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Fortunately you can save money by not buying HP PCs.

If run prices get out of hand don’t buy more RAM don’t upgrade your computer don’t give them your money and then when the bubble pops continue not to give them your money. All these manufacturers need to fail

It’s a bad store more than a bad launcher (although it’s also a bad launcher that lacks basic features)

Well I suppose at least it’s subject matter related, unlike when he usually opens his mouth.

Usually oppressive regimes that let international tourists in are generally smart enough to leave them alone. For example I would probably be perfectly safe going to the Philippines.

The problem the US has is regardless of what their policy might actually be, and of course it changes on a daily basis, the ICE goons they hire don’t have enough space in their pea-sized brains for rules and regulations, they are so damn trigger happy that’ll go for anyone. Including people they’ve been explicitly told to leave alone.

Just refuse to go. There’s no way they can force you to do that and it would be a slam dunk for an unfair dismissal if they decided to really dig their heels in.

Pretty soon the US dollar is going to tank to the point at which no one is going to be able to afford to buy games. So there was zero point me putting my life at risk in order to advertise there.

No that’s just filtering out successful games from the unsuccessful ones.

I want to filter out the shovelware from the data set so we actually know what the ratio of successful to unsuccessful ones are. Since it’s not useful for me to know that shovelware isn’t successful.

The problem is a lot of the games will be shovelware that no one in there right mind is interested in playing. It would be nice if we could filter out to only serious attempts. Because that’s the metric that’s more relevant. Of all of the games released by developers that were really trying to release a game, and not just an asset flip, how many of those games succeeded.

PlayStation is not a platform that you build on top of it’s the operating system runs the game it’s a totally different concept.

You don’t modify the operating system to make the game you make the game in such a way that the operating system can understand but you create your own code. Modine is literally modifying somebody else’s code.

Bit petty to point that out since it’s entirely irrelevant to the discussion.

In a considerably more ideal world than the one we live in, all games, not just mods, would be free and everyone could just donate to developers of games they found worth the money.

Great idea so now corporations are going to think they can get away with not paying me as well because I should just donate my labour. It’s a nice idea but it doesn’t work unless we have robots to do all the work, and then of course I still wouldn’t have any money in that scenario so the government would have to give me some. And I just know people would start complaining about freeloaders.

No one’s saying they’re entitled to free labour. But you can’t make money off somebody else’s work, that’s not fair to them, not if they haven’t already given agreement.

Obviously I can’t really answer that question. It’s nuanced I can’t give a black and white answer.

Notice I said chords, music isn’t just chords though. I mentioned it because they have been copyright cases where people have tried to claim that they can own certain chords or certain chord progression, the courts have decided that isn’t the case. You can own the composition but not the progression.

AI music is an entire piece, theoretically an original piece, you could of course make the arguement that it’s just cutting it up bits of pre-existing work and sticking them back together but you could also make that arguement of a human as well. Copyright law isn’t really fit for the 21st century and it certainly isn’t fit to deal with the existence of AI, but that’s nothing new. I can go online right now and find music that sounds like the Imperial March, is that copyright violation? The courts don’t think so.

I found the concept of stolen code to be a bit weird. Code isn’t poetry, there is a correct way of doing things and then there is incorrect ways of doing things.

If everybody does things the correct way then the code will be the same for any given problem. So is it stolen?

It’s rather like how it’s almost impossible to play any set of chords and them not be from some prior work. It doesn’t mean that the music was stolen it just means that there is a limited number of ways you can combine notes and if you further limit it to combinations that sound good the set is even smaller.

Assuming we ever actually get a price. Still no word on that.

Closing twitter down would not stop people who want it from using GenAI to make images.

I feel like you didn’t read my previous comment. That is not an excuse. The problem is that they are hosting the content quite happily without doing anything about it.

That’s a lot of interaction for a boycott, and I’m sure they would just ban your IP at some point. Of course there’s always ways around that, but how much effort do you want to put into this boycott?

The biggest impact you could have on them would be for everyone to go over to Steam OS which I don’t believe they support. It would be hilarious if they were forced to add support in order to stay relevant.

I don’t think anything else would have much of an affect, because like I said their target demographic are kids, who don’t really pay attention to this stuff.

The difference here is that the content is explicitly illegal in almost every jurisdiction in the world. And it’s not as if Twitter (I’m not calling it x) is a niche platform that regulators may not have yet noticed.

It’s a huge company that’s doing very illegal things very much out in the open. That might fly in fascist land USA but I don’t see why the rest of the world should put up with it.

Not that there’s an awful lot to boycott.

I’m trying to think what the last majorly popular title they released was that wasn’t aimed at kids. Possibly gears of War about a decade ago.

At this point I don’t think I’m boycotting them as much as forgetting they exist.

For some reason Epic studios just let Tim Sweeney say the most insane things. If I was a shareholder I’d want someone to take his phone off him.