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@ryo I'm pretty sure Linux going proprietary will have a lot of backlash. They will just fork the last FOSS version of the kernel. And there will be more efforts to create third-party drivers.

@Calvin @Tadano @djsumdog @coolboymew
>The inherent lack of space? Or something else?

Cartridge space, limited texture cache, the system being a nightmare to program for, Nintendo reserving certain microcode and not letting third-parties use it.

@Calvin @djsumdog @coolboymew
>The N64 is a very unique console and that goes both ways.
Sure. I'll take Rare's and Factor 5's word and say that their games took advantage of the cartridge format (using cart space like additional RAM), but you can only take advantage of the format if you are good at optimizing. However, most N64 games feel like they had wasted potential just because of the cartridge problem among other things.

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@Tadano @coolboymew @djsumdog @Calvin Saturn was also a nightmare to program for but people were willing to make 2D games for the system.

@ryo People can always create new distros though.

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@allison I didn't know how to tie my shoes until middle school.

@cee Are you talking about the game engine or the desktop environment?

@Calvin @djsumdog @coolboymew N64 is an overrated and terrible console (the games are good in spite of it's flaws). In fact, EB64 probably would have been finished if the system wasn't a nightmare to program for.

@Tadano @PhenomX6
>Regardless, C# and its consequences have been a disaster for the game developer race

Thanks for reminding me.

t. someone who develops games using MonoGame

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PC-98 game: runs on a NEC V30 (8086 on drugs) or 386, written in asm or with an in house engine, looks visually pleasing.
Tribute to said game: Unity, makes your fans go to 100%, kills your laptop battery, has framerate issues somehow.
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The internet wouldn't be such a bad place if you could go anywhere without worrying about some schizophrenic trying to ruin your current job prospects and life based on something you said 5 years ago.

Case in point, that news story I saw a while back about some evil woman who saved the clip of someone saying the meanie word only to spread it when she went to college. Absolutely psychotic, and these people are real.

It's the problem with solely focusing on "big tech solely being bad". Look at Fediblock, these people will run to any website you can name to try to shit it up with this behavior.
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Pokemon Go was cyberpunk as shit from the idiots doing stupid things while playing it to the cop car being hit as a driver played it to the Holocaust Museum incident to people being mugged on stream playing it to launching the IRL streaming genre.

But who knew that the purpose behind it was a glowing psyop?
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@ryo @wrongthink Cookies don't even matter if you are always using Private Browsing.

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Cookie artificial "law" by the Eww is yet another example on how government interference only makes things worse, even if meant well.
Also, forgot to mention @wrongthink , so here you go!
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@Hyolobrika @cee @shebang
>Is that a law "for our own good" or just a good idea?
It's a good idea.

>Is it impossible or difficult due to those laws?
Difficult. You better have a good place to hide them if you are going to raise them illegally.

>What does that have to do with governments allegedly not wanting people to eat rabbits?
It just shows how difficult it is to obtain rabbit meat. But I'm pretty sure that governments will start cracking down on them even more in the coming years.

@Hyolobrika @cee @shebang If you are going to hunt wild rabbits, you have to wait until around November because apparently, there is some disease you can get from them if you eat them during the summer and cooking them thoroughly won't even kill the pathogen.

Raising rabbits on the other hand depends on state/local laws and it's difficult to buy rabbit meat from stores (both local and chain stores) because some people are attached to them and will even protest if a store decides to sell them. You even have rabbit advocacy groups that organize such protests. Link related.

saveabunny.org/

Though I'm pretty sure that these protests and local laws are co-opted by cow and chicken farmers because eating smaller, easier to raise animals like rabbits means that people are less dependent on corporate farms.

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