While the pro-life arguments generally go into woo-hoo batshit crazy town with what they think is happening, the core belief that human life beginning at conception isn’t a nonsensical one.

It’s not a cult in that it doesn’t demand you cut off from your family, you can come and go at any time, you can live anywhere you’d like, and you are free to have your own possessions. You may think they have weird beliefs, but that doesn’t make them a cult.

Reverse engineering is a broad category - some methods are lawful, some are not. Decompiled code (which this project used - they did not write their own code from scratch) is the latter - it’s a copyright violation that’s only protected under DMCA exemptions if it’s for the sole purpose of interoperability with an…

It doesn’t need to be long if the experience is great, right? I paid the equivalent of about 70 dollars in the 90s for my video games, which were rarely longer than 2 to 3 hours. No regrets. And the other day I went out to eat with the missus and paid about 90 dollars for a 2,5 hour dinner and drinks. Totally worth it.

Hey have you thought about relaxing and not being weird about video games online?

We have well explored your position and you have dodged everytime you know the answer undermines you (Halo 2 and pre-patched games). You just want to fight, and that's fine, clearly I did a bit too, but yes, your position that everything, including cut content, must be included for this to be "complete" is ridiculous.

I don’t particularly care about this topic as it is well within your rights not to get this game, but you are definitely not making your position feel reasonable.

That example is a little disingenuous. “Cutting room floor” content is less like having a chunk of your pizza removed, leaving an incomplete pizza, and more like toppings or ingredients that were intended in the beginning, but wound up not making the final recipe. The final result may not be exactly what was planned,…

Well if wouldn’t be any different, why bother?

Growing Pains Theme is the best Sitcom Theme of all time.

No to both. For the first, the company is public and Lin Qi only had a 24% stake - ownership remains with its owners. For the other, escheatment only happens when the estate remains unclaimed for a long enough period, as happens in most other countries too. That’s the case in both China’s old 1985 and new 2021…

Nothing more human than the need to categorize, sort, and rank things according to whatever is the fancy of the day.

Sheeeeeeesh. Your communication style is cringeaf.

This is, of course, hilariously wrongheaded; it’s not like streamers are raking in dough because viewers trawl the site, vainly searching through millions of channels for the one streamer who’s playing their favorite song at any given moment.

I don’t see what’s evil about not wanting people to use your property, and that’s what copyright is. 

For me, it’s about time. I work a hard day job which sucks up my time, until very recently, and for the last five years, I also worked a second job which took up almost all the time I wasn’t in the day job. So gaming for me was a pure piece of escapism from that; so while a challenge is good, I simply don’t have the…

Hate speech is an opinion. Why is anyone arguing this at all? It detracts from discussions of the actual issues. Stay focused on what’s actually important instead of this idiocy.

“She has an opinion. The way to undermine an opinion you don’t agree with is to point out, specifically, what is wrong with the underlying reasoning that the opinion is built on. See what experts have to say... and not just the ones spitting out of the soft sciences with a chip on their shoulders the size of Utah.”

Software engineer here (former gamedev, currently corporate). We mostly accept that crunch is a fact of life in software development (and a lot of other industries). Simply budgeting more time doesn’t work as a general solution because work tends to fill the available time without necessarily progressing further. Some…

Debates on crunch aren’t so black and white, especially within the industry. Being more humane about crunch, and paying the overtime is pretty important; myself and my peers haven’t experienced the extreme toxic crunch that often gets reported on, nor none of us lost the drive to make games. I hear all the time that…