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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • For anyone unfamiliar, it’s punning on math having its own definition of “countable”, meaning able to be put into a one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers (positive integers).

    The real numbers, as a set, are not countable in that context (Cantor’s diagonal argument is a famous and rather elegant proof), even though they are countable in the sense that grammar rules refer to.


  • I tend to agree. They say it’s specifically for the game preservation stuff, and maybe that’s true. Most companies would create a separate non-profit with its own funding separate for such a thing (not that all those are necessarily great either). I like what GOG does in general and I think it’s important they’re there, but I don’t have any intention of donating to a for-profit business based on the claims that they’ll only do game preservation work with the funds.

    I’m not spending an era reading through all the terms & conditions, but at a quick glance I can’t see anything in the legalese about what they can/can’t use GOG Patrons funding for, so it seems like it’s just paying the company monthly for a few extra perks and hoping they’ll use that cash for something positive.