QuadratureSurfer

QuadratureSurfer, 4 months ago

Not just phone numbers and email addresses, but a recent ruling by a federal judge allows them to record and collect text messages without worry:

theverge.com/…/automakers-collect-record-text-mes…

QuadratureSurfer, 8 days ago

New island, new pals, new subspecies, new buildings & level cap, new raid, an oil rig stronghold, an arena, and a new faction & boss.

This looks like an awesome feature packed update… I’ll have to hop back in soon.

QuadratureSurfer, 9 days ago

I think when you say “Hates AI” you mean “Hates ChatGPT”

“AI” itself has a lot of awesome uses, ML models with DLSS, robots that can maneuver over different terrain, image generation, audio transcription, etc.

Even with LLMs, I’m fine with them as long as I was the one that was able to pick and choose the model as well as the software to use to run it.

QuadratureSurfer, 12 days ago

Getting away from Google Maps has been a tough one. There aren’t many options there, it’s either Google, Apple, Microsoft, or OpenStreetMap.

I’ve been contributing to OSM for my local area as much as possible to update businesses and their opening hours, website, etc., but it’s not a small task.

QuadratureSurfer, 11 days ago

Joke’s on us for trusting them to do what?

QuadratureSurfer, 11 days ago

Yeah, it looks like Nexon was trying to crush their competition (there was a lead developer that left Nexon and went to work on Dark and Darker).

The police didn’t find anything obvious when they investigated Nexon’s allegations. And they had already had an audit conducted by an external group:

Our code was built from scratch. Most of our assets are purchased from the Unreal marketplace. All other assets and all game designs docs were created inhouse. This has already been audited by an outside agency. As far as we know you cannot copyright a game genre.

vg247.com/dark-and-darker-devs-raided-by-police-f…

The lawsuit that Nexon filed in the U.S. was eventually dismissed, but Steam pulled the game from their store, so that damage was already done:
gamerant.com/dark-and-darker-nexon-lawsuit-dismis…

QuadratureSurfer, 11 days ago

It was on Steam, up until Nexon sued them because they suspected stolen assets were used.

So far it doesn’t look like that was true, and the case that was filed in the U.S. was eventually dismissed (since it should be handled by the courts in South Korea).

So hopefully we’ll see it back in the steam store, eventually.

QuadratureSurfer, 11 days ago

PvPvE

Different teams are thrown in around a map, you then work with your team to try to survive and make it out to the end.

You don’t have to engage other players on other teams, but chances are they’ll engage you.

QuadratureSurfer, 10 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Thanks! It helps to have a lot more background and i haven’t looked too deeply into this.

I was trying to keep my reply simple and directly to the point that they didn’t create their own launcher just because they wanted to.

I didn’t know the first point, now I’m wondering if both sides wanted it dismissed in the U.S. at least. From the article I read it sounded like this was being pushed from Ironmace’s side.

I had mentioned the founder’s involvement before, but only in a different reply on this same post.

On the second point, at least as far as U.S. law is concerned, I’m not so sure that this is such a straightforward case. We’ve already seen in previous cases with video games that it’s okay for games to have the same game rules, mechanics, ideas, and principles. That’s why anyone can create a game like Tetris, Monopoly, or Pokemon (such as Palworld). As long as they don’t copy over assets directly, (sprites/models/verbatim text for the game rules, etc.) it’s ok to create a very similar game or even to be inspired by other games. Mostly this is what I understood after listening to some YouTube attorneys that were discussing this matter for Palworld (Hoeg Law and Attorney Tom).

The difference here is that one of the founders did work for Nexon so it seems that a lot of the work was likely plagiarized (which is not illegal in the U.S. but it is unethical). It would have been interesting to see how this would play out in U.S. courts.

Do you have any idea how the courts in South Korea view cases like this?

On the third point, I had heard how they had recruited other employees, but I hadn’t heard about the founder agreeing to destroy the company info and failing to do so. Do you have a link/source for that?

Thanks for the reply!

Edit: asking for source, not because I’m doubting you, I just want to read up more on it.

QuadratureSurfer, 8 days ago

$25 for this Humble Bundle:

• High on Life
• Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration:
  100 games over different platforms spanning the 70s to 2000s as well as 6 new reimagined games.
• Revival: Recolonization
• Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries
• Soulslinger: Envoy of Death
• Bread & Fred
• Grindstone

The article lists out the Steam Deck rating as well as the ProtonDB rating (if any). Direct link to humble bundle (referral link from article is still there): www.humblebundle.com/games/ign-live-at-home?partn…

QuadratureSurfer, 9 days ago

What does copyright law have to do with a ban on removing malicious code?

QuadratureSurfer, 9 days ago

What ban?

QuadratureSurfer, 9 days ago

Well, now’s a great time to let them know about Pixelfed, although explosive growth like this will be a strain on any website.

QuadratureSurfer, 10 days ago

What do you mean by this?:

Cara, bans us from removing malicious source code

Is there obviously malicious source code? Is there a policy that specifically says we can’t remove any source code? Is this even open source?

QuadratureSurfer, 9 days ago

You realize that copyright law still applies… whether you add some additional license to your software or not… right?

QuadratureSurfer, 11 days ago

Seriously?!

QuadratureSurfer, 11 days ago

While you’re absolutely correct, for those who don’t know, Windows does have an IoT version of their OS that removes most of the bloatware.