That’s an excellent usage of the technology in part because it throws out the trading aspect.

So do the guy romances send unsolicited dick pics?

That’s not what the announcement says. They mention that already-purchased games will still be able to be downloaded after the store goes away.

It has happened periodically. The Capcom Ducktales remaster disappeared due to license expiration; I don’t know whether it’s come back yet.

One thing that’s unclear to me is how licensing deals come into play with all of this. It wouldn’t be a problem for their first-party titles, but I imagine there’s an expiration date on any agreement between Nintendo and the other publishers for selling the games digitally.

99% is a gross overstatement. That one just happened to be the first to come to mind.

They don’t always screw up the remaster. Depends on what platform they’re adapting it for. The original remaster of Final Fantasy for WonderSwan was gorgeous, for instance.

I guess I’m thinking about blockchain as a decentralized immutable transaction record. That tech could be used in other ways; it just found its niche in scams and speculation.

I really think the technology behind blockchain is fascinating, and I think there could be potential uses for it that aren’t all scams and financial speculation.

It’s super-applicable when it comes to larger purchases. Cars in particular.

I know the government is partly at fault for the broader economic unfairness, but I put more blame on the cartels and terrorist organizations that supply and recruit these dealers. They prey on the economically disadvantaged. They are a scourge, and attacking them requires starting with the dealers.

I’m not talking about the addicts. They definitely need treatment.

“We don’t go after liquor store clerks, we don’t go after car dealers that sell young men fast cars”

It’s possible. It would just be very expensive. Nintendo is a publicly traded company.

Just because a customer wants something doesn’t mean it should be legal to sell it, especially when it could be deadly.

I mean, there’s definitely bias, but it’s not the sort of bias that makes anything he’s saying untrue.

I think the fundamental issue is with the sheer amount of power vertically integrated mega-corporations can have. Under anti-trust laws, vertical monopolies can be broken up, but it hasn’t been policy to do so since action was taken against Standard Oil.

I think the answer is moving away from discrete project-based creative development. It’s one of the reasons the software-as-a-service model is so nice; it potentially allows for a continuous release model rather than setting strict timelines for major releases.

It will be good for Kotick and other toxic admins to be out of power, should that indeed be the case.

Out of curiosity, is it explicitly referencing the Disney version rather than other adaptations like La Belle et la Bete?