Very interested in seeing how this shakes out. I was sure Bleem got killed for this same kind of thing, but it looks like I misremembered and they should be in the clear! But “not legally protectable” has never stopped Nintendo from suing before, so who knows?

Letting Microsoft themselves feed her lines IS probably the best tactic she can interpret[...]

If she were representing her people, she would be researching the situation (having her aides do it), getting to understand the policies and the contexts of all parties, and then using that to either form an investigative body, or to craft legislation.

They’re trying to ensure it is properly regulated so that the harms it can also cause are mitigated.

Yeah, this topic has way too much nuance for Kotaku to cover, at all. But using flimsy pretexts to write articles about the hottest topic on twitter is pretty much the job description at gawker. At least, when there’s not actually relevant news making headlines.

Right? It’s like every creative instinct on display in that video - save for the ones in the actual game itself - is so painfully abhorrent.

G4 has always been garbage (your favorite host is probably fine; the network and its goals were always trash). That video isn’t even a particularly egregious example. You could power a first world nation on the millennial cringe generated by showing that network, now.

I don’t care what you think has a point or not. I wanted to comment on the ancillary and happenstance situation that the critiques, which were racistly framed and played for humor, were accurate. So I did. Points are for the people writing articles and the people who want to make points.

I will honestly always admire any person who takes the time to clean something up when they have no incentive to. Which mostly applies here (outside of a statistically trivial few who would do it to virtue signal).

G4 has always been garbage (your favorite host is probably fine; the network and its goals were always trash). That video isn’t even a particularly egregious example. You could power a first world nation on the millennial cringe generated by showing that network, now.

Exactly. Everyone wants to state opinions confidently, because that has a wider appeal than caveating the nuances (even when that nuance is just a clear distinction between the scope you’re trying to imply). But no one wants to reconcile with the reaction they’ve invoked with their framing.

lol right? I remember talking to my cousins, in the early-mid 90's about Might & Magic and FF III (VI in Japan) being examples of Western and Japanese RPGs, respectively.

So the decision is actually a massive blow to AI proponents who were hoping that their work would be protected by U.S. copyright law.

Yeah, see, that’s the thing: you think we’re debating. I’m responding to people who are replying to me. I’m not, and never was, debating you, or anyone else. Because I don’t come to comments sections to debate. I just comment. It’s not a “tactic”. I don’t think, by doing this, I will convince you or other people. I’m…

Nope! You have all the information you need to look it up for yourself and know what I’m talking about. I don’t know you, I don’t particularly feel inclined to do you any favors, and I certainly don’t owe you anything.

We get it: you don’t understand that the new FTC head is an anti-trust shark and is gunning for vertical monopolies. Hell, maybe you don’t even know what a vertical monopoly is.

Yeah, but the Nvidia deal is for all Microsoft properties. Nintendo wasn’t the only PR move they made, this week. And, as argued above, they could have always made these deals for their existing properties. Why CoD, but not Halo, 10 years ago? Because they want this deal and they think this will blunt the regulatory…

They already filed a complaint which will be adjudicated in August of this year:

Either/Or, or Both. Microsoft could have always had a deal with Nintendo. It’s not like they’re requiring reciprocation. The specific titles aren’t relevant to the deal that could have been made. That’s what makes this so transparently about regulation dodging. If it were about doing the right thing for gamers, it…

Please explain exactly how this is bad for consumers specifically and don’t link me a YouTube video telling me, I want your own words.