I really like the pixel art in this game. It doesn't pop in screen shots, but in motion I think it does a really good job executing the style they chose.
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The knowledge wouldn't be out there. It wouldn't exist because the companies paying for the work would be bankrupt.
I'm not willing to dig too deep, but here's a Samsung.com link saying it was 16 billion in 2018 and trending up. I'm not sure if building fabs goes into that bucket or a different one, and that's a budget copycats also need, but the amount of investment in research is absolutely enough that not being able to benefit from it before being copied would make it much more difficult to do.
If they couldn't protect trade secrets, they couldn't afford the literal billions of dollars of research they do to make that progress.
Those are two blatantly different things. There's nothing wrong with selling new versions of software.
There's everything wrong with removing the ability to use software you paid for unless you continue to actively pay for it.
I've been playing Journey To The Savage Planet lately, and while the gunplay is not awesome, and the unlocks involve collecting materials, the "rare" materials for each enemy are behind a boss or mini-boss, and it's effectively a 3D metroidvania. There's enough hard platforming that I take more fall damage than enemy damage (or at least close), even in the boss fight I'm currently stuck on.
It's brutal.
I like the idea, but you need a touch screen and support and you need a far, far better screen before it's in the neighborhood of actually realistic to use. It's not their fault that you can't just go buy a 300 PPI screen, but the end result is just not enough to actually be usable.
I wonder if ring fit works on an emulator.
If they're going to lie to pretend they can't include it because it's unsafe when every single person on the planet knows with 100% certainty that it's because they want their own cash/data hungry alternative instead, then putting said "unsafe" thing in their vehicles should absolutely expose them to liability.
There absolutely is not a theoretical possibility that "safety" was a genuine consideration in any way in this decision.
It would also completely fuck our critical infrastructure. There's enough that needs connectivity for it to cascade to much more.
I don't want or need continuous updates.
I want to buy something and have it be left alone without trying to steal more money from me for the thing I already bought.
The only possible valid excuse for a subscription to software is services that cannot possibly exist without meaningful spending on server infrastructure. If that's cloud storage as the core of the purchase of the app, computations that are literally impossible to do locally or rely on data that's expensive to maintain, a subscription is legitimate.
If it's anything else it's shitty and you're a shitty person for doing it. Sell actual upgrades when they're actually upgrades, without stealing access to what people bought. It's the only acceptable model.
The economics of academic research is actually something to complain about. That research is paid for in large part with public funding, then privatized and paywalled.
There is no theoretical world where academic research could get paid for at anywhere near the rate of the private sector. If trade secrets didn't exist, we would be decades slower in technology at a generous best case.
Your opinion doesn't have even the tiniest sliver of validity underlying it.