Hawke
@Hawke@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are color schemes used in video game UIs really subject to trademark? 8 hours ago:
reasonable interpretation? No.
Reality? Depends if there’s enough money and interest in litigation.
- Comment on why can't there be a soda dispenser for energy drinks? 8 hours ago:
I haven’t done the math but I can’t imagine that’s the case or most sodas would also be illegal in their concentrated form.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 3 weeks ago:
Nothing at all. Most people are not creating derivative works.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 3 weeks ago:
It’s less clear than you say.
In principle the First-sale doctrine should apply but it has not caught up with reality yet.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 3 weeks ago:
For most people that is a distinction without a difference.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 3 weeks ago:
Valve only did because they were building hardware that they wanted to run Linux.
That was part of it clearly but I think more so they wanted an escape route as Microsoft enshittifies (further)
- Comment on Are there people without handedness? 4 weeks ago:
soviets
Odd way to spell “the Catholic Church”
- Comment on Percentages 1 month ago:
I would say it should be fine as a solo game if you’re into that, but better as a 2-3 player game to have someone to discuss and bounce ideas against.
I can imagine that as a party game it would be chaotic for sure!
Definitely needs the right group, and I think you can’t take the scoring too seriously, especially playing in larger groups. Pretty sure I also have never had a positive score even in a smaller group.
- Comment on Percentages 1 month ago:
Honestly, Letters From Whitechapel is a better design of the same concept.
For detective story games, Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective is amazing.
And for public transit games, Bus is the way to go (probably)
- Comment on Percentages 1 month ago:
Scotland Yard or Letters from Whitechapel?
- Comment on Sir David Leafenborough 1 month ago:
It is. The first couple paragraphs are more legible.
- Comment on Sir David Leafenborough 1 month ago:
Because it’s a leaf insect not a stick insect. So the stick name is inappropriate.
- Comment on ugh i wish 1 month ago:
Why would you get hate for that? Just because a company that sells cheese also sells raw milk when they probably shouldn’t?
- Comment on A Song of Ice and Fire - first editions of each book 1 month ago:
They aren’t out of order. They’re in order, clockwise.
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 1 month ago:
What screws?
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 2 months ago:
It most certainly does not. Source: have a tree, a lawn, and no interest in spending time raking leaves.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 2 months ago:
You think anybody is walking on the street in the US?
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 months ago:
But “level isn’t what you need. If the floor and ceiling aren’t level, it’ll look wrong.
- Comment on At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"? 2 months ago:
In twenty oh one.
So I skip twenty oh oh in favor of the year two thousand
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 2 months ago:
Is that why every single application will only work with some ancient version of Java?(usually 8, sometimes 1.6 or 11)
I can’t think of many cases where Java 21 is a drop in replacement, and I don’t think I anyone actually used 17.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 2 months ago:
That’s exactly the reason. And also no company is going through the bother to refactor that shit, so everything is named based on some other company 5 mergers and acquisitions ago.
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 2 months ago:
Immigration isn’t real?
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 months ago:
It was that in combination with the “engine-generators” yes. Made it unclear.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 months ago:
What’s with the math in the middle of your comment?
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
You can but it bothers me that it exists, shitting on everything.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
Well, this changes things ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
So … if I tag !boobs@lemmynsfw.com I should be able to see it?
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
tends to be extremely hostile to any sort of monitization
This is a good thing, seeing as how monetization has ruined other things, the web newspapers in particular.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
Authoritarian communists, especially those not native to such a state.
Currently it’s mainly the folks who believe China in particular can do no wrong. Historically it refers to supporters of the USSR in Britain
Specifically, it was used to distinguish [CPGB] party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.
More recently it’s applied online especially to people who are knee-jerk anti-capitalist or anti-US, “if the US/‘west’/capitalism is wrong then anyone who opposes them must be right”
More generally, a tankie is someone who tends to support “militant opposition to capitalism”, and a more modern online variation, which means “something like ‘a self-proclaimed communist who indulges in conspiracy theories and whose rhetoric is largely performative.’”
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
Lemmynsfw does pretty well. It’s a shame that the main instances don’t federate with the porn instances, but it does nicely prevent either from overwhelming the other.
