chemical_cutthroat
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 4 hours ago:
- Chrono Trigger
- Xenogears
- Vagrant Story
Nier:Automata gets an honorable mention.
- Comment on 'Consumers are not okay with okay': Take-Two boss says BioShock 4 is taking so long because the company's goal is 'to make the best entertainment, not necessarily the most entertainment' 4 hours ago:
I think the original devs left after the second one. The third was a new crew. I could be misremembering too, though.
- Comment on Recommendations for games to play on a treadmill (i.e. not too intense) 1 week ago:
Fucking Vandal Heats goddamn.
- Comment on Steam gets a brand new video player for trailers 1 week ago:
Goddamn. It’s about time.
- Comment on Goosebumps: The Game will be removed from sale on August 8, 2025. 1 week ago:
On steam, yes, but I’m not sure about other platforms. However, if it has any online components or anything hosted on servers elsewhere, it will lose some or all functionality, and even if you install it, it may not run at that point.
- Comment on Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago? 2 weeks ago:
I dream just as big. My path to realizing them has only gotten more narrow.
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 2 weeks ago:
Start off with the Children of Time series, there’s no reason not to. Well written, great story with memorable characters, and a fantastic hard sci-fi twist on what intelligent life really is, and how we think of ourselves and others.
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 2 weeks ago:
Oh, for sure. I hate spiders, and I was loathe to read it, but damned if I didn’t enjoy all of them.
- Comment on electrostatic spider flight 3 weeks ago:
Adrian Tchaikovsky warned us of this.
- Comment on Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures.’ But Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction. 3 weeks ago:
The only Nazi paraphernalia I collect is scalps.
- Comment on Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures.’ But Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction. 3 weeks ago:
That’s like collecting Nazi paraphernalia
- Comment on Scifi question about time travel: 4 weeks ago:
You can kinda see this play on in the short story by Ted Chiang called The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate.
- Comment on Anthem servers shutting down January 12, 2026 5 weeks ago:
It was just a jab at the current Stop Killing Games stuff that is going on.
- Comment on Anthem servers shutting down January 12, 2026 5 weeks ago:
Lmao. Ubi shuts down The Crew, but EA is like, “idk, give anthem another 6 months.”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Cool. I just wanted to make sure my downvote and block was warranted.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Do you have any specific policies you are worried about?
- Comment on Why do Conservatives physically look evil? 1 month ago:
Good clean living
- Comment on Anon draws 1 month ago:
It is, but it looks purposefully bad. Typically you’d use a ruler, and you’d make much lighter lines because you are going to erase them later. This just kinda looks like an asshole that doesn’t want to be in art class.
- Comment on Anon pitches a new game 1 month ago:
Because money isn’t real if you have enough to lose. You can just put the blame on someone else and then get your shareholders to fund another project that will be “different”, just like all the other cash cows on the market.
- Comment on A simple solution, really 1 month ago:
But if you put that $600 into a money mar…and it’s gone.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They are called phosphenes, if you are curious.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 2 months ago:
It’s a harsh quote, but it gets the point across: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” Carlin was right, and it applies here. Sure, half of us may be able to adequately identify what we should and shouldn’t eat, but there is another half that can’t. With proper education we can change that, but right now corporations educate better through commercials than schools do through lectures. We have to maintain oversight because the evil of capitalism will choose profit over people every time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There are surprisingly few of them, they are just a very vocal few. I’ve blocked most of them now, and it’s made things much more bearable. Sometimes, though, I’ll catch a single downvote and I’ll imagine it’s one of them farting their virtue-signaling into the void.
- Comment on Is there a more convenient way to do this? 2 months ago:
I played dominoes with a bunch of Cubans that didn’t speak English, and I spoke very little Spanish. By the 3rd bottle of rum we all understood each other perfectly.
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 2 months ago:
I’m not here to get pedantic with a person who doesn’t capitalize the first letter of their sentences. It’s a crime. It’s theft adjacent. This concludes my TED Talk.
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 2 months ago:
While digital piracy does not constitute theft in the strict sense defined under common law—namely, the unauthorized taking and carrying away of tangible personal property with intent to permanently deprive the owner thereof—it nonetheless constitutes a violation of exclusive rights granted to copyright holders under Title 17 of the United States Code.
Specifically, piracy infringes upon the copyright owner’s exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, and publicly display or perform their work. The fact that no physical object is removed is immaterial; copyright law protects the expression of ideas, not just their physical embodiments. As such, piracy is more accurately classified as a form of copyright infringement—a civil and, in some cases, criminal offense—not as theft per se, but as an analogous wrong with measurable economic harm.
Moreover, jurisprudence has recognized that infringement can result in lost profits, market harm, and unjust enrichment, all of which are actionable. While piracy may lack the zero-sum quality of theft, it undermines the incentive structure copyright law is designed to uphold—namely, the right of creators to control and profit from their original works.
I don’t know what to tell you. Want to know more? Go read about Dowling v United States from 1985. That should help you understand how its still a kind of theft.
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 2 months ago:
piracy isn’t stealing. it would be stealing if people were able to literally take ownership of a company’s game.
Line one. That’s when you mentioned it. Literally right there in your words.
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 2 months ago:
This article points to a research that concludes that piracy is really not an issue for those companies though.
And yet we still have anti-theft measures on most games. The anti-theft measures aren’t there because there were never any thieves. They are there because theives provide a scapegoat to publishers to blame low revenue on. Regardless of whether or not it is actually happening, the net results are the same because the lie is there. Pirating or stealing games may not have a real effect, or may even be a positive one, but it doesn’t matter because there is still a negative outcome when companies increase the price of their games and force anti-consumer launchers and anti-theft DRM into games.
Imagine a world where pirating music is shun today. Nobody cares now, we all listen to free music online without paying.
Maybe you and your friends do, but a lot of people pay for music streaming services with give an admittedly mediocre amount of revenue to the artists. The idea that we should steal “culture” and make it free to everyone is ludicrous. People still have to eat. All of the time and effort that goes into making a game or a record has an expected return, and that return is a paycheck.
Now, selling a game that cannot be owned and that can be revoked at anytime or a game that can change its TOS on a whim is much scummy imo.
If you don’t want people to pirate your game, price them fairly and allow you customers to own a copy and offer an easy to use service.
That is why there are pro-consumer groups working to make sure that bullshit like what happens today doesn’t continue in the future. The EU and UK have very strong pro-consumer policies that protect the buyer instead of the seller. Change is happening, but it doesn’t make it easier when there is the ever present scapegoat of, “we do this because people steal.”
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 2 months ago:
That’s what they tell their shareholders.
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 2 months ago:
Whether or not it is what actually happens, it’s what they tell their shareholders, which is enough to make them resort to anti-consumer practices like third party launchers and anti-theft software.