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- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 4 days ago:
The fucked up thing about AI right now is that AI companies get to act like we’re in a post-copyright world, pirating from literally everyone, while the rest of us are still stuck in copyright hell.
That’s the double-standard that they always upheld. Two large companies play by the rules. One large company against a small artist? The company steals as long as they can get away with it.
Marathon vs. Antireal is a prime example. They steal her artwork and style, put it in the game, and get away with it. The only reason they settled and paid her was because:
- They got caught
- The evidence was obvious
- The bad PR was affecting their sales
If any of those weren’t true, they would have gotten away with it, stolen it outright, and not paid her at all.
No AI involved in any of that. No need when corporations already held the power for centuries.
I don’t think it’s realistic that the rich will dismantle IP in the name of AI progress
I think they’ll accidentally do so, by creating so much from AI and a judge declares that it can’t be copyrighted because X% is AI generated, and existing precedent already required human input for copyrighted material.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 4 days ago:
I replaced it with a Patricia Taxxon video, so fuck Grey. He seemed to not get the point of his own damn video.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 4 days ago:
Well, that’s a damn shame. I guess I’ll have to find a different source for the history of copyright.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 4 days ago:
Actual artists have been fucked over by copyright since its invention. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Mark Twain, Sonny Bono, and Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.
All content is remixed and remastered, so I don’t really see a point to copyrights at all. Anything that relies on copyright are a part of incredibly incredibly oversaturated industries, so people should just make what they are passionate about, and not worry about whether some dude decides to rip it off to create some other thing. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, after all. Jazz musicians certainly don’t give a shit, and people have been stealing the Amen Break for decades.
People are too damn concerned over trying to be rich and famous from whatever idea they foolishly think is unique. Every melody has essentially already been created, and if it hasn’t, then AI and LLMs will take care of the rest. Create art because you like to create art.
If the rich end up dismantling their own IP shield that has existed to enrich themselves for centuries in the name of AI progress, I’m going to call that a win.
The problem is not AI. It’s the work-to-live death spiral. Install UBI and abolish copyright.
- Comment on I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins. 4 days ago:
I think you should spend a few more sentences selling the couch to players: “It doesn’t buy. It doesn’t sell. It just holds on to the stocks it already has.”
Or something like that.
- Comment on Getting Off with the Luddites: Hanging with NYC’s tech-critical youth cultural front 1 week ago:
Like a caveman asking for an email address…
- Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 1 week ago:
This is true of all companies in a capitalist society. People love to shit on Nintendo but Sony, Microsoft, Valve, yes even your previous Gabe is not your friend.
There’s a difference between publicly-traded and privately-owned companies. I’m not saying that large corporations are your friend, but it’s rather disingenuous to categorize all of them with the same black & white stance.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 1 week ago:
People need not be mad at Nintendo
You don’t hate Nintendo hard enough.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
You know what else fixes the birth rate? Making life less shitty and giving people enough money to be able to raise children.
In the meantime, negative birth rate is just self-correction of asshole dictatorships. Can’t make money line go up if birth line go down.
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent 1 week ago:
What are you going to do? Sue them? Call 911? Ring up your lawyer?
- Comment on ZA/UM laying off 32 employees after Zero Parades fails to reach commercial success 1 week ago:
Jamrock Hobo, one of the main DE channels, did a pretty fair and unbiased review about the game.
The game had its flaws, but it was still a good game. Having them immediately fire the staff afterwards just seems like it’s pulling the same shit over again, further cancelling any good PR they may have made with the game’s release.
I don’t see how they get out of this. ZA/UM is done, and will get replaced by one of the other 3-4 studios that were borne from its ashes. At least the ideas around it are starting to get traction in other games.
- Comment on Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both 2 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, Steam does nothing, wins anyway.
- Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders 2 weeks ago:
Balatro was great with Roffle commentating. They randomly hit one of the worst seeds to try to naneinf.
- Comment on id Software insists in new statement that it still has "the crew we need to build the games and tech we're known for" 2 weeks ago:
What AAA studios still use their own solutions now, except for Valve and Rockstar?
But, Id Software INVENTED FPS game engines! Valve didn’t even invent Half-Life’s first engine; they borrowed an early prototype of Quake.
Yeah, I know Carmack isn’t on the payroll nowadays, but there’s still some competent people who know how to design 3D engines on their own.
- Comment on This is a prototype of SMB3 on the PC, ported by id Software. Nintendo of America liked it, but HQ in Japan killed it to avoid competing with the NES. Watch Mario jump to sounds of Commander Keen! 2 weeks ago:
Is this what happened after “Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement”?
Actually, it looks like Lane Roathe chimed in on the top comment.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think John Carmack is sociopathic. He just thinks differently, and isn’t the most socially-adapt person. He was trying to reason out why the decision was made in the first place:
“Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal.”
He’s definitely not wrong. I still think Microsoft’s decision was pretty fucking stupid, but disposable entertainment options are at an all-time high, and even with gaming, you can throw a stick up in the air and have it land on a game studio.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 2 weeks ago:
The problem with what you’re saying is that they’ve always bought out other studios and then fucked them up.
Just replace “they” with “all publicly-traded companies”. That is the nature of buyouts and short-term stock market thinking. Just look at all of the buyouts EA turned to shit. Or Activision. Or countless other smaller studios that have died to larger buyouts.
If a company gets bought out by a corporation like this, they know what they are getting into.
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure they hired Asha Sharma just to gut the entire Xbox department and force its closure. It’s losing them money, but they want to continue to pretend that they care about gaming.
They’ll hype up the PR, pretend that they are restructuring, and then announce some “sad news” that they had to completely shudder the Xbox brand after a few years of pretending.
The thing is that Microsoft isn’t doing great in the Windows department, either. They are pissing off so many people that they’re losing grip of their near monopoly. And Copilot is almost as bad as Llama in terms of LLMs.
What the fuck do they have left? Office?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Half? You mean 99.99%? Take any random indie game… find its physical copy. I’ll wait.
That’s not even counting the miles and miles of asset-flip slop that’s out there.
- Comment on Kingdom Hearts AI art accusations hit Square Enix, and that sure looks like slop to me 5 weeks ago:
AI analyzed an existing piece of artwork someone created, copied it, then spit out a slightly modified version and called it an original creation.
“AI” did none of those things. As much as you want to personify tools, a human was paid to use LLMs to generate that output. It did not magically create that out of its own free will. These are not people, and they do not act on their own.
- Comment on Kingdom Hearts AI art accusations hit Square Enix, and that sure looks like slop to me 5 weeks ago:
How is this any worse than airbrushing models and Photoshopping movie posters?
- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 5 weeks ago:
Might as well do the meme right:
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 5 weeks ago:
It’s wrong to wish people dead
I had this attitude 20 years ago. I no longer do. I’ve come to realize that there are certain rich fucks who are actively harming humanity directly (Hitler, Kissinger, Reagan, world leaders who send the poor to useless wars). Even the rich fucks that just hoard money are actively robbing from the poor to do so, and some of those people die as a result.
How many people does a person have to kill before they are too far gone to save, and are just evil? How many levels of indirection does it take before they wouldn’t be considered evil? What happens if a person indirectly kills millions of people? Is that still far enough to call them evil?
These are the questions you should ask yourself when you try to plot out your own moral compass.
- Comment on AI Is Slowing Down 1 month ago:
Depends on what you mean by “fanboys”. No, the hype isn’t as real as these rich assholes make it out to be. LLMs aren’t going to replace all human workforce everywhere ever, like some of these techbro dipshits quickly find out.
But, I’m still going to use technology that produce a tool in two minutes what would have normally taken me two hours to do. Sure, I have to code review it, but that doesn’t take nearly as long as the work itself.
- Comment on AI Is Slowing Down 1 month ago:
Slop that produces inaccurate results and then tells you it did no such thing.
I use Claude at work and local LLMs at home, and they all produce good code. The Kagi agents work pretty well at searching for information that would have taken me 30-60 minutes to find. Although, I generally favor thinking models because they are good at edge cases.
You have to know how to provide good context for the situation, like examples, prior art, documentation, etc. Many people have a hard time even expressing an idea to a group of humans. Imagine your (pointy-haired) boss shows your department a picture in the next meeting:
B: “Go make this thing!”
D: “What thing?”
B: “Here. This thing. Make something just like it for our company!”
D: “Well, we can’t just copy it outright. What color should it be? What do we want to improve on? How do we tie it to our existing software?”
B: “I don’t know. That’s your job to figure out, right?”
That’s how most people treat LLMs. Garbage in, garbage out.
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 1 month ago:
marketing has gotten a lot better in the intervening years.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO says bot internet traffic has overtaken humans 1 month ago:
People seem to forget that, 15-20 years ago, 95% of email was spam. It’s gone down since then, but only because email isn’t that important of a communication platform nowadays.
Bad actors attack with the tools they’ve got. If it’s not protected, it’s exploitable until it is.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Story/Release Date Reveal Trailer 1 month ago:
Doesn’t matter. Pre-ordering is stupid on any platform.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Story/Release Date Reveal Trailer 1 month ago:
Cautiously optimistic, but I’m wondering if this is going to turn into some damned Playstation exclusive or not. And I don’t like how much they are pushing this pre-order crap, but I guess that’s every major launch title nowadays.
