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but but but
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Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 208 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report. Individual freedoms—ranging from the right to vote to freedom of expression and equality before the law—can be affected by state or...
UK has a 92/100 freedom ranking and USA only has an 84/100.
You don't think those most free country rankings are bias, do you?
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That's not how it works on consoles. You need a license (and devkit) from the console manufacturer to sign your game, or the consoles won't run it. For example, every Nintendo game has a "Licensed by Nintendo" sign. Also, you need to upload that shit to PSX to deliver your downloads to customers, and PlayStation (like Steam) wants a cut for management of the account and traffic for delivery.
Nintendo was notorious for only allowing developers/publishers a fixed amount of games per year, so they don't flood the market with cheap slop. Which, incidentally, was the reason for the 80's video game crash.
Time is a flat circle.
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Basically Atari, the then market leader, ended themselves with the ET video game, and buried the cartridges in the desert.
Nintendo revived the US console market by advertising the Famicom as a "entertainment system" (NES), complete with a robot buddy, just to appear to not be a games console:
But they had a strict 5 games per year per company limit on NES games. Publishers worked around that by starting shell companies and sub-labels. Konami for example launched "Ultra Games" in the USA, which for example published the first Metal Gear. In Europe it was Palcom Software.
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and it wasn't enough because the 80s were still full of broken unplayable trash that badly degraded the value of the NES so they eventually went with a submission process that is now more or less the industry standard.
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Their infamous licensing process. I recall there were unlicensed games for a hot minute - Tengen I think was the publisher? They made a version of Tetris due to
some game rights snafu and some other games. I think they had Gauntlet also? Nintendo sued them. If I recall, the argument was that Nintendo licensing made sure the games were “safe”, but they just wanted control over the ecosystem. Nintendo won I believe
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Was calling it Ubigay since a teenager in the early 2000's from the shit online service for their PC games.
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its in persuit of digita ID from a directions. I just watched a youtube on a new lawsuit out of washington about. "gambling" and toward the end of the suit it was saying "and steam doesnt ' even try to verify age. thinc of the chidren!!! what if they did that woud be something right?"
it's definatey lawfare from the rothschids (who just lost a lawsuit from steam) and pushing digital ID
Some of my keys seemed to have stopped functioning. apologies for the lack of "L/K" on the post. I'm too Lazy to re do it
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