This actually may be unconscionable if it’s considered to be “never share a negative opinion about the game in perpetuity” as it’s worded.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability

The 17th percentile in peds is not surprising. The model mixing it’s training data with adults would absolutely kill someone.

GPT will require every test and yet for the sake of authenticity randomly perform medical errors.

Fallout 4 is the only one that doesn’t have Ron Pearlman saying it.

It’s indefinite because they have dependencies that are maintained by other people that will break.

Water is wet. You could’ve easily written the headline saying CD projekt sees future in multiplayer micro transactions. He specifically was hedging that fact with the interview question answer that did not specify between the two. Then this article pops up to carry their water.

The sad part is, they didn’t even likely pay him for this.

To give a different perspective: I save scummed the hell out of the original Deus Ex to not get detected and do one hit nonlethal takedowns just to get Paul’s approval and Ana’s distain. Was fun.

I wouldn’t want to bank my whole studio on one title being a blockbuster success either.

Google (and reddit) deals with tons and tons of those requests every day. Now, more than likely, Archive.org would be the one to remove it but that wouldn’t prevent whoever is contracted with the rights holder from sending it to hosting providers that link to it as well (after they find said link indexed in a search engine).

Lemmy will not let you post stuff that can get DMCA’ed. It will cause the lemmy instances to lose their hosting provider if they get too many DMCA notices.

can just put out shit

I honestly am sure Activision doesn’t see it that way. This further cements that it’s a golden goose they need to protect. This level of a captive audience is incredibly valuable and I’d bet heads will roll for endangering it.

What’s funny is Korean VPNs would be paying the fees to the ISPs instead, lol. ISPs still get their money.

Supposedly that service is P2P, so that’s how they operate without the fees.

It’s not about media or taxes, it’s about inflated fees for traffic period. It’s regulatory capture (which Korea has a long history of) and subsequent collusion by Korean ISPs. Prohibitively expensive to run a streaming service like that even if you have local datacenters to reduce international transit fees (because you still have to connect to the local ISPs who will still charge you). https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/08/17/afterword-korea-s-challenge-to-standard-internet-interconnection-model-pub-85166

Edit: To be clear, this sort of situation is about the only one where to effectively have a streaming service, you’d need to use peer to peer and make it “come from inside the house”, so to speak. Even their local streaming services are over the barrel and only the ISPs themselves could actually make an affordable streaming service.

There’s a suprising density of unique locations and interactions beyond the main quests. Try walking around in the city and you’ll see.

Portal is the college project or some sort of prototype

It was a game designed in college but commercially published (by the college digipen) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narbacular_Drop

Using version numbers to name a game that you’re still updating is fucking weird. I would’ve figured valve would have well and abandoned 1.6 by this point.

I’m sorry, but proclaiming that Jews are conspiratorially poisoning the world against whites is not remotely related to Israel/Palestine. It’s blatant Nazi shit. Muddying the waters is also generally crypto-fascist shit, but I don’t know you and I’m not going to put that label on you. Just realize that’s what you’re doing.

I used to visit no mutants allowed so folks talking up fallout 3 to me is always strange.

Kirkbride used some innovative drugs to come up with big parts of Morrowind.

The original was released by EA over 20 years ago. It’s not like its something they bought up.

Ah they nailed him with a noncompete for that public domain IP. Crafty.

That’s why they do promote say sales, because they still get the same cut and might see more revenue out of it. Selling general ads doesn’t fit with what they’re going for, but they do aggressively push ads.

“unfair” by the fanboys

There can’t honestly be a lot of them. I’m sure even folks who donated don’t have that much of their personal ego wrapped up in a game engine. Not to say there aren’t none, of course, because there’s always people who really will cling to anything.

Same reason everyone else is pivoting to profitability. Interest rates and loan servicing.

In the US, if you’re moved to another location for that amount of time involuntarily that’s an arrest not a detention. Seems the French code gives more police powers than our constitution.

Edit: they need something similar to what we’d call probable cause and I’d personally call it an arrest without charges https://www.sba-avocats.com/Criminal-defense-attorney-paris-france-police-custody-mobile.html

They also have similar rights against self incrimination in France.

I was just hoping for more cyberpunk style corporate warfare. I mean a gambling company and a corrupt monopoly decide to fight? Where are the bombings of corporate headquarters? You can’t tell me they can’t recruit a bunch of mercs to try and save them that 150 million.

To be real, even cryptobros would tell you the vast majority were useless as soon as they were minted.

Some mid level exec wants to keep his units sold spreadsheet relevant for all platforms.

That creates a significant can of worms in regards to what parts of the character are derived from the source material that is owned by DC. See not allowing sherlock holmes to smile for an example.

War Bufet.

Not near field, since it uses photovoltaic cells with a pulsed laser for power.

The photocells, when illuminated by a pulsed laser, provide power to the electronic circuits on the chip with ~10% efficiency. The chip transmits its ID through modulated current in the antenna. The varying magnetic field around the chip is received by a nearby coil in the reader, and the signal is digitized, analyzed, and decoded.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5896163/

So it’s security is that it’s not near field based but photovoltaic based. You’d have to copy it’s design to clone it.

I can’t compete with obtuseness of this magnitude.

Uh huh. So are you suggesting you independently test every product at point of sale? Or do you suggest certifying said product and affixing some sort of mark of trade upon it? Maybe even personally testing said product and then identifying it later based on it’s mark of trade?

Maybe my argument wasn’t as plainitively obvious as I thought it was. The only way to develop an opinion on quality is to personally trust the supplier or rely on trademarks. Without either you will not know if you’re getting the same product and quality will vary wildly. In an open market, the only way is to rely on trademarks. Place of origin is an extension of the trademark system.

Can only judge quality by trademarks and place of origin is essentially an extension of trademark. I don’t really have a problem with it.

They had a lot of hits. Descent was revolutionary.

I was an mplayer user. They had plenty of quake team fortress servers.

Me neither