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Apple: “I play Lawyer in attack position.”

It’s free for Apple honestly, just for unauthorized use of their trademark alone.

That’s kind of where I’m at with the whole idea too. Should we be in such a situation, it just moves all our existing questions about “What is reality and the universe?” up one meta-level to the theoretical actual reality. I doubt we would stop finding out as much as is possible about this layer, but we would be wholly unable apply our findings or assumptions to the true reality.

But even if that true reality remains forever unknowable, it at least sets what I would consider some “sensible” bounds on our universe. As things are now, I’m not sure if I’m more dumbfounded by the idea of an infinite universe or a finite one - both boggle the mind for different reasons.

Agreed, this whole Unity thing seemed more like they were surprised the peasants were revolting. Completely unaware of the danger of putting developer bills directly in to the hands of the end users, and not considering that a “trust me bro I counted how much you owe me” blackbox accounting method was too much to ask.

Hit the nail on the head, I’d say. Some future competitive game that endeavors to weigh in an evaluation of personal contribution over just the binary win/loss condition and that implements ways to automatically mitigate the negatives enumerated for long duration matches is going to start off in a really good place.

Handling those issues honestly seems like Step 1 in tackling the kind of negativity that is notorious for cropping up in these sorts of games. If everyone’s having a better time and doesn’t feel punished for things outside of their control, it seems reasonable to assume that the baseline behavior will be a lot more chill.