yo ho

Thank you for an actually constructive response. You’ve honestly brought me around a bit with this.

I get that and agree, this is just a crappy and kinda dumb stick to be wasting the energy on because it makes the side opposing the injustice look like petulant children instead of enabling effective action.

It’s the first one, I’m terrible at effectively communicating nuanced points.

And I mean yall could interrogate the statement instead of reaching a conclusion and then responding but I get it.

But also, fuck that. Do more work as the reader.

Also, piss off with your infantilizing ‘hissy fit’ bullshit.

Why does everyone insist on adding the ‘so just bend over and take’ part whenever someone points out another source of wrongdoing? Like what do yall always take it to mean that the speaker is implying a whataboutism argument? And not maybe as ‘oh shit this has been going on longer than just this maybe we should learn about that too and we might figure out why it hasn’t been stopped yet.’

That it takes more critical thinking to accomplish the organized action needed for real change than leaving a bunch of negative reviews.

I never once said ‘other company’s do it so just deal with it.’ Fuckawhataboutism. I said “if you think this is new, you haven’t been paying attention.” What I shouldn’t have left unsaid was ‘the review is a nice start and show of intention. but we need a lot more dedicated, well organized action, to actually accomplish any change.’

But people read into things what they want to hear.

A bit more than what, not really sure what your point here is? All of those bullet points are similar if not identical to terms in other EULAs half the people in this thread have already clicked thru.

I’ll say it again, if you think this is anything new you haven’t been paying attention. I’m all for calling this fuckery out and pushing for something better. But like where yall been?

Still no actual answers from anyone on how this is ‘more’ than what I described in my op. Sure it’s a more detailed list, but it’s really not the “gotcha” everyone seems to think it is. That is, if youve been paying attention.

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• Did the EULA change? ✅
• Were all Take Two games automatically updated in secret and now hijack your machine with root access to spy on everything you do? ❌
• Do Take Two games contain code to report telemetry and user information(including application/system activity) to a home server? ✅
• Is this EULA change extraordinary and particularly egregious in comparison to others that most people have probably already agreed to? ❌(IMO)
• Are people riled up because e a YouTube video went a little viral and now they’re all playing telephone to the point where it’s now gotten to the point of random dumdums are review booming a 13 year old game claiming it’s turned into literal spyware? ✅(again, IMO)
• Should you be surprised by any of this if you’ve been even remotely paying attention for any period of the last 30-40 years? ❌
• Do we need more than just angry idiots in the battle against corpatocracy? ✅

We should be done coddling the late comers at this point. Yes welcome them and accept them, but at a certain point your level of ignorance became a detriment to your community and you should be made aware of that fact.

It’s called “a decades long campaign to erode trust and even awareness of unions by corporate business interests”.

“Is only one storyline worth playing out of dozens in a game heralded as one of the best story driven games ever made?”

Breh.

Thanks this helped me a bunch.

That’s the thing, i will never be able to write a complete project unaided, full stop. I banged my head against that process for 10+ years trying to teach myself. I’ve tried classes, books, tutorials and i always end up failing out because i am incapable of actually writing code correctly, even when i know what im doing is the way its supposed to work. I struggle enough with just spelling english words, my native fucking language, correctly half the time. So remembering where the semi colon goes or that you need to use : instead of = in these specific cases but not these specific cases, is something my brain is simply incapable of accomplishing.

I’m not applying for jobs, i’m not trying to build any kind of major infrastructure, i just simply want to participate in a community and not be shunned and ridiculed because i use a tool that allows me to participate at all.

So would you think I’d be welcomed to join a game jam with a ‘no AI’ rule or would I be disqualified? Based on the amount of downvotes both iterations of my original comment it genuinely seems like most people think I don’t belong.

Also, not using AI in no way precludes you from producing low effort work.

This feels discouraging as someone who struggled with learning programming for a very long time and only with the aid of copilot have I finally crossed the hurdles I was facing and felt like I was actually learning and progressing again.

Yes I’m still interacting with and manually adjusting and even writing sections of code. But a lot of what copilot does for me is interpret my natural language understanding of how I want to manipulate the data and translating it into actual code which I then work with and combine with the rest of the project.

But I’ve stopped looking to join any game jams because it seems even when they don’t have an explicit ban against all AI, the sentiment I get is that people feel like it’s cheating and look down on someone in my situation. I get that submitting ai slop whole sale is just garbage. But it feels like putting these blanket ‘no ai content’ stamps and badges on things excludes a lot of people.

Is this slop? https://lemjukes.itch.io/ascii-farmer-alpha

https://github.com/LemJukes/ASCII-Farmer

Like I know it isn’t good code but I’m entirely self taught and it seems to work(and more importantly I mostly understand how it works) so what’s the fucking difference? How am I supposed to learn without iterating? If anyone human wants to look at my code and tell me why it’s shit, that’d actually be really helpful and I’d genuinely be thankful.

Sure if we were talking about a reasonable, independent ratings agency with the public good as its primary guiding factor. But both the ESRB and PEGI are private, industry run and funded ‘self-regulatory’ agencies that operate with the industries own self interests as its primary guiding factor.

“Oh yessum I’ll absolutely deliberately lower my profits for the safety of my customer, you bet!” People who think business has any other motivating incentive than profit are the dumbest kind of bootlicker and it makes me so sad.

It’s not even a referee, it’s three shareholders in a zebra print trench coat.

The suit is effectively not about the money at all. It’s about setting a precedent in Japanese court to basically allow Nintendo to patent whatever they want, whenever they want, so they can go after and shut down competitors with ease. Pirate Software has a decent and short breakdown on their youtube channel iirc

Evade!

That link keeps returning an error

ITT: Dipshits, apparently.

If you watch the BTS stuff you’ll hear Zachary Levi talk about making it abundantly clear he made it to ‘the powers that be’ that he loved games and the fallout series in particular.

Mark Hamill in the wing commanders

Pretty much half the VO cast for New Vegas are or were big names in TV and film.

Tho that’s where the off the top of my head list ends

Man look at those reviews lol

Tbh the autotldr bots round here need serious improvement.

Yeah this article is a nothing burger

My favorite of these is Universal Paperclips

Two have been jailed. Cooke for 18m and Baugh for 5y. There is a third named person that has not been charged but was fired.

If this gets more confirmed gods I hope they take Bandai Nampo to forking task over this. This is when the union needs to step up and protect its members.

Why should those be free?

One of the other nice things ab X3 is there’s a crap ton of super detailed tutorials and guides out there. The one down side to X3 is just that some of the links on the Egosoft mod forum are no longer working so some mods are no longer available.

Once you have a handle on the game def look into adding some mods. There’s tons from simple QOL mods to basically a complete rework of the game into the star wars universe.

I couldn’t really say. There are thing ab X3 that I really missed in X4. I would honestly say to spend some time watching videos ab both games, especially tutorials. If you haven’t played any of the X games, this is the best tit bit I can give to give a sense of the game.

For x3 they released a bonus dlc/mod that adds ablut half a dozen pieces of equipment and ship upgrades. Just one of those pieces of equipment, a bit of ship software that lets you set up automatic supplying of multiple factories. Also comes with an IRL 47 page instruction manual…

X3 also got a full fledged free expansion dlc 13 years after its original release.

I would say start with X3 but that’s purely out of bias.

I picked up X4: Foundations cause of the steam sale, and while its fantastic, my cpu is still too old to run it properly lol. So i went back to play X3 again and hot damn is it just as good and even cheaper. So definitely recommend both of those!