They know the teleporter has a trigger because if you turn noclip on, you can walk into the wall to activate it. You just can’t do so by walking against the wall. So, you notice at one point that when you’re pushed against the wall, your viewpoint is slightly closer than when walking, add a spark of genius, and...

Whether or not something is a bug really depends on the intention of the developer. If they always intended for the teleported to not work unless you are pushed onto it, it’s not a bug. If the teleporter was intended to never work but was made to work, it is a bug. It sounds from the reaction of the developer like…

That’s exactly why Ness is Ness.

I have literally called them the “Ness” and the “Sness” my entire life. It boggles my mind that you’d call them anything else.

I always thought that’s why Ness is Ness

This problem with iPhoto was near or at the top of reasons I switched from iPhone to a Pixel 2 last year.

I’ve always hated this about iCloud, which is why even though I’m an iPhone user of a decade now, I don’t rely on it to back up anything other than my phone settings. I don’t understand why Apple would think a service that doesn’t let you delete an image off your phone without deleting it off their cloud service…

Thanks for explaining this. It’s still pretty confusing though. Not your fault. I’ve got my Pixel and Google Photos so everything works as expected which makes me happy.

the pack of gum metaphor is flawed, though, and you even address that in your post. a physical product has the element of materials/scarcity, a download does not. i still think piracy is kinda wack if you can afford to buy games, but art is as much a part of the human condition as food, and especially in these times…

Well, I do feel the need to make a certain distinction: Actual theft results in an immediate financial loss — the cost to produce and ship the stolen product. Copyright infringement does not incur any immediate cost on the manufacturer/retailer. It is a potential lost sale, whereas actual piracy is even worse than a…

You aren’t wrong, but the corollary to the acceptance of digital goods as commodities must be the evolution of the transaction system to offer a fair market structure for a commodity with no restriction on manufacture or reproduction. As an example, the early days of ebooks saw some publishers charge equal prices for…

Just because something is legal/illegal does not make it right. Piracy is only persecuted so much because massive global monopolies control a lot of the IP and the few that are not a monopoly have formed organisations together with the monopolies to fund massive lobbying groups who can convince governments across the…

Rights for people? That’s crazy talk! Everyone knows rights are meant exclusively for corporations!

See, the problem with your argument is that it cares nothing for anything except labels.

I’m not taking any side on whether piracy should be legal or not; I just want to point out that the argument you present is the crux of the issue. It is very difficult to compare digital goods to physical goods in this regard.

I’m really not sure about this.

Piracy is not always stealing. Stealing is always stealing. Also, spare us your rant until consumers also have digital rights.

He didn’t pirate anything, you might as well say GOG enables piracy because of their no DRM model. All he did was enable a way for people to remove bloatware from software they already owned. We have seen numerous occurrences where a DRM server went down and games that we owned and paid for have become useless. Just…

Next on the agenda - the ethical and/or moral responsibilities of developers/publishers leading to overpriced bloated products that more often than not perform poorly for paying customers.