Then came color and images and audio and video and all the stupid judgements made based on what someone looked or sounded like, not on the content of what they were saying
As opposed to the stupid judgements made based on the assumption that everyone was the "default" white male?
I do believe he's just provided the perfect way to troll him on that platform in the form of merely pointing out what a raging hypocrite he is when it comes to 'free speech'.
I think you're assuming too much about his knowing or caring.
Trump's an idiot. He doesn't really know what 230 is; I'm not sure he can even count that high. He rants about 230 because he's regurgitating whatever garbled talking points he picked up from Hannity, not because he has a working idea of what it is, what it does, or what his lawyers are saying about it either in court or in boilerplate on "his" website.
Nintendo and Square-Enix have always overpriced their legacy titles going all way back to Super Mario All-Stars on SNES
Nonsense. Super Mario All-Stars was a ground-up reworking of four classic games, one of which had never been released outside of Japan before, with completely new graphics and sound and significant quality-of-life improvements (read: you could save your game).
It's been a very long time since we could expect that level of quality and care in a pack of rereleases of old games.
No, there's no recall. The stores already paid for those games; Nintendo's not going to buy them back. Anywhere that's still got 3DS games for sale is still going to have them until they sell or discard them. And there will continue to be a secondhand market.
I mean I won't deny there's a lot of repetition in series like New Super Mario Bros., Super Smash Bros., and Mario Kart, but the most recent entries in the core Mario and Zelda franchises are a pretty big departure from earlier installments. And the Kirby series has really never stopped experimenting with weird offshoots.
A correction: Amazon did not nuke the DRM-free download option on Comixology purchases, it just stuck it in a non-obvious place. (Go to Account, Comixology settings, View your Comixology books, and then there's a Backups tab where you can download DRM-free comics as CBZ or PDF.)
I think perhaps your theory that adding more detail to the fine print of a digital "purchase" would result in the entrenched book publishers and movie studios deciding to release their products DRM-free on some as-yet-nonexistent new market, which would then grow to compete with the entrenched media platforms, is a little optimistic.
I remember Colbert's reaction to it went something like "Oh, a raised fist. Like Black Power. Only instead of Black Power, it's...hey, there should be a name for that."
If there were more required disclosure about what you're getting I suspect buyers would flock to services that offer a plan for how the buyer keeps their purchase in the event of service provider bankrupcy, etc.
In the eyes of the law, you own the hardware but only license the software that is required to make that hardware work.
The premise here is that, yes, it's absurd to claim that you own a piece of hardware if you're not able to access functionality that is required in order for that hardware to work.
You seem to understand this premise perfectly well, so I'm not sure why you're arguing with it.
Still, I can’t help myself from wondering: could we have created a system that allowed for sensible regulation, thus pre-empting the maleficence of today’s internet behemoths? Was that our chance? Was that even within the deal space?
I don't think so. Not as part of the SOPA debate.
Now, if the courts had gone through with breaking up Microsoft a decade earlier? That might have done it. Instead they got a slap on the wrist and we got twenty more years of corporate megamergers.
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As opposed to the stupid judgements made based on the assumption that everyone was the "default" white male?
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So commonplace as to be ubiquitous, surely?
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The handhelds were usually backward compatible; the consoles usually weren't. (The Wii and Wii U are the only consoles that were.)
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Re: Games connections with other forms of art
That would be quite a trick considering the band formed in 1988 and Doom was released in 1993.
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Re: Ah gross hypocrisy, we meet again
I think you're assuming too much about his knowing or caring.
Trump's an idiot. He doesn't really know what 230 is; I'm not sure he can even count that high. He rants about 230 because he's regurgitating whatever garbled talking points he picked up from Hannity, not because he has a working idea of what it is, what it does, or what his lawyers are saying about it either in court or in boilerplate on "his" website.
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Nonsense. Super Mario All-Stars was a ground-up reworking of four classic games, one of which had never been released outside of Japan before, with completely new graphics and sound and significant quality-of-life improvements (read: you could save your game).
It's been a very long time since we could expect that level of quality and care in a pack of rereleases of old games.
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Re: 3DS
No, there's no recall. The stores already paid for those games; Nintendo's not going to buy them back. Anywhere that's still got 3DS games for sale is still going to have them until they sell or discard them. And there will continue to be a secondhand market.
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I mean I won't deny there's a lot of repetition in series like New Super Mario Bros., Super Smash Bros., and Mario Kart, but the most recent entries in the core Mario and Zelda franchises are a pretty big departure from earlier installments. And the Kirby series has really never stopped experimenting with weird offshoots.
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Re: Show me strong white
...yes. Clearly they built the layout of the entire storefront around that one linebreak.
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A correction: Amazon did not nuke the DRM-free download option on Comixology purchases, it just stuck it in a non-obvious place. (Go to Account, Comixology settings, View your Comixology books, and then there's a Backups tab where you can download DRM-free comics as CBZ or PDF.)
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In Maricopa County it's known as the Arpaio Defense.
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I think perhaps your theory that adding more detail to the fine print of a digital "purchase" would result in the entrenched book publishers and movie studios deciding to release their products DRM-free on some as-yet-nonexistent new market, which would then grow to compete with the entrenched media platforms, is a little optimistic.
Hell, if Comixology is any indication, the likelier outcome is that Amazon would buy it up and nuke the DRM-free download option.
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Re: Right on Cue,..
Are you high?
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Re: White Coffee
Every coffee mug with Josh Hawley on it is a white coffee mug.
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I remember Colbert's reaction to it went something like "Oh, a raised fist. Like Black Power. Only instead of Black Power, it's...hey, there should be a name for that."
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Re: Can better disclosure solve this?
What services are those?
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Stop that.
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Re: "Products I own?" Oh, really?
In the eyes of the law, you own the hardware but only license the software that is required to make that hardware work.
The premise here is that, yes, it's absurd to claim that you own a piece of hardware if you're not able to access functionality that is required in order for that hardware to work.
You seem to understand this premise perfectly well, so I'm not sure why you're arguing with it.
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Where do cows fit into this policy?
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I don't think so. Not as part of the SOPA debate.
Now, if the courts had gone through with breaking up Microsoft a decade earlier? That might have done it. Instead they got a slap on the wrist and we got twenty more years of corporate megamergers.
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