I always thought Pokemon regions being inspired by real-world regions/countries was one of its neater aspects.
For those who don't know:
Actual anti-semitic, fascist, racist people and groups who support the ideology of Nazi Germany and use Nazi symbols and iconography to support their cause. Actual white supremacists. Not every conservative or even most conservatives or MAGA Trump supporters. The real right-wing loons.
The term "dark pattern" refers to any deceptive practice, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem, that online websites, apps, etc use to get people to do the site/app's desired behavior, such as in this case, not cancel their Prime subscription. Not all of these examples may apply in Amazon's case, but some examples would be making the fields or buttons for canceling or keeping your subscriptions different colors or sizes, making the default choice to keep the subscription, making you view a bunch of ads to keep the sub or go through a bunch of other pages before canceling, or hiding the cancelation option in fine print in a corner of the site. The "dark" part means that the average person usually doesn't notice the deceptive nature of the practices.
It seems to me to be mainly from people who are dedicated to the Unix philosophy that programs should do only one thing, and do it well. Tying everything up into systemd doesn't follow that. I don't care either, and I don't mind systemd, but some people care about it enough to throw paragraphs of hate on it wherever it's mentioned online. And apparently it's "bloat", and to some " bloat" is worse than the devil himself.
There were lots of things that impacted how the Saturn sold compared to the PS1. These include things such as its 2D vs 3D performance (it did 2D much better than 3D, which impacted the Japan vs Western sales since the Western market was all in on 3D whereas Japan still had an appetite for 2D games yet), its basis on squares vs triangles for rendering polygons (a major impact to that 3D performance), infighting between Sega of Japan vs Sega of America (the Saturn was developed in Japan to be Sega's launch into that generation, while the Genesis was still selling well in America, leading to Sega of America pushing the 32X instead, and Sega of Japan forcing their hand on Sega of America and pulling a surprise Western launch of the Saturn, angering devs and retailers who weren't ready, and leaving Sega of America holding the bag), and the cancelation of what was supposed to be that marquee Sonic game, Sonic X-treme.
I'm not an Nvidia user, but just sounds like an overall win to me. Good for the developer (getting paid for open source work), good for Nvidia (further support of open source software), good for Linux Nvidia users (more Dev time/effort into the driver will likely improve it greatly).
The previous times these types of issues have actually gone to court (Nintendo v. Tengen back in the '80s and Sony v. Bleem in the '90s) pretty much all ended in the same way: the emulator/bypass maker won the suit, but the copyright holder drowned them in so many legal costs they had to fold anyway. And these were larger companies with much more resources than any indie emulator dev can muster.
EDIT: also, it should be noted that Tengen and Bleem were able to win their cases specifically because their chip/software were complete reverse engineers and did not contain any Nintendo/Sony proprietary code. It's not to say that if an emulator like Yuzu that requires a cryptographic key from an actual console were to go to court that they wouldn't still win as long as that key is not provided, but it does give the console maker more leverage, and without a lot of resources, indie emulator devs would likely not want to take the chance.
If there is a game with PvP multiplayer, there will always be a cheating issue.
It's always the anti-cheat.
If anything, they are too afraid of litigation in any way. I know protecting your IP is important for running your business and controlling your brand, and I respect Nintendo's hands-off stance on any sort of outside issues and not wanting to be associated with anything that could damage it, but Nintendo's IP attorneys really need to learn to chill a bit. You have to get permission to stream the tournament for spectators and can't even use the game's name or logo in tournament publications? Really? You can hold a tournament but can't even tell other people what game it's for without permission?
That said, I would guess that the scandals/fiascos that hit the Smash Bros tournament scene a few years ago were the big impetus for this (on top of wanting $). As mentioned above, Nintendo is notorious for guarding its image and avoiding any sort of outside controversy whatsoever, to the point that they're even willing to kill off any kind of grassroots tourney scene to avoid it. Many of their execs still see Nintendo as a kids' toy company and run it as such.
Makes sense. IIRC there's games still being released for the last-gen Xbox and Sony consoles, or if there isn't they only stopped very recently, and the new consoles are a couple years old now. The 3DS still got games for about a year into the Switch's life. Supporting last-gen hardware for a while into the current gen is nothing new.
Well, no shit, that's what the rule is SUPPOSED to do! No more impossible-to-cancel subscriptions, please.