Americans have given the world plenty to complain about over the years. However, given that nearly 75% of Americans support a no-fly zone over Ukraine and about 80% want to stop buying Russian oil and hit Russia with more sanctions, I don’t think this is a particularly relevant take.

Criminals should be punished, but prison isn’t the only way to do that. Does it really make sense to lock someone up like a dangerous animal just for circumventing DRM, when people who have caused great bodily harm to others or attempted to overthrow the government are treated less severely?

That’s a nice quote, but I don’t think it actually addresses OP’s question. The question appears to be about item durability. One of the very last sentences of the review briefly acknowledges that weapons can break, but it says nothing about how durable items actually are.

Disabling trading in the current build would make more sense than rolling back to a build old enough to predate trading functionality.

The NFTs themselves are non-fungible, but they aren’t actually part of the digital asset. Because of that, there’s no way to authenticate the asset the NFT supposedly represents. So it’s quite possible for two completely different NFTs to point at the same asset. In fact, someone could do that to the Castlevania map…

Section 12 “Breach of the Agreement” goes on to say:

There’s little point in talking about *just* NFTs, because in isolation they do exactly what they’re supposed to. The problem comes in as soon as they’re associated with another item, digital or otherwise. How does one meaningfully attach an NFT to a digital asset? That’s not an easy problem to solve.

After seeing how poorly Fram oil filters are constructed, particularly the basic Extra Guard filters, I’m hesitant to trust Fram filters. In particular, I don’t like the fact that Fram uses cardboard endcaps on the filter elements of their lower tier filters, where many other manufacturers use metal.

I had a similar experience with the oil pan drain plug, except when I used a wrench to loosen the drain plug, it wouldn’t budge. I used a cheater bar with the wrench and it rounded out the head of the drain plug. I bought a set of bolt extractors, but couldn’t get the bolt extractor to dig in because the rounded drain…

But Valve is not the one running a virtual casino. They’re merely providing a product that is being misused as an alternative to gambling chips, even though that’s not what it’s intended for. To look at it a different way, if instead of using CS:GO skins, the children started using Pokemon cards as gambling chips,…

I’d argue that those algorithms tend to work much better than you describe—at least the ones for YouTube. As someone who’s watched a lot of Jimquisition videos, and also videos about weapons of Nazi Germany, I’ve never had YouTube try to feed me any hateful extremist content. Instead, it usually suggests videos that…

Given that allowing the use of ‘cracker’ as a slur will be used by too many people as an excuse to use other racial slurs as a form of “equality”, I’d rather discourage its use.

I have a physical DVD with content on it I can no longer access because the license server was permanently shutdown. Old games may not have this problem (mainly due to being made before broadband internet access became widespread), but these days developers absolutely can control access to physical media simply by…

Ubisoft, if you’re about to make gamers your bitch, you might want to ask John Romero how well that turned out.

I also appreciated the way the buddy mercenaries were worked into the gameplay and the narrative. In addition to being genuinely useful for getting out of a bad situation, the fact that they could also die allowed for a bit of emergent narrative. 

As an example, here’s what Epic has in the EULA for Unreal Engine developers:

Plenty of contracts already address this problem by including the right to perform audits. Refuse the audit and find yourself in the same situation Epic is in with Fortnite and their developer account.

Emulators can make it easier to cheat in various ways, whether intentionally or by accident. If the game isn’t running at full speed, that could give the player more time to react to events in the game. Many emulators also don’t perfectly emulate the original hardware, which means gameplay can be subtly different than…

And the frustration might not have even ended there. I once made a character for a short-lived Shadowrun campaign. I spend many hours working on it and finally had a character I thought I was happy with. Once the game started, I then found out the hard way that due to the way my character was built, my character…

I daily carry a small flashlight (slightly larger than a typical dry-erase marker) that can can put out far more light than my smartphone, and run for 30 hours straight while doing so. If I kick the flashlight up to max brightness it will still run for over an hour, while being able to illuminate objects over 200…