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Nah, not really. Technically, this is better. But only marginally so, and unless Valve does something catastrophically, egregiously abusive with the Steam platform, then the people who will actually benefit from this are few and far between. Valve wouldn’t just say “come sue us” if they weren’t wholly confident that they weren’t about to be losing any cases any time soon.

This isn’t some huge “win” for the people; gamers aren’t gonna rise up over this. For 99.999% of Steam’s userbase, this is an entirely lateral move. Valve are the only ones who will see any tangible benefit from this.

Because it’s not quite the good-faith gesture people are making it out to be; it’s a cost-saving measure for Valve. From the consumer standpoint, very little actually changes, as the average user isn’t taking Valve to court in the first place. It’s not as if Valve is suddenly lowering their legal funding in conjunction with this move; they’ll still defend themselves harder than most consumers would be able to, and will win their cases in court instead of in arbitration, which is even more costly for the consumer when they lose.

While arbitration favors companies, so do the courts. If anything, this just makes it more cost-prohibitive on the consumer side to make Valve face the law.

I use an animation from this live wallpaper app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.at2_software.terracollageapp&hl=en_US

I believe it was just a one-time purchase for the full version of the app. The animations don’t loop very well, but I’m not staring at my home screen long enough to see the loop that often, so it’s not a big concern to me. They’re pretty much all swirly, inky, starry sort of abstract animations, but there’s a lot of color options so it’s pretty easy to pick something that fits well with the rest of your phone’s theme.

The developer hasn’t updated it for over a year now, so if the previews don’t look like something you’d like, I wouldn’t bother buying the full version since it’s unlikely that any more will be added.

My parents used to get so mad at me for poaching the batteries from all the remotes.

You can have actual concerns without abusing the review function, though. If you don’t own and never planned to play the game and are “reviewing” it because something on the internet made you angry, then that just discredits the actual review platform as a whole.

Reviews should be an actual review, not a tweet reply. If you haven’t actually played the game, don’t review it.

This article spent more time explaining the logistics on building pager-bombs than it did actually explaining why building pager-bombs is a bad idea.

Ah, bummer! Yeah, having to do that manually is super annoying.

If it’s an Android Wear watch, they’ve recently added an option in the Watch app settings that makes it easier to transfer your watch to another device without having to go through the entire setup process. But it’s still locked to being paired to one phone at a time, as far as I can tell.

How does it work when you get paid for deriving from a copyright piece of material in the first place?

Since the artist was commissioned by Bungie to make the original concept art in question, I believe that Bungie still retains ownership of the copyright, since the work was created under Bungie’s employ.

That said, it’s not uncommon for these types of commission contracts to stipulate that the artist retains some rights to the works they create. It varies from contract to contract, though. Sometimes they just require that the original artist is credited in any further usage of the piece, sometimes they require the artist earns royalties from any sales of the piece, etc. Or, he could’ve also just taken a fat stack of cash for zero ownership, which isn’t totally unheard of.

Open it up without shaking it up or jostling it too much. Is it still powdery all the way through? If so, it’s probably safe.

If you open it up and the mix has any clumps or inconsistent coloring, toss it in the trash because it’s likely been exposed to moisture, which invites a ton of potential problems.

Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor, but I have made some questionable decisions with old tubs of G Fuel mix and came out alive, so I’m not just making things up but I’m also not somebody you should trust your health with. Be responsible.

Cool, sounds like it ain’t a problem for you then. As I imagine it’s not a problem for most people.

Why should I know? I’m not a McDeveloper.

If I had to guess, I’d assume it’s because there’s a payment system in their app and they don’t want people monkeying around with it and stealing food.

Why would I explain something that has nothing to do with this discussion? This has nothing to do with rooted devices.

Sure, it’s your device. But it’s their app. Ultimately, it’s the developer’s call to make. You don’t have to use their app.

Google’s only providing the option, it’s up to individual devs to enable it on their app. If the app developer has chosen to block sideloading, then they probably have a reason for going out of their way to do so. Whatever you find that reason to be should inform your decision whether or not to continue using their app.

Nah, fuck that. I’m not rewarding somebody’s thievery, that just empowers them to do it again. I’d remote-destroy my stolen phone with thermite if I could; not to protect what’s on the phone, but so that whoever stole it has absolutely nothing to show for it.

It was hot, stuffy

Ventilate! VENTILATE!

America’s Army is such a bizarre game, at a conceptual level. Do you have any other fun stories from that? I have to imagine a lot of weird things went down behind the scenes.

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You’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.