Not just that. Apple themselves beat Microsoft where they reverse engineered MS Office and played the cat and mouse game long enough that Microsoft released their office file format specifications publicly for everyone as a standardized format.
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Most snes RPGs arguably aren’t better for their length.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Is Star Citizen's new server meshing tech plagiarized?
22·2 years agoPlagiarism is obviously a word with very strong negative connotations. If you want to discuss the technology and it’s differences between a different solution that tries to solve the same problem and not accuse someone of stealing, it’s usually best not to use this type of language in general.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'
17·2 years agoWouldn’t the unfair advantage only hold water if they blocked unauthorized accessories only with online multi-player games and leave single-player experiences alone?
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Cyberpunk dlc sucks. 10 side missions and like 5 story missions for 30 bucks.
4·2 years agoBeehaw doesn’t have downvotes enabled. We try to be positive here.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Penny Arcade sums up the Unity debacle in the first panel.
6·2 years agoThey’re the “political cartoon” of gamers.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•A good week to support Godot
1·2 years agoDome Keeper, The Case of the Golden Idol are both pretty good 2d games made with Godot.
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Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•Best Nextcloud Password Manager?
92·2 years agoAre you talking about how they fired a transphobe, or about something else?
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Where To Find Actually Good Search Engines?
12·2 years agoYeah, I’ve read around their documentation and they have a pretty compelling reason why one should prefer search engines where you directly pay to the search provider instead of relying on third parties such as advertisers to pay for your search usage.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Nintendo Switch Successor Rumored To Have Been Shown To Press/Devs At Gamescom
2·2 years agoDual screen was a great feature with a handheld with two tiny screens. They tried it with WiiU on the home console and it was a massive failure. The Switch maybe doesn’t have dual screens, but the single screen is bigger than even the 3ds screens combined and they managed to port almost all WiiU exclusives to it with minimum loss of functionality.
Maybe the revolutionary feature was the added screen real estate the dual screens allowed for instead of there just being two screens.
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Technology@beehaw.org•A decentralized, blockchain-based messaging network for safer communications
1·2 years agoBut you don’t want that either. This opens up a way for people to demand others to prove they voted a certain way - I.e. abusive family could force all family members to vote the same. Paper ballots shouldn’t ever be identifiable back to anyone.
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Technology@beehaw.org•A decentralized, blockchain-based messaging network for safer communications
1·2 years agoIf you need the person to walk somewhere, physically show a voter ID to someone to be let into a private area where they receive their private key in a machine for them to then vote remotely, wouldn’t it be easier just to remove the entire technology part of the equation and just make them put a piece of paper inside an envelope in that private area, so that they can then put that piece of paper into a public ballot box right after?
Electronic voting is a bad idea in general, blockchain isn’t going to fix that.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•What type of game do you want to play that doesn't really exist?
1·2 years agoI’d love for something like a watchmaker simulator to exist. You’d get broken watches, and you’d be tasked to take them apart, clean them and fix them up. Basically, something very similar to those almost ASMR videos on youtube where someone restores those completely broken things into a pristine state.
They have open sourced their client software and libraries, but the core of what they provide is closed source software that runs on their servers.