Katana314

@Katana314@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If something that would normally be copyrightable is leaked, then the only people who have legal rights to that work are still the original owners. Anyone taking/sharing it is breaching copyright.

  Different case for something someone recorded/created themselves, ex recording police abuse on their phone.

  I know some people have a misguided view of “But you didn’t register copyright, it’s not copyrighted”. That’s the opposite of how it works. Rights are granted at time of creation; copyright is a “granted” right as part of sale/viewing managing how something can be shared.

  Otherwise, a photographer that takes a picture of a rare Snipe can have that photo “legally” stolen before they make it to a lawyer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo lawyers want to force Discord to reveal Pokémon Teraleak source⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I tend to use these platforms without feeling I’m “committed”. I’ve abandoned things like Reddit before, and can likely do so again.

  But I can see with the organization levels of channels that others are not thinking the same way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OG Guild Wars sees an all-new Steam concurrency high during its anniversary celebration | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think every few years I’m reminded this game exists, and go in to try to check it out - and I still have some account issue where my email is in use but it also won’t send a reset code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Mario on Switch 2? ‘Stay tuned,’ says Nintendo of America president⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mario!? Who would have thought Nintendo would revive one of their oldest properties?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When that’s characters, I just accept it. Like, “Oh, I guess I don’t get to try out this character? I’ll level up others instead and see how well I can do.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD’s Lisa Su Breaks Silence on US Chips, TSMC Hikes Pricing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m undoubtedly kind of frustrated about this “proving tariffs right” - but it remains to be shown whether this works. Very likely, even if/when they achieve scale, prices won’t come down for a very long time.

  And it skips over the fact that there were so many ways to achieve this end without causing so much harm to so many industries that can’t do the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I play a gacha game and have spent $0 on it. But I can imagine that sort of psychological insulation is not quite so common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Two hours is the length of some high-budget media; eg, movies and plays.

  I know that some games are slow-burn, but that’s something people have to weigh themselves. Ideally, you’d enjoy the slow burn itself. When I tried to “force myself through to the Good Part of Nier Automata”, I ended up hating the whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the tariff position, I’m curious if this will be the first time Nintendo decides to eat the loss on console hardware sales; something usually only other console makers have done.

  Perhaps they think Trump will be on his way out. Or they’re eating into their cash reserves to prevent discussion of their consoles from getting political.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a cancelled game you really miss?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing though; it has most definitely entered Duke Nukem Forever / No Man’s Sky levels of development hell wherein the result will never be satisfying. The best we can hope for is a Halo Infinite result where it’s “kinda fun” but inevitably comes nowhere near the hype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is this has been the price of thousands of gaming communities enacting a “No politics” rule - people want to keep it external.

  “This fucking piece of actual trash! He’s using the most broken character this game has ever put out, and trash talking over it like he’s ever fucked a woman. Literally eat a dick. What do you think, chat?…Oh. Holy shit. Sorry, I just saw some stuff about Trump, listen, I’m sorry, but we don’t talk politics here. It can get really toxic.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a cancelled game you really miss?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Beyond Good and Evil 2.

  I’m not even mad that we didn’t get the multiplanetary open world new-tech live-experience cooperative second coming. I’m mad we didn’t even get a simple, short singleplayer experience living off of the charm of the first one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have heard that Obama supports breathing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In future history books: “…But the biggest exodus from the United States was after it was announced the Switch 2 would cost $1000 exclusively there.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Xbox once did have a version of Internet Explorer on it, I remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its supporters claim that in some ways it’s meant to make development easier; that it simplifies many lighting tricks devs handle manually.

  I don’t necessarily think it’s a strong enough point since it’s often throwing hardware at a creativity/effort problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “We are also pleased to announce that, next year, we will be adding support for Gamecube games other than Super Smash Bros. Melee.” /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games Media Can't Ignore BDS Xbox Boycott.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I regret to be taking no action on this - because I already started my boycott of Xbox back when they fired Tango Gameworks.

  You had ONE Game of the Year, all year, Microsoft!

  But uh…yeah, funding genocide is also extremely bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Although we still number consoles, in a lot of ways we did get our “tiered” console structure.

  Take most people’s daily plays, and I’d say about 90% of them or more have an edition available on the prior gen console. And it makes sense when so many of those games have relatively basic graphics - and when game engines have gotten better at scalability.

  So, those consoles are neatly serving as a low budget option for a lot of gamers that can’t follow all the latest and most expensive games. Yes, some newer releases will be fully excluded; but even then, getting a brand new or used Switch or PS4 can introduce someone to a huge number of games if they haven’t been exploring options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should we boycott games with loot boxes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think your voice could actually be better than your wallet on this.

  For one, these games are free. So, are you harming the world by playing them and just not buying loot boxes? Minimally, at best. I also advise people enacting boycotts to represent vocal action around them. For instance, I called Target directly about my boycott when they ended DEI hiring.

  You can also help lobby politicians to make clear how you feel on the issue. That can put a lot more panic on publishers. Politicians don’t have a strong reason to defend them - often it only gets ignored because they don’t think voters find it a significant issue. Even if you don’t get a federal ban, sometimes you can get state laws like limiting physical advertising; which can also sometimes spread to other states.

  Basically, boycotting as a form of inaction, especially when it makes your days boring, isn’t necessarily an effective approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panic! on the trade floor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You talked about needing consequences so that people make more informed decisions. I was trying to illustrate to you how the current path of consequences is built to dismantle informed decisions.

  There are millions of Americans being asked “Regretting your choices yet???” and answering “wdym? Everything is fine. You read too much of the news.”

  So if your motivation for accelerationism is spite and anger, nothing to criticize. But if you’re in favor of the harm caused because you think it will lead to people changing their minds anytime soon, you are grossly misreading the current path.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panic! on the trade floor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s where you messed up. The current administration of chaos is extremely efficient at putting the horrors outside of people’s direct vision. Comparatively, very few people are going to arrive home to find their neighbor on fire and feel compelled to act.

  Better social safety nets and better education can put people in stable enough circumstances they can become socially aware of problems beyond themselves. By that point they don’t even need to be pushed into it. And Democrats - not all of them but plenty of them - have championed those policies. But they’ve been thoroughly crushed now by “both sides” mentality because they don’t have a violent expulsion reaction to being crushed by accelerationism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tip: The price comes down If Trump gets impeached.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my frustrations is, if I want to try some dozen games on Itch.io, they all come down as EXEs and it’s not clear how I could quickly set them up for Proton. I understand the 20-clicks method of setting up one game off of Steam, and Lutris helps with well-known launchers like Ubi Connect. But for independent authors, needing to do setup for every EXE is a heavy dealbreaker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole thing has erupted on my radar in the past month ever since they abducted the girl from Tufts.

  HOW does this genocidal state have such an insane stranglehold on our country?

  Now I’m getting YouTube ads to demonize Hamas; apparently their effort to “pull people back” and get people sympathetic for October 7 hostages. I AM sympathetic to the hostages!…So why is Israel bombing them??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quite a Ride: Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Between trains and large ships, I love the feeling of operating large vehicles with multiple rooms. Bonus points if one large vehicle can carry a smaller vehicle.

  Examples: Sea of Thieves, Subnautica, many JRPGs with airships, even something like The Last Express.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really want a better formalized framework for argument/discussion of a topic that either participant can feel safe in. Currently, we have courtrooms, our old schools have Debate Clubs, but I’d want something far easier to pick up on that allows for time to research/validate discussion points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know of that site, but in many ways I can’t stomach following trial-and-error debugging steps to try to get a perfect experience. Very rarely has it been one command line option and then the game runs as perfectly as Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug Dealer Simulator publisher launches an investigation against Schedule 1 creator. The game is supposedly “violating company’s IP”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if they find actual artwork, audio, or code stolen, much of which goes into UI development, that would definitely make for a fair case. I’d presume that Schedule 1 devs would never do something so stupid though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The game pricing argument goes back and forth for me. Yes, on paper, you could say that inflation suggests games should go up in price, especially considering how many more developers are needed to put out high-fidelity games. BUT, on the other hand, the minimum wage has not raised significantly in all of that time. As a result, a significant number of gamers genuinely can’t pay more for games than they could 20+ years ago. The reason these larger studios exist is because of gaming’s expanded reach in that time; and many of these new target territories similarly can’t pay for the equivalent of $80USD.

  There’s maybe only about 1-2 games I’ve ever even paid the $70 price tag for.