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'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 74 points 3 weeks ago* (28 children)

This is just how capitalism work in general. Imagine how many amazing ideas don't see the light of day because the creators know the markets will steal it, fuck them over, introduce a worse version to the world and then bin it when it has no more value. Capitalists are thieves, plain and simple and AI has newly empowered them in the software sector.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Imagine how many amazing ideas don't see the light of day because the creators know the markets will steal it

    Lol i call this bs. People who think this way tend to be just an idea guy that will inevitably fail on the execution. Idea is worthless, everyone have genius idea until they start implementing it. All great stuff are based on previous iteration, untested idea will never be amazing. People who never test their idea is either an idea guy or a patent troll, both are legit insufferable.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    I do this all the time and so do my coworkers. In fact, it's enshrined in our employment agreement that all our industry relate ideas are company owned. It's absolutely an abusive and exploitative system, no better represented today than by capitalism.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    You having a stroke?

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  • [–] -3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Then explain, ohh the great unstroken one.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Your grammar is awful.

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  • [+] -25 points 2 weeks ago* (19 children)

    Like this doesn’t happen in any other socio-economic system. Ffs… kids need a new argument.

    For the record, nearly every top-tier game ever made was done so under capitalism. But we can always compare.

    You list all the non-capitalist games you love dearly and that have done well, and I’ll list all the ones made under capitalism. Let’s see how things match up.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    Like this doesn’t happen in any other socio-economic system

    We would know if capitalists didn't literally handicap and shoot every other socioeconomic system.

    Or are out that "kid" that thinks Nazi Germany was socialist and current China is communist.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

    Meanwhile the literal highest selling game of all time is… Tetris, the game that is quite famously Soviet…

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  • [+] -10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (13 children)

    LMAO! Tetris barely made it to the top 20, bud. But revisionism it seems, is what really wins arguments nowadays. I mean, who needs proof, right?

    On that subject:

    It took 10 seconds to prove you wrong:

    https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games

    Take a look at ALL that capitalism! (Keep in mind that this list is WORLD WIDE)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (7 children)

    Why not take the first result on google and duckduckgo?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games

    The source on the one you gave is a random unsourced claim in a guardian article from 2009, whereas wikipedia cites the tetris website.

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  • [+] -13 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Sure… so let’s include Tetris. Now, how does your ONE game stack up against the rest?

    Facebook kid, everything in your entire wold that you e hit is the product of capitalism. But please… continue the manufactured outrage. It’s funny!

    Oh and by the way:

    March 2nd 2026

    And the Guinness Book of Records also disagrees with you.

    But either way, nothing is going to stop your little ball-fisted feverish rage at all things caliptalist while frantically mashing keys on your capitalist designed and built phone, or PC, or tablet to tell me how it is….

    So how about you do that now that I have you blocked. That way- you can get that coveted last word in, and I won’t have to waste my time reading it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    You're making a moving the goalpost fallacy, a false analogy fallacy, a false dilemma/TINA fallacy, a strawman fallacy, a non sequitur fallacy, and an irrelevant premise fallacy, all of them at the same time.

    The fucking point is:

    1. Capitalism is being forced into everyone and if anyone dares to refuse it and try something different, they're fucking destroying these people.
    2. That one system is the only one we know and it looks like if it were successful, it doesn't mean that it's succesful and good.
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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (3 children)

    I knew minecraft was #1 but I'm surprised how long that Tetris line hasn't been true. I heard that in the 2000s and 2010s, too.

    Also this made me laugh. Not sure why they truncatated the name

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yeah, Tetris was massive when it came out. I was around. Remember it well!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    If you'd like a list of your logical fallacies so far in this thread alone, I'm afraid it'll have to keep for tomorrow. I'm knackered after a double, and you seem to get off on this whole thing, but I'll put a pin in it, for sure.

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