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- Comment on Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch 2 days ago:
I know it has to do with copyright issues and having to defend them. If someone else is selling “your product”, it enters a legal area most companies aren’t comfortable with. This is why in the past some very successful mods have been given licenses from the company themselves that allow the mod team to operate as a sort of “independent contractor”.
- Comment on Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch 2 days ago:
True, but the ones who don’t sell tend to exist for longer. The ones that do sell ALWAYS go down.
- Comment on Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch 3 days ago:
Yup. And then people point to those mods as proof you can charge for your mod and act Pikachu surprised when someone actually does something about it.
- Comment on Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch 3 days ago:
Problem was he sold it. Can’t profit off a mod because it’s technically profiting off someone else’s work. Not defending it, but it’s well known in the modding scene that you don’t do exactly that or this predicably happens.
Basic rules are simple: don’t announce you’re working on it, just release it. Can’t remove the files from the Internet once they’re there. If you announce too early, you give them time to shut it down before release.
And never, EVER, try to profit from it. You run into all kinds of issues, even just using the games name.
This isn’t legal advice so much as “if you want to mod and actually have it see the light of day, follow these guidelines or you’re pretty much guaranteed to get screwed”.
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 4 days ago:
The article in the post you brain dead moron
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 4 days ago:
That’s literally any device. Goes all the way back to things like people setting up routers and not changing the default password so anyone else can get in. That’s just user error plain and simple.
- Comment on Are there cannabis CPAP machines? 4 days ago:
Is there a way to add something that makes it harder to breath into a device designed to keep you breathing? What could go wrong…
You’re the kind of person who would try to light a cigarette while on oxygen.
- Comment on Is there no instution or person that Trump go after? Or we are all just screwed? 6 days ago:
I know this is “no stupid questions”, but for the love of God, could you try to at least type it coherently? It reads like you were having a stroke while typing that or trying to mimic Kevin’s “why use many word when few do good?” Have some self respect, sheesh. I feel like there’s no point in explaining anything to you because you wouldn’t get it anyways.
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 6 days ago:
Too bad there’s not an article that answers all of these things in the first paragraph.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
So I had the weird issue that none of my shortcuts were showing the proper icon, instead showing the blank piece of paper placeholder(even in the taskbar). Was digging through some other settings for something and found a bunch of one drive settings left on. Turned them all off and suddenly my icons are back to normal. Not sure if it was trying to access the files in the cloud instead of locally and wasn’t loading them properly or what. Either way, One Drive absolutely fucks a lot of random things up
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 weeks ago:
Frankly it doesn’t matter because if you’re close enough to need anti radiation meds, the lack of food, water, power, and shelter will be a much more pressing issue. The gist of my comment was supposed to be “go buy these pills for peace of mind because that’s about the only ‘preperation’ you can do for nuclear war. Really you should just relax and live your life”.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 2 weeks ago:
Why, because I can read? 😂
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 2 weeks ago:
It has both tags listed on the store page, both in the tags and in the game description. OP just can’t read or didn’t bother to look.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 2 weeks ago:
You were saying?
It’s clear you didn’t actually read the page, or check reviews, or check any of the communities, or do any basic research before buying the game. Your “complaints” can be summed up as “uninformed consumer”.
If this were a review on Steam I’d mark is as unhelpful and give it the 🤡 award.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 weeks ago:
Buy potassium iodide tablets. If it happens and it’s too close, you won’t even know. If it isn’t too close, take the pills and become a wasteland raider.
Otherwise just live your life because nothing you do really matters concerning nuclear war. That’s like worrying about an asteroid impact.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
No, I said nuance is important. That’s why I don’t think the devs are villains. But logically you can’t get a “no AI” award if you used AI. It’s be like entering a handknitted blanket contest and using a machine to start the first row. It’s not “100% handmade” anymore.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
Exactly this. I’m not making a moral judgement, just a logical one. They used AI, thus don’t qualify. Feel free to debate whether that award should be that way, but that’s how it is right now.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
Except that they used the placeholder AI textures so that they would have a functional build to test on. They didn’t just try it and decide it didn’t work. They literally used it produce part of the rough draft and even shipped the game with some of those placeholder textures accidentally still in there. It was actively used in this instance to “do work”.
It wasn’t “well let me see what this looks like… No that’s all wrong… Nevermind”. It was “well let’s get this AI to make some placeholders so we can continue working on this and we’ll slap the real textures in later”. Literally removing work from a human, which is the complaint of anti-AI people. Funny enough, I’m pro-AI and even I’m agreeing with the anti-AI people here. You want a “no AI was used” award? Then don’t ever use AI. Simple.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 4 weeks ago:
I wish we treated corporate crimes as personal crimes committed by the CEO. If they want the cover of personhood, then they get everything that comes with that. See how fast they want to return to being corporations. As it is now, they get the best of both worlds as it suits them.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 4 weeks ago:
I hate that so much. Being “people” they can essentially “out-compete” actual people in the political process. It’s very much “anything you can do I can do better”. That’s why any solution has to target them directly.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 4 weeks ago:
ok apparently we do in fact tax tools. And I can see how AI, being on the cloud, might not normally fall under computer equipment or other things that would be taxed, this needing it to be specifically included in tax law. Fuck me on that one.
I’ll give you that.
BUT
I still stand by this being a bandaid to a much larger problem concerning capitalists exploiting the labor of many and not being required to give everyone fair pay/equity. The inequality between the workforce and the ownership class is the problem. Them using AI is just their current tool of oppression, but not their only.
We need to address the root cause and directly tax the billionaires. And remove stock backed loans or at least realize their gains and tax them whenever they do use them as collateral for a loan. Shouldnt be able to claim unrealized gains and use it for collateral at the same time.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 4 weeks ago:
This is a moronic take. Do we also tax tools when they make a 4 person job a 1/2 person job? This is just an ass backwards way of approaching the wealth inequality and poor working conditions issues by focusing on a tool instead of the system itself.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 5 weeks ago:
And it all comes full circle
(For those who don’t know, Imgur was invented by a user on reddit sick of the other image hosting sites until it eventually became what it was meant to replace)
- Comment on [The New Republic] Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment: Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor to file criminal charges. 1 month ago:
Honestly, I care a dick load more about Myanmar and enabling genocide than “but think of the children!”. That’s one of the laziest and most misued calls to action and at this point, I honestly dgaf when I hear it. It’s just propaganda at this point.
Don’t be so quick to stereotype us. You’re insulting those of use who do pay attention.
- Comment on Scheduling is hard 1 month ago:
Just so you know, this is often referred to as the “Bus Factor”, aka “how many employees would need to get hit by a bus for us to suffer a catastrophic loss of knowledge/manpower?” Way too many places have a bus factor of 1, meaning if that single employee isn’t available for whatever reason, everything around them grinds to a halt. You usually want that number to be BIG as often as possible.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 month ago:
I run a cheaper Bee-Link mini PC for mine with an attached hard drive array. They really don’t need much power. Storage is your biggest issue(I’m up to ~40TB)
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 month ago:
Mine runs on a mini PC(NUC) hooked up to a hard drive array for the storage. So it’s basically a tiny PC and another box full of hard drives(not required, but you’ll need space somehow…). Pc was around $250.
Very easy and you don’t need to set up an actual “server rack”. Hell, you can use an old laptop.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 months ago:
For me is suffered from “show, don’t tell” problems. There are numerous weeks long skips between scenes and you’re just supposed to understand that Joel and Ellie became close during that time. But as a player, you’re basically being asked to babysit someone you’ve known for 10 minutes. It was basically one long escort mission and the “OMG SO AMAZING SCENE” is… giraffes walking by. Like really? That’s what it takes to wow people? Some giraffes walking outside the building???
The world was a generic apocalypse setting, the “story” can be described in a few bullet points, and the big “emotional gut punch” at the end is so cliche.
I’ll die on the hill that it didn’t do a single groundbreaking thing. Nothing about the game wasn’t already done before and better. It’s the equivalent of a summer blockbuster movie: a fun mindless take on an idea but otherwise generic.
- Comment on bet you can think of more 4 months ago:
Main backups are only done a few times a year. I just grabbed this years and last years for now. I would suggest multiple versions just so you can potentially cross reference and see what changed between updates. For example, what was removed can be just as informative as what was added.
- Comment on Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription 5 months ago:
And I think you’re sucking corporate dick calling it a tune in the first place. So I guess we disagree. Is BMVs heated seats subscription a tune too?
