Jaws is a film from 1975, but I can’t charge people to see it without making a license deal with the studio.

I wasn’t calling you a shill, I was calling you a corporate apologist, because you’re championing the rights of a corporation over that of their consumers. Nintendo is not harmed, in any sense, by an unofficial grassroots tournament using a netcode mod for an ancient game they don’t sell any longer for a system they…

It’s just so pointless. If I was a kid I’d just play a single-player game instead. If they mandate the camera checks on all games I’d pirate an offline game. And that’s checkmate. So congrats, in the best-case scenario where your ID tech actually works, your policy teaches a bunch of kids how to avoid paying for what…

they’re doing exactly what any other company would do in their situation.

These tournaments can’t afford to have lawyers sit in on their planning phase, examining public communications, spotting IP violations before they occur (etc etc), which means that they’re probably technically in violation of a dozen different laws. It’s just that nobody else behaves like Nintendo, probably because…

Start doing anything more public and the lawyers get involved.

Did I also see depth of field at one point, or was it just YouTube macroblocking?

I was talking about an .md3 replacement pack like this:

I quite like that new games are being made in the style of early 3D FPSes, but this one seems like a bit of an odd mixture. It reminds me of downloading a true 3D model pack for a glide sourceport of Doom back in the 3DFX era (could’ve been GZDoom, I liked ZDoom a lot). The enemy models weren’t a great fit and it just…

The player weapon animation had a lower framerate than the game world, but I saw lighting effects that made me wonder if that was a deliberate affectation.

What a surprise, username MARIO is here to defend Nintendo from their all the nasty commentators.

You’re right, someone might watch that tournament and come away thinking that Smash has decent netcode. Hell, it doesn’t even have any servers any more! You can’t even buy the damn game! Um, what was your argument again?

As someone who’s never particularly relished public speaking (probably my least favourite part of academia), I actually felt kind of bad for him. Not in a “stop being mean to Facebook” kind of way, just that as a human being, I’ve felt how he looked and it sucked.

Nintendo have a history of sending C&Ds to events that feature their games, though, right? Even the ones that aren’t in any way affiliated.

It’s very unpleasant. You have to wonder if they realise how much damage they do to their own reputation.

When you ask yourself the question, “Could this somehow be offensive to Black people”? and the answer is yes, or even maybe, then it is a bad idea.

I know.

You have a way with words, Mr. Burns.

“Truly free speech” as an explicitly protected right doesn’t exist anywhere in the modern world - find me a country in which you’re permitted to shout “fire” in a crowded theatre. This debate was put to bed a long time ago, too. The US supreme court decided the matter (using the above analogy) a century ago, for…

You wouldn’t believe how many of these [PS2 and onwards] I’ve seen working in console repair.