yetAnotherUser

Quoting, parodies etc. is explicitly regulated and very tightly regulated. I can only speak for Germany here, other EU countries have different laws but I know they tend to be on the strict side as well.

For example, parodies must explicitly comment on the original work to be permitted. Modifying the lyrics in a funny way alone is not enough to be a parody.

Same with quotes: They are only permitted if they serve a scientific, informative or analytical purpose. Quotes for illustration purposes or entertainment are explicitly not permitted.

In 2021, "pastiches" were legalized which allows for some entertainment use of derivative copyrighted works but there is no legal precedent yet that defines their scope.

Fair use is a US-only concept. Western EU countries tend to have much stricter copyright laws.

Gambling addiction has one of the highest suicide rates out of any addiction, so I'm pretty sure the capitalist gambling companies right now cause more death than illegal organizations could.

The rating system isn't meant to be taken literally though. It's expected that parents make an informed choice based on the maturity of their child. The ratings are recommendations and as far as I know only actually enforced by stores/sellers and cinemas.

To be fair, school lunches aren't free in Germany.

Technically they could be considered free if you factor in monthly child benefits (currently at 259€ per child) or parents further qualify for social assistance.

Wikipedia isn't important because of its data. Rather because of the fact it is continuously updated, extended, and fixed at a gigantic scale.

If Wikipedia ever dies, its information will lose relevance by the day. After a decade or two without a similar-scale replacement, will anyone even care?

Yeah, FBI and or CIA would be (are?) the US's Gestapo. I mean, they already have torture facilities to get false confessions.

By fucking obviousness.

At least that's what a court would rule, likely with more formal terminology.

Bing/DDG has also blocked the emulation wiki (https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/) for some reason. I noticed when I forgot the domain and tried looking for the site.

For the record, Google returns it as the top result.

Reason #186729 why it's insane to have no right to privacy in public.

Fun fact: Recording the public is illegal in Germany. Any private video camera must only be able to record your own property. If you do record (and store - smart doorbells without storage that are only active when they are rung are exempted) material you must have visible warnings (that others can see BEFORE being recorded) or else any evidence you collect is likely to be thrown out in court.

Could it make testing less conclusive? Part of testing is to see whether people actually enjoy the game. And I'd conjecture immersion-breaking placeholder assets could lead to worse testing reviews.

It's calling a function without a parameter.

You know how in math you had something like:

f(x) = x²

Not all functions need parameters though. The function:

f(x) = 2

does not even use the provided x! So just leave it out:

f() = 2

Similarly, you could give a function two parameters:

f(x, y) = x + y

Programmers use functions to primarily organize their code. Otherwise it would get very unreadable very quickly. Those function are usually a bit more complicated than a single line, though.

dog.walk() would call the walk() function of "dog". Some valid code could be:

dog.walk()
wait(10)
dog.stop()

This code would make the dog walk for 10 seconds assuming every function used is actually defined somewhere.