A direct boycott of Amazon and its subsidiaries? Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

But boycotting services that happen to use Amazon? Impossible!

Any business may use products ordered from there. Your local toll gate may use AWS. Unless you are a major client nobody is going to let you audit their supply contracts.

That’s the whole gene vs meme concept.

The same principal applies in that people who come after you can receive your ideas.

You mean Fahrenheit right?

If they stole the code that would be copyright infringement.

Wait… How do Trade Secrets work?

I thought that the individuals might be in legal trouble if they violate NDAs or No Compete clauses but that once the “secret” was out it was fair game.

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Agreed, even if you limit yourself to major tentpole content its impossible to keep up.

But if you look at the uploads to major digital distribution platforms its incredible how much content is being produced:

• YouTube gets 500 hours of video uploaded per minute.
• Spotify has 60k tracks uploaded per day
• Kindle has 225k books published per month
• Steam has 50 games published per day

As a related phenomenon the Addams Family set was painted in colour so that each element would show distinctly on black and white television.

This probably depends on what you mean by “shut down”.

“detachable metal shrapnel”?

There is an interesting list here;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_Switch_video_games

Nintendo includes sales numbers for their successful games in their financial reports so they are well represented but wikipedia also includes 3rd party figures when the publisher has released the numbers.

The top 5 3rd party titles*:

• Monster Hunter Rise
• Starview Valley
• Sulka Game
• Minecraft
• Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa Mo Teiban!

* I have overlooked titles like Pokemon and Hyrule Warriors as they are published by Nintendo in some regions.

Its just a warning, if the game is still active people can still access it.

I feel like I’ve been hearing this since odyssey.

Crazy talk!

It offered some navigational choices within each level from the Medical Pavilion on.

Stanley is great!

Yeah, if you want to have a master list of games available to install then the purchases have to be under one account.

Otherwise each account will see their own list of available titles, if purchases are arbitrary then these lists may appear random.

I have 99% of my family’s games on my account but have placed titles gifted to or purchased by my 8yo on his account. This isn’t important now while we share a loungeroom and set of consoles but as he grows up we will need to separate our libraries at some point.

• Each account has their own saves.
• Each account has their own digital purchases
• Each account can nominate one physical console as their “primary”*, any other account on that console is then licenced to run their games. Note however:
  • child accounts can be restricted from running mature content
  • accounts that don’t own the content can run the games but not install them. This is a hassle for me because I own my family library but have to cycle through the games when my son wants to replay something.

* technically each account can have one primary ps4 and one primary ps5, in the cross gen period people you use this to lend their ps4 console and library to family/friends but that isn’t so relevant today.

Edit:

For digital purchases the owning account can login to other non-primary consoles and access their library there (for the duration of the login session). This can be used to share the library when visiting other households but does require careful consideration about who should own each title.

This sounds like an X-Y Problem.

In the video game industry, AAA (Triple-A) is a buzzword used to classify video games produced or distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, which typically have higher development and marketing budgets than other tiers of games.
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The term “AAA” began to be used in the late 1990s by game retailers attempting to gauge interest in upcoming titles, and first appeared in print in a press release from Infogrames in June 2000. The term was likely borrowed from the credit industry’s bond ratings, where “AAA” bonds represent the safest investment opportunity and are the most likely to meet their financial goals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(video_game_industryDLC

Since then it has become shorthand for large budget games produced for major publishers and the problems that come with that:

• “safe” game design and themes that a major business might require before they invest 100s of million dollars on the project. This will often means that they follow industry wide trends (e.g. zombies, or open world game with crafting)
• overpriced for the base games, special editions, and often season pass and DLCs. again its the business trying to make good a profit on their investment
• if the design allows it be padded with copy-paste content to increase game time in an effort to justify the high price. (see: Ubisoft syndrome).

There’s always some sort of excuse with them. Have to go pick him up from the bus stop, have to go pick him up from school because they got in trouble, dance recital during the middle of the day, always something.

I am a single parent and work the same hours per timesheet and get the same allotment of personal leave per year as everybody else at my employer.

If I happen to use that personal leave to pick up a kid who threw up in their classroom while somebody else uses it to see their optometrist or attend a funeral isn’t really anybody’s business.

I take one early afternoon each week to take my kid to an after school activity, this puts a weekly 2 or 3 hour deficit in my timesheet that I either make up by working a bit longer on the other days or if the sheet doesn’t balance I make up the difference by spending some annual leave. (I try to avoid using AL like this because I would rather save it for holidays but it is occasionally required.)

I don’t telegraph all of this timesheet accounting to my colleagues, they will know which day I’m leaving early that term and the rest isn’t really their business. At the end of the day/month/year I have my schedule OKed by my line manager and work the commitments of my contract.

But when it comes to ordinary normal people who don’t have kids, it feels like there’s a lot more scrutiny. Why do you need a doctor’s appointment in the middle of the day? Why do you need to go pick up a prescription at lunch time, like why can’t you work through lunch?

If your employer / manager is second guessing your leave thats an issue between you and them and shouldn’t have your looking at your peers with resentment.