p03locke

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Tanks!

Had a ton of fun with that one when I was a kid.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

WTF, Germany?

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

This is a big part of why fair use is in such a bad state right now: no predictability in how courts will rule on it as a defense, plus no way to keep you out of courts in the first place.

That's not completely true. Fair Use has four declarations that you must pass, so there's at least some definition to how it would play out in the courts. But, it's not a definitive rule of law, so yeah it's not going to keep you out of the courts.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

that is technically transformative, but most likely not enough to justify fair use.

Right, but it's pretty obvious that the transformation for AI is very transformative, and it's lossy at that. After the training, you can't just duplicate the image it was trained from, even if it was asked a thousand times.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Imagine going back to exclusivity with gaming consoles. PCs, and by extension, Steam won the console wars, and Nintendo is just trying its damnest to hold on to the last gasp of gaming exclusivity.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My god... stop giving money to these guys and holding on to this Sunken Cost Fallacy.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

Ultimately I think what consumers are looking for is less like ownership and more like a warranty

No. That's not true. Otherwise people wouldn't be reciting this phrase over and over again.

Consumers want to fucking own shit again! Renting everything is the entire fucking problem.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A studio that has never produced a finished game, yes. They have to prove themselves and demonstrate that they can actually release a finished game first.

Otherwise, we have zero evidence that they are going to follow through with their broken promises.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You said "Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to make a profit."

Even in my wildest liberal dreams, I can't invent a sentence so brazenly unrealistic. If you don't want corporations to make a profit, you basically don't want corporations at all. It's pointless to even frame things in the context of capitalism at that point.

Capitalism is an evil and shitty system. Just say that, instead of trying to redefine what capitalism is.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

A1 is not a steak sauce, just like how ketchup is not a steak sauce.

Asking for A1 to put on a steak is an insult to the cook/chef that made it.

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