Because that is all they got. Even if they make some profit on the sale of the hardware, it is peanuts compared to the game and tie-in sales. Losing control of even a single IP would be a serious hit to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i13hrynnGNY

Valve has been quite supportive of fan projects like Black Mesa and Delta Particles and only demanding to remove Half-Life from the name to protect their trademark. But I guess they don’t want to risk involving Nintendo.

More on the Computerphile side, especially the timezone one.

https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY

In case you have missed, there’s a second channel where he tried stuff, like stage fighting, with guests.

https://www.youtube.com/c/tomscottplus

Tom Scott has also done a lot of hilarious stuff with his mates.

https://www.youtube.com/@mattandtom

https://www.youtube.com/@techdif

Also Matt Gray (that face from that image from that video) has started doing a new series of trying cool stuff, like road painting.

https://www.youtube.com/@MattGrayYES

Also previously he bought a soft-serve ice cream machine for a while and tried what ingredients would work in it.

https://www.youtube.com/@WillItSoftServe

Laws and terms are for the poor. I am sure big players like miHoYo, Niantic and Game Freak (Pokemon Go/Scarler/Violet) already have their own agreements and would not be affected by this.

The clarification on Xitter states deleting and reinstalling is 2 charges, the same as installing to 2 different devices. https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1701679721027633280?s=20

Can’t wait an indie developer to go bankrupt because the super secret algorithm counted updates as new installations and the developer gets billed multiple times for their whole player base.

So… If the Unity’s secret spyware and algorithm suddenly decides to count an update as a new installation, you suddenly get slapped with a huge bill. Especially if you release multiple small patches and your whole player base is counted multiple times.

My interpretation was that setting the soundtrack is a minor tone choise, you’re still going through the movie the GM has made for you. But if the GM is willing, the players may ignore or demolish all the plot points turning the planned Ocean’s 11 to Fast and Furious, or Taken, or Top Gun, or Armageddon except the PCs are the meteorite. Or skip the whole movie and make up their own stage play musical set on the next town over.

EDIT: Everything devolving to Benny Hill still applies, unless there is an actual agreement of the tone everyone should try and uphold.

The GM has the power to present a heist, but unless the GM is really railroady, the players have the power to make it a ransom, a demolition job or just ignore everything and join the circus.

One shots, like the few Mörk Borg ones I have recently played, have a higher chance of people doing what the scenario expects, but when a character is given a trait that they only eat named things, the player starts asking and collecting every NPCs name.

The Settlers games have not been Settlers games after the fourth one. Except of course the remake, but that also was a very long time ago.

This. Not Scottish, but I wear a kilt whole summer everywhere. Fortunately our company does not have a dress code at the office.

I can still remember every special move and destruction. And how to select Nova outside tournament. Completed the tournament on Heavy Metal, but it’s hard only in the beginning.

There are custom tournaments and a open source remake project https://www.openomf.org/

I played and liked them, second is the best and third was a mess that initially looked cool and I wanted to like, but it just was not good.

But my spouse became obsessed with them.

https://youtu.be/gjl87alwnkQ

In some countries child labour is still completely legal e.g. on farming.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/11/13/children-working-terrifying-conditions-us-agriculture

Initially looks just a simple twist on Sokoban, but the game mechanic just keeps going deeper and deeper and blowing your mind.

I could do that?

I COULD DO THAT?!

In certain circles it is well known, but Baba Is You is one of the most ingenious games for a long while and should be known even wider.

I probably owe most of my navigation skills to the original GTA games. I cannot orient myself if the map keeps spinning with me. It’s easier to me mentally keep track where everything is relative to each other on a stationary map facing north and I am the only thing moving and turning. Also when the originals had only a paper map where you had yo first find yourself and until San Andreas only showing your current location and the locations of points of interest on the separate map menu without any indicator of direction you should head while actually driving, I learned to prefer the simplest path instead of trying to find the shortest way. Least number of turns and clear landmarks where to take them is the strategy I keep utilising to this day in real life also, so I don’t need to keep my eyes or ears glued to the phone and blindly try follow it.