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- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 1 day ago:
I also don’t like how things are legally speaking with DMCA, but the main takeaway is - the creation and distribution of an emulator, without DRM protections, is unequivocally protected and legal. ROM backup is certainly in most cases not, but if you are making your own copies for your own use, even while illegally breaking encryption, it would be difficult to prove and prosecute on an individual basis.
The right we must continually remind people is NOT even REMOTELY in question is the right to create and distribute emulators. This is by far the more important one, because people cannot reasonably develop their own emulators - it requires an open, collaborative community to ensure future preservation, and it’s a constant battle to keep people from actively trying to cede this right because they have nebulous loyalties to soulless companies that return no such feelings.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 1 day ago:
Not to be a stickler, but this does not make copying illegal - it makes circumvention of drm methods illegal. You can make drm’d copies as you like as long as you don’t circumvent the drm method. If your game isn’t encrypted, and the emulator doesn’t implement the drm, you haven’t circumvented drm - you are playing your legal copy on a device that does not implement the drm. It’s distinct from removing the drm from a device that implements it.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 1 day ago:
Copying your own game and materials for backup purposes is no grey area, and neither is development or use of emulators, and panicky, uninformed spewing of gut feelings are how public knowledge of your actual rights gets muddled into people with zero knowledge waxing poetic about how they THINK it works because they like games and think that makes their ramblings valuable.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 2 days ago:
Absolutely. I want to skim the important parts at my own pace. Not dedicate multiple minutes of attention to a video.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 2 days ago:
Now do Half-life 3.
- Comment on Too wordy a shitpost? 5 days ago:
Not wordy enough
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 7 months ago:
I’ve learned no lesson. I secured a permanent residency abroad the first time this chucklefuck was in office, and I’ve already bought my plane ticket out. I feel so, so awful for people who voted reasonably and are stuck there, and I encourage everyone who can to get out now, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to let the self-righteous attitudes of people with no sense try to punish me for exercising logic.
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 7 months ago:
Nobody’s “souls” matter anymore. The world is completely fucked and our physical bodies are going to be going through the ringer very soon. I hope you’re on the right side of the people who can now do whatever they want with absolutely no guardrails. Otherwise you’re about to REALLY experience solidarity.
- Comment on I'm not worried you're worried 7 months ago:
If it’s any consolation you and everyone else are likely to get a firsthand lesson in it in the near future.
Now EVERYONE is fucked. Congrats!
- Comment on Anon plays a guessing game 7 months ago:
Exactly. Nothing wrong with an “Nuh uh. I’m not falling for this. You can tell me if you want me to know.”
- Comment on Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC 7 months ago:
Yeah. Valve invented most of the attention direction techniques for Half-life (light, motion, etc, etc.) Trailblazers.
- Comment on Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC 8 months ago:
“Let’s give them lots of player freedom this time!”
Play testers continually don’t look at a set piece vista the developers and artists spent 400 hours creating.
“Well, that’s enough of that. Back to the rails.”
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 8 months ago:
Bees are pollinators because they go to flowers and collect and move pollen.
Mosquitoes don’t have time to hang out in flowers because they’re busy screaming in your ear at 2 AM.
- Comment on Where do donut holes come from? 8 months ago:
I’ll never forget those glazed eyes…
- Comment on Is there a subsect of the minimalist community that's focused on portable living? 8 months ago:
Oh, I know. I’m not specifically talking to YOU. Just making a general comment in the second person.
- Comment on Is there a subsect of the minimalist community that's focused on portable living? 8 months ago:
Just move the whole setup towards the camera by about 2 feet and you’ll not only hide that power outlet, you’ll get the recliner out of what looks likely to be a VERY poorly insulated front door. I can feel the cold radiating off of it in the winter already.
- Comment on Mobin' Time 8 months ago:
- Comment on Mobin' Time 8 months ago:
“Shhh! Don’t tell the students that letting them make a note card is actually tricking them into studying! SHHH!”
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Make no mistake… those people are clowns too.
- Comment on Another job lost because of technology 👿 8 months ago:
Yeah, it sounds like the kind of thing you could do but would pay out the butt for as a private service. Road map books and asking directions were my go-to.
Of course, post-internet but pre-GPS there was always mapquest.
- Comment on Anon turns 30 9 months ago:
That only works if you manage to make it there without hating YOURSELF.
- Comment on How Do Archers Resist Firing Arrows At Everyone In The Spectator Gallery? 9 months ago:
Half the training is shooting the bow.
The other half is burying the intrusive thoughts.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 9 months ago:
Here’s to the Losers in my ass
- Comment on Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives 9 months ago:
How many bad forms of transportation do you think he has to saddle the world with to sate his ego about the hyperloop turning out to be a totally unworkable lie?
- Comment on Explosions in the Sky 9 months ago:
- Comment on Anon makes a splash on a first date 9 months ago:
Smooth and respectful af. The only downside is you can’t tell him.
- Comment on Anon sees ghosts 9 months ago:
Absolutely not. One of the others can have it.
- Comment on Blue Protocol to be discontinued in Japan, will no longer release in the west. 9 months ago:
Yeah, but most of those layoffs have been in traditional studios making traditional pay games, not GAS studios.
- Comment on John Stewart's DNC Recap: 9 months ago:
Ken M, is that you?
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 9 months ago:
if I had a hat I would either tip it to you or say my hats off to you
Hat inequity… yet another social ill we need to address.
