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Whilst I don’t eat mouldy bread intentionally (as in, it will have happened without me noticing on occasion) what’s the actual potentially bad thing that happens if one does? Specifically?

Correct. The copyright owner controls the rights related to copying.

Unless the copyright holder specifically grants free distribution rights (e.g. releasing as a public domain work such as with a CC0 licence) then they can decide to do what they want. That includes choosing not to distribute the work in any way.

So no, Championship Manager 01/02 is not available legally for free. It’s no more legal than downloading ROMs. No one will stop you but that’s not the same as legal.

I’m not defending this approach. I think IP law is a fucking shambles and needs massive reform for a number of reasons. The duration is ludicrous and it’s horrendously restrictive in a way that chokes the life out of human culture. I see someone downvoted me, which is pretty funny in and of itself. Sorry for pointing out how IP law works…?

They took out H264 hardware support?

Reading the instructions, no, it’s not. It was given away for free by Eidos and no longer is. Unless they granted distribution rights to someone back in the day then whoever is distributing the files is doing so illegally.

I don’t really care, I just find it funny that it’s touted as legally when that’s absolutely not how copyright law works at all.

Isn’t that Mona Wilder?

A government’s concern is not in a single area.

For example some counties have free public transport, in part because it’s better for the economy as a whole. That wouldn’t make sense if public transport is privately owned.

For me this is more about open world games losing cool features than wanting to play a game with that feature. In GTA 4 it affected the choices I’d make whilst driving as it was entirely possible to make a vehicle nearly impossible to drive without coming close to blowing it up.

Not what this is about but it reminds me of a lamp my mother asked me to fix every time I came home for about five years. I’d check it, find it worked, report back, she’d forget and once again assume it didn’t work otherwise she’d be using it.

I couldn’t be bothered to come up with a neat way to say “GTA-like games” and decided to hope that the reader could intuit that context.

The vehicle damage modelling from GTA 4. The fact that it hasn’t been surpassed is tremendously disappointing to me.

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Does anyone actually give the slightest shit about Grogu?

I hate the notion that fringe lunatics have opinions that are just as valuable as anyone else’s. Push that fucking Overton Window back to somewhere sane. We do need people shutting these disruptive idiots down. The answer is not just to act like they’re not there.

Has that approach worked on any bully ever?

If someone shows up at a party and starts shit the answer isn’t to expect the other partygoers to put in earplugs.

Single serving friends. I really don’t like it.

I guess the problem was and always is, when there’s too many people, it ruins things.

This is the thing when people talk about the Fediverse’s traffic compared to Reddit. To me it’s very much a feature. I don’t think trying to get everyone and their dog on the same platform is a particularly good idea!

Precisely! It’s not half bad for that but the way people use it does my head in 😂

Mmm, feel that creativity. There’s money to be made so sequels need to be “figured out”. Or you could just make films when you have stories to tell?

No? Well I guess that’s why I don’t have a private jet.

Yeah, I get a bit of it through Mastodon and I’ve been to a meetup there which was delightful (Jeff Minter bought me fish & chips!). I think a bit more emphasis on user profiles (bigger avatars, signatures, stuff like that) would help a lot.

I’ve run forums and been part of them. At the moment I don’t really have time but I expect I will again in future. I keep using stuff like Lemmy but it just doesn’t make my brain happy like forums did.

The asynchronous nature of them helped a great deal. Here I feel like threads have a lifespan of a day or two at most. I don’t want to have to engage immediately in order to take part.

I also don’t like the whole upvote/downvote thing. I’m good at it but it colours every interaction in a way I find deeply problematic.

It was the forum replacement thing that baffles me.