likely than we all expect. If you want to keep using tnose socials, I’d start by deleting my accounts and creating new ones using new data (such as disposable mails or aliases that forward to your real email)

Of course, a trusted vpn is a must in these cases. And there is a lot you should be doing on top of all this.

Right now, if you want to keep your anti-trump line, be prepared to be treated as an enemy, so consider the deanonymation a highly likely possibility.

Are they going to press twitter to do the same?

This is how you kill innovation.

Let’s hope they keep this trend going so in the next years nobody in Japan wants to make videogames, I’m sure everyone, especially the customers will win with this behavior.

So, to solve the problem of the left not voting them, they are moving further to the right.

Yeah, America, I’m sorry to tell you but you are screwed. You have 4 years to either behead the dnc and turn it into a left wing party, or greate an actual left party.

Otherwise, you’re going to be eating fascism fo dinner until you implode.

People like him are the reason the industry is so screwed. I’ve been saying for years now that the corporate kills uniqueness in games. They just want money so there is no innovation, they take a game that works and just copy it expecting a high return.

Sometimes, it fails miserably, and still, they can’t fathom why? They are way more fucked than I thought. At this point I expect failures like this to repeat more and more often. The bubble is going to burst and I’ll enjoy every second of these idiots losing money in the millions every time.

At this point I can’t even blame twitter. If after everything they are doing, you still stay on twitter, the only one to blame for whatever happens to your data, is you.

I love how they gave a TL;DR right at the beginning of the article, it made me stay and read the rest out of respect for the author.

Google lives of the ads (among the things), of course a browser they develop is going to screw the add-ons that block ads. Solution: avoid google if you want an ad-free internet.

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The amount of creativity in the indie world is insane. It’s been a lot of years since I last played a AAA game because of this.

Have you ever played as a crow? There’s an indie game for that.

Have you ever played a shooter in which you literally shoot people trendy clothes instead of bullets?

The creativity is there, you just won’t find it in your typical AAA, because that game’s only goal is to milk your wallet.

There’s no collapse of creativity. There’s just a collapse of the industry that now is in the hands of shareholders whose only goal is profit.

As soon as your company gets controlled by those, your creativity becomes a need to make another soulless “blockbuster”.

Look at the indie world instead. There is creativity, it’s just incompatible with the AAA business model.

To sum it up: twitter’s business is so irrelevant that they don’t qualify to be subject to the DMA.

Ketamine Karen must be hurting after such a burn.

Important note: We are talking about the Digital Markets Act, not to be confused with the Digital Services Act.

They have power all right. It’s quite simple: tell the nazi that he’s on his own. That’s it. The moment the nazi loses his “I’ll call dad” card, we’ll see how well he goes in the territory.

I do have as many too at work.

I use one VM for each iteration of my automation software. Our factory has machines ranging from the 90s to present day, and they use different software environments to be programmed. In order to minimize the risk of data loss, we have one virtual machine with every software environment, that way if one gets corrupted, the damage is contained. It also makes them easier to export to new computers when we need to replace ours.

You clearly don’t do conspiracy well, do you?

It’s common knowledge that 5G is not for cancer. It’s for the mind controlling chips we all got installed with our COVID shot! Duh!!

/s (just in case)

I’m not a lawyer, so my knowledge is limited, but from what I understand, you can only make a claim for a patent infringement in the country where the company responsible for the infringement is located.

So they have this patent in Japan, but if I make a Pokémon-like game but I’m from, say, France, where this patent doesn’t exist, Nintendo can only suck it up and cope, because they don’t have a patent for this in France.

Greed. Simple as that. They only care for money. And they used to get a pass because they made good games. Not anymore.

That’s probably true in normal countries. Japanese patent office is… Less than normal if these things can happen.

Emulation exists despite Nintendo trying their best at every chance they have to destroy it. Not thanks to them.

And fan games exist only until Nintendo decides they have to be shut down. Which is frequently.

For the Nintendo future games? Well, what can I say? Again, it’s a video game company. And as Palworld and others are showing, many others can do what Nintendo does in better ways. We won’t have another mario if they close? There will be someone making a new platformer as good. There won’t be a new Pokemon? We already have better alternatives.

But if they disappear, games like Palworld will have a chance without having to risk being sued over all this crap.

Edit: Nintendo is the one hoarding these patents that then they can weaponize against competition, so yeah, if they disappear, competition will get better because they won’t have to be worried about being sued for things as dumb as putting a confirmation window after resuming a game from sleep.

But with Nintendo disappearing, how does that benefit anyone? If you don’t like Nintendo games, you can already just not play them. People buying them buy them because they like them. Them disappearing doesn’t help people who do like Nintendo games, and it doesn’t help people who don’t like Nintendo games.

They have killed tons of fan games just because they have enough money to throw at lawyers so people won’t even try to fight them.

They kill competition with these practices.

They are against emulation and game conservation while actively screwing consumers who try to legally play their games…

And the list goes on and on. They are a bad company that happens to make some good games. Those few good games are not enough to redeem them for the rest of what they do.

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First, they are not overprotective with their games. They are suing for patent infringement over bullshit because in Japan they own patents for things as stupid as “riding a creature in a game”. And this is what’s happening here. They are hampering progress because they want to be the only one in the monster catching genre. They can vigorously fuck off.

If Nintendo disappears, someone else will come. So many companies died and nothing happened. It’s a videogame, they’re not making life-saving devices.

If someone buys a Pokémon game now they are rarely uninformed, they are rewarding a company for their shitty behaviour. It’s not the first Pokémon and it’s not the first time Nintendo acts shitty. But their fanatics will keep defending the company no matter what. At that point, what else can you expect? It’s like buying an EA game and then crying because it’s full of micro transactions and useless dlcs, etc.

Also, yeah, if you’re uninformed and get scammed over stuff that’s been happening for years, it’s all on you. Fool me once and all that.

Nintendo even owns a patent for “riding a creature” in a game. That is such a broad concept that a normal parent system shouldn’t allow because of how broad it is. It’s just dumb. And Nintendo is taking advantage of it.

Edit: temtem is not Japanese, and any other patent office in the world will laugh at Nintendo if they tried to make a claim in their countries, but since Palworld is Japanese as Nintendo, they can make the claim there.