TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on do what you love 6 days ago:
CS is Computer Science, Cyber Security is abbreviated as CyberSecs, Google it
- Comment on Where will nsfw game creators go now that itch.io has "changed"? 3 weeks ago:
Based on what Steam did, isn’t uh, specific categories of NSFW that were removed? Or has itch gone 100% no NSFW?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
It’s not redirecting the conversation to respond to your statement that whataboutism is when the hypocrisy is “unrelated”. Which conveniently lets you decide what is related or unrelated.
Do you not consider Russians human?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
You want examples of Chinese companies disregarding copyright? Uh.
www.aliexpress.com? Or, yknow, the actual article we’re commenting on?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
You think I’m going to shift the goalposts for one example? Ok, yeah that definitely overrules literally decades of behaviour. You win. Here’s your Internet reward for the best argument. ⭐️
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
Explained is not the same as justified.
I would have thought this was obvious but forcing your rivals to abide by their own rules while flouting them yourself is not an endorsement of those rules, it’s a mockery of them.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
I have no issue with people going after China. I’m not a hexbear/ml stooge. It is possible for two things to be bad. It is possible for something about a bad entity to be neutral or at least unsurprising. Which is how I would describe China’s lack of real interest in engaging with, from their perspective, the global order’s new fad interest in intellectual property rights.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
And, as always, it is in the sealion’s power to determine what is the same, and what is “different but related”.
Arf arf arf
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
No, but this might shock you, other countries have different definitions of what theft is. Theft is taking something from someone.
The funny part being that it is literally enshrined in American law that game mechanics can’t be copyrighted, so its not even in the definition of theft in America either.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
“Issues with westerners” is an odd choice given that I’m Irish but ok.
It’s not my job to comfort American fragility. Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
If you think that historical context doesnt inform culture, you must be an American, in possession of neither.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
We used to just call that “pointing out hypocrisy” before Americans found a thought terminating phrase for it
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
abduct Chinese paper makers, imprison them, steal the technology
sneak into China, impersonate religious figures, hide silkworms on your person, sell to a Roman emperor
sail into China, pretend to be a botanist. Steal tea and grow it in your starving colonies instead of food
“Why don’t China care about western patents and copyright?”
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 4 weeks ago:
I’m spelling it the Hiberno-Hellenic way
- Comment on get sum 4 weeks ago:
It think that rather than early - really early - exposure to porn turning everyone into sex-fiends, it’s actually terrifying a lot of them. What if I don’t want to gargle cum like Adriana Chechik? What if I don’t have a 10 inch cock to stuff my stepmother with?
A more optimistic reading might be that masturbating is easier, freer, quicker, and more accepted than ever before. Rather than risk an STI, pregnancy or human relationship, just crank one out and get back to work.
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 4 weeks ago:
Birds eat the snails. Bird-eating Spiders eat the birds. Phorusrachids eat the bird-eating spiders.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 month ago:
I’m so sorry that they called you that
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
What do you think the word boffin means? Do you mean buffoon? You should probably double-check your phrasing before quoting anime protagonists from memory
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
“an actual, real, specific person in the system”
What system is that?
“Sends an email to the security team”
I can’t tell if you’re my father trying to understand Facebook or my nephew trying to understand a mouse.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
No, I talked about putting this energy into convincing others to vote with their wallets, not just “doing nothing”. A boycott is an active campaign. It doesnt just mean not buying a product. It means not buying any associated product. Not even tolerating them in conversation.
I’m basing my opinion on how the commission has responded to similar successfully raised initiatives: “that’s already covered by legislation and up to EU states to manage”, “no that’s something we cant support, but feel free to appeal endlessly”, and in the most effective one, “committing to making a legislative proposal by 2023 but actually if thats ok we’ll make it 2026 and I suppose then if legislation is agreed it may be in place within a decade” (end cage farming, which polls at 86% approval already in the EU).
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
No you cannot
(16 words later)
Like, ok, I guess you could
lol
OK buddy, cybercrime never happens and interpol will come arrest your python script if it did because you messed with an EU “government” form that might have resulted in them having to get a 60 year old Greek politican to ask what a EULA was
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
What on earth makes you think an online petition, which has never led to any of the consumer friendly regulation you mention, has the ‘highest’ chance? Or that the alternative to a petition is doing nothing?
All of that regulation came primarily from legal cases.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
You need to input a number matching a regex, the format for which is helpfully provided on the page.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
Answering doesn’t mean doing anything, and all they have to do is generally wave in the direction of the overwhelming popularity and profitability of the products compared to the online petition that 0.2% of the EU’s adult population will have signed.
If the general public does not care, legislation will not follow. Filling out and promotinh a glorified change.org form is energy wasted on actually popularising your viewpoint instead of trying uselessly to get it in unpopularly.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
You know you can just fill in what you want right? And the number goes up? They even put the format right there.
Ask ChatGPT to make you a script to fill in that form with Beautiful Soup. Takes 30 seconds, if you haven’t already.
It’s cool that you led with Estonia, the one that was botted to 100% signatures a couple of days ago.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
You’re claiming mutual exclusivity…
No, I’m not. I’m saying this is a waste of time. Like, writing six paragraphs that say nothing new level of wasting time.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
Nobody said anything about AI or LLMs.
Flooding online petitions with bots isn’t even a this-century thing let alone anything to do with AI hype.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
There is zero scrutiny possible for the form which is 100% based on trust that the signer is who they say they are adults where they say they are. If you want to be John Smith in UK, Paddy Murphy in Ireland and Jurgen Schmidt in Germany, you can be. There’s a reason none of these initiatives have done anything except keep people who care about something busy with dopamine graphing instead of doing something like boycotting relevant games and publishers.
And no, like to the EU, Youtuber noise is not relevant to me. Millions of views is literally nothing. You see the general state of the world, yes?
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 month ago:
You guys need to make your bots a little less obvious
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Crimes are (ostensibly) supposed to be proven beyond doubt, so yes, it can be (and often is, I work for a telecom) used evidence, for both prosecution and defence.