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- Comment on The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead' 2 weeks ago:
Most devs are shit at their jobs.
Not that this is exclusive to devs. Most people in general are shit at their jobs.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. And all the big projects so far have required a “legally dumped” ROM as an input.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 2 weeks ago:
Generally, ripping for personal use is not litigated, only distribution. It may technically be illegal in most places, but then, reproducing someone’s work without compensation should be prohibited.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 2 weeks ago:
Why do you say that?
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 2 weeks ago:
Stuff like this almost never happens due to the legal liability. They can’t ensure that the authors aren’t violating some other contract, like using some library unlicensed, or violating an employer’s noncompete or something.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 2 weeks ago:
On what grounds?
- Comment on 72% of Americans Say the Rich 'Have Too Much' as GOP Pursues Another Handout for Billionaires 2 weeks ago:
The conclusion is that average is a bad metric for that. A bunch of people making poverty wages and one billionaire makes the average look very good.
- Comment on 72% of Americans Say the Rich 'Have Too Much' as GOP Pursues Another Handout for Billionaires 2 weeks ago:
Do you have a source on that toilet seat thing? The story I’ve always heard was that they were very specific aircraft lavatory parts.
- Comment on Embracer has reduced its workforce by over 1800 people in the past year 2 weeks ago:
So much for embracing
- Comment on AI will shrink Amazon's workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says 3 weeks ago:
That’s gonna be a lot of people unable to afford their bread and circuses.
- Comment on A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes 3 weeks ago:
Even with the vast majority of people having no issues, with millions sold, that’s still a good number of people just got a bad one. The article only reports two instances.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 3 weeks ago:
Read the article. They are.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 3 weeks ago:
And to limit scrapers.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 3 weeks ago:
That’s a big red flag. Good news would say something like “we’re happy to announce a team of community ownership”.
- Comment on Why are people gurgling the switch 2 so hard? 3 weeks ago:
Why are you trusting the word of random people on the Internet
- Comment on Minimum Wage Needed to Meet Cost of Living in US States (OC) 3 weeks ago:
So by this analysis, the state with the lowest cost of living is still at least $39/hr?
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 4 weeks ago:
Yup. In a regular racing game, if one person knows how to play, they’re going to wreck everyone else, and that’s not fun. Mario Kart is more accessible, and the items, it adds an extra influence element to the game.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Those will migrate.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It 4 weeks ago:
They can take action in other ways, including publishing anticapitalist messages in their game.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It 4 weeks ago:
I’m not going to bother reading the article, because you can both be anti-capitalist and participate in the system as it exists today. The developers can’t pay rent with good vibes.
- Comment on Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded” 5 weeks ago:
So they can review reports and ban people
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 5 weeks ago:
Go ahead and run your own instance, then.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 5 weeks ago:
Obviously you would vet each person, not just blindly give admin privileges.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 5 weeks ago:
You can view the communities list if you so desire. It’s linked on almost every page, or likely surfaced in your client.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 5 weeks ago:
Bruh what? They’re citing lack of staff? They haven’t even asked for volunteers! I would be happy to help!
- Comment on Star Wars Jedi director’s new studio is making a Dungeons & Dragons action adventure 5 weeks ago:
That’s fine, sounds like it’s not for you then.
- Comment on Star Wars Jedi director’s new studio is making a Dungeons & Dragons action adventure 5 weeks ago:
Never played Diablo or any of the Elder Scrolls games? Even Baldur’s Gate? Those have all been very popular games based on D&D (some more closely than others).
- Comment on A Sealed Copy Of Fallout 3 DLC Is Selling For Over $2,000, And Fans Have No Idea Why 5 weeks ago:
Right. And that’s probably not what’s happening here. This is not important enough to actually read the article, but if it’s just being listed for sale at that price, not actually been sold, then nothing has actually happened.
Also, $2k is not enough money to need laundering.
- Comment on ‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI 5 weeks ago:
For a little while, the US considered using nuclear weapons for geologic purposes. It was never operationally implemented because it’s an objectively horrible idea, but at the time, nuclear stuff was the hot new tool in the toolbox.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
AI is also terrible, just in a less tangible way.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 month ago:
When was the doomguy humanized?