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

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

From 1969 to 1970, Womack developed the “Black Knight Classics” imprint. Carrying the subtitle “Classics of the Homosexual Underground”, the stories published under this label were purported to be classic works of gay erotica which were clandestinely passed from hand-to-hand among gay men in decades prior, though many were in fact of recent vintage.

Herman Lynn Womack (1923–1985) was an American publisher, and the founder of Guild Press, a Washington, D.C., publishing house that catered almost exclusively to a gay male audience and played a major role in expanding the legal protections for gay publications against obscenity laws in the United States.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Lynn_Womack

https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/Assorted Pubs/Classics-Night in the Hayloft.compressed.pdf

https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/Assorted Pubs/Classics-On the Farm in Old Missouri.compressed.pdf

XULRuner use to exist. I ran Chatzilla under it at one point in time.

Yeah. I need to finish what I started or I’m going to lose all motivation and lay in bed all day instead

it’s okay to be attractive

If only I could

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.

wodder

One upon a time, websites had actually useful coupons and RetailMeNot was created by the people who made BugMeNot and it was great, but more and more websites caught on and RetailMeNot was bought out to the tune of $300 million.

Then everything went to shit.

It’s very easy to overflow

Can zombies swim?

I wish they were more filling

The same app. Which means very little. It’s like trying to connect people because they both used Uber.

It Could Be Worse

If humanity is extinct who is running the power plants?

Sleeping Dogs was at one point a sequel to this game (although it didn’t start its life as one)

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Federal minimum wage is $15,080 assuming you work 40 hours a week and never get sick or take time off.

$55,000 is two people working $13.22 or a single person working $26.44