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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I remember right, Fan Fiction is a sort-of copyright grey area. The characters are owned by the original company, but the remaining working is owned by the fan. Neither side has full ownership, and technically, publishing or sharing it (without both side’s permission) is copyright infringement.

  Now, for use of existing intellectual property, the rules are the same. The difference is that anything generated by AI isn’t made by anyone, and thus can’t be owned. As such any IP owned by the company is owned by them, but anything unique from the AI is public domain.

• Could someone help me figure out how the activity stats on the sidebar are calculated?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Excluding email, nope. Seeing as no one else in my friend group uses Federated services, and they’re all still too small to have any niche content, there isn’t really anything for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pphysical copies are kinda besides the point in terms of ownership and preservation. Just because you own the disk, doesn’t mean you have access to the software on it. DRM, as well as the laws that make it viable, have been around since well before media was sold digitally. Physical copies of the Crew are no more playable now than digital. If you want to be able to keep your games, you need to buy DRM-free, whether that limits you to digital-only or not.

  On the other hand, if you want to actually own your games, we need to massively rework copyright law. The fact that a company can sell you a software licence, but add dozens of arbitrary restrictions on when, how and why you can use it is absurd, nonetheless the fact that its always non-transferable and revokable by the company for any reason. None of that should be legal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bears are predators evolved to hunt large game, primarily with brute force (unlike something like a big cat, which relies much more on ambushes).

  Gorrilas, as tough as they are, survive through intelligence. This means avoiding tough fights, and when absolutely needed, fighting as a troop rather than individualy.

  So bear. But…

  Does the Gorilla get time to prepare?

  The one advantage gorillas have is their intelligence. If both animals are given training, or tools, then I could see the gorilla potentially winning - mostly because a bear will struggle to get any use out of either, whereas a gorilla could be trained to fight much more effectively and possibly even make/use weapons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isolated as in only used by a specific region or culture. So in Weibo’s case, only in China with little connection to other countries. Another example would be 2Go, which was quite popular in Africa for years, but unlikely be to be known from anyone outside the region.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stuff like Weibo are what I was refering to when I was saying more isolated platforms. A lot of regions have their own smaller social media platforms dominated by one or two cultures. As for Instagram and Facebook, those two are largely world-wide but often (again, massive generalization) less ubiquitous compared to social media in the west.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Social media in general (as we think of it) is much more popular in western nations. Thats not to say those outside the west don’t use social media, but it tends to be much more dominated by group-chats (IE WhatsApp, Telegram) and by more isolated platforms or sections of platforms. Of the social media platforms we’ll be familiar with, it tends to be mostly just the most popular and established ones like Instagram, Facebook, and now Tiktok, rather than something still relatively niche and nerdy like Reddit (nonetheless Lemmy).

  All that said, again, this is a massive oversimplification talking broadly about trends. We’re talking about thousands of different cultures in entirely different countries and enviroments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The main thing is post more. Lack of content is the main reason people don’t use Lemmy more, and the only way to fix this is to share/produce more.

  Its a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I think even (transparent, community-relevant) bots are a good idea at this point, given that 99% of interests have little to no activity currently. For example, if we had bots that post game update changelogs to their relevant communities, it would at least provide a baseline amount of content and make it easier to discuss for fans of those games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do if you encounter a skunk?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re asking how to encouragd them to avoid you? Mostly, as you implied, you don’t want to suprise them. When you’re in the area, try and stay in the open, and if you can, make a bit of noise like whistling or that. They’ll naturally want to stay away where possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!" New Key Visual, PV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been reading the manga for this, and its incredibly stupid, but fun nonetheless. Kinda reminds me of Overlord, minus all the tension and edgyness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I a bad artist 😂?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If all your art looks like the single image provided, then the honest answer would be yes, unfortunately. That said, one image with minimal content isn’t much to go off, and as with any skill, this will change over time, esspecially with practice. Notably, this also looks like something dedicated to a loved one, so at that point intent matter more than artistic skill anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming has a polarization problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve heard, its mostly people expecting the game to be more dynamic - more akin to Skyrim’s varied gameplay systems or Fallout: NV’s story and quests. They’re going in expecting something with heavy RPG focus and getting something more action focused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a better way to search for/sort mechanical keyboards?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I’m mostly just trying to figure out what my options are. Trying to search Mechanical Keyboards dot com just burries me in results with no meaningful way to filter them. PcPartPicker is slightly better, but lacks most of the dedicated keyboard brands. The only site I’d found that offered through filters was Memoey Express, although their selection was also very limited. The other comment suggesting Keeb-Finder was pretty much exactly what I was looking for (although a lot of the results aren’t available in Canada, but its still far better).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a better way to search for/sort mechanical keyboards?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t expect to get my answer from a marketing spam bot (nontheless one that can’t even link the relevant website properly), but here we are. Keeb-Finder was what I was looking for.

• Is there a better way to search for/sort mechanical keyboards?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??,⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When you compare that to the amount of memory in video game consoles, they had to keep things simple and couldn’t afford to go fill professional digital audio.

  This was my point. The problem wasn’t digital verus analog. It was more that home computers couldn’t run something as complex as a game with resources that high-quality. Even 3D games following 1995 (since that was the start of at-home, 3D games) were running at low resolutions with low poly, low-res assets and lower quality sound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??,⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In 1995 CDs were already well-established and quickly becoming the standard. Dgital audio had already been around for decades, and the main distribution method was digital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  American cops are kinda average compared to the global stage. Most of Europe, for example, has much more restrained, much less incompetent cops. On the other hand, much of the world has cops much worse than the US. I have a family member who lived in one of the less stable African countries, who recounted the time a bunch of cops beat a child for “daring” to wear camo pants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??,⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a couple factors, but to oversimplify, games are just very complicated. If you had a high-end recording studio, you might have a high-end computer (for the time) to digitize recorded audio. You just need to basically record a microphone and be able to play it back, so its not too complicated anyway. In the same vein, for animation and CGI, a studio would have super high-end computers, and even then it would often take days for the computer to process a single high-quality image or much longer for animation.

  Compare that to games, where you need to generate an image in about one 30th of a second. At the same time, the game has to also play back sound, handle a bunch of extra input and logic for the game, and has to do it all on a computer that an average family can afford.

• Does anyone have any good introductory, Fediverse infographics I could share?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro: Friends of Jimbo (Pack 4) - Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. They’re just free, themed reskins. Nothing major, buts its extra free content for an already good game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between same brand or different brand different 5070Ti gpus? I mean prices vary quite significantly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically, the actual processor on the card is made by Nvidia and sold to card manufacturering companies like Asus, Zotac, ect. Those manufacturers will then build the rest of the graphics card around that processor. Most of the card will be very similar between manufacturers, as the processors require very specific card designs but some layout details, cooling, overclock specifics, and appearance can all be changed by the card manufacturer. As well as that, different manufacturers will have different design and quality standards, and different support systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally, its because people don’t know its an option, or how to do so. Like, even knowing its a good idea, I have no idea where I’d start looking to buy one and I’m fairly informed around tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For different game store, legally, what happens if they close?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for your thorough answer. That was my understanding from the research I was doing as well, but I am probably even less of a lawer and was hoping someone with more experience could check my work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For different game store, legally, what happens if they close?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As I said in the post, I understand the technical side. Its the legal aspect I’m asking about. For example, yes, you can freely download a reuseable launcher from GOG, but as its only granting you a licence to the game, that licence can’t be transfered (without GOG’s permission), resold, ect. and if the licence is revoked, continuing to use the launcher would be piracy. I’m asking what happens if any of these stores goes bankrupt legally. Would licences be revoked/invalidated, or how would that work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For different game store, legally, what happens if they close?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re buying a licence either way. Its not like you can resell your GOG games or anything. They say you will have three days to backup your installer, but what happens to the licenses in either case? If they end when GOG or Steam go under, legally, it doesn’t matter what DRM is used.

• For different game store, legally, what happens if they close?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Civilization 7 not fun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like the general consensus is that its not terrible, but is unfinished and not at all worth the price.

  If you’re looking to get into Civ, I’d probably recommend either five for a more complete, and polished game, or six for a weirder and more experimental game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m currently using a model M clone (thats like 40 years old) but the lack of N-key rollover is killer for even simple games.