Your modifications just cannot impact any services tied to the official product or company.
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You have a fuckton of rights. Stop siding on company’s rights and start siding on your own. You have more than you realize and Take Two is trying to violate these developers rights.

I am so confused.

Just... wow.

Thanks for trying though.  I suspected as much.

What is the point of these weird, self imposed challenges...

I enjoyed watching the bit at the end where we saw the hero’s path get drawn by the system... 

I’m afraid to respond... cats are so judgy.

I feel like there’s an easy compromise to be had here.

tl;dr we should encourage developers who want to make games accessible for more folks, while not condemning those who view a certain level of difficulty as integral piece of their artistic vision. Not EVERYTHING needs to be for EVERYONE, and that’s perfectly OK. Also, fuck the weird Git Gud crowd.

blight town was difficult enough...

Maybe I could outcharm a competing lover. I don’t think I could outcharm millions of dollars XD

I believe in that, too. I look forward to seeing how you remake things...

You pretty much nailed it.

That’s true. I fully expect the station will find a place for it, and the streamers will move onto some other gimmick that will result in various forms of soft-bans...

I find the horse-mask and and slurping noises to be a rather funny gimmick. Rest assured, I’m not hitting any of those streams because my attention wants to be elsewhere. Of course, I completely understand if people find this material to be off-putting...

Yes. Some anime don’t require the character to be isekai’d by truck-kun.

Men have been perving on Lady D

The outcome there was that the header files themselves were not copyrightable, I think.

They be fracked. That’s no clean room reverse engineering. That’s translation.

You are right, and I know they’re different. I wasn’t trying to conflate them, but I can see how it might look that way. The original post I was responding to tried to use a copyright infringement example via LotR, for something grounded in reverse-engineering. Plaintiffs have tried to use both copyright claims and…