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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft hunger games, h1z1, the culling.

  These were all created after the original PUBG, which was an Arma mod created similar to DayZ. This existed as what we know of battle royale before any other clone, and it was also created by PlayerUnknown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What was unique about the PUBG / Unreal Engine situation is that Epic had only used the Unreal Engine for things like Unreal Tournament. They have a large set of customers who license their engine. When PUBG, which was originally created as an Arma mod (like DayZ), was moved to a standalone company by PlayerUnknown, they began looking for engines to rapidly rebuild what made Arma special. The bullet physics, look of the engine, environment and so on. They chose the Unreal engine.

  PUBG took off as soon as the demo was released. There was an ongoing business relationship where PUBG developers worked with the Unreal engine developers to add features to the developer tools, and changes to the engine, to support features that PUBG needed. These changes of course were merged back into the main Unreal engine branch, and this allowed Epic to take the work for a battle royale game from the business association with PUBG, and rapidly cash in on the battle royale craze.

  That’s what is different about this, versus just a company creating a clone. It was a dangerous thing to do from Epic’s point of view too because I’m sure there could be cases where other customers could see the engine company help them create an initial product, and then use that work to rip them off with a clone.

  From a business practice standpoint, this is similar to what Amazon did with Amazon Basics. Where Amazon became the main, or only, online marketplace for many products. They ran reports and data to find which third party products were selling well on their site… And then they set up stuff like Amazon Basics to essentially copy them. Eventually due to the price and shipping advantage, and the Amazon name, the original products get replaced. And it feeds into Amazons profits.

  Now with AI, all someone has to do is find out which games are popular and then drop some money on tokens to try to vibe code a competing game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haxxed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the explanation for the shape of the Moon, Sun, all other planets, etc… in the flat earth mindset?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This post made me “do my own research” and it’s true… Mohammed did marry a 9 year old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Will it have cloud? What about A.I.?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You must tell me, please!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  924 billionaires in the U.S. with a combined $7 trillion in “wealth”. So once Mandani takes all of it away to pay the debt, who is going to pay the remaining $33 trillion?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedy Delivery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Parts of Santa’s narrative were adopted by colonists in New York, which blended St Nicholas and stories around Odin. Odin from Greek Mythology was known to fly around on a horse, knew who was good or bad, and at times had presents. In New York at some point, this all changed and a prior diety type figure in Odin became commercialized. The white horse became reindeer. Santa eventually adopted Coca-Cola’s colors and the commercialization and rebooting of Odin was complete. Thanks for reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s not possible to tell any story about it without including Trump, the Clintons, and others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  After an event happens, many people convince themselves they saw it coming all along even if they had no idea.

  Everyone is an expert on everything… Worse now because of LLMs

  Phrasing something as protecting children… The ultimate form of manipulation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Reddit...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just build your own open source versions of all that and you’ll be fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At least Quark had some integrity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are all just from the rib of a man or whatever it was anyway, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks continues to be terrible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Starbucks is a company that sells sugar for a lot of money. Who cares what happens to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and there was nothing really worth saving. Throw it all away and start over. It’s fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more than just SQL. Social Security Number can be re-used over time. It is not a unique identifier by itself.