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In online stores Visa and MC are the big ones. If we exclude China, Visa and MC make up 90% of all online purchases worldwide. For online stores they are the two players who matter. Losing one is a significant loss of revenue, losing both will kill the store.

When you don't know how to pass others you're only as fast as the driver ahead of you.

Obviously Hamas is supplying Canada with fentanyl and Canada is sending it across the border with those filthy American immigrants who then sell fentanyl to real Americans, you know the white kind of American. You don't need to be a conservative crackhead to see that, you just need to be a conservative.

I would like to be excited for a revival of an series that hasn't seen a game in 20? years, but the trailer and the article just comes across as a bog-standard open world action game with RPG elements. They need to give something more because this doesn't excite me at all.

You do realize that was not the end of the sentence?

But just for you I added the word games and then moved the structure around.

I've started Shadow of War. It's sad what WB did with the game when it released, but in its current state it's a blast to play. The pacing is just a smidge to the slow side but I'm taking it more as a marathon than a sprint, because I am enjoying the core gameplay loop. It's one of the few games where dying is fun. The story is essentially nonsense and you can see plot twists coming from a mile away, but you're not playing it for the actual story. You're playing it for the stories the nemesis system creates.

It's such a simple system that just creates such memorable stories and enemies. In my playthrough I have an ork who killed me, I then got revenge on them by poisoning them, they then came back from the dead as a legendary with epic poison trait and now I run away from him because he keeps getting stronger. I have another ork who followed me from one area to another, he's an epic ork with iron will (meaning I can't turn him to my side) and I keep humiliating him in hopes that eventually I can break his iron will trait. No luck so far but I'll keep trying.

If anyone is planning on playing it my recommendation is to either start on the hardest difficulty (and focus on collecting skill points because the game does get easier one you have more skills unlocked) or raise the difficulty as you progress until dying is relatively common. You're simply not going to get the full nemesis system experience if you're never dying.

I was expecting something where the Chinese IP courts rule in favor of breaking IP laws or at the very least turn a blind eye. This current article doesn't count because there's no resolution here. As for AliExpress, they have an entire process in place to handle IP infringement and they actually ban sellers off the platform if they continue infringing.

You mean decades of behavior of which you so far haven't presented even a single one. Guess what, one example is better than 0 examples.

Explaining means you actually explain your point instead of throwing out random examples of others doing something similar and then mockingly asking "I wonder why they wouldn't care".

You also seem to be moving the goal post with every post. You said China doesn't care to engage in IP fad, I showed China absolutely does engage in it. Now you're saying of course they do because they flount the rules themselves. Actually they don't. A few years ago Beijing IP court decided a Chinese artist had to pay around half a million to a Belgian artist for plagiarizing his work. I guess you're about to find another excuse to shift the goal post once again.

Then you should've made that argument instead of arguing that it's justified because centuries ago something was stolen from them.

But I'm not sure how you got the impression China has no interest in engaging with the IP rights when last year they filed more IPs than anyone else in the world.

Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.

So what's your issue with people going after China? After all it's fair game because China is also a genocide enabler.

I think you're mixing up "they don't work as a replacement" with "they don't work as well as a replacement". I'm sure you know the difference because Lemmy doesn't have all the niche communities as Reddit so Lemmy isn't as good of a replacement, but it is a replacement because otherwise you wouldn't be here.