THe big challenge is separating the good from the bad commercial interests. It's not a challenge because differentiating the good from the harmful is difficult, but because bad actor industries also make A LOT of money that buys a lot of political power and also employ a lot of people, so removing them from economy would have negative economic and political consequences.

Basically it's like a dead man's switch in a mutually assured destruction weapon.

Killing the tobacco industry for example would have incredibly positive economic consequences, despite the job loss.

Yeah but both tobacco industry employees and smokers vote. If they make up a large enough voter base, then this is political suicide in any democracy.

Hence how it took until 2019 to ban indoor smoking in my EU country, even though it was known for a long time it's a public health issue.

Sure, but that's contingent on

1) the voters being well educated and not easily brainwashed by various types of propaganda pushing them to vote against their own interests (see the Germans being anti-nuclear and pro-Russian gas since the 80s) and >

2) the voters being trusted and having an actual ownership in the country so that their votes affect them directly and also having a say in how their country is run, because if whoever gets voted into power just does the opposite of what the voters want "for their own good", then you're not a democracy anymore, you're just a well functioning state (if that).

Other than Switzerland, and maybe Denmark, I don't know any democracies that constantly function well and aren't plagued with issues.

They are conflating two of the Talks. This other one ran Doom inside of Rollercoaster Tycoon with a corrupted saved game

And whose fault is that?

However, the consequences are always applied to everyone but the executives and board.

Primarily the fault of our governments not using anti-trust laws for real in, like, decades.

Governments actually do have the power to regulate the economy and to prevent catastrophic crashes from occurring. The warning signs for the AI bubble have been visible for well over a year now, when the entity relationship map between the major players began to resemble a Habsburg family tree... and yet, nothing was done.

The reality is even worse than this. It's not that the government is asleep at the wheel, it's that all financial crises were caused by government intervention to begin with (2009 subprime government backed mortgages, 2020 covid money printing, etc). The big banks, corporations and wall street were only taking advantage of the situation the government helped create in order to enrich themselves.

Average people would have also loved to have taken advantage of it to enrich themselves, if they could understand the system well enough to game it, and some do, so it's not like the blame is only on one participant, but pretty much everyone is to blame:

- the government for creating asset bubbles and closing an eye as it is inflating

- corporations and super wealthy for being greedy and exploiting the system created and run by the government

- the voters for being uneducated and stupid and not seeing the government rob the blind, or for being greedy and complicit on the asset bubble for personal gain, and not holding the government accountable

Is it also "evidence spoliation" for Google Books to resist attempts to dumping out all pages of a book?

Man, I gotta respect the balls on the author for reaching out to EA, and with a straight face, expecting them to push a bug fix for a ~23 year old game. Someone at EA who got the email probably got a chuckle out of it.

Also happy to see this classic RTS is still being played and even developed by the community. I'd be curious to know what the age of people this invested into the game is, if it's all 30+ year old boomers with nostalgia and knee pain, or if Generals also found its way to the current generation of players. "Can I have some shoes?"

They are still selling it. Selling games you know have such dangerous security issues is not good.

Good, very good! Better to still be able to own it legally in its original form, even if it's not been updated. Because otherwise the alternative for most people would be downloading it from some shady piracy site which would be even more risky.

> Selling games you know have such dangerous security issues is not good.

I assume in the EULA they are selling it "AS IS", so the risks are up to you, especially given that the game does not run on modern OSs out of the box so it's not like your average grandma is gonna get hacked from this. It's a niche product for enthusiasts and tinkerers at this point. Is ID software also pushing security fixes to Doom so you don't get hacked from running a 30 year old piece of SW?

Better now?

There's enough of a community to support a yearly World Series with $25K cash awards in 2025!

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Getting hate for stuff like this is why most games companies will just say 'fuck it', and not bother releasing classic games to the public anymore, let alone their source code, if the bar they now have to clear is to also actively supporting their classic games for which their OG devs lave long retired from the company.

How many games companies are actively patching their 23 year old games?

Unlike other people, I don't let perfect be the enemy of good, and I appreciate them giving us the source code, that's already more than most game companies do. The community can take it from there.

As always, "subsidize the losses, privatize the profits".