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- Comment on Dad's Coming, 🇧🇷 indie 2d couch co-op action mess simulator 1 day ago:
The game title is a little bit unfortunate.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 2 days ago:
It makes no sense to cite a little part of the US DMCA law if the discussion was based on Japanese laws. If you look at www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 , its much more complicated than one sentence. As for the DMCA, this is the next paragraph after the cited above one:
(B) The prohibition contained in subparagraph (A) shall not apply to persons who are users of a copyrighted work which is in a particular class of works, if such persons are, or are likely to be in the succeeding 3-year period, adversely affected by virtue of such prohibition in their ability to make noninfringing uses of that particular class of works under this title, as determined under subparagraph ©.
I admit not really to understand, as the language is hard to read for me. It would even be hard in my native language. Does the Japanese law have such clauses and exceptions?
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 3 days ago:
But this is still to be discussed, because if the emulator does not circumvent any copy protection and the games are dumped with the protection in place, and the copy protection is reverse engineered, then the games would play with the copy protection decrypting. It does not circumvent the protection, it actively “uses” it. So from that standpoint making backup copies is not illegal in theory. Now would this hold in court? I don’t know. Nintendo does not know either and rather like to take things out of court. Because if Nintendo looses such a case, it would be devastating.
I’m in Germany too and the right to a private copy is exactly what I had in mind too. Not all copy protection measures were accepted for the right to not copy. What I mean is, there was some extremely simple protection mechanisms that were not accepted as a working and effective copy protections, and you were allowed to do a copy; even with the so called copy protection in place. Therefore it effectiveness was kind of important to the discussion too. I guess the Switch has a much more advanced one, so its probably not an exception.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 4 days ago:
It makes sense from argumentation standpoint, because Nintendo argues that there are protection mechanisms in the Switch that is illegal to ignore, in emulators. I don’t know if this is true and you don’t know either, because this was not tested in court. Nintendo never ever said that ALL emulation is illegal, which i stated in my initial reply. Otherwise Nintendo would go and take down ALL emulators. Not every kind of emulation is the same.
In example the Dolphin emulator ships with keys extracted from the console. Some say its illegal to distribute these keys, others argue keys are not copyrighted and its not illegal to share, but it was never tested in court either. If Nintendo had a case, they would definitely go against that emulator, as the keys are in the source code in the open public. Nintendo never said that Dolphin or Wii and Gamecube emulation is illegal. Or any other prior console and emulator of Nintendo systems. Nintendo console emulators exist in the public since the 90s.
Its much more nuanced than people are making or understanding. And lot of articles, like the one stated before, are plain and simple wrong and cite without context. And people who don’t understand the situation take this and believe it.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 4 days ago:
Those articles are wrong. Nintendo says Switch emulation is illegal, not all emulation is illegal.
- Comment on Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky's AT Protocol | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
Tik Tok doesn’t become better just because another one creates the same.
- Comment on After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal 5 days ago:
Nintendo never said that all emulation is illegal. Nintendo just does not like that their current gen is being emulated and lot of games are easily available on pirate sites for everyone. Otherwise Nintendo would have tried to shutdown emulators for previous systems too. They were especially worried about the Switch 2 being emulated easily with current emulators, as it doesn’t seen too different. I think that’s all to it.
However, there are still a number of ways that emulators can violate the law. For example, the Nintendo Switch has certain “technical restriction measures” that prevent it from playing pirated games. If a Switch emulator seeks to bypass those measures, it opens itself up to legal trouble.
Which law exactly? There are exceptions for making personal backup copies. So its not really court tested law and we don’t know if it violates the law. As the article said, these cases never went to court and we don’t have a decision by law. Nintendo did all of that out of court.
- Comment on Marvel game, developed with the Chinese firm NetEase, ‘bans’ the words ‘free Taiwan’ and ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ 1 week ago:
Or write it out as words: Nineteen eighty-nine
- Comment on Marvel game, developed with the Chinese firm NetEase, ‘bans’ the words ‘free Taiwan’ and ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ 1 week ago:
Hopefully political stuff like this will not hurt the game.
- Comment on Games That Don't Push The Limits of the NES (For Interesting Reasons) 1 week ago:
I watched this video yesterday too and it inspired me to write an article (not the longest article, its mainly to provide download links for those NES games): Nintendo Family BASIC Type-in Programs Collection (homebrew roms for NES)
The video itself is as you say, surprisingly interesting. But to be honest, I expected that. This channel has often interesting content like this. BTW Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of Kirby and game designer of Smash Bros., had posted a video about this system too. Its very interesting watch as well: Family BASIC [Programming & Tech] by Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games
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- Comment on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans 1 week ago:
Deactivating Wordpress contributor accounts does not prevent any forks. I don’t get what the benefit is to ban them. Is it just to demonstrate his power?
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- Comment on ‘Major incident’: China-backed hackers breached US Treasury workstations 3 weeks ago:
Every week: China hackt
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- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 3 weeks ago:
Realistic does not equal to good looking. In example Zelda Breath of the Wild looks good, but its hardly realistic. And if all games are very realistic, then it gets a little bit boring, as all games start to look the same. The AAA gaming industry is too much focused on lip sync, realistic faces, grass and puddles. I don’t feel like getting lost in a game, but more like watching a movie. It’s so boring to me (I’m looking at you Red Dead Redemption 2).
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 4 weeks ago:
I strongly disagree with the premise that there’s a “wrong” way to play retro games.
I understand your sentiment here and you are right too. What I think is, that the wording on this title here is misunderstood. Emulating (old) games without Shaders is not faithful or accurate in the looks. It looks “vastly” different and thus means it looks “wrong”. I interpret the “wrong” in the title as “not faithful”, instead as “bad”, like this: You’re Probably Emulating Retro Games Not Faithful (you need CRT Shaders for the oldschool look)
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 4 weeks ago:
There are two variants, one with motion-blur and one without. Besides that, often shaders have additional settings. One can change settings and save it as a new Shader Preset and use that instead. I have described it here: thingsiplay.game.blog/2024/10/19/…/8/#learn-and-e…
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 4 weeks ago:
Shaders are not only useful for CRT emulation, but also to get the look of handhelds:
- Comment on You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders) 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Discord’s New Age Verification uses AI and Your Face! 5 weeks ago:
Probably just a coincidence. Most likely maybe.
- Comment on Discord’s New Age Verification uses AI and Your Face! 5 weeks ago:
I prefer websites and services who just ask if I’m older than 18.
- Comment on Rocksteady ends Suicide Squad development less than a year after release 1 month ago:
You can say what you want about the game, but that they make an offline mode for players who purchased it is commendable. At least game is preserved in this way. The only downside is, that nobody is allowed to buy the offline game from that point on. Hopefully they decide against de-listing it on Steam.
- Comment on Water + hot oil 1 month ago:
Those who did, can’t tell anyone anymore.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 1 month ago:
So you are saying I am hypocrisy, because you could not find posts in my history criticizing China? And that makes my critique about the US less true or acceptable? I no longer believe in good faith of your discussion here and will end discussing with you. You have the last word if you want.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 1 month ago:
Because another countries takes away freedom and eliminates the free market, makes it a non argument if the US does the same? The US is doing the same what China does.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 1 month ago:
Tik Tok is not much worse than Facebook. The only reason is because Facebook cooperates with the US agencies, while they don’t get the information from Tik Tok. US does not like that citizen data is going to China instead being able to collect it themselves. From privacy standpoint of the end user, it does not matter who has the data; lost privacy is lost privacy.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 1 month ago:
Ban Twitter too, if you ban Tik Tok. Don’t do half ass job if you are taking away users choice.
- Comment on Cloudflare Logs Suffer Critical Failure, Losing 55% of User Data 1 month ago:
Clownstrike + Clownflare = Circus
