patenting, copyrighting, or trademarking concepts or mechanics in video games shouldn’t be allowed at all

It’s not allowed at all in board games. There’s a known issue that someone could completly copy the mechanics of a board game, and as long as they don’t copy the art or the exact text of the rulebook there is no legal means to stop it.

Boardgamers are aware of this, and agree that it is better for development of future games than if someone could own the idea of “rolling a dice”, so if knockoffs do come around they tend to quickly get called out and not purchased.

I don’t know how videogames managed to get different rules.

no, I don’t have to eat shit to know it tastes bad.

So you wouldn’t bothering reading the reviews of people who ate shit either.

If Steam would let people leave positive reviews without a comment there would be fewer low value comments.

Giving clown awards gives them Steam points. It encourages people to leave those type of shitty comments on purpose.

When I first started using Linux I was impressed with how easily everything seemed to work. Then over time I started to get annoyed with all the things that I had no idea how to fix without looking up, and thought about going back to Windows.
Then I used windows again and was immediately reminded of all the stupid bullshit I had to constantly fight with and forgot about because that was just the norm when windows is the only OS you ever use.

“It’s a shame anything has to change. The Sun has changed its position in the sky and I don’t trust it one bit.”

• Welcome to Nightvale

We don’t “we don’t ____ here” here.

Because it’s a weird off topic tangent. Go read the title of the post again then tell me what Tesla stock being down has to do with authoritarianism in the East.

The reply is as relevant as someone saying “this isn’t the only thing that’s great, so is people donating blood.” I mean sure, I agree with you, but why are we changing the subject?

Edit: It’s also a weird “all lives matter” situation:
“Fuck these fascists!”
“No, fuck all fascists”
What made them think OP was okay with other fascists?

If my tool sucks, I will tell it so

So thanking your tools: dangerous on a humanity level scale

Telling your tool it sucks: Normal behaviour

I open my door, the warning goes off, and I say “thank you car.” It’s better for me mental well being than saying “oh fuck.”

And you FEEEEEEEEL like it doesn’t matter. What’s the difference?

I thank my car when it alerts me that I left the lights on or my keys in the ignition. I’m not anthropomorphizing my car, I’m practicing appreciation for the benefits my tools provide.

How’s it feel to live in the cyberpunk prequel?

Absolutely, but it’s nice to see there are at least some Republicans with basic morals and spines willing to not sell their entire soul to the cult. Might indicate the start of a tipping point of Conservatives breaking away from the more odious policies.

Trump needs that money for his big boy parade.

He is the weak man’s idea of a strong man.
The poor man’s idea of a rich man.
The dumb man’s idea of a smart man.

FUCKING HOW?

He’s a fucking idiot that’s convinced he’s smarter than everyone else.

As someone who played Fallout 2 as a teen it’s not your age, the first 2 have a lot of little things that end up having a big effect, and they are difficult. They do not pull their punches and will happily smack you around.

I restarted Fallout 2 many times when I was first playing it trying to figure out a build I liked.

Trump calling this “Domestic Terrorism” and threatening Tariffs in response in 3… 2…

Did the LLMs tell you that? It’s not hard to look up on your own:

Data centers, in particular, are responsible for an estimated 2% of electricity use in the U.S., consuming up to 50 times more energy than an average commercial building, and that number is only trending up as increasingly popular large language models (LLMs) become connected to data centers and eat up huge amounts of data. Based on current datacenter investment trends,LLMs could emit the equivalent of five billion U.S. cross-country flights in one year.

https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/power-hungry-ai-researchers-evaluate-energy-consumption-across-models

Far more than straightforward search engines that have the exact same information and don’t make shit up half the time.