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  • Publishers will like a database because it can be modified. If they were forced to implement such a system (thus abandoning all ‘sell the same game to the same person twice’ for different platforms), they’d oppose a blockchain system hard, since it would make it pricier to:

    a) publish seven bazillion versions of any given game
    b) revoke ownership of games just because it’s cheaper to do that than honor the deal they made with customers
    c) correct any data-fuckups they will inevitably make because they went for the cheapest route possible to implement this, and it went pear-shaped from day 3 onwards

    I’m very much on the database-side here as well. I work for a Telco company here in Germany, and we use several such databases that are regulated by external bodies and government agencies to communicate between carriers (for number porting and such). Works great overall.





  • Top tip for everyone who can’t pierce the wall of noise metal seems to throw at the listener: Most people are really hardwired to listen to the vocals and take the rest as “background”. Try to get away from this. Most Metal bands treat their vocals as another instrument among many, so they are weirdly embedded into the band which clashes with most other genres. To ignore the vocals a bit more: Try to listen to the drums. When you managed that (takes just a few seconds usually), try the lead guitar (or the rhythm if you’re feeling groovy). I won’t claim that you’ll suddenly have an epiphany and love metal (or that you even should strive to love metal if you don’t want to, tastes exist for a reason!), yet you might be able to finally get why people like this noise that insulted your ears for so long ;)