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This is akin to randomly bellowing out the national anthem in the middle of a voting session but with more bite. I’d expect somebody doing that to be sanctioned too.

With the harshest punishment ever given within their government?

The haka happened last November. They haven’t been punished until now. You’d think if it was that severe they wouldn’t wait 5 months to punish them for it.

You haven’t met a pre teen. You’re also ignoring the problem of false positives.

“It doesn’t matter how strict the punishment is, only criminals will be punished” only works if only criminals are punished. There’s plenty of stories of accounts being banned when no rules were broken.

Right, children are known for being well behaved and following the rules…

I remember as a child playing 2 player Tetris on the original Gameboy, which required a cable connecting the two devices. I figured out if I watched my opponent’s height indicator on my screen and saw it drop suddenly I could unplug the cable from my device and not get sent the extra lines. It was a cheat and an exploit that I stumbled upon because I was curious what would happen. That “I wonder what would happen” attitude can now apparently cause Nintendo to purposely brick the device.

patenting, copyrighting, or trademarking concepts or mechanics in video games shouldn’t be allowed at all

It’s not allowed at all in board games. There’s a known issue that someone could completly copy the mechanics of a board game, and as long as they don’t copy the art or the exact text of the rulebook there is no legal means to stop it.

Boardgamers are aware of this, and agree that it is better for development of future games than if someone could own the idea of “rolling a dice”, so if knockoffs do come around they tend to quickly get called out and not purchased.

I don’t know how videogames managed to get different rules.

no, I don’t have to eat shit to know it tastes bad.

So you wouldn’t bothering reading the reviews of people who ate shit either.

If Steam would let people leave positive reviews without a comment there would be fewer low value comments.

Giving clown awards gives them Steam points. It encourages people to leave those type of shitty comments on purpose.

When I first started using Linux I was impressed with how easily everything seemed to work. Then over time I started to get annoyed with all the things that I had no idea how to fix without looking up, and thought about going back to Windows.
Then I used windows again and was immediately reminded of all the stupid bullshit I had to constantly fight with and forgot about because that was just the norm when windows is the only OS you ever use.

“It’s a shame anything has to change. The Sun has changed its position in the sky and I don’t trust it one bit.”

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One approach is objectively better for the little guys than the other.

I’m a littler guy than any game company, Epic treats me like shit. So I’m not going to use Epic.

If my purchase on Epic helps the game reach $1 million in revenue then I am giving money to Epic.

Invested too much money

If Steam turns to shit I have no problems reacquiring my collection through Piracy. There is no sunk-cost here. Epic is actively anti-consumer so I refuse to use it.

so they can keep feeding a monopoly that licenses drm keys to them.

I guess I don’t understand Epic’s model. How is Epic different from Steam in this regard?

Maybe if they pull a Boeing and assassinate the guy bringing their stock down commits suicide…

Da comrade.

Why the fuck is the US making offers to Ukraine for peace? Shouldn’t Russia be doing that?