skotobaza

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by skotobaza 2mo ago
Is two years period supposed to be a lot? What if a person haven't played the game for five years (which happens quite often) then comes back and sees that it's gone?
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by skotobaza 2mo ago
> Don't purchase the game if the license terms aren't amenable to you Unfortunately, terms can change. Publisher can promise 10-year support for the game and then drop it after 1 year. So when we purchase the game, we don'
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by skotobaza 2mo ago
I'm in the same boat with the sibling comment. I currently play games that have been released 20+ years ago. In 20 years I want to be able to play the games that are being released now. That's what preservation is, not hoarding. S
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by skotobaza 2mo ago
I care about having access to my games 20 years from now. I've been playing more older games for the past few years (most of them were released 20+ years ago). And I want to be able to play games that are being released now and that I
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by skotobaza 2mo ago
> It would with 100 % certainty result in slower development, fewer games, and worse games No, it won't. People used to develop games without requiring publisher's services. The issue of "it's hard to do nowadays&quot
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by skotobaza 2mo ago
I don't see anyone (especially GingerBill) stating that article about Odin was deleted because of "political bias". The only thing I see is a general statement about Wikipedia being an "ideological playground". But
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by skotobaza 2mo ago
But the goal of an encyclopedia is to inform people on things that it covers, isn't it? It's quite broad with Wikipedia but still... The language clearly exists, it's not a student project, it's is use, people are intere
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by skotobaza 2mo ago
The article was alright (with a weird tangent about gingers at the beginning), but then quickly devolved into personal attacks towards Odin's developer and Casey Muratori. Why? Just because they both wrote something on Twitter? And the
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by skotobaza 2mo ago
Why wouldn't you want to have an article about a programming language that is currently used in production by someone? Are there any downsides to this?
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
> users can just upgrade That used to work, but not anymore. Not because of hardware prices, but because of small gains that upgrading gets us nowadays.
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
I've just recently finished replaying BFME1's campaigns. The installation process was "fun" in its own way. There were some quirks in game that could definitely be fixed. I haven't used any unofficial patches though
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
> the basic idea is that you create a DLL and a simple loader program which injects it into your target process I believe GTA San Andreas reverse engineering does exactly that using ASI Loader [1]. [1] https://github.com/
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
On Linux? Yeah, it could be a mess to compile some packages, so I opted to use r2u.
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
It's ironic to talk about "condescending attitude" while exhibiting the exact same behavior...
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
I was referencing the comment which proposed to buy out the rights to the game. This is absurd (and hence disingenuous), because again it's not how it works in real life, and it's not just with games. You cannot just approach a co
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
I also want to add that proposing people to buy an IP from a company (or pay it to keep supporting it) is very disingenuous and even borderline trolling. That's not how it works even remotely. Companies do not "negotiate" wit
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
More or less sure, but not 100% of course. Women are treated a bit better in my experience compared to say 10 or 15 years ago. Unfortunately, I haven't played many competitive games in the last couple of years, but before that rather t
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
> DuckDB is fast for some specific workloads Yes, it's specifically promoted as DBMS for OLAP workload. And it's usually compared to ClickHouse, another analytical DBMS. So people who use it know why it's good.
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
I think with younger generations the perception shifted quite a bit. Gaming has become so normal that people with "radical" views and behavior are now in minority. Also the other aspects affected this - livestreaming is a good exa
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
> because businesses just love to turn down free money Unfortunately, yes. Example - try getting publishing rights to No One Lives Forever franchise (GOG already tried that). It's not rare for publishers to sit on their IPs without
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
> Developers often use 3rd party SDKs and services that can render the game useless if they are not included That is indeed a case, and potential solutions has been discussed. The main idea is that games that have already been made do no
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
> legislation which enables you to play a game in perpetuity instead of for a limited time will likely reduce the amount of tax revenue your gaming-related activities generate How so? If I'm sure that a game is not going to die, I w
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
> Contact the rightsholders and negotiate with them We tried that. That didn't work. > Making the product last longer Once again, nobody is asking that. So you are misunderstanding SKG. > tunnel-vision That is very ironic and
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
> The cost per hour of games is already incredibly low compared to most other paid forms of entertainment. How is this relevant? I still want to be able to play older games 10 years from now. The cost does not matter. I would even pay mo
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
> The cost could very well be in the millions for a single project How did you come to this number? Something simple like giving the binaries with docs doesn't cost that much money. I'm not sure what you are referring to. >
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
> If it would be so important for players to ensure their games stay alive, they'd just stop buying these games and they'd apply pressure on devs to do that Unfortunately, it only works on paper. In reality publishers can add s
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
But we are interested in benefits first and foremost since we are consumers, i.e. people who use the product. Regarding the costs, nobody dismisses them. But saying that the costs of giving the game to community are tremendous is simply mis
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
That's an interesting point of view. For me, people who advocate for preservation are usually older because they remember the times when you could just buy games and they would keep working forever. While younger people were born into
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
> my impression is that game companies often create games and sell them (i.e. sell licenses), and the terms of those licenses include some degree of revocability and nonguarantees of continued function Yes, that's the case. But the
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by skotobaza 3mo ago
It's very hard to reverse engineer something you don't have access to, i.e. server code. Sure, some of it is fairly simple, so it can be done, but when a lot of game logic is happening on the server and you don't have the ser

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