The key difference is that none of those games were ever anything but Sony exclusives. Sony created them as new IPs with the intent of them being exclusive from day one whereas Microsoft has simply bought out a catalogue of existing IPs that were meant to be multiplatform and turned them into MS exclusives after the…

Valve purchased the rights to use that code. Had they not done so, this flickering pattern would be evidence of plagiarism here too. Likewise if you paid whats-her-face for the rights to use IP from Harry Potter, it would be fine, and such deals are actually made all the time (any time a creative work from one medium…

Joplin is my preferred note program, too. I’m currently in the middle of migrating all of my older notes into it from when I used Evernote and OneNote.