Actually, you could totally have demand for that font set.

I was considering how copyrighted material can still be generated after writing that, so fair. If you fed in work a and made the same modification to each piece then it would just be a modified work a and not actually new work b.

I hear you, and that was my first thought reading through the article.

According to TFA:

While games using English can rely on system UI fonts, cheap commercial fonts or open-source options, the sheer number of characters used in Japanese means high-quality fonts are extremely difficult and expensive to make, so few affordable alternatives are available. This is what made LETS an important service, but its revamped pricing and limitations have now put it beyond the reach of a good chunk of developers.

Maybe there are alternatives out there, and I think a crowd sourced open font would be a great idea. I personally have no idea how to go about organizing a project of that scope.

Also, tbf, my answer was more emotional bitching than a serious take.

I will gladly replace dishwashers with dishwashing machines if they are energy, water, and cost-efficient, but I don’t believe we are discussing artisan dishwashing. This borderline association approaches sophistry, so I think it is much better to discuss the use of art and the corporate hoarding of artwork.

Monotype does seem to pay font creators well for royalties.. My frustration is the aggressive pricing models, the growth of monotype to where they own the whole market (per tfa), and the way they are demanding payment for fonts without checking to see if there is an existing license..

Basically, I will encourage and pay for fair business practices. Squeezing people for cash pisses me off. I’m not knowledgeable enough to pretend to create a free font set in this manner, but I would advocate creating tools that would fuck up the market. Open fonts would be great, but again tfa says that it’s too complicated of a data set for that, and the market is too small for independent artists.

Lastly, my answer wasn’t a valid solution. There are plenty of legal and social hurdles to it.

Not a fan of generative works, but this seems like a clear place to use it to fuck shit up.

Nih.hira.term.aigen.ttf Nih.katak.term.aigen.ttf Nih.kanji1.term.aigen.ttf Nih.kanji2.term.aigen.ttf Etc

Not the fault of the prompter if the resulting fonts appear to resemble licensed fonts, which are often slightly different copies of each other anyway.

Generative works cannot be copyrighted, so it would forever be in the public domain.

The only drawback would be that you would have to announce that you used slop in your game.

It was a fun trial. Not sure if I want to commit $10.

Don’t expect it to ever be supported either, not at least until the day Linux as a platform grows to a point where EA can’t ignore it by blocking it like they also do for Apex Legends, Battlefield and more.

I forgot why I stopped playing Apex Legends.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/ddr4-costs-soar-as-manufacturers-pull-the-plug

Whoa, papers please. Not the physical ones, I need you to hand over your smart phone and we will scan your access.

$20 for an ok NVME.

I was referring to excessive bloom, motion blur, film grain, whatever.

I’m no stranger up constant flickering, flashing, and shimmering. Is it worse than Warframe?

Oh. I turn that off when possible.

Oh, it is not well optimized. DMC Devil May Cry is UE 3 and runs flawlessly on my system on high with 75+ fos. Warframe runs great. Claire Obscura struggles to maintain 10fps without hacks.

My target right now is to play Expedition 33 on something other than N64 quality.

I very much agree that the gpu market is inflated. That is why I practically went 10 years between purchases and only bought a mid range. My previous card before that was a 3dfx voodoo.

I just purchased a sapphire 16g 9060 for $380. That’s almost 10% mark-up, but definitely not crazy compared to what we were seeing with scalpers.

I’m aware, but I’m enjoying the game mechanic enough to pop in $5. It’s just a little depressing to think about how much I’m spending. It’s my concession to not spending money on the currency.

Playing arknights. I spend $5 on the monthly pass for non premium loot box currency as daily rewards. Every month I decide if I’m enjoying the game enough or if I should scale back. When I consider how much I’m spending annually, I always consider cancelling. It’s not fun at all.

I was avoiding these cards, but the driver base appears to be improving.

Surely EA is the victim and did nothing wrong and Steam is the antagonist here.

The most important change was going from pewpewpew to pop pop.

Maybe. What is the cutoff?

Yes. A worldwide service provider should be able to achieve at least 4 9s of uptime. That’s 99.99% available, or about <52 minutes of downtime a year. That’s accomplished through best practices with redundancy, planned maintenance, and solid disaster recovery plans.

The ways to achieve a disaster of this magnitude include:

• No hot spares
• • A security event has locked all redundant servers and they are now rebuilding servers from backup.
• Lack of effective redundancy
• • A disaster has occurred at one data center and the load sharing is causing the servers to be unresponsive
• • • This is unlikely because there would be intermittent reports of success
• Poor patching management
• • Patches were sent to all servers without proper testing or rollback strategy

Makes sense.

I get the prevailing idea, and I can understand the reasoning behind it. My question really was trying to ferret out whether it was US laws that were violated, Singaporean laws, the initial trade agreement, or something else.

Is some context missing? I’m trying to be dense, I’m just not sure how Deepseek broke American laws. I get that a license is required for countries to purchase these from the vendor. What is stopping a third party from collecting hardware through intermediaries and reselling them to a Chinese company outside of US borders?

Kids agree on bow tie.

Here is mine Samsung Android 14. Connect is not mentioned, but I believe it uses a significant portion of the battery.

What I find interesting is that I have not had Pandora open in almost a whole day.

I guess it’s fine. I was concerned because of the processor requirements, but the real quality bottleneck was spinning drives.

I’m happily running my Linux gaming machine with steam and an AMD Radeon RX580.

I’m also happily playing decades-old games, so maybe I’m not stressing it! Last I checked, it ran Warframe just fine on windows, but that was a few years ago now.

25-35 hours. I’m about to cross the temple of the ancients.

In my opinion, it’s acceptable to possess a ROM in this situation. Just remember up use a VPN for protection.

Mine is snow levels. I feel miserable playing them, like I was sitting outside in Sub-Zero temps.

Sounds like the environment they wish to cultivate, just like the Disney Vault.

Edit: not defending, it sounds like their products should move to obscurity, like anime in the 80’s.

Do you guys not have cars?

It’s a bit grindy, but you used to be able to get through the main story possibly in under a hundred hours.

That, I’m aware of. In the context of this extreme action it is rare for an individual to not have some telltale online indicator.

This person’s disconnected nature is super interesting. The thing everyone wants to question is their online content. In this case, they don’t seem to have left a footprint. Were they browsing privately? Was there a person in their life who pushed them the wrong way?

Persona 5 was unplayable for a short time

I would love aigen chatter. I like the idea of free talk, but I am also concerned because NPCs can give away info early or even bad info.