Their lack of a patent for controller vibration prevented Sony from having vibration on Sixaxis - notice that despite all the BS that it interfered with motion sensing, Dualshock 3 came out just a few months after Sony managed to settle the suite with Immersion.

Since there’s no penalty for making a patent and not using it, it’s probably cheaper for Sony to pre-emptively register everything that comes from brainstorming sessions.

Sony patents random stuff just in case all the time. It doesn’t mean it’s ever going into a an actual product.

That’s a common problem in places where humans eliminated the existing predators. Herbivores evolved to reproduce in large numbers to account for the predators and this is a disaster if suddenly there are none.

I also like nice graffiti but even those end up covered by a bunch of ugly and lazy tags. As for cities being soulless without it, I guess you never went to a city that is not a glorified parking lot.

Spray paint should be taxed high enough to pay the cleanup of all the ugly tags.

When you are trying to compete with another application, speed matters a lot.

The Linux foundation is still trying to take Servo out of the ground

Probably Starfield would be the Bethesda game to benefit more from it. At least they could make cities feel like cities.

If you consider inflation, $60 in 2024 is worth almost the same as $50 in 2011.

Colonialism is such a beautiful and logical thing. /s

Ironically, using Ruigi for Waluigi in English (as Ruin+Luigi) would sound less lazy.

I remembered about that post while writing my comment but couldn’t find it. I didn’t know the sequel but both explain the problem of Waluigi as a character, Nintendo sees him as filler and he’s more useful for them as such. If they start fleshing him out he’ll be less useful in other contexts… Which is also a apt metaphor for why conservative societies want people to fit faceless molds

You mean the cardboard character that’s the counterpart to another cardboard character and that only exists because Wario needed a doubles partner in Mario Tennis? Even his name is an afterthought, why would Nintendo suddenly start caring enough to give him a game?

That’s just a superficial reading of the news.

But there’s another level. Why did the dentist kill his wife? Was it some chemical dentists use that needs to be forbidden or at least regulated? Was it a mental health issue that points to failings in the healthcare system? Was it a problem with how he was a raised as a child that can be used to inform education policies? Can the dentist be redeemed or should he just be punished?

And on an even deeper level, should we as a society even care and intervene or should we move to a sociopathic mindset of embracing full individual responsibility and no collective responsibility at all?

“identify”? What makes you believe that the CCP will respect the right to self-identity? As every other reactionary authoritarian party they see everyone with a working uterus as cattle.

This is the gaming version of XKCD 1172.

You can use git log --author=REGEX_THAT_EXCLUDES_DEPENDABOT ... .

It’s available in read-only mode since 21st: https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/internet-archive-services-update-2024-10-21/

Being a direct spin-off of Discovery helped.

900 million can buy you almost entire legislature in any country easily. And I say almost assuming/hoping that a small percentage of politicians are not bribable.