First, how the hell did you get that from what I wrote?
Second, do you really think art is this replaceable? “Oh, we don’t need old movies and music, we have better ones now, so let’s just take away the copies people have already bought”? What a sad way to look at art.
Because it’s a massive time and money investment, because the market and gaming landscape has changed, because mechanics and approaches can be patented, …
It’s a game with a story. You can’t just create a literal copy of that story since it connects to the story of the games before and after it. Come on, this isn’t hard to understand.
Of course it’s ridiculous and untrue. You can’t “just” develop a game like Assassins Creed 2.
I’m not aware of really any small developers pulling stunts like Ubisoft is doing. And there’s always the option to limit new laws to bigger publishers, like the EU is doing with the DMA.
The art argument is not nonsense, not sure where you get the idea. Games like Assassin’s Creed 2 have influenced many people in their design choices for their own games.
And of course there’s something wrong when a company takes away access to singleplayer games you bought, just because they use always-online DRM and don’t want to pay for the servers. These games don’t take away space from new games, it’s a ridiculous idea that them dying off is improving the situation for new games. It’s also ridiculous to think “hey, someone can just develop a game like the old one!”.
How is it selfishness to want to keep the product you bought? To preserve things that contribute to art and culture?
Yeah, can’t recommend Aurora enough. It’s awesome to have literally 0 driver issues, since the system image already contains the drivers pre-installed.
AFAIK the Crowdstrike issue wasn’t a driver update, just virus definitions outside the driver, so your method wouldn’t have helped.
Thanks for the recommendation! I’m specifically looking for a text guide that outlines the tech progression - doesn’t have to be in-depth, just a rough “first get this kind of thing, then this one”.
These kinds of games tend to be a bit opaque for me, having such a guide would allow me to read up on things when I can’t progress myself. Do you happen to know one?
Yeah, quite the surprise. They really fucked up with the previous-to-last update and left the game broken way longer than acceptable, but it’s nice that they’re improving things a bit now.
Is there a good overview of the progression somewhere? I vaguely remember buying it a while ago, but couldn’t really get into it.
why do you think they have you sign up with a phone number in the first place?
Again, spam & abuse prevention. We’ve been over this.
I’m sorry that not everyone thinks Signal is a god app worthy of worship. its a message app, and its not the only one. it does stuff some people don’t like. including me.
I’m not saying that Signal is a god app worthy of worship, I’m saying it’s detrimental for them to include SMS functionality, since that’s fundamentally insecure. That’s literally why they removed it. Is that so hard to understand?
Spam isn’t a binary issue, where it either exists or doesn’t. It could very well be the case that, without requiring a phone number, there’d be far more spam (since it’d be far easier to automatically create new accounts).
Again, do you have a better suggestion for spam & abuse prevention?
And still, aside from that - it doesn’t really make sense to expect Signal to offer SMS integration just because it requires a phone number for spam prevention, when offering this integration would be detrimental towards the mission of Signal (offering secure messages).
Do you have a better approach to prevent spam in mind? Without a barrier of entry it becomes a serious issue.
What? You use a secure messenger to send secure messages. It doesn’t make sense for a secure messenger to offer sending insecure messages (SMS).
Edit: oh, you’re probably referring to why it requires a phone number. This seems to be due to abuse/spam prevention, as otherwise creating new accounts to spam people with is basically free.
It’s arguably a very bad idea for a secure messenger to also provide an SMS interface, since those are basically cleartext
Not sure what you mean - “Mario and Princess Beach” is obviously peak cinema
If it’s only in the type checker, can IDEs/editors correctly show the type information of inferred types then?
Yep, and some (e.g. Pycharm) do. They have to be a bit careful with not assuming too much since lots of legacy code is written in fairly terrible ways, so e.g. default parameter values don’t necessarily set the type of their respective parameters, but it’s definitely possible and mostly a choice by the editor/IDE.
Do they call the type checker themselves to retrieve that info?
Depends on the editor! Pycharm is built on a custom engine by Jetbrains, whereas e.g. the Python VS code plugin by Microsoft (Pylance) is based on Microsofts type checker (pyright).
Type inference is a feature of the type checker, not of Python itself. I’m fairly sure the type checker that’s being developed by the Astral team will have proper inference, and I’ve also had good experiences with pyright in the past.
Though it doesn’t come close to e.g. Typescript, which is a shame - Python could really use the advanced dynamic type checking features TS has.
I’ve had good experiences with my Nvidia card on Aurora (same basis as e.g. Bazzite), but HDR is indeed still an issue.
But that’s what’s happening, games like AC2 are being taken from people.
How the hell were people supposed to know that the game would be taken from them when they bought it? You are aware that clear communication on that issue is literally one of the objectives of Stop Killing Games?
Have you done any thinking & reflection on why people support the campaign? It feels like you’re desperately throwing arguments against the wall to see what sticks, even though nothing actually makes sense.