1badmf wrote on Mar 18, 2024, 04:27:Ya. But that doesn't make Marathon the first game with vertical aiming. I think it was the first with mouselook, as noted below, although it wasn't the default control method and at the time people I knew played it with the keyboard. I think there was something janky about the mouse support, like mouse acceleration being permanently on or giant minimum move/turn increments.Orogogus wrote on Mar 17, 2024, 20:25:
>including being one of the first games to offer vertical aiming, perhaps the first, as it launched two days before Heretic.
Maybe Ultima Underworld (1992) or System Shock (1994, 2 months before Marathon), both of which used free reticle aiming and let players look up and down.
didn't have mouselook which was the revolution in gaming controls. ultima and SS1 were dead ends.
Bill Borre wrote on Mar 1, 2024, 12:20:They're not blocking the other Steam Deck competitors right now -- they put out a short media blurb praising them, in fact -- and they never blocked Oculus's VR headsets despite the competition there. It's not like they don't make money when there are more devices running Steam, or GeForce Now.
Afaik Steam Deck cannot stream your library from the cloud like Geforce Now. It would interesting if Nvidia created such a handheld. Would Valve block it from accessing your Steam library due to perceived competition with the Steam Deck?
Burrito of Peace wrote on Feb 26, 2024, 19:42:I think you complain about nVidia's Linux drivers a lot, and it looks like Linux's share is even less than VR. Is that a maximized spend for AMD?HoSpanky wrote on Feb 26, 2024, 18:03:
It’d be wonderful if AMD’s driver team realized VR exists, but since they don’t, I’ll be sticking with team Green. I’d love to get the better performance for my dollar that these 7000 series have, but maybe 20% of what I play is VR, and AMD driver consistently cause issues. A little under half the problems posted on the Virtual Desktop discord channel are from people with AMD cards, and the issue is always the same thing, and the fix is an older driver set.
Why spend dev dollars on 2% of the market? If you've got little or nothing else to work on, I can see the spend. But when you're the underdog in two different industries, I would imagine maximizing every dollar spent would be of the utmost priority.
BigVlad wrote on Feb 20, 2024, 07:20:The time limit is pretty long, assuming you at make at least a token effort to follow up on leads you're given in conversations. Even if you skip the portal spawner until late game, it still gives you time to get everything done, probably twice, before the genocides begin. Just about the only things you can't do are wander around back and forth having no idea where to go, and strip mine star systems one by one. It's a story-based game with a heavy Starflight influence (where the bad guys could also wipe out the universe), and it's not a great mining/economy/upgrading game. If that's what you're looking for I recommend passing on Star Control 2 and playing an open-ended game like Endless Sky, Transcendence, NAEV or Elite. Or just watch it on YouTube.
The time limit killed the game for me. I was having fun exploring the universe, minding my own business, then all of a sudden all of the systems start disappearing and there is no way to stop it. Game over. It's been a while since I played but it felt like the time limit was way too short. Maybe if I can find a hack that disables the time limit, I'll give it another go.
Kxmode wrote on Feb 8, 2024, 12:51:You guys know what the game's about, right?
"Literature" Club
Tom wrote on Feb 8, 2024, 11:01:That seems to be Walt's argument, yes. One sign of how sound it is is that Microsoft is claiming that the layoffs aren't merger-related, and were already planned by Activision beforehand:
So, Microsoft made a commitment, failed to live up to that commitment, but the government is terrible because [political leanings]. Ok!
jdreyer wrote on Jan 12, 2024, 05:06:You mean, a commercial program that creates art for personal use? Yes. That would be like hosting media for piracy. Most of those end users are going to apply it for personal use. They might or might not get in trouble, but the host will. Otherwise how would it be different from me making my own Batman comics and selling them for "personal use"?Orogogus wrote on Jan 11, 2024, 13:36:Even for personal use?
Commercial programs that create art on demand seem like they would have a much tougher time.
Cutter wrote on Jan 10, 2024, 18:06:Copyright can totally apply even to works that are transformative, otherwise anyone could have started using Mickey Mouse or Superman in their own stories long ago. Fair use cases usually involve consideration of multiple factors, but satire and criticism are transformative use cases that have generally been protected. Commercial programs that create art on demand seem like they would have a much tougher time.eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 10, 2024, 15:37:Bent wrote on Jan 10, 2024, 14:54:
I'm curious as to what they count as "AI".
Every game with computer controlled opponents has "AI". That is almost every game except PVP-only or single-player puzzle games.
I think most of the real controversy is about a few specific types of AI-generated content.
Computer controlled opponents don't fit into either of their categories.
Generative AI is what is talked about here and where this policy is relevant. As generative AI produces new content based on older content, and that is a legal quagmire. First step would be to have an accurate terminology displayed on store page if generative AI was used or not and if yes, what was generated.
No, it isn't a legal quagmire. Copyright doesn't apply if the work is transformative - which it is. The only people suing over this are "artists" who don't understand that. This will end up before the SCOTUS and they will rule exactly that. I'd bet any amount of money on that.
Simon Says wrote on Jan 9, 2024, 13:21:This is a popular opinion on Reddit and the like, but at best it doesn't seem that simple. Most of the Muslim world looks extremely right wing to me. Eastern Europe seems to be becoming increasingly theocratic and arguably often just as authoritarian, although they have better worker protections. India under the BJP seems to be an increasingly bad place if you subscribe to the wrong religion. Africa isn't exactly a conservative economic paradise, but the American right loves what the Christian church has been allowed to get away with there. Most of Latin America has been mostly left wing after the US stopped overthrowing governments and installing right wing strongmen, but Bolsonaro in Brazil was an extremely right wing president even by US standards. That leaves most of Europe and Latin America.
Twitter/X censoring the true left ( not what you US citizens call the left and is actually like the right of center for the rest of the world )? Noooooo, IMPOSSIBLE!
Has been happening for almost 2 decades now... You guys just woke up to it?
*chuckles*
jdreyer wrote on Jan 8, 2024, 04:20:South Park would fall under parody fair use, based on the intent behind the use of their likenesses. Fair use isn't a blanket protection that means IP just doesn't exist at all. Images of Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader smoking probably lack sufficient substance or context to hold up as satire in court. They're about as incisive and biting as peeing Calvin stickers.
Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader smoking pot- AI image generators play fast and loose with copyrighted characters
South Park had Mickey kicking the shit out of the Jonas Brothers years ago, both the use of a copyright char and off brand. Where does fair use for in?
Armengar wrote on Dec 30, 2023, 15:21:I'd think that voice over IP would be the go-to method. You'd be able to sign up for a service anywhere in the world, and then it would come down to how well you can spoof the IP address.
why are swatters not traced? Is there not a location system in place? Surely if it ia serious enough to mobilise a swat response then the police would need to trace and locate the person on the phone? Unless a person is truly meticulous with a single use burner phone then a cell location and reverse agps trace can be used, thats what happens in other countries. the system works very well for mountain rescues too.
Verno wrote on Nov 10, 2023, 11:18:The Digital Trends one is positive, too, even in the headline: "Steam Deck OLED fixes the worst part of Valve's handheld". It's just phrased in way that stands out a little.Xil wrote on Nov 10, 2023, 10:55:
It is always interesting how headlines set a tone.
Most are simply positive, the digital trend one is intriguing as in ooh what worst parts? And thus jumps out from the bunch
I just glanced at the headlines here, I'm referring to the reviews I watched on Youtube and the reviews I read on three different websites, all were very favorable.
Possibly due to the age demographic, Blues has a lot of "get off my lawn" types so I disagree with you. Most of the time it doesn't matter what the headlines say, I know people are just going to post whatever they think (often negative!).
Prez wrote on Nov 1, 2023, 12:59:I'm pretty sure the intended meaning there was "instead of shifting the blame, Capcom" not "shifting the blame to Capcom." Because Capcom moderating their online stuff makes more sense than random forum commenters doing so.Pandur wrote on Nov 1, 2023, 12:54:
This was never an issue until some moron took part in a tournament with a nude mod.
Let kids be kids and moderate your online stuff instead of shifting the blame Capcom.
Probably should have waited for someone to actually blame Capcom. We were only wondering what they meant as their statement didn't specify multiplayer mods alone.
PHJF wrote on Oct 22, 2023, 08:51:It's all well and good to say that modern medicine treats symptoms, but I looked up this functional medicine and how it treats people, and it's yoga, nutrition, acupuncture, spa treatments, herbal remedies and so on. Yeah, sorry, no. Like, one of the things these sites mention a lot is getting enough sleep. Again, well and good, but I don't believe they have any more insight into how sleep works or why we need it than the next guy. Root causes my ass.
Yeah no... pharmaceutical companies are not in the business of curing people. They are in the business of manufacturing "treatments" in the form of a pill that mask symptoms as long as you keep taking them. And American doctors have been bred to sell these pills to people either because a) they really don't care or b) they are so overworked or have so many patients they can't possibly do the root cause analysis required to actually make people healthy (a branch of healthcare called functional medicine)
Xero wrote on Oct 25, 2023, 17:39:They still have the red beans and rice side. Cajun rice was a different side that was dropped in 2021, along with the green beans.Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 25, 2023, 14:03:
The removal of Cajun Rice at Popeye's killed it for me. If the service wasn't so terrible I might get it occasionally even without the Cajun Rice. But no rice and bad service? Pass.
Oh wow. Didn't know this. Last I went, my usual would be the cajun rice and beans along with the sandwich. That sucks. More of a reason to not go back, lol.
jdreyer wrote on Oct 24, 2023, 14:52:Those are different isotopes. Helium-3 is what would be used for a fusion reactor, and is very uncommon on Earth -- we mainly get it as a byproduct of storing tritium for nuclear weapons. Helium-4 is what we use in balloons and industrial applications, and it would also be a product of a Helium-3 fusion reactor.
There Appears to Be a Slow Leak in Earth's Core, Scientists Say.
Helium is such a tiny lightweight molecule, that it doesn't surprise me that it's hard to contain. Kind of dumb to waste such a precious resource in balloons, but hopefully we can produce He when fusion reactors come online.
Jim wrote on Oct 21, 2023, 09:38:The structures are different, but the end result is still that that a video makes $x in revenue, whether from ads, subscriptions, microtransactions or whatever, and the website keeps 30-55%. And I don't see that the service being provided is significantly different in technical nature from Steam, Epic, GOG, etc.Orogogus wrote on Oct 21, 2023, 09:24:
It seems to me that there are quite a few. Ebooks, console downloads, mobile apps and porn (mostly ~30%), YouTube, TikTok and Instagram (55% seems to be standard across media platforms) and music (70-90%), all of whom can be reductively treated as webhosting sites. Amazon charges 8-20% for transaction fees on physical goods (separate from storage, shipping and advertising), where the only webhosting it has to do is product pages.
you are mixing a lot of different pricing structures and equating them to be the same. ad revenue for videos is not the same. youtube had their adpocalypse where they essentially slashed the rates they paid and many content producers complain about new problems with their algorithm.
so doing anything with porn is going to be hard.Get off the stage.
jdreyer wrote on Oct 19, 2023, 14:40:Epic was also sued, and settled with the FTC last year for half a billion dollars. Not in an unexplored legal grey area, they straight up violated COPPA. Why do you support a criminal organization?
None of that is illegal, but Steam's MFN behavior potentially is, which is why they're being sued. Why would you support a criminal organization?