Well... almost every game. Maybe, every game that doesn’t have “Five Nights at Freddy’s” in the title - that’s the only series I’ve ever seen that actually releases ahead of the target release date more often than not. Given that it’s almost entirely done by Scott Cawthon alone, it’s likely that he’s just an outlier.…

Blocking eshop access even for redownloading games is a step too far. I get that they pirated, but this is effectively taking away games from them that they already purchased. We shouldn’t accept that companies have the right to take our games back if they aren’t happy with us.

These are indie developers. They don’t think like big corporations where it’s all about the bottom line. It’s entirely possible they just want to do something nice for people, and aren’t thinking about future profits from it.

As much as I hope this show will truly break the mold and cement the relationship as canon by the end, I don’t have my hopes up high. I just went through all of Macross Delta, hoping for canon confirmation of a F/F couple being together romantically, but they teased up through the final episode.

The Spanish flu epidemic that hit right after WWI, as mentioned in other comments here, had a big impact on the way the public viewed the time period. It wiped out around 100 million people, and likely helped cement the public view of the time period as being miserable and filled with pointless death.

I’ve heard rumors that Nintendo was very slow with providing dev kits to many companies, so it’s possible that they just haven’t had enough time to develop something for it to be ready by launch.

That’s not the law, though. The law has exceptions for Fair Use - otherwise creators could quash negative reviews that include any element of their work, for instance. The problem is that Fair Use is hard to measure objectively, and YouTube’s mechanisms are bound by the requirements of the DMCA, which makes Fair Use a…

Since Steam’s Early Access began.

Ever heard of a little game called Papers Please? Ever heard anyone who played it describe it as fun? Ever heard about all its praise? Games don’t just have to be fun.

There’s one indirect benefit for users: In the future, companies are going to see this legal precedent, and so they’re going to be more reluctant to remove features they advertised. Which... they really shouldn’t need legal precedent to avoid doing, but sadly we live in a world where someone can sell you something,…

Who’s treating it like a good thing?

Thank you for saying this. I’m so sick of all the people making jokes about this (which I won’t repeat here). She might be the butt of a lot of jokes about how she doesn’t deserve to be rich and famous, but that in no way equates to her deserving to be mugged like this. Why do so many people lack basic empathy, or at…

Is it possible for anyone here to present their own subjective opinions in a way that doesn’t state them as objective facts, and perhaps agree to disagree about what different people prefer?

Attacking the source doesn’t disprove the claims, and neither does referring obliquely to a document dump without providing any specifics. I’ll boil down Oliver’s points for you:

The problem is the voting system, at the root. When you only get one vote, it always ends up with people feeling like they have to be strategic, which makes it nigh-impossible for new parties to get a chance at the national level. Even if people en masse vote for a third-party candidate now, it won’t solve that issue…

That’s like looking a 10 and 10,000 and saying “both numbers are big.” From a certain point of view, yes. From another point of view, if people are lining up in just over a month to vote for the smallest number and all you say in comparing the two is that both are big, you’re being massively ingenuous (if not outright…

They aren’t the target audience of this joke, though. The target audience is people who see “academic” as a compliment as Trump’s speech patterns as the exact opposite of it. To kill the joke via explaining it, it sets you up to think they’re talking about a Trump stand-in, and then subvert this expectation by…

Sadly, he may have to remain quiet on it. Given his own lawsuit from them, it’s likely that he’s been advised by his lawyers to say nothing publicly until it’s resolved.

Tales of Zestiria did this too (with a minor exception for certain arena-style fights that made up less than 1% of the gameplay). As I recall, the best explanation we got for it was that it was something about music licensing. I wonder if it would be possible to allow video-only streams for cases like that (and…

The fact that it could get complicated doesn’t mean we should deny people human rights. And that’s actually not even the issue at hand here - the issue is that the law bans them from even living together, let alone get married. Letting them live together wouldn’t cause the issues marriage does.