I’ve long ago learned that those that want to fight about this are going to. International corporation wants international money - news at 11.

I remember Al Lowe’s story about having source code for one of the Leisure Suit Larry games on a disk and it wasn’t really archived in any real way. I wouldn’t be surprised if lax archival is endemic across the industry.

I contend that the original TMNT film works phenomenally more, if you understand or have some concept of the geography/character of New York City at night.

Kind of shocking considering wrestlers are generally anti-union as a bunch. While there are the Jesse Ventura’s, there’s always the Hulks and enough top end guys to stop any sort of unionization in that field.

I can tell I’m an old when all I did was play the game start to finish and then put it down to go do other things without even touching the battle pass.

It is still great. I never watched at the time it was released, having watched it probably a decade past when the music was topical. I wasn’t young - and I certainly didn’t reflect the ethos of those characters in any way.  I was comfortably distant.

I think you’re missing the point where people often do that kind of thing due to limited time and not enough desire to make a point and click game “tense”. Why are they looking up builds? Because they don’t want to invest 40 hours to tear their hair out. You absolutely can absolutely still make your own build by just…

TBH - the choice to make Diablo require a network was the Dev’s choice. Diablo 1 played just fine local. True, you had all sorts of wacky shenanigans with people offline duping, but destroying that type of play was a baby with the bathwater situation.

I mean that’s great and all but my build is already pretty much busted and it’s gone from a chill game I played with a specific build because I didn’t feel like being “sweaty” to an irritating clusterfuck of cooldown management.

That kind of thing also only works if both sides (“the government”) and (“the people”) more or less don’t view it as a badge of honor getting one over on the other.

In New York, the people who jump the turnstyles are just generally as entitled (if you talk to them) as the super rich that dodge the taxes (because it’s…

You’re not a very smart person are you?

The thing is - which period of Sony are you talking about? You’re definitely not talking about when Sony was selling consoles at a loss to drive Sega out of the market. You’re not talking about Sony’s 3rd party exclusives throughout Japan effectively blocking Microsoft. You’re not talking about Nintendo’s old…

The question is, do any of the original Devs/Artists/Designers remain?

That’s a fair criticism - but the problem is that the remedy for that is a Legislative one by changing the explicit text of the law. Judges get discretion where ambiguity exists. If a Judge is blatantly ignoring the text of a statute, that is vulnerable and likely to be lost on appeal.

That’s really the weird thing about Activision. If you actually look at the dormant IPs that used to move product and were put to sleep but could be reissued with a different concept - it’s incredibly rich. Activision has existed since the earliest computer games.

The same legal system that blocked the FTC is the same one that blocked Donald Trump’s elections claim.

If you want a good breakdown, there’s a tech website that rhymes with TheDirge that did a live breakdown of the case for all 5 days including how the Judge reacted to individual witnesses.

They’re being rightly grilled.

No - it’s literally in court Microsoft documented they would make less money making it exclusive then they would gain in Console sales. That argument was bought because most companies do not operate at continuous loss. Even the FTC’s projections didn’t stand up to court scrutiny.

So I’m not sure if collex will get around to this, but given my thoughts on this are pretty inline with collex, I’ll take a stab at these answers and collex can answer if they choose to.