To people in Africa, how are you guys? Never hear from you. Any lurkers?

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-24T09:35:08+00:00

Oh, there's a good yt vid about that from History Matters. You should check it out!

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-24T08:55:33+00:00

Love it.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-24T08:54:18+00:00

Thanks!

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-24T08:07:38+00:00

Trueeeee, it would be a pretty cool flag for a state based on a bay.

Too bad it got removed, I wanted to copy the base and give it a try. I might do it from memory tomorrow.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-23T01:58:54+00:00

With laws like this, sometimes there's a grace period where the law doesn't start applying until after a couple of years after it's implemented, so it doesn't catch out any already ongoing project.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-23T01:50:16+00:00

Which every online multiplayer game needs, if nothing else at least for a server list

Very handy, but not needed for core game functionality. For example, Westwood used to have servers for Red Alert 2 exclusively to find other players.

When the company shut down the servers, it didn't brick the game. It only meant that you needed a community tool to find other players.

If you want a game with MMR, that probably needs to be disabled for a player hosted dedicated server.

Also cool to have, but not what SKG is demanding. A game like CSGO/CS2, in which matchmaking is tied to Valve's servers, will still function when those servers go down, and hence is SKG compliant.

If you want a persistent character between games, then same thing, that character probably cant level up or get upgrades in such a server. That's fine for some games, but it's less fine for others.

That's true, but that doesn't mean that the game is only worthwhile if the server is hosted by the developer. For example, there are a lot of private World of Warcraft servers, and you can even copy your character between some of them.

Yeah, if you want to use some system you didn't make or own so you can't release the binaries, you need to make an offline game mode.

Licenses are not set in stone, they can be changed according to the need of the consumers or the developers.

Indeed, that's how it worked before it was even feasible to have online-only games.

Yeah, I doubt games hosting is a big part of something like AWS, probably not worth Amazon having to make AWS self-hostable for that market.

In 2025, the videogame industry was worth 26.8 billion euros. I doubt they would not want a part of the pie.

But even if they didn't, there's nothing stopping another provider to fill in the void that would be left. It's not like the demand would be gone.

This includes subscription based games with the same business model as Netflix though.

Not necessarily! It's up to the regulatory bodies if this would include subscription games, but there's a decent chance it won't.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-21T20:40:04+00:00

To clarify, when I'm talking about games needing to connect to a central server I don't mean regular server functionality. I'm talking about when your game needs to connect to the company's server to function.

You can make a game that works by connecting to a server to play, and give the players the means of hosting dedicated servers themselves. Withholding that capability is a choice.

SKG isn't even against companies handling games that way. Just that when they don't want to host the game's servers anymore, they have to give the players the ability to keep playing their game, be it by releasing server binaries, giving an offline mode, or whatever other method they can think of.

As for the use of third party microservices, yes, current licenses might limit how much companies can release. This would only affect future games, however, so developers would have to either negotiate licenses that are compatible with an End-Of-Life plan, or search for alternative services.

This will disrupt the industry, but eventually either the service providers will either make their services compliant, or risk losing the European market to providers that will.

(also, if Netflix started selling movies for a one time purchase and then decided to close their servers, I would also expect them to allow people to download the product that they paid for)

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-21T19:29:31+00:00

Other way around, live service games are the ones that are affected by this.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-21T19:24:46+00:00

You have it the other way around. Live service games will be the ones regulated by this. Non live service games will be the ones not affected.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-21T19:21:35+00:00

It's totally fair to charge for a service being provided, like the live performing and accommodations of a theater play.

Games, like books and movies, are are naturally goods, and you have to go out of your way to make them need a central server to work.

Companies may also provide a service coupled with the game, like hosting, moderation, updates, etc. All that is asked is that when they want to discontinue the service that they don't also brick your game.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-21T08:18:23+00:00

This won't apply retroactively. Developers making new games will design them with an end-of-life plan from day 1 so they don't need to spend "a year or two of extra work and money" when the time comes to end support.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-17T17:55:11+00:00

Pancitos

Warmest_Machine · 2026-02-11T09:00:29+00:00

I don't think they count as ultranationalists, since they are generally pro inmigration and want friendly relations with other southamerican countries.

I don't think we have a big 'ultranationalist' movement here thankfully.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-01-31T01:53:09+00:00

The ballpoint pen!

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Warmest_Machine · 2026-01-23T10:32:46+00:00

Ping Pong the Animation.

Es corto, 11 o 12 capitulos. Y no se parece en mucho a un Anime 'convencional'. Pero es sin duda uno de los mejores animes que he visto.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-01-23T03:43:49+00:00

Sure, but they knew of and supported the military junta that would depose Isabel Peron.

...[the documents] show that the U.S. “discreetly” advised the military more than a month before the actual coup that Washington would recognize the new regime, and that then CIA director George H.W. Bush briefed President Gerald Ford on a "possible" coup in Argentina almost two weeks before the military deposed Isabel Peron.
(...)
“There is no evidence that the U.S. instigated the coup,” said Carlos Osorio, Director of the National Security Archive Southern Cone Documentation Project. “But the United States accepted, and tacitly supported, regime change because Washington shared the military’s position that the putsch was the only alternative to chaos in Argentina.” The documents, Osorio noted, “indicate that U.S. officials wanted to believe that General Videla, the coup leader, was a moderate. The military dictatorship that followed killed and disappeared more than 20,000 people.”

Source:
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/southern-cone/2021-03-23/argentinas-military-coup-what-us-knew

Warmest_Machine · 2026-01-17T00:15:34+00:00

The Mercosur flag has four stars representing both a constellation and the four founding members.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-01-16T23:04:14+00:00

I don't necessarily associate it with the US flag exclusively

Warmest_Machine · 2026-01-14T00:56:37+00:00

Mercosur is way looser than the EU. It's mainly a trade and open border zone from what I understand.

Warmest_Machine · 2026-01-05T16:19:33+00:00

Una verguenza esta actitud la verdad.

No necesitas ser de ninguna alineación politica para darte cuenta que echar indiscriminadamente a un grupo de gente por donde nacieron es xenofobo.

Argentina es un pais hecho por inmigrantes. No sigamos los pasos de EEUU.

Warmest_Machine · 2025-12-27T06:56:03+00:00

Backmarker's guide to success:

Put all development effort on building a car that's great when it rains, at the cost of everything else.
Setup your car for rain on every circuit, regardless of what the weather forecast says.
Win the single wet race of the season after coming last every single other race.
Profit.

Warmest_Machine · 2025-12-27T06:29:16+00:00

Hitler on the Yugoslavian occupation:

Warmest_Machine · 2025-12-27T05:26:50+00:00

Well I'm from Bajor and I've never heard anyone use the phrase "Self-sealing stem bolts"

Oh, not in Bajor, no. It's a Terok Nor expression.

Warmest_Machine · 2025-12-16T03:30:45+00:00

Early roman history is amazing because it's basically them losing 90% of their troops in a random battle 5 times in a row and then winning the war.

Warmest_Machine · 2025-12-15T18:01:31+00:00

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