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Re: Among Us Devs Speak Out About Fortnite's Suspiciously Familiar 'Impostors' Mode

malcire

@fafonio why would any of that make me stop playing? PUBG sued them and lost. Apple is notorious for it's walled garden and how it screws devs. And why would them aping Among Us (which takes most of it's mechanics from older tabletop games) effect my want to play it regardless?
I mean Epic isn't some bastion of greatness or anything. But they are hardly some pariah.

Re: Collection Of Mint Condition NES Games Fetches $30,000 For Goodwill

malcire

@SwitchForce The best you can say about Goodwill (and a lot of big Thrift store operations) is it provides cheap goods. Most aren't good to the majority of their workers, and are overly good to upper management. If I could find a better choice between goodwill a d the trash for my lightly used goods, I would. And sometimes Goodwills actions make me question not just trashing my things.

Re: Collection Of Mint Condition NES Games Fetches $30,000 For Goodwill

malcire

@XBontendo that's not totally fair. It was originally set up to help poor folks obtain used goods without begging, and to give them jobs. It however takes huge advantage of a 1930's era law that allows them to pay below minimum wage (the idea of that portion of the law was to keep otherwise unemployable people employed). Now that isn't necessarily fair and Goodwill has exploited it quite a bit (to pay otherwise employable people less, sometimes lowering their pay). The YouTube channel Illuminaughty has a good video on them and the Salvation army.
But let's just say if I could find another place to give my kids old but good toys to that was better, I would.

Re: Nintendo Wins $2.1 Million In Lawsuit Against ROM Website

malcire

@Luigisghost669 It would be more in line with making my own chair to the exact same specifications as the one you discontinued. It's an infringement of your IP but it isn't the same as me taking physical property from you (the arguable harm would be that if you decided to sell it again you would be competing against the infringing items created, sold, or shared).

Re: Crysis Remastered Gameplay Trailer And Release Date Leak Ahead Of Official Announcement

malcire

@JoeM103 I forgot to explain ray tracing. Raytracing is a way of handling lighting where it simulates how light (the ray) interacts with the environment (the tracing). In Crysis a good example is how the light is blocked based on foliage. If I remember correclty the shadows very in intensity and shape based on the foliages design (i.e. thicker foliage = deeper shadows that conform to the foliages leaves).
Hope that clears up what they mean.