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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Microsoft understood in the 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2V9TFrmQ_Q

St. John recognized the resistances for game development under Windows would be a limitation, and recruited two additional engineers, Craig Eisler and Eric Engstrom, to develop a better solution to get more programmers to develop games for Windows. The project was codenamed the Manhattan Project, like the World War II project of the same name, and the idea was to displace the Japanese-developed video game consoles with personal computers running Microsoft's operating system.

To get more developers on board DirectX, Microsoft approached id Software's John Carmack and offered to port Doom and Doom 2 from MS-DOS to DirectX, free of charge, with id retaining all publishing rights to the game. Carmack agreed, and Microsoft's Gabe Newell led the porting project. The first game was released as Doom 95 in August 1996, the first published DirectX game. Microsoft promoted the game heavily with Bill Gates appearing in ads for the title.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

They are always late to the party and they have an image problem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Zero is constant

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

The West Wing is too depressing to watch given the current political landscape

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I wasn't so lucky. I didn't even post about jury nullification. Just a Luigi reference.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

A new federal agency can only be created by an act of congress

According to who? And who is going to enforce that?

Elon and Trump are not bound by the law. They'll do whatever the fuck they want and nobody is going to stop them. The GOP is full of spineless bitches we grovel at their feet.

Rule of law is dead. The Justice system is dead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

If someone were to poison the food at mar a lago, that person would have done more for this country than anybody else in the past 50 years.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Stealing is smart

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Do people wash pork chops? steaks? hamburgers?

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