That’s fine. Most people don’t understand what is valuable about journalism (or music, or games, or internet searches, or..) either, so you’re in good company with your “productize the news” ideology. It’s never gotten anyone very far, and it won’t help here either, but you are certainly not the first quixote to tilt…

Some of the ex-Kotaku staff are writing for a site called “Aftermath”, now, which I was really excited for, but since they paywall all of the articles, it’s pretty much a non-starter for me.

Holy shit, you mean they’re wrong with that label? But I thought they were journalists, with journalistic integrity?!

Man, just skip the commentary and get to the fucking off.

I could find a bunch of ways to use this in really helpful, really fun, really seamless ways, if it weren’t tied up in AI and harvesting my data.

I generally agree, but it feels like you may be overlooking the ‘boiling frog’ effect, for creators? Something similar happened with a Tomb Raider dev saying something stupid about Lara before one of those reboot titles.

Play MGS 1 and nothing else by him, and you’ll understand why he was called a genius. If you don’t like that game, for whatever reason, you have a poor understanding of what good game design is, which is why you might feel at odds with others who did enjoy it.

The PIN solutions gives you the best of both worlds. Still secured with a passkey, but unlocked by a method that cannot be compelled by law enforcement.

No, I’m suggesting that players keep playing smash, however they like. Then, when Nintendo takes action, I’m suggesting they see the issue through the courts. Completely up to Nintendo whether they want to abuse IP law to that extent. But players (and, in turn, organizers) should just continue all of their completely…

Yes, you have correctly identified what I’m asking for. I promise not to act shocked when the industries that have been IP’s eternal enemy use their largesse to fuck up IP, if you’ll promise not to be incredulous (or worse, tedious) when people recommend the very appropriate remedy of revising the IP protection.

Oh boy; replied to you before seeing your bullshit all over the article. Got it now - you hate smash and want everyone else to stop liking things you hate. Cool personality, gray!

No less unwell than the people who will rollover and let a corporation do whatever they want, simply because they’re too shitty to stand up to abuse of our legal system.

lol. “I don’t understand IP law, and I’m going to write paragraphs about how I hate the Smash community. I’m the normal one here, not the person who has litigate IP law.”

I’ve literally never been to a smash tournament, nor do I play any video games competitively.

The scene should continue playing smash in tournaments and take the thing to court. And if a judge is stupid enough (or paid enough) to rule in Nintendo’s favor, it should be appealed. And if our legal system is corrupt enough to supremely rule in Nintendo’s favor, the scene should continue playing smash through…

And all your take says, to me, is that you think reading things as uncharitably as possible is clever, for some reason.

This article doesn’t differentiate, but you do NOT have to use biometric data in order to use passkeys. The tech just needs to run special algorithms in an environment that no other person can ever get to. Most devices do this in a special chip (so even chip-level snooping can’t discover it).

Yeah, you nailed it. I’ve played this game every day since I discovered it a few weeks (2? 3? a month?) ago, and there are some days that are just laughably easy, because one or even two of the four sets are just impossible to not connect, which makes the other two much easier. And then on other days, you have to…

lol. enjoy nobody caring what you have to say, gray.