I regret to inform you that you have woefully underestimated it. The actual retail rate offered to consumers is closer to $2200 US per gallon. Sources: internet-ink.com, cbc.ca. This $14 million fine is only worth like, seven thousand gallons, or less than 200 oil barrels of ink.

By your powers combined, I am... the British Colonies!

The main aim of Stop Killing Games is to ensure the practice of rug-pulling eventually comes to an end. They are not trying to save MMOs, for example.

Moreover they don't demand that every game currently on the market comply with open-sourcing requirements: at a minimum, companies always have the option of simply providing customers with adequate notice before shutdown. Open-sourcing the server would be nice, but it's hardly the only way to protect consumers' interests. Scott has, for example, suggested game boxes being marked with an estimated expiry date for online service functionality.

But most importantly: because this is about future games, not the present, the market has time to change. If studios and publishers are designing their games with a fair EOL in mind, then they can make decisions from the get-go to avoid licensing dependencies that they won't be able to release in a possible 'afterlife' version of the game. As suggested by your example of GameSpy in C&C: Generals, when a commercial dependency is crucial to a game's success, it tends to be a client-side library, but typically the problematic dependencies aren't crucial; they're e.g. add-ons for Unity or Unreal that the studio bought to save time. In a world with SKG laws, the providers of these dependencies aren't going to be a stagnant target either—demand for compliant libraries will motivate development of open-source versions.

Interestingly, the will for doing this does exist among game developers; they just need the institutional support from legislation to twist the arms of the studios and publishers. Ross Scott has talked to a lot of devs who are burnt out from having their projects cancelled, leaving them with huge gaping holes in their resumes and portfolios where they've spent years on unreleased projects that are stuck under NDA. In general they tend to see SKG as a path to ensuring the games that do see the light of day aren't also scrapped, which would erode their work histories even further. (Apparently it also just plain feels bad to have your work erased from history. Shocking, I know.)

Fear not! It's entirely possible the category was chosen by an AI. Editorial automation would probably reduce the error rate here.

It's all a small price to pay for Eat Your Veggies.

Duke 3D's soundtrack was not exclusively the work of Bobby Prince; Lee Jackson, Apogee's go-to music guy, also did some of the tracks, including the title theme, Grabbag.

Prince used not only his MIDI skills but also his experience as a lawyer to ensure his 'inspired' derivatives were as close as legally possible to the originals. The relationship between individual tracks is often very clear and sometimes even hinted in the metadata of the source files.

We will never truly know how many dimensions the Chess game has.

Say it with me, now. As we all know, the infamous saying goes:

A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

It's really incredible how marketing departments can radiate amnesia like this with such proficiency.

Well, what are you waiting for? Step on it!

(The idiots may also have been algorithms.)

You will not be able to find prior examples where the DoD secretary removed people from the O-7 promotion list.

You will not be able to find prior examples where the secretary of the army's objections to the handling of the O-7 promotion list was made public.

You will not be able to find prior examples where the army chief of staff was forced out due to objections about the O-7 promotion list.

You will not be able to find prior examples where the pentagon chapel did not hold some sort of Catholic service on Good Friday. You will, however, be able to find times that Hegseth's favorite pastor has called for the removal of catholic displays from the United States.

You will not be able to find any examples where Hegseth has blocked promotions of white males or fired white males because they were 'not warriors'.

Whoops. Thought I was just clarifying MLK's words; didn't realize this would trigger a podcast-pilled collection of nutwingery. My mistake.

I have neither the time or interest to respond to all of your BS, so I'll just point this out:
Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0...

The bigotry was so obvious, another Trump appointee refused to go along. The Army chief of staff was forced to resign after he objected.

The black general in charge of the army's chaplain corp was fired, apparently after he objected to Hegseth only allowing Protestant services in the Pentagon on Good Friday; Catholics were excluded.

In case the fucking obvious racism is still not obvious, this is a quote from the Christian nationalist Hegseth has invited to lead prayers at the Pentagon:
"slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races that we believe we can say has never existed in any nation before the War or since"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He has also called for the repeal ot the 19th amendment.

And here's Hegseth prioritizing politics over the chain of command and combat readiness:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/m...

That was MLK's ideal, but he was explicit that it was not reality - that was the "I have a dream" speech, after all. The rest of that speech was very detailed about how far we were from that ideal.

We are still very far from that ideal. The president is making open racial slurs against Somali-Americans. Hegseth is firing generals because they are black. Miller has unleashed mass deportations against immigrants who are not white.

But here on Slashdot, the most frequent whines about racism have been in response to people noting that the makeup of the Artemis II crew is unique, despite that the fact that it is unique and ground-breaking.

Pretending that we live in a color-blind society, and that any mention of race is pejorative racism, is insane. But common.

Thank you for taking the time to read all that! You are right, of course. It is something of an unsolved problem with the design. The question of "exactly what work are these draftees contributing?" is something I'm still working on; it may not literally be core parenting or teaching work, but actually more like e.g. hanging out with your cool uncle on the weekend who helps you learn life lessons. Maybe said uncle isn't exactly teaching or parenting material, but he still has something to contribute to building a child's character, and is assisting the parents just by being around to lighten the load. The Big Brothers Big Sisters charity seems to indicate that this is a sound principle with incredible ROI.

There would also be mandatory training to teach people the skills needed to do this work (critical to figure out what goes in there.) Also I'd like to hope that the system would "even out" over a few generations; if we assume the root cause of dangerous personalities like BPD or NPD is being trapped (or in an echo chamber) with a toxic parent figure, the practice of this "socialized parenting" is essentially guaranteeing kids have alternative support networks that can soak some of those traumas. Efficiency would never reach 100%, of course (does it ever?) and there would always be some difficult people for whom alternative credit would need to be devised, but in any substantial system there's always other work to do—maybe a truly broken person contributes by grading homework or something.

You can just say openly that you're an edgy, racist teenager. It's fine; the first step to self-improvement is admitting that you need help.

It seems the pressing the key actually generates Win+Shift+F23... and also function as a Right Ctrl modifier at the same time? It may or may not function normally if you're outside of Windows.