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It was murder. He stood against the hoarders, and they got his head.

Annoying. Don’t let the industry autoregulate, it’s always lukewarm and ineffective.
Legislate. Ban underage gambling.
This is not a complicated issue, at all, the only barriers are lobbying and corruption.

Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disaster. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.

The language used is not going to harm people. The intent is, which was my point.

Read -> Parse the meaning -> React accordingly. Is a correct way to communicate.
Read -> React to trigger word -> Disregard meaning Is not. It’s just conditioned response.

If you do not think disagreement is a productive contribution, maybe you’re not looking for a discussion.

You should stop focusing on vocabulary and get your mind on intent, this is getting stupid.

Where I live it’s much more complete than google maps, especially in the countryside.

I don’t see a scenario where google or the likes would be allowed to fail. So moot point.

Hypothetically it would open a window for open source services to sneak in.

Middle term? The phasing out of personal computers, and moving toward a system of servers/terminals where noone owns software.
You’ll rent computing power or storage space, you’ll only pay for the interface.

They say that every year.

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Again, I complain about due process, not about the decision itself.

Knowing the guy it’s entirely possible that he’s lying, but he claimed that he tried seven different british banks and was denied each time.

I haven’t found a definitive denial or confirmation of the story, except a few articles where the journalists contacted uk banks and received a “no comment”.

I don’t dismiss it, since it happens among other occurrences of banking institutions trying to act like a judicial power on their own. Namely the wikileaks donations block, and the surrealistic paypal ‘disinformation fee’.

If he genuinely took money from the russian state, or purposedly tanked the pound sterling in order to short it on the forex market (I didn’t make that one up), it stands firmly in the realm of criminal behaviour.

So by all means, investigate, jail him, fine him, cut him into pieces and shoot them into the sun for all I care.

But I think banks do this kind of stuff to pretend that they autoregulate, and avoid genuine government oversight.

Allowing this to happen, even to the most unlikeable person in Britain, sets a precedent which makes me uneasy.

Then again I might just be bullshit, what do I know, I couldn’t find the info.

No, they’re a necessary part of modern life and they should not be able to arbitrarily refuse service. This should be done under government supervision.
The same way you are entitled to health care, groceries or public transportation.

And I complained the same way when Mastercard and Visa blocked payment to wikileaks.
It’s about the principle of the thing, it has nothing to do with the person victim of the process.

Farage’s worse than dirt.
But you’d have to be completely insane to see this as a good thing.
Banks should not hold that much power, this is effectively a privately owned social credit system.

Trying to find some that haven’t been talked about yet:

Echo. It’s a fantastic experimental infiltration game with an AI that adapts to your way of playing. The setup is very impressive.

Pathologic: one of the three playable characters (the Changeling). It’s a bizarre russian game, with an unique world, and messy gameplay. Can’t recommend it enough.

Va11 Hall-A: chill bartending game in a cyberpunk setup.

The Blackwell series: comfy, kind of amateurish point and clicks by Wadjet Eye. I like them very much.

Transistor: weirdest game by Supergiant. You play as a redhead with a talking sword. I don’t remember much about it except that it was good.

The Fall: (pushing it a little bit, since the protagonist is an AI, but I’ve always seen here as female.) Criminally underrated puzzle games, disguised as metroidvanias.

Eliza (by Zachtronics): the only visual novel I enjoyed. It’s hard to explain, it’s about AI, burnout, whether tech dehumanizes people, and solitaire.

Hedon Duology: for something completely different, it’s a slightly kinky retroshooter, with amazon Orcs fighting demons.
It may sound a bit dumb, but it’s excellent. Huge levels, interesting worldbuilding, and a gameplay based on exploration, puzzles as well as shooting.

There’s probably a ton more, but that’s all I can think about at the moment.

10 years limit, absolutely non transferable, limited to human beings (not abstract legal entities) .
Eventually extendable to lifetime of the creator if the work is still being developed, to prevent being usurped by copycats.

I also believe that facilitating voluntary sponsorship (a la patreon, but without letting 10% get siphoned by leeches) is preferable to selling works. Especially since distribution is now pretty much free.

This looks amazing. Almost better than the original in some ways.
But playing Doom in 1:1 aspect ratio is masochism.

I’m still angry about it.

Don’t tailor your speech for people who can’t read or think.
If someone wants to misunderstand you they’ll do so no matter how hard you try to accommodate them .

I don’t know, Empress comes with her own theme songs, long winded bizarre philosophical rants, beautifully ornamented nfo, and pointless drama with repackers. If that’s a cover up persona, they did a hell of a thorough job.