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vodka, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

Can’t wait for him to see this and claim it was his plan the entire time

lemmy12369,

Only way to get around it…

Nilz,

So that’s why he worked at Blizzard for 7 years and keeps bringing it up.

DogWater,

Full ambercrombie & Fitch mode

reddeadhead, do gaming w New to Linux – Need Help Installing Tekken 7 or Tekken 3 on Fedora KDE (Step-by-Step Guidance Needed)

For tekken 7 if you bought the game through steam there shouldn’t be anything technical needed. Just hit install and launch it through steam should work. You might need to look up how to enable proton if its not enabled by default. I thought they were starting to do that. I’m not sure if you meet the minimum GPU requirements but you should be able to refund if not. For tekken 3 I don’t see a PC port, Your best bet would be setting up a PS1 emulator like duckstation.

Muji1414,
@Muji1414@lemmy.world avatar

Can let me know for tekken 3, that can work well and i will setup and install what ever needed. Kindly let me know in detailes

reddeadhead, (edited )

Okay, Here’s step by step setup.

  1. Go to duckstations github page and grab the latest DuckStation-x64.AppImage github.com/stenzek/duckstation/releases/…/latest
  2. Get the ps1 bios files, They can be found here psbios.gitlab.io/bios/ps1-bios/It will be in a .zip you will need to extract it afterwards you will have a lot of .bin files.
  3. Get your tekken 3 ROM file, It will usually be in a .rar or .7z so you will need to extract the ISO.
  4. Next you will need to launch duckstation, I’m not sure if your DE will prompt you to mark the appimage executable but if not open a terminal and run " cd Downloads ; chmod +x DuckStation-x64.AppImage " then it should open the installer when you double click it.
  5. During installation you will be asked for a BIOS directory, Click on the PSX folder containing all those .bin files. After that it will ask for game directory, Choose the folder where you placed the .iso for tekken 3.

Beyond that you will need to setup your controller, Any USB controller should work. Graphics settings should be okay at the defaults. That should be the full setup process, Let me know if you got any questions or need more explanation.

Edit: Forgot about .bin/.cue files, These are the same as a .iso but split into multiple files. Make sure to keep them together but it should work the same in duckstation.

krimson, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳
@krimson@lemmy.world avatar

I watch this dude sometimes, he says he’s a fulltime game dev but all I see him do is play other games. The game he works on has seen very little progress.

Would be nice if he at least admits he’s a streamer and not a game dev.

Lemminary,

I’ve also noticed this from watching his stream and the more I learn about the guy the less I like him. He seems to misrepresent and oversell himself quite a bit.

Btw did he tell you about the time he worked at Blizzard, for the millionth time?

JoYo,
@JoYo@lemmy.ml avatar

The job he got through nepotism?

echodot,

He worked at Blizzard in the same way that Apple store employees work for Apple. They do, but not in the capacity that’s been implied.

whats_all_this_then,

Are Apple devs even contractually allowed to say that they’re Apple devs? I swear every employee from every other company won’t shut up about it on twitter but you never hear a thing from Apple people. Have I just been missing them completely?

echodot,

I know a few people who used to work for Apple. The reason a lot don’t say it though is because if you do people automatically assume you had something to do with whatever feature they don’t personally like, and you get berated about it.

whats_all_this_then,

Ah, that’s completely understandable. Most people don’t realize that in a lot of companies, the decision to make the stupid feature/break your workflow comes from a suit 10 pay grades above your level and despite everyone involved trying to explain that it’s a bad idea.

Also it’s a big fucking company haha

e8d79,
@e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Sounds an awful lot like what YandereDev did when he was still relevant.

burgerpocalyse,

yanderedev is always relevant

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

One of the best cautionary tales for developers

DreamlandLividity,

No joke, YandereDev has been making more progress than Thor on Hartbound and he at least does not pretend to be experienced Blizzard game developer.

frenchfryenjoyer,
@frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world avatar

I remember seeing gameplay of Heartbound in like 2017? maybe earlier. it’s still not finished?

chronicledmonocle,

No it’s not. It’s sad.

MITM0, (edited )
@MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

I mean isn’t it a Deltarune ripoff ??

EDIT: Undertale it is then

dustyData,

Deltarune didn’t exist yet. It’s an undertale ripoff.

Which is very telling, tobyfox released a whole game on his own. While this " I worked at blizzard, BTW" tool hasn’t with an (allegedly) entire company around him. He’s a grifter, he scams people around him to profit off of other’s work. That’s all he does.

chronicledmonocle,

Given that it didn’t exist yet, more like an Undertale rip off

underscores,

“game dev” is a way to put it

Randomgal,

Yeah but did you know he worked at Blizzard?

kadaverin0,

He’s been working on that game for almost a decade now, too.

mariusafa, do games w Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker'

The real GOATs. See y’all on rin!

atrielienz, (edited ) do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

For those who don’t know, this streamer is only tangentially related to the stop killing games petition because he made a comment about it being BS because he misinterpreted what it was supposed to do. He used his misinterpretation to spread false information about this petition leading to it not getting the support it initially should have.

When the guy behind the petition made a statement saying he didn’t think the petition was going to get enough signatures in part because of the misinformation being spread about it, PirateSoftware doubled down on his false claims and all of this lead to people doing the research they should have done in the first place and deciding to support the petition after all.

What we should probably be learning from this is that we should do our own research, and find out things instead of taking the word of random people online.

Edit: electric has brought to my attention that it wasn’t just one clip, but in fact a whole video dedicated to spreading misinformation that was made by Thor from PirateSoftware. Just wanted to be clear about that.

electric,

A comment? Am I misreading your comment or is this just ignorance of the situation? Because PirateSoftware made a whole ass video on the subject way back (the one allegedly rife with misinformation). I remember it on my feed when the campaign was getting traction, but didn’t watch it because my view of him was souring.

From what clips I’ve seen*, PirateSoftware misinterprets the majority of what he addressed. Either maliciously or unknowingly, which is why he was blamed for tanking momentum since that video did get a ton of views (before people wised up to him being a total cunt).

*Yes I know the irony of what I just said there after reading your last paragraph. I believe these terminally online streamers because I would not put it past PirateSoftware to be this awful after watching his videos for a small period and then the subsequent controversies coming out.

atrielienz,

He may well have done but the only clip I have seen is the one where someone asks about it while he’s streaming games and he responded to that person with misinformation.

electric,

Ah. Makes sense. I caught a stream once and he pretty much just did discussions with the chat. A lot of his videos were just cuts from his streams when someone asked.

dustyData,

“Not only I’m not gonna support it, I gonna actively tell people to not support it. Because this is stupid. This is shit. Eat my ass.”

— Thor “PirateSoftware” Hall, on the Stop Killing Games proposal.

atrielienz,

Yes. That clip.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Multiple videos.

He made multiple videos.

echodot,

I think a lot of people didn’t hear about this guy until about 2 days ago. Personally I didn’t even know about this petition.

I knew about the lawsuit against The Crew, but I didn’t know anything about any more general petition, so I think the greater problem was simply a lack of advertising.

Kolanaki, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

I hate having to hear his obnoxious voice because my sister watches him all the fuckin’ time.

electric,

My condolences. I don’t even dislike the voice, his attitude just makes him so punchable. You think he’s some kind of expert at first but then it dawns on you that he’s just confidently stupid.

dustyData,

His obnoxious voice is fake, just as him. There are videos of him outside the streaming. His voice is artificially lowered for streams and videos. He’s all fake.

Randomgal,

I’ve seen the video. Fuck PirateSotware but it’s just a bad mic in they video. All audio is distorted.

RealFknNito, do games w The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures
@RealFknNito@lemmy.world avatar

I can’t wait for this to effectively do nothing oe alternatively kill games that have an online only capability that refuse to devote work to force a single player model/release their netcode.

This is the stupidest, well intentioned movement I’ve seen in awhile and the fervor behind it is a waste. You know what you want but refuse to understand why it can’t happen. You chase the past not realizing you can never go back.

This is most republican shit I’ve ever seen. “Make games great again!” Jesus.

Asetru,

No need to be so salty. Maybe instead just read what skg really is about because you obviously have misunderstood it completely.

RealFknNito,
@RealFknNito@lemmy.world avatar

People are sitting on PS for giving a completely correct take. I’ve read SKG and even listened to what the petition owners have said. I’ve stayed in the loop which is why it’s so frustrating to watch people with noble intentions cannibalize people for telling you it’s not only misguided but impossible.

Legislation will not compel a dying company to release code that will let any random person breathe life back into it on their own whim. Period.

Asetru,

Legislation will not compel a dying company to release code

Well I guess then it’s a good thing that the petition doesn’t demand that.

RealFknNito,
@RealFknNito@lemmy.world avatar

Upon reading the UK version over again you’re right - it’s even worse. It states that companies no longer be allowed to ‘disable’ games which they often don’t do. They just stop maintaining them until the infrastructure for it disappears.

I expected at the very least gamers would have understood the problem they’re complaining about but I got ahead of myself. The only thing SKG might accomplish legally is to allow third parties to host servers at End of Life but the counter argument to that is cheaters using their own servers.

None of this is thought out. You’re demanding a solution be created AND implemented. This will go nowhere. Pirate Software was right and it’s stunning.

Asetru,

Upon reading the UK version over again you’re right

:)

it’s even worse.

sigh

Why?

It states that companies no longer be allowed to ‘disable’ games which they often don’t do. They just stop maintaining them until the infrastructure for it disappears.

You’re close. Maybe read it again. Or something. I don’t know.

RealFknNito,
@RealFknNito@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe instead of being the condescending dickhead you and yours project onto Pirate Software, you could instead point out specifics since you’re advocating for it. I’m confident you can’t though since I’m sure you haven’t read shit, just listened to people slobber all over it.

Asetru,

Maybe we wouldn’t have to be such condescending dickheads if you cared to not make up stuff.

the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher.

That’s the core idea. Publishers should just make sure that after they milked their product it can somehow be run without their interference.

That doesn’t require sources. In fact, this doesn’t even state any method that is preferred. Could they release sources? Sure. They could also release server binaries. They could also patch out the connection to their servers and only leave people with local multiplayer mode or something. They could do whatever. The initiative doesn’t care.

The practice of licensing a product indefinitely but then just disabling it remotely is hostile to consumers. If they really, really want to keep their business model, they should sell licenses that are limited to a certain timeframe right from the start. Selling perpetual licenses and then disabling them without leaving consumers with any means to still access what they paid for shouldn’t be legal and probably isn’t.

Also this right here:

The initiative does not seek to acquire ownership of said videogames, associated intellectual rights or monetization rights, neither does it expect the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state.

Nobody wants your ip. Just don’t break stuff you sold.

RealFknNito,
@RealFknNito@lemmy.world avatar

“The initiative doesn’t care”

Right. There is no clear solution to the problem, only a demand for a solution.

“They could release sources/server binaries”

At what point? When is a game legally considered dead and a company legally obligated to provide that? What happens if they just shut down prior to fulfilling it?

“They could patch out their servers and leave local multiplayer or something

Or something? This is what PS drilled into this initiative for. You don’t actually grasp what you’re asking for or understand what legal measures even exist to enforce them. You have a deep desire to go back to the early 2000s where your data wasn’t really hosted on servers, it was just arena shooter and LAN parties.

Games today are not able to curtail to these absurd demands. Not because they refuse to but because the complexity of what they offer is not easily designed to be replaced.

You don’t like the current model but fail to provide an alternative that can replace it. That’s the critique. It’s beyond childish to look at a problem, offer nothing, then get pissed when someone tells you that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

I don’t like that I only own a license to play a game either, but what’s the alternative? If you own the game, they can’t release a patch to fix bugs or it would be a violation of the law for modifying your property. That’s bad.

Asetru,

Right. There is no clear solution to the problem, only a demand for a solution.

Yes. Because that’s how laws work.

At what point? When is a game legally considered dead and a company legally obligated to provide that? What happens if they just shut down prior to fulfilling it?

At the point at which they stop providing that service themselves. “What happens if they don’t?” Yeah duh, what happens if you break a law? Then courts can enforce it. Is this the first time you heard about laws?

You don’t actually grasp what you’re asking for or understand what legal measures even exist to enforce them.

I understand it just well. You telling me I don’t doesn’t change that.

Games today are not able to curtail to these absurd demands. Not because they refuse to but because the complexity of what they offer is not easily designed to be replaced.

Bullshit. Also, as I said, they could just release their shitty server once they shut it down. You’re taking one solution that doesn’t require them to do that that I suggested, assume that games are just too complex for that specific solution and tell me that this assumption (which is also debatable at best) invalidates the idea of playing a game locally. What nonsense.

You don’t like the current model but fail to provide an alternative that can replace it. That’s the critique. It’s beyond childish to look at a problem, offer nothing, then get pissed when someone tells you that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

I provided plenty of alternatives. If publishers or you don’t like it, fine, then come up with your own. Again, laws work like that: they provide guardrails. The idea that people should be able to keep using what they bought has been the core of trade for millenia but suddenly it’s insane to ask for that? What nonsense. Gog sells plenty of current ones without drm, so somehow it is still possible to compile games without attaching a shitty service model. But even if there’s a some shitty game that the publisher absolutely doesn’t want to release after they already milked it beyond profitability (what you say would be impossible, which I still think is bullshit), according to this initiative they could just stop selling perpetual licenses. At least people then know what they’re getting into.

you own the game, they can’t release a patch to fix bugs or it would be a violation of the law for modifying your property. That’s bad.

What the fuck? No! Nobody wants a law that prohibits changing games. Games have been patched since forever. Where did you get that idea? You keep coming up with nonsense that has nothing to do with initiative. Just because a company can’t shut down my car remotely doesn’t mean they can’t repair it! How do you come up with that crap?

RealFknNito,
@RealFknNito@lemmy.world avatar

“Yes that’s how laws work”

No. That’s not how laws work. Laws provide detailed steps and instructions that must be followed in specific scenarios. They’re designed like that to avoid loopholes.

“At the point they stop providing service”

Great. So the company shuts down the same day, declares bankruptcy, and is immune to further legislation because it’s dead. You can’t sue the company, it doesn’t exist anymore. Is this the first time you’ve tried to hold a corporation liable?

“I’ve provided plenty of alternatives”

Cite one. You can’t “make guardrails” and expect companies to just figure it out you oaf. That’s like proposing a law that nobody can walk to work because it’s unsafe. How? Who cares! Figure it out everyone!

“GOG can still sell games without DRM”

What the fuck does that have to do with anything? DRM as of right now is how companies can legally allow you to play their game while still retaining the right to modify and alter it after the point of sale. Traditionally, you’d get a game - then nothing. No update. No bug fixes. No dlc. THAT IS WHAT YOU’RE ADVOCATING FOR.

“Games have been patched since forever!”

My brother in Christ, I’ve been playing since before games had online anything. Internet matchmaking in general was a free service included with certain titles. It can’t be provided perpetually and you expecting them to basically open source their net code is absurd.

We have games that cannot work on a LAN model but you’re intent on forcing that model on every game, even if it means killing those games or forcing them to not be made in the first place. That’s what happens when you don’t clearly outline legislation.

That’s the critique. That your well intentions are just unstructured bullshit that can’t be actioned on. You’re just pissed Pirate Software called you out for not having a plan like he does every idiot. Condescendingly.

Asetru,

That’s not how laws work.

It literally is. You pass a law that states that from 2035, cars must not emit greenhouse gases. The law doesn’t state how that’s accomplished. You can sell battery electric cars, you can sell hydrogen powered cars, you can even sell combustion engine cars as long as you make sure that they only burn biomass-based or green-hydrogen-based fuels.

Great. So the company shuts down the same day, declares bankruptcy, and is immune to further legislation because it’s dead.

Okay, valid point, but that’s the same for everything. It’s literally how capitalism wants it to work. If somebody builds a house for you, messes up the process and then declares bankruptcy, you’re fucked. If you want to change the system, fine, but that’s not what this is about.

However, if those companies have to have a roadmap to work through after they stop providing the service for their game, it might make it even easier for a judge to just tell them to go through with it after they filed for bankruptcy. If anything, your corner case is at least a bit improved.

Cite one.

Release Server binaries.

Traditionally, you’d get a game - then nothing. No update. No bug fixes. No dlc. THAT IS WHAT YOU’RE ADVOCATING FOR.

Are you insane? Patches and expansions have been around since forever. Certainly way earlier than saas infrastructure. The ability to patch games has nothing to do with shitty service based business models.

Internet matchmaking in general was a free service included with certain titles. It can’t be provided perpetually and you expecting them to basically open source their net code is absurd.

Nobody demands that. You’re again arguing against your own strawman.

We have games that cannot work on a LAN model but you’re intent on forcing that model on every game, even if it means killing those games or forcing them to not be made in the first place. That’s what happens when you don’t clearly outline legislation.

Bullshit. If a game requires a server that manages the connection between players then that server software can run on any computer just as well as the publisher’s. There’s no law of physics that requires EA to run a server just to have some jerks lust over loot boxes.

RealFknNito,
@RealFknNito@lemmy.world avatar

“You pass a law that states cars can’t have greenhouse gasses by 2035”

Apples and oranges. Demanding cars transition to clean fuel alternatives is not the same as demanding game manufacturers design and implement systems that must be fully functional in an offline state. This would be akin to demanding nuclear reactors be retrofitted to use fusion by 2035. Despite it not being sustainable or commercially possible.

“Release server binaries”

How do you enforce that? Legally compel a company to publish the server binaries with every copy of the game? Are developers expected to eat the cost when copies are pirated and use third party servers? I love things like FiveM or private servers for dead MMORPGs but those are usually created as a niche for specific communities. Is every game expected to have third party servers? Sounds magical but under capitalism, that’s an insane demand.

“The ability to patch games has been around since forever”

I’m not talking about the ability because yes it’s always technically been possible, I’m talking in 9/10 cases you’d get a physical copy of a game and that was it. Unchanging. It shipped and it’s done. You owned the disk, the data on that disk, and had full control over it aside from redistribution for profit. Actual updates that were delivered over the internet came around the same time as Steam and DRM programs.

I genuinely don’t see how we can fully own our games while developers retain the legal ability to modify them. The law as it exists gives the consumer protections around owned property like that.

“You’re arguing with strawmen”

I am deriving statements from insinuations you yourself are making. Consumer protections prevent companies from altering things they sell you. It’s your property after the sale. It’s possible you’re unaware of that but it’s an extremely strong reason why the industry made the switch. It wasn’t just for giggles or greed.

“That server software can run on any computer just as well”

Okay explain to me what happens when Final Fantasy XI reaches end of life and all services that authenticate and host player data shut down? Who hosts that? Are developers who want massive open worlds going to be expected, by law, to program a world that plays itself? Bots for NPCs, taking the roles of players, pushing events automatically? I am begging for answers because it keeps feeling like I’m the only one trying to figure out what’s going to happen to the games I play regularly.

Most online only games are online only because they focus on players interacting with other players on a grand scale. They’re a social experience. Demands that it be playable offline defeats the purpose of it existing and we went over the server binaries thing. Nobody is going to jump at the chance to reset their progress for most of these games just for the shot to play it for however long this specific server is alive.

I hope I’m wrong but this entire thing seems like a well intentioned, misguided bomb intent to be dropped in the middle of the industry.

Asetru,

Demanding cars transition to clean fuel alternatives is not the same as demanding game manufacturers design and implement systems that must be fully functional in an offline state. This would be akin to demanding nuclear reactors be retrofitted to use fusion by 2035. Despite it not being sustainable or commercially possible.

Are you even listening to yourself? I’m pretty sure it’s harder to redesign a car’s engine and fuel system than it is to have counter strike call myshittyhomeserver.com instead of valvesmoneygenerator.com - and just the thought that you think it’s about as complex to disable some stupid drm system (which has been done numerous times before by kids with too much time on their hands) as it is to design a fusion reactor is just insane.

But again: they do not have to be fully functional in an offline state. Just release the server if that’s what’s needed. You already sold me the game, you stopped providing the one part that you wanted to provide, now just give me that. Done.

How do you enforce that? Legally compel a company to publish the server binaries with every copy of the game?

No! No no no! It’s after the game reached its eol! The idea is that the companies keep doing what they do, but once they’re done they have some roadmap to leave the game in a functional state. Once they’re done!

I’m talking in 9/10 cases you’d get a physical copy of a game and that was it.

Actual updates that were delivered over the internet came around the same time as Steam and DRM programs.

Bullshit. For games that ran from their ROMs (like snes-era) that was true because there was literally no way to modify them. But ever since they were used on media with write access, they got patched. You should just download a patch, point it to the directory where you installed the game and be done. If your connection sucked you’d buy a magazine that had patches on its CD or something.

Also, steam doesn’t guarantee updates either. If a developer doesn’t want to update their game, that’s it. If a developer wants to update their game, great, that works without any such system as well. Can you force people to apply updates if the game isn’t online? No. Does all of this have anything to do with the initiative? Not at all. This isn’t about patching games that are still supported. This is about what happens long after the last patch was released.

Okay explain to me what happens when Final Fantasy XI reaches end of life and all services that authenticate and host player data shut down? Who hosts that?

That’s not the question! If a developer decided to release server binaries after they shut down the service, at least I could host it. I could just run it locally, the community could come together to run an instance or whatever. This is about having such options, not about forcing publishers to keep hosting their stuff.

Are developers who want massive open worlds going to be expected, by law, to program a world that plays itself? Bots for NPCs, taking the roles of players, pushing events automatically? I am begging for answers because it keeps feeling like I’m the only one trying to figure out what’s going to happen to the games I play regularly.

None of that is demanded! Nothing! And I have no idea where you’re pulling those ideas from!

Massively multiplayer online worlds don’t have to be populated by bots. Multiplayer games don’t have to be redesigned. If a player opened a game to see a barren land, filled with no players and only dead npcs, that’s fine. But hey, they could occasionally stroll through the forest that they met their spouse in or something. Just like looking at a painting in a museum with your friends is different from looking at it at home, this would be the case here, too. But at least you can still enjoy your painting, unlike the game that’s been remotely disabled.

Most online only games are online only because they focus on players interacting with other players on a grand scale. They’re a social experience. Demands that it be playable offline defeats the purpose of it existing and we went over the server binaries thing. Nobody is going to jump at the chance to reset their progress for most of these games just for the shot to play it for however long this specific server is alive.

This is true. Except it might not be nobody. We’re talking about culture. Just like thousands of songs have been written to be forgotten, occasionally there are pieces that become culturally relevant. Sometimes even after the author dies. Imagine Franz Kafka writing his stories just to have Max Brod not publish them but lock them behind a shitty service that shut down after he wasn’t profitable enough, immediately burning all copies that were sold so far.

This is not about keeping the original experience. This is about museums being able to show people works of art fifty years from now. This is about me showing my childhood memories to my kids. Would they see my old friend dragonhaxxor9999 run into battle with me? Certainly not. But would they get an idea and would I be nostalgic about it? Certainly. And why would the profitability of some stupid service be a reason not to have that? Just let me fucking run the software I paid money for! I own those bits! Have my processor execute them if I want to!

sleepmode, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

I wish he’d stop getting any kind of attention at all. He is a fraud.

db0,
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

That attention is the dying embers of the torch he took to his career

mostlikelyaperson,

Dude had entirely disappeared from my timelines before every youtuber and lemmy poster seemingly felt the need to tell me about how naughty he is.

DragonofKnowledge, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

I know it’s not going to happen, but I would love it if legislation could go as far as requiring companies to open-source their engines and servers after maybe a period of time, or on ending support for the game. It could be done ID-style where the company retains full rights of the content and trademarks, which would still require players to buy the game to legally play it.

I’m aware there are a lot of cases where games include middleware that’s licensed from 3rd parties that complicate preservation efforts. But if open-sourcing the code is the path taken, there’s a simple solution for that: just release what you can, even if what’s released is in an unplayable state without the middleware. It then becomes the responsibility of any volunteers to take that code and bring it back to a usable state however they choose.

This drama highlights that there’s still a great need for better computer literacy. Anyone with even a basic education in how software, source-code, and software licensing works can tell PirateSoftware is full of shit pretty much immediately. That is, anyone educated who are themselves not grifters.

MITM0,
@MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

Yessss.

Duamerthrax,

You should only be granted copyright protections if you can guarantee the copyrighted material can become public domain after the time period ends. This would involve giving the government a copy of all source code and assets to preserve securely. This should be a flat policy for all copyrighted material, so 3rd party involvement wouldn’t complicate things.

DragonofKnowledge,

That’s a pretty interesting idea. Unfortunately it depends on being somewhere where copyrights ever actually end.

Duamerthrax,

That’s another debate, but if a company ever closed and no one claimed the IP, it could be released early.

MotoAsh,

The original intent of patents was almost exactly that. You’re protected for a handful of years, after that anyone can just use the patent as instructions for recreating it.

… then Disney and other fucking greedy ghouls of corporations got involved and greased the right palms…

eugenevdebs, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳

I’m glad that someone I’ve personally disliked for various reasons is finally having a lot of people see them for who they really are.

Man this dude is a total nepobaby tool.

jownz,

Omg… this comment… this comment right here 👆. This is what I needed to see because I relate so strongly to it. F’kn guy sucks! (By guy sucks, I mean coworker of my nightmares that leans on me like a cancer). But my god, I’m so happy for him.

killeronthecorner,
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

I came to PS through YouTube shorts and his streams were cut to ribbons and repatched into something resembling a zeitgeist-appealing view.

Then I watched a couple of his long form videos and was like … eh. If anything it taught me more about the danger of using shorts as an onboard to any big vtuber. Much like movie trailers and their movies, they tend to overpromise and underdeliver.

This became undeniably apparent when YouTube started shoving Jordan Petersen into my feed. Much like the thousand monkeys at their typewriters, you can take the words of anyone who talks at length almost daily on a subject and edit them into something that sounds reasonable and appealing.

I already knew that JP was a right wing rhetoric Markov chain posing as an expert/pundit before YT started promoting him, but it really did cement the point.

tempest,

Any male dominated channel that ever “gives advice” gets shunted into that pipeline by algo pretty consistently.

I like stand up comedy and it’s a full time job keeping Rogan out of my suggestions.

killeronthecorner,
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, for real. YouTube is essentially placing infinite bets that it can drive you into the rabbit hole. Watched a short of Dillahunty give Peterson a verbal wedgy? You must like big words, so here’s more Peterson! Watched a short of Joey Swoll telling people to be polite, because it rolled on automatically? Here’s an Andrew Tate wannabe with shrivelled nuts to subtly criticise you about your dad bod.

Obsession and radicalisation are one and the same to the algorithm, and both turn a targeted individual into a money printer. And fuck the consequences right? Because Google got theirs.

seralth,

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  • killeronthecorner,
    @killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s often not the speaker doing the editing, there are thousands of channels built around creating and releasing these cast-a-wide-net shorts to subtly drive you towards their goal of obsessively watching right wing vtubers saying things that compel you to be a selfish narcissist.

    cows_are_underrated,
    @cows_are_underrated@feddit.org avatar

    Nowadays its also quite common to design speeches around short form videos, so that you can then edit as much as possible into short little segments that are optimised for short form content. The right wingers do it a lot and, at least in Germany, our leftist party realised that this is a strategy to not miss out on.

    deltapi,

    Absolutely. For example:

    seralth@lemmy.world said:

    …Hitler… …sounds good.

    TwinTitans, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳
    @TwinTitans@lemmy.world avatar

    Guys a fucking loser. Needs to get a real job.

    JargonWagon,

    He’s had quite a few “real jobs” lol

    kadaverin0,

    He’ll gladly tell you about how he was hacker/dev whizkid at Blizzard for 7 years. Of course, he’ll leave out the fact that he was only a QA tester and a web security drone who got the job because his father is a big wig there.

    TheEighthDoctor,

    Don’t you know he worked for Blizzard /s

    TwinTitans,
    @TwinTitans@lemmy.world avatar

    Ahh. Starting to see how that company fell to shit now 😂

    ampersandrew, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    Do you ever hunt around Facebook Marketplace? When electronics drop in value enough, often times, people will just give them away. I have. It’s (sometimes) less hassle than trying to haggle with people over a few dollars for severely outdated hardware, and my goal at that point is to get it into someone’s hands who will use it rather than have the stuff go to a landfill. Even a very outdated PC will still play tons and tons of great games for cheap or free. They frequently won’t be the latest and greatest, but there’s less and less correlation these days with high game quality and high system requirements.

    MyNameIsAtticus, do games w Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker'
    @MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

    Man, Masquerade was my go to repacker when i was younger. After the website vanished i couldn’t find them and assumed they quit. Glad to see they’re still around!

    neon_nova, do games w Day 353 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

    Omg! You can stun them!?!?

    I was so frustrated with them on a recent play through.

    Stovetop,

    You can!

    Worth noting for anyone looking to play both N64 games is that OoT Gerudo stay stunned indefinitely (until the area is reloaded) but the Pirates in Majora’s Mask who are borrowed from the Gerudo guards only stay stunned for a short time before getting back up.

    This incentizes use of the Stone Mask, which can be obtained from the invisible guard by giving him a red potion. If playing the N64 version, he is located outside of Ikana Graveyard, which is a place that you can get to at that point in the game but many might not have bothered exploring yet. In the 3DS version, they moved him directly into Pirates Fortress so he’s harder to miss, but it does require just a little bit of stealth to get to where he is first.

    MyNameIsAtticus,
    @MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

    It took me a while to figure out too lol. I never stopped to consider it until i was messing around with the bow and arrow and thought “i wonder if i can shoot them”

    MITM0, do games w Thank you, Thor! 🥳
    @MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

    I am happy that it’s a Peripeteia developer saying this. The game is a mess (because it’s Early access) & needs a looooot if optimization, but boy it’s something else.

    Gives me Ghost in the Shell vibes

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