Godot could switch to a paid service model tomorrow

Maybe, but Godot is MIT licensed. They could take the project closed-source, but they could not stop anyone from forking and continuing development off the code they have already released.

It would be great if they keep the project open, but taking the MariaDB approach is not a bad alternative.

Just looking at it from a historical perspective. Capitalism is not merely free trade or mercantilism, it's distinguished by the use of money to make money. That goes back to ancient times. But something clearly changed with the Industrial Revolution and the shift to city living, mass production, automation, railroads etc. It became possible to capitalize on a grand scale, and that was what sparked Marx and others to push back against the excesses.

But capitalism is not greed. American, capital C, Capitalism is. The ideology put forth to oppose Communism that mutated into a monster.

You've got it the wrong way round. Marx put forth communism to oppose greedy capitalism that had turned into a monster.

However if appropriate care isn't taken to keep the car on the road it will happily run itself into a tree, or another car, or a pedestrian, etc.

Are you speaking metaphorically? Or are you talking about Tesla?

The estimated speed at impact was more than 300 feet (100 meters) per second, said the company's chief technology officer, Ryo Ujiie.

Aha. There's your problem, right there.

I'd really like to see hundred year old plastic. Particularly since plastic wasn't produced until the 1950s.

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"I can make you ALL go away...any time I want to!"
  – Charlie X

They should have called it "The Wrath of Tron." ^_^

> The plural of anecdote is not data.

It is if you're measuring anecdotes per second!

Read How Star Wars Conquered the Universe - it tells all about it!

Not to mention Chewbacca, with his disgusting habit...spitting all the time...

I would argue that if it's not dystopian, it's not cyberpunk. :)

It's a modern film noir, which genre came up post-depression in a modern world where the rich and privileged were fleeing the inner cities for the suburbs and the country homes. The city was seen as crowded, polluted, decaying...inhabited by the dregs, the disadvantaged, the addicts.
The film noir detective had to be tough enough to penetrate this lurid environment to solve his case. "Off-world" in Blade Runner is a metaphor for the post-war suburban exodus.

Ok, sorry for the misunderstanding. Thanks for straightening that out!

As for where all the money went? Will you can bet Arnie got a huge check, the CGI must have cost a mint (just cause it looked shitty don't make it cheap) as damn near all the action scenes are just drenched in CGI

Huh? There was no CGI in T1 (with the possible exception of the infra-red "TermoVision" HUD). You ARE talking about the first movie (1984), right?

CGI stands for Computer-Generated Imagery. It doesn't mean any and all visual effects.