Ross Scott made a video about their reply:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI2G4xLBVkY [External Link]

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Dumb af PSN account requirement for all of the games listed in the news (and much more) when?

I hate this.

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Not only this project enhances the originals, it is also used for custom levels! So if you wanna play something like Sabatu's Tomb Raider 1, you'll need this.

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Doing my due diligence, I've reached out to my Epic Games contacts directly to see if I can actually get a proper confirmation that Epic Games really did give their approval for all this. Will update on any reply I receive.

It would be really cool if you could achieve this, but I'd keep my expectations low here. Epic doesn't announce this kind of stuff for some reason. The same happened with the 227/469 patches themselves too.

Thus, considering OldUnreal team's closeness to Epic, I am inclined to believe what they say here.

Edit after seeing the update: I am so, so glad to be proven wrong!

Quoting: AsciiWolf

Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeReally hope they incorporate the linix builds

And also UT2004. :wink:

If OldUnreal somehow gets to develop patches for UT2004, this will probably happen too.

Until then, you can take this news as "Epic won't touch the Unreal game isos hosted on archive.org", and download them games from there. :)

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Quoting: thelimeydragonWonder what they are going to do about the Jean-Yves issue. Maybe changed his name/likeness completely or maybe they've directly asked him about the remake.

One of the achievements mention Jean-Yves directly so I am guessing he is cool with it.

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Quoting: WoodlandorThe only logical explanation for this is that an army of Penguins boarded a warship to take to the mainland.
They successfully infiltrated Nvidia headquarters and are holding herrings to everyone’s throats.

I mean, kinda??? We have ex-Nouveau devs join Nvidia and help with the Nouveau drivers from there...

Like the massive kernel patch Ben Skeggs did, or the NVK patches Arthur Huillet is doing. The latter also have recently released SPH Shader headers on Nvidia Open Docs repository [External Link], apparently.

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Seems like Ben is not the only Nouveau dev to join Nvidia.

Arthur Huillet is also amongst the ranks, and he is contributing directly to NVK.

https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ArthurHuillet.html [External Link]

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/28714 [External Link]

That makes two instances of hell freezing over for me :V

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Quoting: tarmo888

Quoting: LupertEverett

Quoting: tarmo888Many won't understand NFTs until Steam removes trading cards (their ToS allows them to do it). People need to lose something before they start looking for alternative solutions. I am sometimes surprised how slow this process is, even when free-to-play online servers get closed left and right and people losing everything they spent on micro-transactions.

Fun fact, Valve's flop Artifact still has trading cards, but none of them load because the images are only on Steam servers. Images of properly done NFTs are stored on IPFS (torrent like filesystem accessible via web gateways).

Just like the countless NFTs that had their image links have long expired... Lmfao.

Literally all NFTs are doing is to store a link to an image on somewhere... that may not keep working forever.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/25/22349242/nft-metadata-explained-art-crypto-urls-links-ipfs [External Link]

http://web.archive.org/web/20230620174607/https://twitter.com/0xkofi/status/1664556455515635713 [External Link]

I love it when cryptobros shill their so called "improvement" when it actually doesn't solve anything *at best*.

Would you be surprised to know that Verge doesn't know what they are writing about? IPFS works like a torrent, so anyone who downloads the assets could also seed them if needed because the URL is unique to content hash. If a traditional URL goes down, there is nothing you can do other than hope the domain becomes available so, you could fix the broken links.

Since IPFS not mandatory for NFTs, there will be many NFTs that still use traditional URLs that can broke.

Sooooo... that's a roundabout way of saying NFTs don't solve the problem you're claiming them to solve. Got it.

The scenario you described assumes that people will keep "seeding" it forever, and lemme tell you, torrents don't keep up forever either. Once you're down to 0 seeders, you're screwed. A cryptobro "reinvented" version of it will behave exactly the same here, only with more wasting of electricity. :V

Edit: Took a bit of a time to research what IPFS is all about and I'd like to take my last word back. It doesn't seem to have any relations to any crypto "invention".

Still, the point stands. You can still lose the file, just like in torrents. And you still buy *a link to somewhere* with an NFT.

Also just noticed that you mentioned "so anyone who downloads the assets" as if one thing the NFTs got meme'd on wasn't the "right click and save" thing lmao. Here they can do it without right clicking at all, that's even more convenient!

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Quoting: Liam DaweThey had a bit of a meltdown at me on X/Twitter of my poking on this...not a good look.

https://twitter.com/PLAYTR0N/status/1778464518529491068 [External Link]

https://twitter.com/PLAYTR0N/status/1778465526978629866 [External Link]

Classic cryptobro mentality. They always look over people like this (or with sayings like "not gonna make it", "have fun staying poor" and such). That's because they don't want to improve anything, all they want is to BE the rulers of this "brave new world of web3 and crypto".

And of course scam people, but come on, that's quite obvious. :V

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Btw friendly reminder that Playtron blatantly stole someone else's Witcher 3 video.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/1bifzvj/playtron_stole_ignorantslave663s_witcher_3_video/ [External Link]

So basically company who has no problems with stealing others' contents uses "technologies" which has stealing from other artists as its main use. Why is this not surprising at all? :V

Thank god people are falling less for their buzzword soups nowadays. Anytime someone uses terminologies like "blockchain", "web3", "nft" and such should be considered a huge red flag.

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