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BlitzGeology91

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    Comment #48576020

    > Yes, and it was an awful experience with a fraction of the playerbase. “awful experience”? That’s a very very surprising thing to read. My personal experience has been the exact …

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    Comment #48568674

    > I’ve worked in games where we could drop a server binary over the fence an that would be fine. I’ve also worked on games that have required a bunch of different standalone servic…

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    Comment #48443871

    > Pretending that not doing that is bad design would have a chilling effect on novel games. Well, the comment that you replied to said “Gaming companies did not need to insert them…

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    Comment #48392070

    > The movement for free software traditionally draws a distinction between software and art. This means that only the software part of each game would need to be distributable, not…

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    Comment #48391869

    > To be fair, the legislation also kills any sort of multiplayer games, so it's in the same spirit. No, it doesn’t. It just requires that we go back to making multiplayer games the…

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    Comment #47323160

    > At this rate, how likely is it that Codeberg is just going to become a wasteland of abandoned ideological forks (with the exception of one or two major projects) by next year? I …

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    Comment #47138267

    > There are no self-destruct mechanisms put into games. That’s not accurate. I used to play the Android version of EA Tetris [1]. I liked the game so much that I paid to remove ads…

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    Comment #47132036

    I’m kind of confused. In your metaphor, what do the road tax, gas or mechanic represent?

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    Comment #47132018

    > But at least by going down that road, you end up with more games, better games, and people learning skills throughout the process. And who knows, maybe one is a mega success. Yes…

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    Comment #46991293

    Uh… this certainly wouldn’t be the first GitHub-drama: https://github.com/neodrama/github-drama >

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    Comment #46967347

    Eh, I don’t really think that this is an “or” situation. I think that this is an “and” situation. The last time that I set up Xash3D FWGS, I had to copy files from the version of H…

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    Comment #46059337

    From your perspective, what would Linux forcing Wayland on you look like?

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    Comment #44951932

    > Newgrounds taught me about the "fair use" defense when parodying wayyyyy back when their "Teletubby fun land" got them the ire of the BBC's lawyers. > I can't find anything docum…

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    Comment #31954688

    > This is a very "american" definition of freedom, which is basically, just let me do what I want. Eh. I see what you’re saying about gun control, but the idea that “some restricti…