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- Comment on Which RSS are you using? 2 days ago:
I use Thunderbirds built-in RSS reader.
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 2 days ago:
As said, there is nothing Nintendo can sue for. Therefore, what Cease and desist should it be?
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 2 days ago:
Sued for what? There is nothing Nintendo can sue for. Also we talked about Cease and Desist before, not sueing. Also can you explain me, if you are right, why Nintendo didn’t do that with prior decompilation projects of Mario and Zelda games that reached 100% and are played on a variety of systems now?
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 2 days ago:
This is not what happened to Yuzu. They gave up, because the Yuzu team would lose the case. Nintendo collected evidence in their Discord server, how the developers of Yuzu shared Tears of the Kingdom millionth of times. It was 100% not legal. On the other side, we are talking about legal projects like decompiling.
If you are so right, why didn’t Nintendo Cease and Desist prior projects? What makes it Twilight Princess so different or special, that it will happen now? I know why, because Nintendo can’t do anything here. Cease and Desist letters are a personal request, not a legal threat. If the team ignores it, nothing will happen.
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 2 days ago:
It doesn’t matter what Nintendo cares, if it is legal.
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 2 days ago:
Never happened with many Zelda and Mario games before. They are on the safe side, if the code is 100% self written. The assets are not part of the project, they can be extracted from the official games. This is legal.
- Comment on Twilight Princess decompilation project reaches 99% completion 2 days ago:
Some of the best stuff in gaming will never be part of an official Game Awards. That’s a shame.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Any source for the claim?
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 5 days ago:
And they kind of give up looking for meaning on what others say.
Or use an Ai to summarize it…
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 6 days ago:
Competition is actually a good thing. Nobody wants a single giant corporation to control the majority of a technology. However I am not sure if this is really a good thing, because this means Microsoft will invest more into Ai, buy more graphics cards, fire real engineers and so on. Is competition a bad thing for once?
- Comment on Cloudflare is down [Dec 5] 1 week ago:
Is this an off season April Fool’s joke?
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 week ago:
Oh, so its not just Steam banning the game. So shitting on Steam is not fair then: eurogamer.net/its-extremely-frustrating-and-also-…
- Comment on The artist whose designs were used in Bungie’s Marathon without permission says the dispute ‘has been resolved to my satisfaction’ [VGC] 1 week ago:
Oh it was a joke, and I fell for it. I know about the old game, but thought it was referred to the assumption the new game was cancelled. There was lot of talk and assumption about this.
- Comment on The artist whose designs were used in Bungie’s Marathon without permission says the dispute ‘has been resolved to my satisfaction’ [VGC] 1 week ago:
“again”? More like “still”. I assume they needed extra time to rework art assets. I’m not shocked that they still work on the game, as otherwise years of work would be wasted. And Bungie would start from scratch. But they need something NOW.
I have no doubt it will be good in gameplay. The art style has some identity too to it. I think they are quiet, so people forget about the problems and do not talk about it anymore until its resolved. What I wonder is, if they will keep the same game name or will there be a new brand attached to it?
- Comment on I think Konami confirmed mgs4 had 40% of its logic written in powerpc assembly 1 week ago:
Let’s wait for the Ai driven rewrite of those parts into C, and then covert that code to whatever they target.
- Comment on HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use 2 weeks ago:
This title is a bit funny. :D You had me in the first halve, not gonna lie.
- Comment on 'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 [404 Media] 2 weeks ago:
Nice list. I’ve added it too, can’t hurt. Although with these third party blocking lists we get dependent on what we can see and not based on others “taste”. But I guess this is the price we pay.
- Comment on 'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 [404 Media] 2 weeks ago:
This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022.
tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader , the linked source code on Firefox extension page seems to no longer exist: github.com/tegacodes/slop-evader
So it literally cuts off everything after that date. Why the need for an extension in the browser? One can add max date to any search engine search terms and limit the results too. At least this works with Google, in example
before:2022-11-30. This could be a bookmark in example: www.google.com/search?q=before%3A2022-11-30 Note I do not use Google myself. You have to try this with your favorite search engine yourself.While I think the idea is good to search everything before, I am not certain we need a closed source extension for if we could just add a search term to it manually. And this does not really solve searching the web with content after that date. Still need a better solution to this, especially if time goes on.
- Comment on "It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer] 2 weeks ago:
You can also open up random porn websites and see stuff that shouldn’t be on Steam. Also having it randomly in nature is one thing, appearing in a shocker / horror videogame with the context of children want to ride naked horses (which are human with mask) riding is another. It’s all about context.
- Comment on "It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer] 2 weeks ago:
I can judge a style and the art without playing the game. I just said how it looks to me. My earlier point was, if you make a game like that, you shouldn’t be surprised getting banned. And the creator does the best out of it and makes a scene of it. I would probably too, because it generates a lot of buzz and is free marketing. People who never had this in radar will either purchase or talk and make more marketing. So, I am not blaming him doing what he does right now.
I mean at one point in the trailer you see two real horses fucking (f*cked up literally). From what I see it’s not just horror, its about shocking. And I believe not every game should be on Steam. Where the line is, I don’t know.
- Comment on "It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer] 2 weeks ago:
I do not agree this being great horror.
- Comment on "It's extremely frustrating and also f*cked up" - one of the world's best indie studios is facing shock closure following confounding Steam ban [Eurogamer] 2 weeks ago:
The game looks extremely f*cked up too…
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 3 weeks ago:
Ah right, that makes sense. I know that site, but didn’t think of. I know not the smartes in the town.^^
I also wonder if people do more secure passwords for important services. Or do they treat it the same? My parents always used their birthday as password, so they do not forget it. Which not much more secure than 1234.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 3 weeks ago:
Looking at the different countries is also funny. The only password I’m not surprised about is
admin, because that’s probably the default for most devices maybe? Unless user changes it manually.But my question is, are these only “hacked” passwords? Because those who are not hacked, you don’t know what passwords they have. So this is a bit of bias here, right?
- Comment on Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand 3 weeks ago:
1k bullshit
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 3 weeks ago:
Yes, because Microsoft knows stuff in Windows that can be utilized in WINE. And maybe open sourcing a few parts to add to it. We are talking about WINE, an open source project where Microsoft doesn’t have the entire say. We can check and correct or reject, unlike whatever happens in closed source Windows.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 3 weeks ago:
Can you imagine, what if Microsoft in the future will swap to Linux as their Kernel for Windows? Then WINE and Proton are also much better if Microsoft is actively working on it, as they would need it in a Linux based Windows system. I am talking about something like 20 years from from now. Looking at Android or even SteamOS, it could still be filled with proprietary stuff. But Microsoft would benefit from the superior system and lots of free development. Does anyone else think this could be a possibility?
- Comment on Meta is not a monopolist, judge rules 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think we need a judge to tell that.
- Comment on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
Also the irony that some “is it down”-detectors using Cloudflare are also down.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Still same to me.