The Players Voice award always goes to some gacha trash, cause they incentivise their players to go vote. "If we win, we'll give everyone free shit".

Sad to see that so many FANTASTIC games ended up with nil, because E33 stole the show so hard, but it's tough to argue that they didn't deserve each one. Myself, I probably would've put Silksong over E33 for art direction, it's ASTOUNDING to me how much of a step up the artwork in that game was, compared to Hollow Knight.

I do wish that they would adjust their criteria for "indie" game. E33 really shouldn't have been counted as one, IMO. Hundreds of people worked on that game, as many as some AAA games, and yet games like Blue Prince, from a solo developer (or very close to it?) had to compete against that? That really defies the spirit of the indie category, for me. Even if we count JUST the core team of (supposedly) 33, that puts it squarely in AA territory, for me.

The big power use is in building/training models, not running them. Not the running them is insignificant either.

SCOTUS these days can and will make up whatveer the fuck rationalization they want to justify any decision, and then tagline it with "but this only applies to this one specific scenario" to keep from locking themselves out of ruling the opposite way next time.

Last year (or earlier this year?) they ruled on a case where the event that triggered the suit was literally made up and never happened, and everyone knew it.

Which list? It WAS a nominee for Best Indie.

Same, I see nothing but the title in the body.

I was wondering about that, curing Type 1 Diabetes would be a HELL of a breakthrough.

Who the hell is Looten Plunder?

Yeah, that last bit is really the one that bugs me. You do shoddy work and it breaks my whole damn engine, and you're not liable for it?

For the first paragraph, the scenario I'm thinking is more like "Why would I want you to do the repairs when you've already proven you're not good at it? I'd rather take fair-market value in cash." Not that I think this was necessarily negligence or incompetence in this case.

Portals can only move within planes parallel to each other.

In this case, the portals are only moving in planes parallel to each other, so there is no stability introduced.