Alaknar
@Alaknar@lemm.ee
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 hour ago:
If it’s a perfect 1:1 copy why does it matter? Can you explain how this isn’t just a stance rooted in xenophobia?
First of all: very often it’s literally a 1:1 copy.
Secondly: imagine you make an innovative product. I don’t know, automatic fence painter, whatever. It sells well, but you don’t have the money to start a large-scale production, you’re doing OK with sales and are looking for investors, but things are fairly slow. In comes a Chinese dude, buys one auto-painter from you, brings it home, dismantles the thing, copies everything (potentially making some changes), and starts a massive-scale production in his factory. Due to the mass-production, worse materials, and lower labour costs, he sells the product at 20% the price of yours. The market is saturated with his knock-off, you’re left with zero money.
Is this xenophobia to you? Or someone stealing your product and killing your business?
The goal of the vast majority is to be acquired
Yeah, I’m not talking about them being acquired. What gave you that idea? I specifically used the words “steals their idea”.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 day ago:
I just wanna know which amazing video game innovations We are protecting here in America
First, I’m not talking specifically about America. Second, I’m not talking about “amazing innovations”. Copyright is also for trademarks, very characteristic gameplay mechanics, etc. For example, Playrix made “Fishdom” which was copy-paste Worms. Team17 won the case and protected their IP.
Are we talking about the failing franchises that have been milking their customers for 15 years?
Umm… No? What does that have to do with copyright or IP protection…?
Have we done anything really innovative recently?
Have you tried looking at titles from other publishers than Ubisoft, EA or Activition?
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 day ago:
I don’t care where the company making the claim is from, as long as it acquired the IP legally and has a valid claim for protecting it.
The way the patent system works is bad in many, many, MANY ways, but saying “copyright and patent laws need to die” is just idiotic. As it is, we at least have a semblance of rules. Without it, it’s just “whoever can reproduce and mass produce a promising product faster”. And that means: China because they already make everything.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 day ago:
They favour the big guy, not the little guy
That’s the US law system, not the IP system in general.
There are examples of smaller companies managing to protect their IP (Finjan vs Symantec, Unwired Planet vs. Huawei, Neo Wireless vs. Sony, etc., etc - that’s just from a quick search).
I’m not saying that the copyright system in place is perfect, but saying “copyright and patent laws need to die” is just delusional.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 day ago:
WTF are you talking about??
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 day ago:
Grow up and learn to read.
I’m not defending Nintendo, I’m saying that “copyright and patent laws need to die” stance is naive.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 day ago:
Chinese companies famously ignore patent law and do make copies and try to flood the western market with them.
But western companies at least have a tool to fight back or limit the flood.
Most startups don’t have the time and/or money to patent their ideas and big corps do squash them/steal their ideas routinely once they become noticeable.
Ah, the usual “if the solution is not absolutely 100% perfect, let’s throw out the solution”. Come on…
If anything, startups can’t develop their ideas because some company will hold a generic patent like “clicking a button does something” (or “glide with a pet”) from 30 years ago.
Yeah, this happens all of once every billion times. Clearly the system is stupid and needs to be killed so that nobody who isn’t extremely rich can actually develop anything new without being immediately put out to pasture.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 day ago:
Copyright and patent laws need to die.
This is such an extremely naive thing to say.
Do you enjoy having every good, innovative US or EU product die immediately due to China/India making a 1:1 copy and flooding the markets with it?
Enjoy innovative products that startups create? How about not having any of that because as soon as a startup makes something, a big corp comes in with their money, steals the idea, and floods the market?
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 1 week ago:
My favourite is that you cannot wear clothes made from more than one kind of thread.
Which means, in essence, that in the XXI c., literally everybody, including priests, is a sinner, and goes to hell, because everything is a blend these days.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 1 week ago:
I mean, he always calls trade deficit a “subsidy”, and has since 2016. I honestly don’t think he understand what that concept means, he’s not that subtle with manipulation.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 1 week ago:
He doesn’t understand what “trade deficit” means.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
Oh look “orcs” the dehumanising Banderite fascist scumbag lingo
Umm… You do realise that they used it themselves? And not just during the war, but in The Last Reingbearer too?
Sure you’re not some filthy ukronazi
It’s so uplifting to see how you shy away from dehumanising, fascist, scumbag lingo, and talk about all other humans with respect! :*
USSR (…) quit living in the past and bringing that up.
I’m talking about 2005.
I mean, I’m at least assuming this bit was about me mentioning Putin’s dream of restoring “russia to greatness”. But I’m not sure, because you started spitting on your keyboard and wrote some bullshit.
You can volunteer, wear your swastika and wolfsangel
You first. Oh look! And they’re actually working on making it legal!
Now piss off and go cry somewhere else or do I need to block you?
Mate, 50% of the two of us are crying, and it’s not me. I’m just laughing at you gulping down the propaganda so hard you’d put Sasha Grey to shame! :D
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
And stop crying about the USSR, that doesn’t exist anymore
So, you’re saying that on top of being clueless about history, you also have no idea about current affairs in USSRussia? About how putin feels “the dissolution of the USSR was the greatest catastrophe of the XX c” and how “it’s time to rebuild” it? Or how the orcs rode into Ukraine with USSR flags on their tanks?
Good riddance, and may the next generations follow.
Careful now! You’re veering dangerously close to a bannable offence. :)
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
oh wait, they weren’t elected since it was a coup and the US decided who would be in their government. Or have you something to deny the Nuland-Pyatt call also in your propaganda folder?
I do. The fact that Ukraine had a legal (and observed by international - russia included - parties) immediately after, or the fact that Yanukovych was stripped of power by his own party. Unless you’re suggesting that the US bought LITERALLY EVERY Ukrainian in and out of their parliament? :D
Here’s another relevant call exposing the fascists: Original :
Nothing says “I did my research” like saying “original” and posting an English translation which, by definition, is not the original words of Yatseniuk.
The translator fucked up, as proven by looking at the actual original.
Just look at what that nazi pig Timoshenko said in 2014:
I’m absolutely certain that no person in Belgium has ever said anything derogatory or unpleasant towards Germans when the Nazi tanks rolled in. ;)
You people disgust me.
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Good thing you have support in the good and compassionate USSRussia. :) They never did ANYTHING wrong! :)
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
They are not allowed in the government and certainly not in the army.
Well… After they had 13% in the parliament in 2003, yes, they were banned.
But here’s the thing: no far-right party has ever gotten more than 3% in Ukraine, which is below the minimum 5% required to take a single parliamentary seat. That’s how horribly Nazi Ukraine is.
While in ex-ukraine they proudly celebrate these wolfangel wearing scumbags
Mate, that info is so 2018 it’s not even funny anymore. :D
And their ministers have called ethnic-Russians subhuman and called to genocide them.
And you can, of course, provide independent proof of that happening, right? Right? :)
No country on the planet compares to your shithole, only germany in 1940’s
LOL, you’re so hilarious immediately assuming my nationality because I’m pointing out your bullshit! :D
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
There were altercations with the native American people, particularly with the Cherokees at first. There was also domestic strife with the white settlers during the Whiskey and Shay Rebellions concerning taxes and civil rights that lasted well up until 1796
Good to hear that local conflicts are considered “war” in this article.
Now do USSRussia.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
Why would you even type something like this when it’s so fucking easy to disprove?
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
Someone is still in his red scare days
Yeah, it’s telling that it’s literally everybody who has a border with them.
So fuck off nazi bootlicker
brusselstimes.com/…/flemish-far-right-meps-nazi-l…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlaams_Blok
You were saying something? These dudes got 4 times more votes than any far-right party in Ukraine’s history. How about you go policing fascists in your own country?
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
But this is a case of the lesser evil. Against the imperialist US mass murderers and a fascist-infested
Christ, you’re literally insane, bro. :D
If you took all, even the suspected, “mass murders” of the US, and multiplied that by 100, you wouldn’t get anywhere near the amount of blood USSRussia has on its hands.
While they are turning super heavily towards fascism in the US, you have literal fascism (just wearing slightly different uniforms) in USSRussia. Not to mention them employing literal Nazis in their army.
And the use of “imperialist” as a derogatory term against the US, while USSRussia has had more wars of aggression since the Second World War by a factor of 3 is just hilarious, when you call the reds “lesser evil”.
And the west is lucky Putin is in charge, he has some restraint and brains
So many brains! Smeared all over the front-lines in Ukraine, it seems, but - thanks to Putin’s restraint - they’re still sending suicide soldiers against machine-gun fire…
Unlike that loose cannon Trump or some warmongering EU vazal screamers. I know plenty Russians criticise him for being too soft and if he gets replaced thing would get ugly fast.
LOL, “get ugly” how? They’re scraping the bottom of the barrel right now. Dude, they’re storming the front-line ON MOTORCYCLES, and you’re afraid that it’s gonna “get ugly”? With what? They’re going to attack Finland on mopeds?? :D
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
genocided
You don’t seem to understand what the word means, and in the context of the rest of your rant, it’s hilarious. :D
Also, you should get your points straight. You seem to enjoy the fact that Ukrainians are dying, but at the same time complain that US is supporting them, making them die more…
You don’t seem to be criticising russia, though. Everyone’s a fascist, according to you… What about russia?
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
the orchestrated coup
Right, right…
banderites (decline of that evil cancer country)
Ah! Are you Polish, by any chance?
And is the orange clown not still sending weapons to the banderites? Has he not done it all the time?
Mate, the US has restarted military support to Ukraine on day 3… They’re making it difficult and limited, but both military aid and Starlink access are unrestricted right now.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
It’s a common way to say someone was dupes by something, “they bought it” meaning they fell for it.
Mate, are you OK? I know what the phrase means and I’m struggling to see which part of my reply gave you the impression otherwise…
there was antitrust brought under the Biden admin. [link]
What is your argument here, exactly? That Trump appointing an anti-Big Tech person to lead the anti-trust section of the DOJ was… a bad thing… because Biden did stuff for anti-trust…? Hmm?
The point being GOP was only anti big-tech in rhetoric (…) He is either lying, or not paying attention.
Sigh…
Don’t take it the wrong way, it’s not an attack, just a statement of fact: people like are the reason democracy is failing.
In most countries democracy has a 4-year turnover. One party comes in, says “we’ll do X”, gets to do their thing for four years, and then… It turns out that “X” takes 6 years to implement so people like you go “they lied to us, they didn’t do X!”. Now, the other party sees that and says “oh, trust us, we’ll do Y” and “Y” is a bullshit non-issue or a non-solution to an actual issue, but it only takes 3 years to implement, which gives them a nice boost and a potential for re-election.
This creates a vicious cycle of parties becoming more and more populist, saying they’ll “solve poverty by increasing minimum wage” (where the actual solution is massive changes in regulation and policy that would take a decade to implement), or “kick out immigrants to give back jobs to true XYZ” (where “true XYZ” don’t want to do the jobs that immigrants take, and the solution, again, would be proper regulatory (and executive!) action, but that takes a decade or two to implement). Etc., etc.
Now, back to the point - yes, you’re right. A lot of stuff happened during Biden’s tenure. But A LOT of that stuff was started by Trump’s administration, or the actions of the Trump administration opened the doors for a lot of what Biden did.
Here’s a list of some of it:
DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google (2020)- Focused on Google’s deals with Apple and others to maintain default search engine status, thus harming competitors.
FTC Antitrust Lawsuit Against Facebook (December 2020)- To potentially break up Facebook by forcing it to divest those companies.
DOJ Antitrust Review of Big Tech (2019)- Laid groundwork for later actions, like the 2020 Google lawsuit.
FTC Tech Task Force (2019)- Re-examined acquisitions like Facebook’s of Instagram and WhatsApp.
Trump’s Executive Order on Section 230 (May 2020) to weaken legal protections that shield social media platforms from liability over user content and moderation decisions. - didn’t get much done as actual change would require Congressional action. But it intensified scrutiny of Big Tech.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
it is trivial for a person to move to an instance who’s ruleset better aligns with their wishes
How?
Can I just move my existing account to a different instance? Or do I need to create a new account on another instance?
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
to die for the US interests
How does this propaganda point hold water now that the US interests are so clearly aligned with russia and against Ukraine?
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
The problem with this, is if he was paying attention AT ALL, it’d be clear that the republican stance “against big tech” was always a lie.
Nobody ever suggested otherwise. I specifically mentioned that myself.
The fact he just bought their BS is enough for me to not trust the company.
He didn’t “buy into” anything. He didn’t become a Republican, WTF are you people talking about? He literally said, that at the time GOP was more anti-Big Tech and pro-consumer than the Democrats and that a specific appointment was a good choice.
Since when does stating facts mean you’re “buying into someone’s BS”?
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, yes.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
Mods censor EVERYTHING
This is not a Reddit issue, this is a “subreddit I’m subscribed to” issue. I’m not seeing that problem.
The problem I AM seeing, though, that’s ACTUALLY making it unusable is how they fucked up the latest UI redesign. Ctrl+Enter no longer works, spellcheck is force-disabled when using the Markdown editor, posts no longer open in a panel, you have to open each one in a separate tab or reload the main feed every single time, everything is slow and clunky… It’s just badly written, badly optimised and badly designed overall.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
I will die on this hill - the Proton CEO was right when he praised GOP in the context of the time, and situation.
The situation was: GOP accidentally* going against Big Tech and pro-citizens, while Democrats were defending Big Tech (just to be in opposition-by-default to GOP). Specifically, the CEO’s tweet was about how Trump nominating a fairly loudly outspoken anti-Big Tech person to a very high position in the DOJ was a good thing.
The time was: just before Trump 2 took office and showed what a shit-show his admin, and GOP have become.
The guy was ONLY talking about Big Tech and anti-trust policies nothing else. He never said “GOP is good for the US” or “GOP is good for the world”, he said “GOP are doing a bunch of anti-trust and anti-Big Tech moves right now and it’s good”.
People dropping Proton for this reason are the epitome of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
* it was because Trump was throwing a hissy fit at Meta and Twitter for allowing people to express anti-Trump opinions.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 3 weeks ago:
Because it would be nice to have a card number that looked plausible that could be used in movies
- Comment on It's a fun new game 3 weeks ago:
Why is it “too bad” if they’re used for testing?