That guy on the right is huge.

A personal library. A room dedicated to the purpose.

arrogance, haughtiness, thinking of yourself as more important than others

These attitudes can cause people to step up when it’s needed.

The deadly sin of Pride is some made up bullcrap. Pride is as much a virtue as it is a vice.

Hardly. Almost all video games are pure sugar for the parts of our brains that want to succeed at something.

There’s plenty of games that are art, but you don’t typically need to spend 100s of hours to appreciate them as works of art.

After playing too many games for years, my belief is that even the best games falsely and too easily satisfy our need to succeed at something.

I used to be a gamer, I know they are bad for your brain.

Old Man Willow vibes

Isn’t this a straight “eye-for-an-eye” revenge killing?

An a380 is so big when it takes off it looks like it’s moving slow, just kind of hanging in the air

They should have just made more trash robots.

The first rule of the road is “right-of-way won’t help you when you’re dead”.

“Lefty Loosey righty tighty”

One arrow points up to the left, one points down to the left.

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There are also video games in libraries, and there are books in libraries with components that are unusable these days. Nobody is required by law to support these components in perpetuity. Nor is any publishing company required by law to maintain support for a book in perpetuity in any way.

Nor is anybody required by law to help you fix your classic car. People with classic cars spend tons of money to find spare parts or even get them manufactured. This is despite the fact that cars are much more of a necessity than video games.

Likewise, if you paid a video game to keep their servers open, or paid them for their source code, they’d give it to you. If you paid a smart person to reverse engineer the network protocol and write an equivalent server, you’d have your part.

Yes, and if you don’t like it you don’t have to buy them. It’s why I prefer not to use Steam.

If games have to be playable in perpetuity, then you can’t buy a game that isn’t playable in perpetuity.

But what is also unreasonable is needless, always online DRM that shuts down one day.

There are lots of video games without forced online DRM, and video games aren’t a necessity. You can simply stop buying games from these services and let people who don’t care about such things continue to buy them.

So you want to legally require game companies to “preserve history” in perpetuity, unlike every other kind of company in existence?

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The second sentence isn’t true.

What SKG does is mandate that your purchased product be technically possible to be usable in perpetuity, or refund the cost of it.

That’s a ridiculous requirement. If you want to buy games that are playable in perpetuity, buy games that are playable in perpetuity.