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bavxo··on Goodbye Brave
After sinking so many hours into the sims 1, being insulted by its main programmer is probably the biggest honour I’ll ever receive. Thanks.
bavxo··on One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
>Do you agree with Markus Persson that Zoe Quinn is a "cunt", and think that Markus was right to tell her so publicly and personally on Twitter?

I don’t know either person but I think they both should have a right to say whatever they want.

>Do you think it's a good business decision for Microsoft to associate themselves with those words?

I think people will care for two days and then forget about it. It’s irrelevant. Some people will boycott the product if they stay associated but then some will like what happened and will buy if they let the guy stay as a way of supporting him. Overall it will make zero difference.

bavxo··on One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
Since you said “Microsoft improved the product” and this is a software product, I don’t see any other possibility than talking about writing better code.
bavxo··on Someone downloaded 80k Winamp skins and is now selling them as NFTs
I don’t know exactly what the problem is. Who cares? He’s written a very long thread but he doesn’t explain how this hurts anybody.
bavxo··on “Elsevier's ”enhanced pdf viewer“ tracks where you click, view, [...]”
I assume every single website does this.
bavxo··on Estonian winter 1, delivery robots 0
The chilling effects of global warming.
bavxo··on Apple user permabanned, loses $1.2K in App Store goods for legit gift card buys
Is it possible that you bought gift cards that were stolen?
bavxo··on Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, with correct credentials
Log in from one of the ip ranges and browser/os combinations you’ve used in the past