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.

Imagine getting sued by Nintendo because you said the word “Nintendon’t”.

Those pussies couldn’t even put out their tag line without having some legal blurb at the bottom.

Oh noes… my registered trademark!

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.

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.

Tanks!

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

WTF, Germany?

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.

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.

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.

This has serious “If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college” energy.

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

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.

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.

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.

You use hyphens because they look cool.

I use em dashes because Oxford Standard Style Guide for English dictates how it should be used.

We are not the same.

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.

/c/shittytumblrgifs

Stop cherry-picking. GTA’s development cycle is atypical.

Also, the key thing about that is the number 6 in its name. It’s the SIXTH game! Out of the FIVE that they released! They get to have a big large studio and spent an asinine amount of money on a new game because they already made millions on other released games.