Theoretically stores in Europe are forbidden from selling 18+ games to underage customers.

Practically, almost no one follows this. Although digital storefronts like Steam do, some parents do, and more importantly there could be age restrictions on Youtube and Twitch gameplays.

Wow, I rarely expect to find comments like this on Lemmy. Keep it up!

Interesting that you see a difference between the two. Football also does not require incredible effort to play, still a lot of people only watch it.

“Frigate lost.”

The fork is not maintained by LibreOffice.

There have been some German and French games on this genre in recent years.

Tolerant of what? These character models are just ugly.

I can’t wait to play the same AI-generated trite stories over and over again.

Although I haven’t played a lot of them, my favorite is Colin McRae Rally 2.0, which is predecessor to the DIRT series.

I used to watch my uncle play on his computer in the 2000s.

Paradox in infamous for releasing unfinished games, in recent years.

Hundeds of thousands of people.

Yes, it’s still illegal.

As it’s illegal to dumpster dive food even though you have permission from the supermarket owner.

Piracy is illegal, so a lot of people will still abstain from downloading the game for free.

If you provide it for free on official distribution channels, your revenue drops drastically.

It’s trademark, not copyright.

They have it reserved only for what concerns the videogames setting.

Where “behind the times socially” means “not falling for the Americans alwayslooking for something to be upset about”.

It’s explained in the article. There’s a hard-coded limit on the rate of science you can produce.

I don’t know what are you doing with your phones. I have never witnessed someone wearing out a USB Type-C port.

Anyway, if you want to be upset at someone, the implementators of USB standards are: Apple, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Renesas Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments.

These cars would support Speech-To-Text too though, wouldn’t they

LineageOS is mostly AOSP and little Google stuff, which anyway you can remove without breaking the OS.

You can use an Android phone without reliance on Google, but it’s quite some effort and possibly invalidates warranty.

If she is driving she cannot click on the message or on “mark message as read” either.

Legally.

Source: Google is not using standard RCS.

You are right.

The comment I replied to listed read confirmation as the only essential feature to them, that forbids them to drop Google Messages.

One of the issues they explained when they dropped SMS is that it was misleading to users to have unencrypted communications in an app that promotes privacy over all.

Their implementation will not feature E2E encryption.

I am familiar with the whole topic, but your summary is the best I’ve found, tackling objectively all the points of the issue.

if that creates problems for other people, too bad, they should just buy Apple too.

I believe this is a real quote from Tim Cook when prompted about RCS in iMessage.

FB Messenger and Telegram are worse solutions, but Whatsapp is really no different from Google RCS. And Signal has almost no downside.

Not ever, unless Google is forced to open it up.

I don’t understand how is it essential to know if someone read your message. Shouldn’t they reply to you if they need to let you know?

Read confirmation is the first feature I disable on every instant messaging platform. Also delivery confirmation is implemented in standard SMS.

It doesn’t support RCS because Google’s implementation of it (with encryption) is not open.

Now advertising it? Not a huge point of that. Unless you’re actually asking people for feedback (how did they solve this problem?) and learning from example that way, you don’t gain anything from telling people about it.

You get the motivation to continue; other people are looking forward to your progress and results.

CD Projekt RED also hired some mod developers.

Indie devs need to stop wasting their time and efforts on fan projects that will never be played by the public

It’s not your time, let them use it how they want. Probably the fun for most is in the development.

They are not hard to acquire, and they only have an “unreasonable price” if they are recent models.

You won’t have any trouble finding a second-hand Pixel 5.

I recently bought a Pixel 4a at 120€ / 131$

I upvoted you because I share the sentiment, but if you spend 2 hours everyday entertained by a single person, then what’s bad in giving them money?

Armored Core VI and Baldur’s Gate III are two big recently published games that do work quite well. They stand on the shoulders of two respectable companies.

I believe the United States are Apple’s biggest market.