Ganbat

@Ganbat@lemmyonline.com

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Ganbat,

Gee, what could a game in a series created by a terf have to do with terfs? Scientists will ponder this for years. I mean, it’s not like J.K. Rowling owns the I.P. and makes millions of dollars per year from things like this, right?

Edit: TL;DR

Rowling consistently makes passive income on all Harry Potter products. Multiple sources have cited that Rowling earns anywhere between $50 million to a $100 million each year from royalties. Forbes estimated she earned $95 million in 2017 alone.

Ganbat,

Where does the money flow, bud? One way or another, you’re supporting her and her transphobic views

Ganbat,

Just admit you’re transphobic, it’s a lot easier.

Ganbat, (edited )

What a long-winded way of telling me you want to support transphobia.

The people you just named, ya know, other than your favorite bigot, you know how they tend to get paid? Paychecks. One and done. Generally, they don’t get royalties. They might get paid for future projects from that cash, assuming the publisher brings them back or owns them, but as far as straight cashflow goes, that money is going to two places: executives and rights owners.

Ganbat,

Ya know what the absolute funniest thing about this is? This all started with the question of “What does transphobia have to do with Harry Potter?”

Can’t help but notice that every answer but mine has been “nothing.” Super interesting response right there. And every response to my explanations that, yes, Rowling is a transphobe, and yes, she does profit from this, has been overwhelmingly negative. Super duper interesting I’d say.

To summarize this thread, “Yeah, fuck transphobia, but fuck you if you remind me that it is, in fact, relevant to Harry Potter!”

Ganbat,

You’re borderline if you’re happy to sit around and pretend (and publicly claim to others) it has nothing at all to do with Harry Potter as a series.

Ganbat,

Put simply, a terf owns the IP, money flows back to her. Outright denial of this fact is borderline transphobic itself.

Ganbat,

Well, someone said terfs had nothing to do with Harry Potter, I said the IP is owned by a terf who makes millions from it, and you said “Yawn,” so… Yeah, pretty much.

Ganbat,

Not at all. In fact, denial is a common tactic. See the “racism doesn’t exist” crowd for a prime example. I think you’ll find it’s full of racists.

Ganbat, (edited )

I see your position, my response was more a vent about the thread in general up to this point, and people like a few users up there (who I chose not to name), who would prefer to pretend the matter doesn’t exist at all. I wouldn’t consider people like that allies. They’re closer to the group of racists who like to claim that racism doesn’t exist any more. In fact, this thread follows the description of “refuting” found in this article very well.

The fact is, that was my point from the beginning. It literally started with “No, Harry Potter and transphobia are not totally separate issues,” (albeit in a sarcastic manner returning the energy I was initially met with) which is a concept that immediately drew vitriol.

Your response seemed genuine, but also seemed to miss the point, which is why you caught my venting.

Edit: Right here is the absolute most out-and-out example of what I’m talking about in this thread. A comment made up strictly of easily verifiable falsehoods. An obvious, poorly-thought-out straw man argument, and users are still upvoting that despite how blatant it is. There is a genuine transphobia problem in this thread.

Ganbat,

The energy you’re giving off.

Ganbat, (edited )

Rowling owns the rights to the Harry Potter IP, a fact that can easily be verified using multiple sources with a simple search. As such, she makes royalties on every single use of the IP.

And BTW, no one denied that she makes any money from it, they just denied that it matters.

I also never made the claim that denying that she makes money makes you an “outright transphobe” (a phrase I also never said, despite your quotes.) I stated that denying the relevance or existence of transphobia is the same as a tactic used by racists.

Everything you just said, and everything you attributed to me, actually only happened in your own head. At first I thought you might just be confidently incorrect, but the absolute depth of your lies makes the truth clear.

Opaquely lying like this is also a tactic used by various types of bigot. It’s called a “straw man argument,” is an unethical tactic that adds nothing to the debate, is a favorite of bigots everywhere, is generally applied when one has no real argument, and is only effectively applied in far less obvious manners than this.

Ganbat, (edited )

My friends finally got me to play Fortnite a few weeks ago.

I’m in too deep.

I’m level 157…

Ganbat, (edited )

Reminder that even if AMD’s ray tracing isn’t as advanced, alternative, cross-platform solutions such as RTGL1 do could work very well on both Nvidia and AMD cards.

Edit: Clarified, these things do work well, but only where they work. Point meant to be, if anyone but NVidia was doing this, it wouldn’t have to fracture PC gaming so badly.

Ganbat,

Yeah, that’s it. Unfortunately, AMD isn’t being well developed for. It’s just that, Nvidia doesn’t have to be the only viable option for RT, but because they have the funding and initiative, it’s been allowed to become so. RTGL1 is just an example for how it can work for AMD as well, assuming the renderer supports AMD-equivalent functions.

Worse, the release of an Nvidia-only toolkit like this is gonna cause a lot of pain with this in the future.

“AMD’s cards have faster and better ray tracing than Nvidia now? Man, that’s cool, but I’ve got, like, ten games running on RTX Remix, and they don’t support things like FSR.”

Ganbat,

Well, I have four big ones:

  • System scanning: EGS is known to automatically scan your system and send your data back to them. While this seems to be the same type of analytics Steam does occasionally, in Steam’s case, it’s opt-in, and done with full, informed consent.
  • Paid exclusives: Epic has been known to pay publishers to make their games artificially exclusive to their own store. They regularly claim this money is to support the development of the games in question, but this is easily disproven, as they’ve been seen buying games known to be complete more than once. Additionally, this has resulted in bait-and-switch-like situations, where users would prepurchase Steam copies of games, only to be informed that they wouldn’t be getting them.
  • Publisher-centric behavior: Another user here claimed that EGS is pro-developer and anti-consumer, but this is only half true. This only rings true in the case of self-published games. There have been cases of developers getting unwarranted backlash after aforementioned bait-and-switches, when they were just as surprised to learn about all the “development support” they received as anyone.
  • Tim Sweeney: Tim Weeney, the CEO of Epic, is an asshole. A giant, narcissistic, hateful shitbag. Just look at his Twitter, the dudes a giant POS.
Ganbat,

Damn, I don’t remember that part at all.

Ganbat, (edited )

They’ve really picked up with that shit lately, so I give this a month.

Ganbat,

Damn, I forgot Steam Spy existed.

Ganbat, (edited )

Apparently I’m out of the loop, what happened?

Edit: Got to a point that I could look it up. My favorite part is where the devs felt so strongly about their god given right to call people f**s that they said people should just pirate the game instead. Awesome. Not completely disgusting at all.

Ganbat,

This game is moddable?

Ganbat,

Publishers have been known to add that info one or two days before release in the past.

Ganbat,

I’ve used VR a few times, and I can confirm that the only part that makes me throw up is the price tag.

Ganbat,

It should be pretty simple here.

“Does it serve any purpose other than excluding people? No? Remove it.”

Ganbat,

“Why should it be removed?”
Because it hurts real people.

“But shouldn’t people be able to modify the game as they want?”
Sure, they can do it themselves, but no one has to host content that causes real-world harm.

“But why draw the line at this mod?”
See answer 1.

Ya know, I love it when people like you use “civil discussion” as a mask, because it’s always the most transparent thing ever. Your real goals are always on your sleeve, but you just keep pushing the same things over and over again so that, in the end, you can say “Look, I was civil, they weren’t!”

Do you know what gives you away? It’s the way no answer you ever receive is satisfactory. It’s never enough. And it’s usually cyclical, too, which is exactly the behavior you’ve displayed here.

Ganbat,

NewPipe, NewPipe + Sponsorblock, PipePipe and LibreTube are pretty much all of them.

Ganbat,

Well, for one thing, Nexus gives modders a share of ad revenue. Under a different name, I have a mod that’s a backend requirement for a big, popular mod, and that nets me a reliable few bucks a month.

That said, a good portion of the modding community also exists on Gamebanana. If you want BotW, ToTK or Source engine mods, GB is the go-to.

Ganbat,

“I’m not a bigot for refusing to accept you, you’re a bigot for refusing to accept that I won’t accept you!”

Lol. Lmao even.

Ganbat,

Well, if you’re paying for premium, you’re still part of the site’s profit, part of which goes to the mods you use, so either way shouldn’t matter.

Ganbat,

Lol, props on taking the opportunity.

What games had easy soft locks that prevented you from either progressing or getting a true ending? angielski

The thought came to mind after reading a recent post about Baldurs Gate 3 here but it reminded me of the Japense only PSX game Mizzurna Falls where if you don’t perform a certain action early in the game you are prevented from getting a true ending. While this might not be a traditional soft lock because you can still progress...

Ganbat,

Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. If you don’t grab the newspaper at the beginning of the game, you get totally softlocked near the end.

Ganbat,

That McFly guy has been riding the “It’ll be released soon™” train for something like five years at this point.

Ganbat,

What? Already? Damn, that was fast.

Ganbat,

Better than their in-house attempts to remove anti-piracy measures. The Steam release of Manhunt has had all of its bullshit triggered for over ten years now. It’s literally impossible to play without community patches.

Edit: Lol, as it turns out, Silent’s discovery of this was triggered by the recent revelation of this about Manhunt!

Ganbat,

Because it’s a bare link, some apps interpret the underscore as the end of the link.

Ganbat, (edited )

Sad fact is, Rockstar doesn’t give a shit. They got busted using a cracked EXE in the Steam release, so they just tried to cover their asses by using an old EXE without SecuROM. I expect the same thing from this game before long.

Couple lucky things for the players, though. First off, the Razor 1911 crack is still in the files, they just renamed it to testapp. Second, old RS games have a dedicated community that give way more of a shit about them than Rockstar ever will. Silent and Fire Head have both released major patches for Manhunt that not only get it running right, but fix a bunch of other broken shit that Rockstar never cared enough to deal with.

Ganbat,

It means the publisher was too lazy/greedy to remove their ancient DRM themselves and just nabbed the work someone else did, slapped Steam Stub on top and sold it.

Ganbat,

I’d say they probably still have the source. It looks like they did the same thing for Manhunt and Max Payne, but then pulled older, pre-SecuROM exes from their archives when they got busted.

Ganbat,

Deep Silver: Makes demands of Volition that ruin Saint’s Row

Volition: Dies

Ganbat,

FMHY’s mod team has moved from Reddit, or at least isn’t as active as they used to be.

They run a site where these lists are gonna be better maintained.

fmhy.net/unsafesites

ChatGPT API Piracy angielski

Is this even still a thing? It seems to be pretty well dead. Poe-API shat the bed, GPT4FREE got shut down and it’s replacement seems to be pretty much non-functional, Proxies are a weird secret club thing (despite being nearly totally based on scraped corporate keys), etc.

Ganbat, (edited )

SNIP

Ganbat,

I have an R9 380 that I’m never going to be able to replace. Local isn’t really an option.

Ganbat,

No, LLM text generation is generally done on GPU, as that’s rhe only way to get any reasonable speed. That’s why there’s a specifically-made Pyg model for running on CPU. That said, one generation can take anywhere from five to twenty minutes on CPU. It’s moot anyway as I only have 8GB ram.

Ganbat,

There are already laws in place concerning use of actos’ likenesses, but I don’t know if that would extend to their voices.

Ganbat,

Just now getting to the Lego Batman series.

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