I do too. It’s a comfort series for me and I’ve never seen someone who can make the Sims so funny. CallMeKevin and Jerma come close, but Joel’s series was a non-stop trainwreck.

Sadly I think too much has changed since Joel last did it for him to revive it without starting from scratch (I think he talked about it recently, but I can’t remember). His Sims 2 streams are a good spiritual continuation of it though.

There are still companies that make physical copies, but typically it’s in limited quantities and sadly I’ve found that most of them (especially one of the big ones, LRG) can be pretty scummy. I think the only two I’ve found that are worth buying stuff from are iam8bit and fangamer.

Meh, give it another 10yrs and Wii games will be selling at the original prices. Rip game/vintage computer collecting. You were a fun and inexpensive hobby until the rich assholes got to it.

I sometimes hear furries mess up and refer to women as “female humans” or something along those lines, but that’s mainly because furries usually think in “male/female” instead of “man/woman” (or at least all the ones I’ve met seem to). For an example, “Cat-woman” can be kinda ambiguous and (at least imo) sounds kinda odd since “woman” is usually exclusive to female humans. In this example, are we talking about a woman who’s obsessed with cats, a woman who is a cat (a female feline with human features), an anime cat girl (a woman with cat features), or a DC Comics character (a woman who dresses up like a cat)?

Otherwise though, yeah. Yeah, especially, especially when someone refers to women as “females” as in “check out those females over there”. That’s creepy. Even furries would rather say something like, “check out those gals over there”, regardless of context.

Edit: also, does this hypothetical person say “males” too, or is it “man/female”? “Man/female” is a massive red flag.

Looking at how they handle character controls, probably not actually. It looks like you control your character like a puppet or marionette.

That’s awesome. I think it’s also a really smart way of converting a game like that to VR.

Honestly, that’s a reasonable take. I mean, there’s a world of a difference between using an AI to automatically unwrap and generate UVs or generate PBR maps from flat images vs having an AI auto-generate textures and models from scratch. What’ll be interesting is to see where the line ends up being drawn.

The problem with that is that copyright is viral. If you take a photo of a work under copyright, then your photo is also under that copyright. You own the copyright on the photo, but the original copyright holder owns the rights for the reproduction of the copyrighted work; meaning you both own copyright on the photo.

It usually isn’t enforced, but you can see an example of this when news stations get sent C&Ds or DMCAs because some chucklefuck with a loud stereo decided to harass them (at least, I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of news stations getting legal letters as a result of someone playing unlicensed music in the background).

To make matters worse, because anything can be considered artistic with a good enough story, you can potentially claim copyright on reproductions of public domain works if you alter them in some way; even if that’s just by changing the spelling of some names.

“Fun” fact: this is why some museums try to stop you from taking photos. The artifacts and paintings being presented may not be under copyright anymore, but the museum is claiming copyright on the presentation of the artwork or artifact, not the artwork or artifact itself. Afaik it’s never gone to court so no one knows if it’d actually hold up (I think they usually cite other reasons for kicking you out, which makes it harder to fight), but you’d have to go to court to find out and there’s no penalty for them falsely claiming copyright.

All that said, however, it doesn’t take much for it to be considered derivative.

Yet, still, just putting the image into a bot and tell it to make a copy wouldn’t be enough to free it from copyright; you just can’t claim copyright on the (unauthorized) reproduction. The bar is pretty low unless it can be proven that you intended to infringe on someone’s copyright (putting a image through a bot with the express purpose of getting a “copyright-free” copy would qualify), or even just awareness of someone’s work, even if you didn’t mean to copy it, can get you fucked.

There’s been a fun case or two recently where musicians got sued because their melodies were the same as someone else’s and the company was able to successfully argue that the original melodies were high-profile enough that said musicians must have been aware they were copying a melody.

Copyright is so fucked. It’s not a bad idea, but holy shit is its modern implementation fucked.

Australia seems like a magical place.

Eh, reputation is still a thing and they probably aren’t getting to keep any of the IPs they worked on, like Stray or Outer Wilds. They also won’t get to keep whatever cash the company might have had in reserve. My understanding is that the idea of spinning off a studio to be indie is that you get to keep developing your IPs to some extent, you still have your brand and your reputation, etc. Otherwise they probably would have done this at the beginning.

So, no, they didn’t really spin it off heh.

I wonder if there’ll be a round two of The Internet Idiots vs The Hedge Fund Dumbasses.

WHERE IS HE??? ALL THE OTHER PICTURES HAVE HIM BUT I CAN’T FIND HIM. WHERE’S SADDAM!?

You can try that argument with kraft singles or Velveeta, but not with string cheese.

Also, kraft singles and Velveeta are actually kinda real cheese, iirc the reason why they aren’t allowed to be sold as such because they contain a significant amount of added fats, oils, and other things to make them softer and more gooey. However, they still contain a significant amount of cheese.

No, Microsoft worked with Sega on the Dreamcast.

Hey, I just started using the Internet guys, what’s good? I’ve heard there’s millions of cool sites you can check out, but most of them are just, like, junk? It’s weird, they’re pages that just have links to other sites, which themselves are full of links to other sites. Where’s all the user content?

Lol no, Sony was trying to use as many of their own parents as they could so they could fuck Nintendo over on royalties. They’d set up the Nintendo PlayStation’s hardware so that Nintendo was having to pay royalties multiple times for a single device. Sony is literally scum. Nintendo is barely better, but at least they don’t have a history of trying to pass off literal malware as drm.

Edit: Sony is one of those companies, where if there’s something you hate in life, they probably had a hand in making it somehow.

Reminder that the original PS1 controller was almost literally a SNES controller with handlebars and extra shoulder buttons. The only reason why the PlayStation is a thing is because Nintendo fucked over Sony after Sony tried to fuck over Nintendo.

Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, made its foray into Jarvis-like territory when it launched on Thursday the Zhixiaobao app – a so-called life assistant that can help users order meals, hail taxis, book tickets, and discover local dining and entertainment options, while accessing third-party services in the firm’s Alipay payment platform more easily. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.

Waow, that’s amazing! So cool, so exciting! We’ve never seen anyone try anything like this ever before!

Idk, more options? It’s a self-balancing thing-a-ma-bob that takes you places when you stand on it. It’s cool and more options are nice. Also, I find it kinda amusing that you think a Segway-compatible city wouldn’t also be bike-compatible. They max out at like, 12mph. You’re not building a sprawling city around Segways like you would with cars.

Spicy take: high speed Internet (specifically high-speed) and cell phones.

What the fuck am I smoking?

Listen. Look around you. People expect for you to be connected 24/7. Your boss, your friends, family, they all expect you to be connected nowadays. Hell, Australia had to pass a law stopping employers from contacting you outside of work hours.

Then everyone has an opinion and they all want to share it (me too!), and if you don’t have an opinion, you’re a fucking weirdo, a dirty centrist, ignorant, or many other things (you’re probably a Nazi or something, shithead).

Social media is designed to make you feel like shit and you’re antisocial if you’re not on some social media site.

Everyone is depressed and tormented by the constant flow of negative information on their pocket squares that they feel obligated to subject themselves to, all because someone they care about will get mad or be disappointed if they don’t know or have an opinion about everything that happens every second of every minute of every hour of every day. I have a pocket square (which I’m using right now) because I feel like I have to have one nowadays. A significant amount of this is enabled by widespread high-speed Internet. Some of it would still exist, but a lot of it would become unfeasible due to the Internet being too slow. Doesn’t matter if you have some crazy 32core phone with 64gb of ram and 2tb of ssd storage if you’re limited to T-1 speeds or slower.

Sigh I’m doing the “old enby yells at clouds” thing aren’t I?

Yes, the Internet is great and has done a lot of good things, and quite honestly, at the end of the day I honestly think it’s done more good than bad. But I also think it’s massively overrated at this point.

Cell phones kinda fit into the same category of, “everyone expects you to always be reachable”; and with the same conclusion (still good but overrated). I don’t know how I feel about non-cellular tablets.