PixxlMan

Which means that the patents are void to start with. But they can still be used to bankrupt a smaller company with court battles regarless. The fact that patents with obvious prior art get granted so easily is a wild.

Lemmy is really weird about these kinds of things. The hive has decided your personal feelings towards game design must be punished I guess.

In much the same way iron is heavier than feathers!

A globe isn't a projection at all, it's the real deal. Projection occurs when you take that 3D surface and map it to a 2D surface.

What brand are your running shoes?

If the electorate in a democracy want to end democracy, then it's game over. You can't save that.

At some point needlessly banning words just empowers bigots by letting them claim larger and larger parts of the vocabulary. Shouldn't we try to reclaim words instead, and deprive the words of their power? Just "banning" words, especially in cases such as this one when the connection to master/slave is pretty weak, actually increases the negative power of the words and I'd argue empowers people with malicious intent

The comment says monopolistic. Epic games does exclusives on PC. Does steam do this? Which one is monopolistic?

Referring to Epic I presume?

Wow! You're a true climate hero!

Just be careful that irrecoverable damage hasn't been dealt to the game industry and traditional distribution methods by the point that the enshittification starts. What I'm really concerned about is that Microsoft will do everything in their power to smash the current games industry to bits and then rule the ashes. The games industry will end up smaller and worse off, but Microsoft still makes more money since they control a larger share even if the pie shrinks and shrivels.

When people say that they want a third part I doubt they mean it literally, as in they believe there are literally only two parties, but rather I suspect they mean that they want a third party which is large and influencial.