I for one am somewhat of the opposite view, to a degree anyway. I think we need more money spent on passion projects like that, since it means the money is actually cycling back into the economy instead of just being hoarded like a dragon’s hoard. I agree that in an ideal world there wouldn’t be billionaires at all to do this kind of thing, but in this case at least I think it’s a good thing the money is actually being spent (theoretically).
What, so I get to stop caring what Matthew Kacsmaryk, that one judge in the fifth circuit who is the only judge in his division so he is easy to shop for, has to say. I’ll be honest, this sounds like a win to me, though I do admit it is going to make protecting the country from Trump more expensive.
It requiring extra development is the only explanation I can think of for why almost no games come with native linux builds, not even single player ones.
Because developing for Linux takes time, and it doesn’t have a large enough market share to be considered worth it.
That’s the one I remember being skeptical of, since it also corresponded with a drop in players overall as the game aged.
The Linux having an over representation of cheaters one.
That’s a claim I’ve heard, but never from a credible source. Are you aware of actual data backing that claim up?
That’s called an asset flip, and they are rightfully mocked.
Charging while undocked and using the built in stand.
Never heard of that, I assume it’s an emulator. Emulation is different from running a game natively. Yeah, Nintendo probably could get AMD hardware to work as a replacement for Nvidia hardware, but I would guess either compatibility would be imperfect, there would be a performance hit, or both.
There is the used games market, if you are willing to engage with it, though that does need you to be really patient.
Backwards compatibility means they might not be able to talk to AMD unfortunately, depending on how the software is set up I’d assume.
That would work if serial numbers weren’t visible without even opening the box the device came in, and I’m they are even included on the receipt for the device. Scalpers would absolutely have a ton of serial numbers just lying around from unsold devices, or even devices they sold and just hope the owner of won’t bother attempting a purchase of the thing they are scalping.
That’s a fine solution long term I guess, but things take time to be made.
Can you think of a better way to keep it mostly out of the hands of scalpers?
I suspect it’s more that the time people can and do spend playing phone games has just about zero overlap with PC games. You play phone games while on the bus or on the toilet, you play PC games while at home behind your desk.
The most effective piece of propaganda in history.
A driver isn’t going to be seriously injured or even killed if their car is hit by a bike at speed.
My stance on fixing the debt has long been that the only answer is to invest in robust social programs. Such social programs pretty much always increase economic activity, which the government gets to collect taxes on every step of the way. Of course that only works if such investment exists and the government is willing to collect those taxes, neither of which seem to be the case anymore.
The following post will meander a bit as I wrote it in a kind of stream of consciousness state.
I don’t know where you heard that Super Metroid was originally a remake of the NES game, I’d never heard that and I can’t find anything to back that up. As well, keep in mind that Super Metroid came out a full decade before Zero Mission did, and the original NES game that Zero Mission is a remake of was even lighter on story than Super is. If you aren’t enjoying Super because of a lack of story that’s fine, you won’t miss much if you skip it, though I will warn you that a very common complaint about fusion is that until basically the very end the game is extremely linear. That said, I also think it’s unfair to call Zero Mission an asset flip, it’s much more a full on remake. Back to the Super Metroid thing, I will point out that the Wrecked Ship in Super Metroid is mostly not the Wrecked Ship you traverse in Zero Mission, there’s like one screen that is shared between the two games.