Maybe I should clarify that to “publisher”. EA itself doesn’t really make games anymore. They fund the studios who make games.

You can hate the company while accepting this. EA doesn’t have exclusive control over that game anymore.

The whole premise is “America: Fuck Yeah, The RTS”.

When I first played Red Alert, it was on a computer with a 6.4GB hard drive, and I had no idea how to fill up that much space at the time. I think we’ll be fine.

The GPL is a way to make intellectual property work the way it should by default.

Correct. The license (at least, the one I read for Red Alert) is GPLv3 with some additional stuff. The additional stuff is mostly about not using EA trademarks in your version or showing any connection to EA itself. So it appears that a clean room asset swap would be allowed as long as it includes the title screen.

I feel like at some point, EA became the least hated major studio by staying exactly where they were. The rest of the industry zoomed past them.

You can make complete conversions with your own assets. That’s basically how old id engines work.

Right, I think the two aren’t as different as they appear. You can think of a closure as an object with just one method.

If OO programming is fundamentally about objects sending messages to each other, then there are many ways to approach that. Some of those ways are totally compatible with functional programming.

The legacy of C++ has dominated what OOP is “supposed” to be, but it doesn’t have to work like that.

That’s more or less where anarcho-syndaclism goes. Get all the workers into unions who take over their companies and turn them into co-ops. Then the co-ops collaborate and you don’t need the state or anything else.

The Cranberries song “Zombies” isn’t about actual zombies. It’s about people who think like zombies.

OK, I can see the whites of your eyes.

SVG, unironically yes. There’s a few times where I found a library or WYSIWYG editor making some strange choices for its SVG output, and I had to fix it manually.

I think there’s a good reason for that. If you’re not as concerned about resource consumption (Emacs used to be called “Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping”, back when 8MB was a lot), then there’s no reason to avoid even more complex and resource intensive IDEs. People who wanted a complex editor, but in a relatively small footprint, stuck with some variant of vi.

Thus, vi found a stable evolutionary niche. It’s a tardigrade.

I’d do it to strip off all the body parts and make a dune buggy conversion or something like that.

That’s neat. Almost like a modernized take on a Model TT truck.

I’ve found that there’s a lot of things on the Internet that went wrong because it was ad supported for “free”. Porn is one of them.

There is ethically produced porn out there, but you’re going to have to pay for it. Incidentally, it also tends to be better porn overall. The versions of the videos they put up on tube sites are usually cut down, and are only part of their complete library. Up through 2012 or so, the tube sites were mostly pirated content, but then they came to an agreement with the mainstream porn industry. Now it’s mostly the studios putting up their own content (plus independent, verified creators), and anything pirated gets taken down fast.

Anyway, sites like Crash Pad Series, Erika Lust, Vanessa Cliff, and Adulttime (the most mainstream of this list) are worth a subscription fee.

It has to be something that fits in a relatively small package so it can fit in the space constraints of old hardware. Anything with true 3D levels and texture mapped models is right out.

It also can’t be predominantly written in assembly. Making assembly code run on a different architecture is practically a complete rewrite, not a port.

This leaves a very narrow window of games written right around the time of Doom.

Demonstration of organization. If they see a one day dip in the numbers–even if it’s deferred spending to the very next day–then it implies there’s a large number of people who are pissed off and ready to be organized.

Bottom up organizing has to start somewhere.

At a minimum, act like there’s a group of angry citizens out there who did not vote for this, are ready to do something, and need to be organized.

The Tea Party figured this shit out. Republicans got shredded in late-2008, but you wouldn’t have known it by mid-2009. Democrats only narrowly lost, and all they can do is start committees and come up with nicknames like “Captain Chaos”.