Pedo certainly seems like the wrong word for it... but there is certainly a big difference between making adult content for adult content websites and making adult content for... Twitch... clearly tailored for that young (probably usually very very young) audience.

What’s more, if you want to test the waters with a potential new audience, to see how an older property can resonate with a younger crowd, this is a good way to do it.

The article says the entire arrangement is copyrighted, not (necessarily) this 5 second segment of the arrangement. Admittedly, this is one step closer to being a viable case than the ones we’ve seen previously, but by no means is it a slam dunk.

That isn’t how this works... the plaintiff has to prove their case, not the other way around. Current legal precedent indicates that a several moves, in a brief sequence, do not actually qualify as copyrightable choreography. The article doesn’t make it clear that the copyright is actually for the... what... 3 seconds…

Why? They didn’t have to in any of the other instances where someone tried to go after them for this (so far as I know).

Choreography has been protected under copyright law since ‘76 but the line between un-copyrightable “moves” and copyrightable “sequences of moves” is still very nebulous.

It’s clear that Epic would be taking a massive risk by cribbing an entire dance arrangement from Hamilton... but a 3-5 second sequence of dance moves…

I just thoughtlessly spammed my pickup button as I was doing more interesting things and I’ve yet to need to “farm” for anything I actually needed to craft in ER (at 150hrs in and level 201).

The most annoying thing about this article is that it imagines monetary cost is even a relevant variable for 99% of the people in the US with home gardens. Most people do it because they enjoy the hobby... the main cost is time and effort so if you don’t actually enjoy that effort you’re just adding another set of larg…

BULLSHIT. The world building is non-existent. There are no real interactions, you have no character arc. The NPCs have droning exposition without earning any sympathy. The world building is the weak link.

This. It’s not laziness or poor story telling, it’s just different from what many people expect. You earn the story in this game just like you earn every victory. If you figure out the story you get to feel some level of accomplishment for it... and that is the whole point.

That is actually the appeal for many, which is what makes your criticism more subjective than you realize.

I know some people use “cheesing” in this way... but, honestly, every single fight in every single souls game could be described this way if you use this definition. I think it should only be used in cases where you are obviously doing something that wasn’t intended (like stacking abilities in a way that results in way…

That wall of texts seems to sum up as you saying that you don’t think people should have the choice/option to play the game as “intended”... do you really think that since some “super fans” cheese the game that FromSoft is obligated to simply drop the pretense of difficulty?!

O_o

I think the best way to think of this is regarding choice.... where more choice for gamers is almost always better.

Well... setting aside the fact that these types of players do this for every game in any case (going straight to guides, maps and tutorials)... in this game players get to choose to play the game without extra help. You’re simply saying this game offers more choice to players... dive in and brace yourself for some (del…

This is actually not much different from a criticism like, “it’s too hard”. Things will be overexplained for some and wildly underexplained for others, depending on the player. For what it’s worth... I’m actually delighted to discover I’ve been playing in “hard mode” because I overlooked some feature or ability. It’s…

America’s “ traditional culture” stems from oppression; to steal, and undermine others for your own selfish gains, and racist governors want to block that knowledge out, because the division born from ignorance benefits them, as it does any self-interested government.

This game really is a totally different experience at 90+ fps (and +25% FOV), but the world feels so lonely and empty without weird comments and acrobatic ghosts littering the world. This is the first souls game that has “stuck” for me so I had absolutely no idea how important that stuff could be to the experience.

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I think the most important lesson to be learned in this game is that the first boss you come across may be way out of your league, probably meant to be killed much later. Some streamer spent the first 9 hours of his stream on a single boss because he refused to move on and come back.

I went the wrong direction,…