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- Comment on Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini 1 day ago:
Which is worse: Bixby or Gemini?
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 day ago:
Yeah, he claims to understand 4Chan culture, but then post such a clickbait article that focuses 4Chan as the “violent, seething underbelly of the internet”. Oooo… spooky!
- Comment on Meta could take a $7 billion hit this year because of Trump's tough China tariffs 1 day ago:
It’s a pretty high gamble here, one that risk-adverse corpos normally don’t take. I don’t understand why they are going along with it.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 2 days ago:
Starfield? Try Fallout 76.
Hell, Fallout 4 was still not a great game, but at least it was functional and had a story. As soon as they announced that there was zero NPCs in Fallout 76, I knew that they COMPLETELY lost the plot, and the point of any of their previous RPGs.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 2 days ago:
$$$
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 2 days ago:
Wtf happened to bethesda
Todd
- Comment on Morpheus Actor Laurence Fishburne Reveals He Was Turned Down for The Matrix Resurrections — So He Might Not Be Back for Matrix 5 Either - IGN 2 days ago:
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 5 days ago:
That’s exactly my point. Reddit is still shit, and you can’t exactly fork the data, because they’ve locked down the API.
Bluesky could do the exact same thing.
- Comment on Give them some privacy 5 days ago:
Imagine getting sued by Nintendo because you said the word “Nintendon’t”.
- Comment on Give them some privacy 5 days ago:
Those pussies couldn’t even put out their tag line without having some legal blurb at the bottom.
Oh noes… my registered trademark!
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 5 days ago:
Bluesky is centralized but it seems like its design is committed enough to open technology that it would take them a long time to walk it back
Let’s not forget that Reddit’s code is open source. Just because their technology is open doesn’t mean that the data, usage, and network are protected.
- Comment on Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers 1 week ago:
It’s a common problem. People writing bot scrapers for public data, which costs a lot of bandwidth, when they could have easily just downloaded the entire dataset from a dedicated link. Finding better ways to tell them “Hey, morons, go download the goddamn link!” saves on that bandwidth and web server CPU.
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 1 week ago:
Wow, this “journalist” had no idea what games programming was like back then. Yars Revenge even used its own code to display the neutral zone. There were a lot of creative tricks like that to save on memory and CPU.
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 1 week ago:
Tanks!
Had a ton of fun with that one when I was a kid.
- Comment on Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I think you forget just how much money was dumped into Quibi.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 week ago:
This is just wrong. If you write a book, you own that book. Many people sell art.
If you want to publish a book, you have to contact a publisher, and they will acquire the rights to publish your book. If you want to publish an album, you have to give up your rights to the music publisher. You don’t really “own” your media at that point.
Also, compared to the number of artists out there, many people don’t sell art. A select few sell art, and the rest are broke.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 week ago:
Copyrights aren’t for you, or for that artist that writes a song, or paints a picture. They exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.
As such, I would like to extend this to ‘delete all copyright law’.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 week ago:
I’m not trying to frame this in the context of the lawsuit, even though that’s the point of the original article. The Crew’s nonfunctionality is just a consequence of our lack of ownership.
Perhaps this article would explain things better than I could.
- Comment on Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China 1 week ago:
I’m sure he dangled it, and then handed it over, like the traitor he is.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 weeks ago:
How are the two related?
A user obtains the game through legitimate means by “buying” the game. However, they do not own the game, and are in fact, just renting something. This is despite decades and decades of game buying, especially pre-Internet, equating to owning the game and being able to play the game forever, even 100 years from now.
By pirating the game, a user has clawed back the implied social construct that existed for decades past: Acquiring a game through piracy means that you own the game. You have it in a static form that cannot be taken away from you. There’s still the case of server shutdowns, like this legal case is arguing. But, unlike the “buyer”, the game cannot suddenly disappear from a game’s store or be forcefully uninstalled from your PC. You own it. You have the files. They cannot take that away from you.
The phrase essentially means: You have removed my means of owning software, therefore piracy is the only choice I have to own this game. It’s not stealing because it’s the only way to hold on to it forever.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 weeks ago:
I would relish a lawsuit against EULAs where the defendant somehow sends the prosecutor a EULA in a software package that declares that they automatically lose the lawsuit by clicking Agree.
It would really hammer in the point that fucking NOBODY reads this shit.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 weeks ago:
Goddammit… get the quote right:
If buying ain’t owning, piracy ain’t stealing.
- Comment on Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters? 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s a hack-and-slash Diablo clone. The whole point is quantity of enemies.
If you want Dark Souls, go make another game and call it something else. You can’t just make Starcraft, and then say that Starcraft 2 is going to be an FPS.
- Comment on Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, because getting so lost in the skill tree that you can easily gimp your character by clicking on the wrong node is exactly the direction they need to be push more towards.
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- Comment on Honey has now lost 4 million Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed 3 weeks ago:
Can’t see the contents of the post, because I assume it’s available to members only.
- Comment on Jacksepticeye Reveals He Was Working on an Unannounced Soma Animated Show but It Fell Apart 'Out of Nowhere' 3 weeks ago:
Look up Soma Transmissions. There was also a bunch of short stories about the game. The one about climbing the big orbital gun to the top really stuck with me.
And there was more characters than just the scary proxy things.
- Comment on Jacksepticeye Reveals He Was Working on an Unannounced Soma Animated Show but It Fell Apart 'Out of Nowhere' 3 weeks ago:
Soma is far far more than a horror game. The horror aspects are secondary to the transhumanist questions it raised every hour you were playing it.
- Comment on Terraria Hive Base 3 weeks ago:
Unepic wasn’t bad, but doesn’t hold a candle to Terraria. It’s still my favorite sandbox game.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 weeks ago:
That’s a shit take.
I swear everybody here is fucking black and white, with no room for nuance. This is how cults and echo chambers get started.
