SquigglyEmpire

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Unfortunately multiple sources seem to agree Dong Nguyen has no involvement, which is consistent with the way he originally shut down Flappy Bird due to people spending too much time on it :(

"The Flappy Bird Foundation said it has acquired the official Flappy Bird trademark from Gametech Holdings LLC, a U.S. company that appears to have wrestled the trademark from Nguyen, as well as the rights for the original game and character from Piou Piou vs. Cactus, the mobile game that supposedly originally inspired the Flappy Bird character."

https://www.ign.com/articles/10-years-after-it-was-pulled-offline-viral-mobile-game-flappy-bird-is-coming-back

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago (5 children)

And the trademarks were sleazily grabbed from the original creator :/

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

"Obligatory fuck the HDMI forum and the HDMI spec"

Amen to that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It probably would've been useful to include the list of actual games:

"The three games included are: The Wing of Madoola, Firework Thrower Kantaro’s 53 Stations of the Tokaido and Ripple Island."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I encountered that a few times growing up too, I'll never forget the ravenous way they murdered every marble they saw without a hint of concern for the devastated marble families left behind .

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Which is terribly underperforming when you consider how many more dogs exist in proximity to humans compared to hippos. If a prankster wizard suddenly conjured a few million hippos into homes around the world you can bet they wouldn't settle for merely snuffing out 50x-70x more humans. On the upside, they'd definitely chomp a lot of people we don't like too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ah understood!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think this news only affects Humble Games but not Humble Bundle, confusingly they are separate but semi-related businesses these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And Mandriva itself was an attempted resurrection of the old Mandrake distribution (which was sorta the Ubuntu of its day). Really hoping OpenMandriva manages to make a go of it considering the ringer those folks have been through.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

...what?

A busted kernel module/driver/plug-in/whatever that triggers a bootloop is going to require intervention on any platform no matter whether the code happens to be published somewhere out on the internet or not. On top of that, Windows allows you to control/remove 3rd party kernel drivers just like on Linux, which is exactly what many of us have been stuck doing on endless devices for the last three days.

I fully advocate for open-source software and use it where I can, but I also think we should do that by talking about its actual advantages instead of just making up nonsense that will make experienced sysadmins spit out their coffee.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Google's dream of hijacking an open standard (on Android at least) is achieved :/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It sounds like you're referring to the National Socialist German Workers' Party of WWII infamy. People are probably going to assume something else, FYI.

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