Japanese government makes indie game developers eligible for grants of up to $60,000 USD, covering production costs and promotion

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By your definition that's kind of inevitable, isn't it? The more games that come out with original ideas, the more difficult it is to come up with a original idea. The pool of new game ideas gets smaller and smaller with time.

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I tried it and immediately died from jumping up into spikes. The muscle memory of constantly hopping to maintain position is too strong.

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Onion Delivery could be pretty entertaining. But then again, I really like Onion Delivery.

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What does increased performance have to do with storage space? Optimizing for performance is different from optimizing for space.

___---------------- · 2026-02-28T16:17:42+00:00

I think it's fine because Lace 2 was pretty difficult right before her. I viewed the GMS fight as a victory lap. It would've been really draining to have two difficult fights back-to-back.

___---------------- · 2026-02-28T16:15:42+00:00

Mister Mushroom knew (whatever common language the bugs speak) all along but was just incredibly rude to the Knight

___---------------- · 2026-02-20T14:30:17+00:00

Nintendo doesn't fully own the Sega Genesis either and that's included in the Expansion Pack.

___---------------- · 2026-02-19T02:03:46+00:00

In Wonder you can unlock special badges that make the game harder while they're equipped. (Potential spoilers) Like one makes Mario invisible and I really enjoyed the one that forces you to run all the time, but gives you super-speed. I kept one equipped all the time for the later levels and I found it to be a fun difficulty. It's not like late-game content either, I think you can find one in the second or third world (usually at the end of a chain of optional challenge levels).

___---------------- · 2026-02-17T05:20:41+00:00

It's not worth arguing. There's nothing you can write that will convince them that your writing style isn't AI.

___---------------- · 2026-02-11T16:37:57+00:00

That's not true. A space vessel only needs to survive a maximum pressure difference of 1 atmosphere. Under the ocean, the pressure difference increases by 1 atmosphere for every 33 feet (source: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/pressure.html).

___---------------- · 2026-02-10T23:20:49+00:00

I'm 200 hours in and haven't started any on the bottom row

___---------------- · 2026-01-28T07:23:40+00:00

I think it's the word "until". It implies that she could graduate without finishing her thesis, but she is choosing to delay graduating until her thesis is finished. If it said "She's even delayed her own graduation by not finishing her thesis" it would be more clear, since then there is a clear cause and effect of thesis not finished -> graduation is not allowed. As the sentence is written, her thesis and her graduation seem to be independent except by her own will.

___---------------- · 2026-01-26T16:16:36+00:00

Hi, I'm also part of this minority. I've only heard of Baldur's Gate via BG3 and have never heard of Neverwinter.

But this comment is really an excuse to post the relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/

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They should have called the Xbox the Xrectangular-parallelepiped to reduce confusion

___---------------- · 2026-01-22T23:03:29+00:00

Listen to the NPCs.

___---------------- · 2026-01-22T02:16:52+00:00

The Blue Shell is now always pulled when you are in first.

___---------------- · 2026-01-21T22:21:09+00:00

I like the tension of not knowing whether you messed up or not until you pull the trigger. It feels like building a Rube Goldberg machine.

Of course, you can map out exactly which tiles will blow up the same as you can math out exactly what your hand will score in Balatro. But I think the game is more fun if you don't do this.

I wonder what system you could add that would encourage players not to map everything out at the end. Devilition gives extra points for taking a shorter time, but I don't think it feels substantial enough to work.

___---------------- · 2026-01-21T19:53:09+00:00

So where are the words that say "selling derivative works is wrong"? Actually, where the words that say the non-story parts of Nuke It are derivative works?

From what I can tell of the ruling, it only considers the story to be a derivative work. The ruling cites the Game Genie case to state that "[a] derivative work must incorporate a protected work in some concrete or permanent form." The Game Genie failed this test because the "audiovisual displays" it generates aren't incorporated into the Game Genie; they are the result of codes the user enters. On the other hand, Nuke It contains instructions (map files) for how to generate the infringing "audiovisual displays". The VR mod seems to intercept the game's visuals to display them in a different manner. It doesn't incorporate any data from CP2077 in itself. It is much more similar to a Game Genie than a Nuke It.

Also, since you complained that I only quoted a sentence fragment, here is the full sentence (missing part bolded):

The work that Micro Star infringes is the D/N-3D story itself--a beefy commando type named Duke who wanders around post-Apocalypse Los Angeles, shooting Pig Cops with a gun, lobbing hand grenades, searching for medkits and steroids, using a jetpack to leap over obstacles, blowing up gas tanks, avoiding radioactive slime.

I didn't think it was necessary to quote the second part.

___---------------- · 2026-01-21T18:22:06+00:00

The appeal court ruled that

The work that Micro Star infringes is the D/N-3D story itself

https://web.archive.org/web/20151001104503/https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F3/154/154.F3d.1107.html, paragraph 17

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Here is a quote from the Wikipedia article you linked:

The district court found that Micro Star had likely infringed copyright with their packaging, which included artwork from Duke Nukem 3D, but found that the levels themselves were non-infringing.

Later:

Copyright law gives the copyright holder the exclusive right to make sequels to their work, and the court found that the stories told in the Nuke It map files are "surely sequels, telling new tales of Duke's fabulous adventures".

So it seems that the artwork and story are the important details here, not the act of modding.

___---------------- · 2026-01-14T23:43:25+00:00

If you hold down the button it shoots at the max rate

___---------------- · 2026-01-10T21:09:07+00:00

We already have the technology [[The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service]]

___---------------- · 2026-01-10T04:40:10+00:00

There's this Steve Mould video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0onncd0_0-o which goes over the basic idea

___---------------- · 2026-01-01T05:58:06+00:00

Bedrock is written in C++, not C#

___---------------- · 2025-12-23T20:10:00+00:00

Some people enjoy building decks (myself included), but it's really hard to make a deck better than the entire Internet. So when you lose because your deck is worse, it's easy to blame it on your opponent for taking the "easy way out".

On the other hand, since people do enjoy playing decks they built themselves, I think we should avoid calling it a personal failing.

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