[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Which was $4.4 billion in 2022 and is estimated to be roughly $3 billion for 2023, so the maximum fine would be 180-264 million depending on which figure is used.
For comparison, the net loss (not profit) for 2022 for twitter was 270 million.

[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

That's how denuvo is supposed to be used, doesn't mean it is how publishers do use it. The moment the game is cracked denuvo stops being useful. Doom Eternal actually launched with a drm free exe as mistake in the first place so it's never been very useful :p

[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For missing the FOV option, most of the time it's some boneheaded decision to keep the console and PC games identical, as the console versions are optimized to handle exactly the amount of stuff that could be on the screen at once with the default FOV. There really is no real reason not to add it in the PC version - quite a few games do have a disclaimer akin to "If you increase the FOV, you might see graphical glitches", but that's fine.
As for the super ultrawide there is an actual obstacle, the UI. You often can't use the same one as you either have them horribly stretched, sitting in the middle kinda blocking your view or spread uselessly all the way at the edges. So someone has to actually do some work to make it work.

As an example, here's Starfield super ultrawide comparison between the default FOV and 120 degree FOV. You can imagine the performance cost and possible visual glitches you might get from doing that.

[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Short people and people who eat too much pork will also not go to heaven." reminded me of this (SFW actually) Oglaf.

[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

To give an example, if all books were automatically public domain HBO could have created Game of Thrones without paying George R.R. Martin a single cent for it, then publish and sell "Game of Thrones: The Book", aka the entire Song of Ice and Fire series, again without paying him anything and stealing all of his profit in the process.

[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

In a way they are as there is no "men only" tournaments. There is open for all, and a few women only. You just won't see any women in the open for all tournaments as they fail to qualify so ending the womens tournaments would just result in having no female competitors at all.

[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Having the current best female chess player, Hou Yifan, be at rank 55 and be the third woman ever to be in the top 100, while the second best woman, Aleksandra Goryachkina, is at rank 347, doesn't exactly paint a very gender-balanced playing field.

[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only if the 94% are now completely immune to long covid and wouldn't suffer from it if they do get covid in the future. If that's the case, then the risks really are only the tiny chance of dying to it, usually requiring being immunocompromised or unvaccinated. Otherwise there is also always the additional, orders of magnitude higher risk that you get long covid, and with that comes the risk that you might get stuck to your bed not being able to do anything for over a year for example.

Using the numbers from your other comment, for those 45000 deaths by motor vehicle accidents you also have the over 2 million injuries and disabilities that didn't kill anyone, some of them permanent and debilitating. The risk of death is only one number among many.

[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Directly regulating the size isn't the only possibility though, huge cars are really rare in the EU even though there isn't anything prohibiting you from buying them. You just won't fit anywhere with one if you do :)

[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

"Confirm Choices" should also function as that button, as the consent needs to be opt-in - nothing should be on by default.

[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Model X is called that because he wanted the models to spell SEXY - but Ford still owns "Model E" so he had to go with S3XY instead.

[-] JohnEdwa@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Denuvo is at least understandable when it's added to a game on launch to curb pirates for that crucial moment. But like a dragon has been cracked for over two years now, it has no business still having Denuvo.

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