I suspect Elon has put TomatoFace on the payroll. The AOC parody Twitter account is an old account that was active through May 2019, then went inactive for 4 years. Reviving inactive accounts from 2019 is classic Tomato SOP. It’s been happening here at Kinja. Coincidence? Perhaps.

That account exists, but Musk gets pissy when a kid posts his plane’s flight paths? And flight paths are public knowledge.

Or, you know, all decent people could just stop using Twitter and leave it for the trolls. Easy fucking peasy.

Musk will probably take the position that the Grey checkmark is the safeguard against mistaking government officials for parody accounts. I think that’s a pretty good argument.

$20 says the parody account is Musk himself. Past behavior and all that!

I’m pretty much always on the side of defending emulation, but that tweet does bring up a very damning point. As far as I’m aware, a lot of the biggest emulation groups over the years have tried very hard to decompile the source code and write their own from scratch for precisely this reason. It’s part of why…

They’re referring to works that are unavailable for sale, which emulators make accessible. For instance, Nintendo will no longer sell you a new copy of Windwaker, having disabled the wiiu eshop. Thus, Nintendo is burying their work, rather than selling it. 

They’re not ‘protecting’ their creativity and work. They’re not even holding it ransom. They’re just burying it in a metaphorical hole and telling the public to f*** off. The social contract around which copyright and IP laws are based is made with understanding that you make your protected works available for public…

Shhh. No logic allowed in frivolous DMCA claims.

Nintendo insists their intellectual property is valuable enough that emulation is this big threat to them.  Simultaneously that same intellectual property isn’t valuable enough to always make available for sale to the general public

Why the poor Nintendo exec who are living in absolute poverty of making only $2 million a year.

Nintendo’s insistence on reselling the same games to us over and over again would be more tolerable if those games were readily available, and close to the same technical state that emulation offers.

I’m right there with most of Nintendo’s argument if it were, say, against Yuzu. But Dolphin primarily allows users to play games that Nintendo is no longer making available for sale. Whose creativity are we protecting, exactly, when these artists are no longer able to be paid for these works in any meaningful sense?

Yeah, and at this point if they AI’d Shatner the hardest part would be training it not to pause-talk like him. :)

Allegedly the Game of Thrones showrunners pitched a trilogy set in The Old Republic that was insanely good. They had put a ton of thought and effort into it, and a friend at ILM who was there for the pitch said it was the best Star Wars thing he’d ever seen.

I hear that the long-term contract he had to sign says he’ll be making these movies ‘til the end of time.

Most of the value factor in a functioning Luke deepfake is the deep yearning for there to be legit SW content of him sometime between 1984 and ~2004, but that just doesn’t exist and never will.

“One thing you learn working for Lucasfilm: everything is confidential,” Hamill said. “So, if I were involved, I wouldn’t be able to tell you. And if I were not involved, I wouldn’t be able to tell you. So, I don’t know. We’ll all find out together, I guess.”

“Mark, it’s The Mouse. Like to tell you what we want to do with you in this next Star Wars movie.”

Please GOD can they just recast. The zombie face is fine for 2 minutes max, it's just gross otherwise. Imagine if the Paramount+ Trek shows had digital young Shatner-it'd be awful!