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- Comment on One of the big dangers of getting romantically involved with AI is the cost 22 hours ago:
I think we already have a term for leasing a girlfriend…
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 22 hours ago:
I also don’t like how things are legally speaking with DMCA, but the main takeaway is - the creation and distribution of an emulator, without DRM protections, is unequivocally protected and legal. ROM backup is certainly in most cases not, but if you are making your own copies for your own use, even while illegally breaking encryption, it would be difficult to prove and prosecute on an individual basis.
The right we must continually remind people is NOT even REMOTELY in question is the right to create and distribute emulators. This is by far the more important one, because people cannot reasonably develop their own emulators - it requires an open, collaborative community to ensure future preservation, and it’s a constant battle to keep people from actively trying to cede this right because they have nebulous loyalties to soulless companies that return no such feelings.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 23 hours ago:
Not to be a stickler, but this does not make copying illegal - it makes circumvention of drm methods illegal. You can make drm’d copies as you like as long as you don’t circumvent the drm method. If your game isn’t encrypted, and the emulator doesn’t implement the drm, you haven’t circumvented drm - you are playing your legal copy on a device that does not implement the drm. It’s distinct from removing the drm from a device that implements it.
- Comment on One of the big dangers of getting romantically involved with AI is the cost 1 day ago:
I hope everyone learns the lesson from the Japanese dude who married his hologram just to watch her die when the service was shut down…
If your girlfriend isn’t running on your air-gapped hardware offline, she’s not your girlfriend.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 1 day ago:
Copying your own game and materials for backup purposes is no grey area, and neither is development or use of emulators, and panicky, uninformed spewing of gut feelings are how public knowledge of your actual rights gets muddled into people with zero knowledge waxing poetic about how they THINK it works because they like games and think that makes their ramblings valuable.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 1 day ago:
Absolutely. I want to skim the important parts at my own pace. Not dedicate multiple minutes of attention to a video.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 1 day ago:
Now do Half-life 3.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 3 days ago:
In this case you happen to be right on both counts.
- Comment on Too wordy a shitpost? 4 days ago:
Not wordy enough
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 4 days ago:
Separating the message from the messenger is a key skill. A right answer doesn’t become wrong because it comes from a jerk.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 7 months ago:
But first he will accidentally the whole thing.
- Comment on Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC 7 months ago:
Yeah. Valve invented most of the attention direction techniques for Half-life (light, motion, etc, etc.) Trailblazers.
- Comment on Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC 8 months ago:
“Let’s give them lots of player freedom this time!”
Play testers continually don’t look at a set piece vista the developers and artists spent 400 hours creating.
“Well, that’s enough of that. Back to the rails.”
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 8 months ago:
“Your honor, rather than pay his outstanding debts, this shiftless f***wit used 75 million dollars to fund a SuperPAC to bother people at their homes in for the benefit of the Trump campaign.”
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 8 months ago:
Not the original, but…
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 8 months ago:
- Comment on North Korea blows up roads connecting it to the South 8 months ago:
But… what will happen to all the bustling cross-border traffic??
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Make no mistake… those people are clowns too.
