PlasticExistence
@PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 2 days ago:
Absolutely. Been there since Nesticle.
There are always a few games that I don’t want to wait for emulation to get right, and the majority of those are Nintendo’s
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 2 days ago:
I find it hard to argue with that as I also don’t have data one way or another.
I’ve personally decided that I’m not going to be purchasing any games on console that are available for PC. I was always a console gamer, from the (really dating myself here) Mattel Electronics IntelliVision to the PS5. But more and more they don’t feel worth it to me, and I’ve absolutely loved gaming on my Steam Deck.
Of course, Nintendo is almost certainly never going to bring their games to PC. I am a sucker for Zelda or Metroid, so I usually have a Nintendo console of some sort.
- Comment on Confirmed: PS5 console prices are being raised by $100 | VGC 2 days ago:
This is a good point, but leaves Nintendo out of the consideration
- Comment on For the love of the game... 1 week ago:
Maybe he’s just in pain and you could try a little patience and empathy instead, especially considering your informed position.
- Comment on For the love of the game... 1 week ago:
Pray you never recognize the truth behind why that user keeps saying that, because that will mean that you have a serious problem that doctors will have failed to help with.
That user’s experience was my experience too — with a highly-rated doctor.
- Comment on This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian 1 week ago:
A Møøse once bit my sister … No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: “The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink”.
- Comment on Was there a way to see English speaking communities only? 5 weeks ago:
Gross!
I’m only into dragons fucking wagons
- Comment on Flashbang! 6 months ago:
The scientists:
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 7 months ago:
If they do, then may the old gods and the new have mercy on your hole
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 7 months ago:
Soon to be shitting bricks, eh?
- Comment on Man, I really got hit with a "All men are predators, it's in the studies". 2nd wave feminism is a scourge on feminism itself. 8 months ago:
That’s ridiculous. I’ve never had optical camouflage, advanced weaponry, and I’ve never hunted a human.
- Comment on Well, I mean they probably... Maybe they... 8 months ago:
It varies based on what population it represents. For Americans that works out to a metric fuckton
- Comment on Well, I mean they probably... Maybe they... 8 months ago:
I use metric for 3D modeling and 3D printing. It’s a much better system than Imperial.
The USA actually did try to switch once, but as with everything we do, it was a half-assed attempt that didn’t stick.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 8 months ago:
Current version of Excel stripped out a macro I made to make a specific task easier. It didn’t just block it from running. It refused to let me even see it anymore.
LibreOffice allowed me to see it again so I could re-implement it temporarily. I love how often Microsoft’s own tools can’t do what FOSS can with Microsoft files.
- Comment on Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation 8 months ago:
Consoles live and die by their exclusives. Xbox hasn’t had the draw that Sony and Nintendo have.
Gamepass is still a good deal, but I wouldn’t buy a console for it.
- Comment on Dimetrodon't call it a dinosaur. 8 months ago:
Your think I’m fucking around here!? Mark it zero!
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 8 months ago:
You’re okay by me!
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 8 months ago:
The Bleem case is a separate issue from creating a backup copy protected by DRM
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 8 months ago:
The law is all about those technicalities.
I don’t agree with any of that noise around the DMCA for the record. I feel like we effectively lost our right to archival copies.
On a PC, what you said about copying the DRM along with the data is largely true. It is possible sometimes to copy the DRM and reproduce the image with the DRM intact. It also might not be depending upon the copy protection mechanism. Commercial video DVDs used to employ tricks with the storage sector that made it almost impossible to properly copy by a standard computer disc drive. You could get around this with additional program like AnyDVD, but that was only available for sale outside the USA because of the fact that it allowed you to bypass DRM.
And like you said, the content can be encrypted. Decrypting it is, IIRC, considered bypassing DRM - at least in the USA.
Again, I don’t agree that this is how things should be, but the legality of emulation is complicated depending upon what we’re talking about emulating.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 8 months ago:
I would be interested in that case if you find it. I spend a lot of time thinking about emulation and the surrounding stuff.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 8 months ago:
The emulation itself is legal, assuming you’re not using any copyrighted code, BIOS, etc. to make work.
The backup copy of your game that you need can be made legally as well, but in the USA, if the source contains a form of DRM, then you cannot legally make a copy.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 8 months ago:
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
In the USA, it is illegal to make a backup copy of any of your media when the original contains any form of DRM.
On any media where DRM wasn’t used, you’re okay to create a backup copy.
The law is different everywhere though.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
There’s no meaningful difference in the eyes of the law
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
You’re suggesting he kidnaps a minor?
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Exceptionally bad advice
- Comment on I "found" this brick today on my walk home. I'ma keep it. Maybe put googlie eyes on it. Name it Brichard. 9 months ago:
I do not, but I’ve built fireplaces from brick. I can appreciate them more than your average person
- Comment on I "found" this brick today on my walk home. I'ma keep it. Maybe put googlie eyes on it. Name it Brichard. 9 months ago:
- Comment on I "found" this brick today on my walk home. I'ma keep it. Maybe put googlie eyes on it. Name it Brichard. 9 months ago:
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 9 months ago:
You want all this from someone you say is highly suicidal. You understand that you would be setting yourself up for failure, don’t you?
If she’s not in a good place, then your relationship will suffer. You need to be realistic here.
- Comment on His name is Carcin and he loves toes 🤗 10 months ago:
He was delicious
