Yeah, also a bunch of other details, and the whole plot is way more focused on the war in the movie. In the book it's more of a backdrop. You should give it a read, it's worth it :) I also like her other books!
I don't know the answer, but happy to see someone talking about this book. I feel like so many people know the movie and have no clue that it's based on the book, nor how much they changed it. I personally love the book and am happy to see it.
That was great, thank you for linking! I expected to just skim it and ended up reading the whole article and the follow-up
These names are really fun! Good ones to add to my list...
I believe publishers are responsible for sales, including what countries it's for sale in. It's not really up to the devs. Not in the games industry though, so could be wrong.
But a unique identifier in game doesn't actually enforce bans, because what's stopping someone from creating a new one? VS if you create a PSN account, you need some sort of verification (e.g. email address).
They could've done something similar with a non PSN login, though people would've probably still complained. And for them, it's not 3rd party because it's published by Sony IIRC, so it's actually an in house system.
I also don't own the game, but I just wanted to point out the reason in their argument isn't entirely invalid.
What's stopping you from deleting the game, redownloading it, and setting a new account name? Etc
I assume they're talking about player names, not usernames - steam usernames are unique, but steam player names can be whatever you want and are often duplicates.
I love Saints Row IV. Such a silly game; great way to just fuck around and blow off some steam.
Cool to see the Immich team going full time. I don't use it personally but I hear great things
Why is this oniony? "Professional drivers are in the transportation industry" sounds absurd?
In a world where your IDE and maybe also compiler should warn you about using unicode literals in source code, that's not much of a concern.
VSCode (and I'm sure other modern IDEs, but haven't tested) will call out if you're using a Unicode char that could be confused with a source code symbol (e.g. i and ℹ️, which renders in some fonts as a styled lowercase i without color). I'm sure it does the same on the long equals sign.
Any compiler will complain (usually these days with a decent error message) if someone somehow accidentally inserts an invalid Unicode character instead of typing
==.