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Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (Citra for 3DS too)
5 March 2024 at 6:02 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: poiuz
Quoting: tuubiWell that's a stretch.
I don't understand what you mean.

Quoting: tuubiYou might as well compare piracy to car theft. We're talking about crime after all.
That doesn't help me in understanding. I'm really talking about license violations (e.g. using Linux without providing the source code).

I'm saying that downloading and privately playing (not sharing, not selling) a copy of a game from the internet is not the same as doing something completely different that breaks the terms of a license. It's a false equivalence.

Note that I'm not advocating piracy. I'm not partaking in it either. I was simply "thinking aloud" about the ethical implications. And I'm regretting it already. I haven't seen a fresh argument on the subject in years.

Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (Citra for 3DS too)
5 March 2024 at 5:08 pm UTC

Quoting: poiuz
Quoting: tuubiI don't see how. Downloading or sharing open source software doesn't violate its license.
We're talking about "piracy" (i.e. license violations), so obviously by using it in violation of the license.
Well that's a stretch. You might as well compare piracy to car theft. We're talking about crime after all.

Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (Citra for 3DS too)
5 March 2024 at 4:08 pm UTC

Quoting: poiuzWouldn't this argument legitimate all open source license violations?

I don't see how. Downloading or sharing open source software doesn't violate its license.

Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (Citra for 3DS too)
5 March 2024 at 10:42 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: redneckdrowOutright piracy of a game still commercially available is theft, no matter how you slice it.

Legally it is, yeah. But ethically... maybe?

In case you download something you'd have bought otherwise, or sell copies of someone else's property, sure it's theft. However, if you weren't going to pay for it anyway, then what? How can it be theft if nobody loses anything? Or if it actually has the effect of increasing sales, as shown by the famous EU studies on the subject of piracy. But never mind, this topic has been discussed to death already.

5 years later Valve finally gives Windows compatibility tool Proton a logo
29 February 2024 at 8:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: melkemindBut at the end of the day, you can't look at corporations as people with good or evil motives because they have neither. The only motive is profit.
For the purpose of judging motivations, you should look at corporations as the people who own and lead them. They're the ones with agency. A corporation is just an abstract concept.

The fact that these people are more or less expected to seek profit without concern for ethics (at least as far as they can get away with) is irrelevant. If an action would be unethical for a person, it's unethical for a corporation.

Stealthy platformer Kiyo in need of Linux testers
27 February 2024 at 7:08 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: ShabbyX
Quoting: emphy
Quoting: mitridas
Quoting: Liam DaweI think it's more that just saying it's a "Proprietary engine" by itself isn't really a selling point, it doesn't really explain anything and to most people it won't really mean anything.

And no, no one expects games or the game engine to be open source at all.

Yeah, I guess it's true that to most people it wouldn't mean anything, but to other gamedev nerds like me it will :)
We might reword it to "Custom engine", and move it to a different section of the description to make it clearer.
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May I suggest the term "in-house engine"?

That would properly convey that you made this "engine" thingy yourself (with the implication that many others don't), even to the most clueless of clueless. Custom could still be a modified third party engine, after all.

As for the play-test, just obtained access and I may even find the time tonight to take a peek ^_^

+1 to in-house, that's the right term!

"Bespoke engine" sounds fancier!

Good luck with the game @mitridas! It looks fun. Thanks for supporting Linux.

Slimbook reveal the AMD powered Excalibur laptop and KDE Plasma 6 Slimbook
22 February 2024 at 7:42 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: yndoendoWhy do European keyboards use an elongated enter key that takes up the space of two keys?
As opposed to US keyboards that have a wide enter key that takes up the space of two keys? It's simply a different standard layout.

Metro Exodus hits 10 million sales - and there's more to come
19 February 2024 at 10:40 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: F.Ultra
Quoting: based"and the good news is they have plans for more games to come" oh so they wont just close the company and stop making games after their most successful game? :p

Well to be fair they also got invaded and at least on of their graphic designers was KIA.

Regarding the game itself it is a far less open world than people claim. Yes it's not as linear as the previous instalments, but it is only open per local map.

I wasn't aware Cyprus got invaded? When did the Turks invade? I don't see it on the news

Cyprus? 4A Games is based in Ukraine and Malta. One of those got invaded a while back.

Sorry Malta, yes. Not Cyprus. Their headquarters are in Malta as are their main offices. They have been there for a long time prior to the war. They haven't been a "Ukrainian" company for ages.

Whether you consider the company Ukrainian or not is irrelevant. The people running the company are mostly Ukrainian and they've got Ukrainian employees. The war obviously affects them and their work. They've said as much, and I don't see why you'd assume otherwise.

They did move their headquarters to Malta in 2014, but they've still got an office/studio in Ukraine, and I suppose friends and family as well.


PS: Incidentally, I spent a month in Malta in 2014 and enjoyed my stay. Can't fault 4A Games on their choice of home base.

Metro Exodus hits 10 million sales - and there's more to come
18 February 2024 at 12:54 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: F.Ultra
Quoting: based"and the good news is they have plans for more games to come" oh so they wont just close the company and stop making games after their most successful game? :p

Well to be fair they also got invaded and at least on of their graphic designers was KIA.

Regarding the game itself it is a far less open world than people claim. Yes it's not as linear as the previous instalments, but it is only open per local map.

I wasn't aware Cyprus got invaded? When did the Turks invade? I don't see it on the news

Cyprus? 4A Games is based in Ukraine and Malta. One of those got invaded a while back.

Dead Island 2 hits Steam in April - grab Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition free
15 February 2024 at 8:37 am UTC

Quoting: mborseIs it native on Linux? The article has a "Native Linux" tag. Is it native or Proton?
The original Dead Island and Riptide have native ports, DI2 does not. I guess the tag is for the Riptide giveaway.