Maybe I should clarify that to “publisher”. EA itself doesn’t really make games anymore. They fund the studios who make games.

You can hate the company while accepting this. EA doesn’t have exclusive control over that game anymore.

The whole premise is “America: Fuck Yeah, The RTS”.

When I first played Red Alert, it was on a computer with a 6.4GB hard drive, and I had no idea how to fill up that much space at the time. I think we’ll be fine.

The GPL is a way to make intellectual property work the way it should by default.

Correct. The license (at least, the one I read for Red Alert) is GPLv3 with some additional stuff. The additional stuff is mostly about not using EA trademarks in your version or showing any connection to EA itself. So it appears that a clean room asset swap would be allowed as long as it includes the title screen.

I feel like at some point, EA became the least hated major studio by staying exactly where they were. The rest of the industry zoomed past them.

You can make complete conversions with your own assets. That’s basically how old id engines work.

They got the formula right on this space:

• Linux, not Windows–Windows provides little that can’t be done on Linux in this space
• AMD, not Intel–AMD just has better products at this level (any level at this point, really)
• 720p–going higher doesn’t provide much at this size except suck battery life and requiring a more powerful GPU
• Price

Now, price is partially because Valve can afford to subsidize the cost and expect to make it up on Steam sales. I’d be remiss to ignore how they’re making their money. Still, they’re also able to have a good price because they didn’t try to make it as powerful as it could be, but as powerful as it needed to be.

They’re not, though. There’s quite a few other offerings in this space, and the Steam Deck appears to outsell all of them combined.

At the very least, can they not be blue? It’s the worst color at night.

Red would be best–it fucks with your eyes the least–but there’s often legal limits on red lights (besides brake/turn signals) on non-emergency vehicles. Something in orange or yellow would be less harsh.

Slack or the OS would need to support it directly, and I don’t think either of those have it.

The techniques you’re thinking of are for documents sent by email or some such. You add innocuous whitespace or typos that are unique to each one, and send them individually. If one leaks, you can match it to the employee who received it. That doesn’t work for screenshots of Slack.