Oh I get it, “cringe-worthy” because the text is on the wrong side of the screen. Took me a minute to even notice.

I will support this by continuing to be apathetic toward (and in fact ignorant of) the game known as Subnautica 2.

Backpedaling to “defending creators” - that’s a bold move, Cotton.

Ok let me Sheldon it for you: Yes, deals existed “back in the day” as the saying goes, but fans were not aware of (or reactive to) the business aspects of gaming enough for the deals to be the subject of headlines or controversy.

So has fire insurance on game company office buildings, but fans never cared about it or boycotted games over it, etc.

I long for the era when fans who were asked if they would swallow future exclusivity deals would stare blankly and say, Wat?

But then aren’t people who do get jobs so they can have healtcare mooching off free healthcare?

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Thanks for explaining. I wasn’t sure if it meant stop the killing of games or stop playing games that involve killing, and at that point I was afraid to ask.

Depends on who you talk to. I always thought the atmo was pretty chill. When I was there around 2010 as a contractor for a couple years they had a strange work schedule: 9-hr days Mon-Thurs and half day Friday - which was almost universally regarded as a screw-around day, along with at least half of Thursday.

Shoutout to Chris Perkins! I got to help playtest parts of 5E back in the day and he was the DM. Getting paid to play D&D is nice work if you can get it!

I always loved ARC - Attack, Retrieve, Capture - originally from Hoopy Entertainment and then PopCap. You joined an ad hoc team and piloted a little flying saucer around a maze, shooting at the other team’s saucers. It was super simple to learn and wonderfully addictive. Probably not around anymore. I knew the two guys who created it.

Oh I see. So to play the game using this code do you need hardware to physically connect the cartridge so the PC can read the assets, or does it read a dump of the ROM?

Enough with the AI moralizing. As a software developer I spent my whole career looking at examples of other people’s work and incorporating their coding techniques into my own work without ever hunting any of them down and paying them. Possibly other people have done the same with my code. Bottom line, I don’t care, it’s always been common practice. And I don’t see anything wrong with a human being writing code to automate that process - that’s the whole idea of coding.

Oh I see. I only took a brief glance at the code on github but it looks like the full game is there - did the devs add the cartridge check to avoid IP trouble? Because if you know what you’re doing you could always disable that.

The assets folder in the github repository seems to contain the assets - unless you’re talking about different assets.

Now that the code is available, anybody who wants to can mod it and create new version of Mario Kart. Without paying whoever produced Mario Kart. But playing devil’s advocate, isn’t that what people are calling AI evil for doing? So why am I not seeing outrage?

Changing the name is stupid, ut so is suing Google (or any other map provider). Tailoring place names to the target market has always been a common practice in cartography.

1. Trump threatens Nintendo with tariffs
2. Nintendo doesn’t seem to GAF
3. Trump says he’ll talk with Nintendo if they call
4. Nintendo doesn’t call
5. Trump cancels tariff, invites Nintendo CEO to lunch
6. MAGA applauds Trump for saving America from something or other

So, according to popular belief it’s really a penis size simulator!

Throwing away money isn’t evil when WE do it!

In any post-apocalyptic world, the skinny guy on a leash used to be a games journalist, movie reviewer, or online influencer.

Understandable - management has a natural affinity with dumbass.

Exactly. I was lucky to be in a field where I actually enjoyed the work itself (writing software) - it just didn’t leave much time or energy to geek out with my own projects like I can now. But it was worth waiting for.

Objectively I know millions of people simply go to work, come home, eat dinner, watch TV and go to bed. Repeat until dead. I just personally find it hard to relate to that frame of mind. Maybe they fear retirement would be boring because their lives are already boring and the only stimulation they get is at work - but to me that’s sad to imagine.

Oh yeah I forgot, careers were an endlessly fulfilling series of fun exciting tasks. And job interviews were like, “A white male with a college degree? You’re hired!” Everybodty’s ignorant fantasies about the past are staggeringly accurate!

It’s amazing how much energy you get from waking up without the obligation to go somewhere and work on somebody else’s shit all day because you have to. Gives me a big smile every morning!

I’ve never understood people who get bored in retirement. I looked forward to it from the very start of my career, and now that I am retired I’ve gotten so into hobbies and interests that it feels like there still isn’t enough time for everything.

People in the early 20th century could have openly and loudly refused to ride in cars, but they didn’t, and people today won’t refuse to accept AI in enough numbers to stop AI. It doesn’t HAVE to be inevitable, but it is anyway.

Because companies won’t. For people who actually want to make things happen, the question is how to do it and not how wrong it is that somebody else isn’t doing it.

Star Wars was released in 1977, and what does “simply stop writing shit” mean?

Since being replaced by AI is inevitable, it would make more sense for us to be figuring out how to make that world work instead of swinging swords at the ocean.

Lrrr: Why does the larger company not simply eat the smaller one?

Sword of Linuxcles.

People who collect <you name it> have entered the chat.

This organization fared much better than the Software Preservation Network, which the US Copyright Office recently barred from lending out copies of retro games themselves. It’s a lot easier to access material about the games.

Uh-oh, reddit also deleted a top comment for recommending Lemmy - are they Good or Evil? Binary thinker brains asplode!

I just got a new phone on Friday. There were like 50 kinds, various sizes and thicknesses, foldable, not foldable. The one I got is pretty slim but I’m guessing if people want thick phones someone will keep selling them.

Gamer equivalent of getting Linux to run on a toaster.

Nothing they say is more than PR; no person, thing or idea matters except increasing profits.