Because people want (need?) someone to blame, and the easiest person to blame is someone who isn’t like themselves.

We already don’t have birthright citizenship in the UK, which I guess makes the study results even funnier (in a sad way).

The trailer says it’s a ‘four part event’, so I’m assuming it’ll be four episodes.

Even better, STK started after SuperTux and still released a v1.0 first - 6 years ago.

It’s apples to oranges really, but a funny comparison.

It is wild to me that SuperTux has been going for 22 years and still hasn’t hit 1.0.

They started this project the same year Double Dash, Vice City, and Call of Duty came out.

I don’t really mean that as an insult, by the way - it’s just kinda crazy that this 2D platformer project is still going and, apparently, still not done.

I’d think it’s obvious that downloading isn’t illegal in every case, otherwise you’d never be able to watch/listen to any media online.

A differentiation is necessarily made between authorised and unauthorised downloads, such that buying and downloading an album on iTunes is legal while torrenting that same album is not.

Music on YouTube is authorised via licensing. That’s why videos get routinely flagged for using copyrighted music without permission (and sometimes even with permission due to overzealous or malicious DMCA claims, but that’s a separate argument).

I imagine they’ll try to make this increasingly difficult; maybe even impossible.

all good - I was just feeling pedantic

I’ll allow it

Different punctuation with a different purpose

Michael Bublé is Canadian (still not European, but also not American)

You’re confusing design/technical failure with failure in the broader, catastrophic sense. It was an ‘unsinkable ship’ that sank. As Picard said, it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.

If you read the article you’ll see that the exhibition is about failure in all its guises.

It’s a fantastic (and very funny) game!

You forgot rule 5: If you can’t think of anything insightful to say, be sarcastic and dismissive instead.

So many people here (as on Reddit) seemingly can’t resist the urge to drop an oh-so-clever zinger so they can watch the updoots roll in with zero critical thinking skills required. It’s tragic.

Usually it’s combined with rule 1, so they’ll be reacting to something in the title without realising the article explained what they’re griping about. Confidently incorrect, always.

*Google support has ended.

Alternative retro-friendly search engines are available, and the article even gives a shoutout to frogfind.

I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad take, but it’s worth pointing out that lots of games miss internal deadlines and waste time ‘spinning their wheels’ but still turn out good or even great. The difference is that you don’t usually hear about it, whereas here some of the team are obviously pissed enough about the crunch that they went to the press.

Crunch is always bad and is an indication of poor project management and/or unrealistic expectations, but issues with scope or major reworks aren’t always a death knell either. I’ve seen plenty of games go through that and come out the other side better than before.

Demo in this context isn’t a consumer-playable ‘demo’ in the sense that most people understand; it means a playable internal build with specific targets for what must be included. Internal demo milestones are often linked to project funding and approval to move forwards, so there is a tangible risk if they fail to deliver.

Presumably the current state of the game is behind where it needed to be to deliver that demo, so they’re now crunching to finish it on time.

Whenever they add new symbols to Unicode, for a start.

Probably other reasons too, on occasion. For non-Latin languages with thousands of characters, I’d imagine certain unusual combinations occasionally get discovered that need rendering tweaks? Things like that.

Except there won’t be much of a consumer market to come back to, due to the aforementioned economic devastation.

Yep, and the option to filter them is already in settings and has been for some time.