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

Stealing is smart

Laws are words written on a piece of paper (or digital documents). They cannot enforce themselves. They are not magical. They will not protect you.

GIGO

There’s no way HL is over 20 years old, right?!?!

The company will change providers the following year

It’s easier that way

I would have at least tried to ram the hotel doors before killing myself and setting everything off. Even with the limited blast, it would have done more damage in an enclosed space.

The whole thing is confusing

It’s very easy to overflow

I wish they were more filling

It wouldn’t have been the first time.

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/12/31/cybertruck-catches-fire-dekalb-county-tesla-dealership/

The factory floor. Stop wasting time going to the bathroom

I truly believe WW3 has already begun. The big question is what side the US will end up on.