Oh yeah, I haven’t played much since 7.0 dropped but I remember that being slightly controversial. In my experience, I still remembered to report people when needed though I’m sure a couple might have slipped by.

I don’t know, I also feel like character names (from the specific game in question) should be off limits. Otherwise, you’re headed for issues where two people want the same name but one had it before the other but maybe the other is already more well-known, etc. Best to just head it off by not allowing players to use…

Dota 2's report system seems to work pretty well. You only have a certain amount of reports each week (I want to say 3-5 but probably 3), and it notifies you if action is taken / refunds the report since you’re ostensibly using the system appropriately. Punishments range from chat mutes where you can’t really…

Look at it this way: if you have an irrational phobia of men with hats, and men with hats come to respond to a call, your children who are not men with hats are likely not in any danger if the men with hats address the situation by removing themselves from it.

No they wouldn’t. Police are in no way liable for not helping people. You will virtually never find a police officer found liable for having not done something.

Right? I still can’t get over chess tournamets, as if pushing around pieces that weigh less than an ounce on a board equates to being good at actual competition, real world physical competition, where the scenario isn’t limited by a person’s ability to strategize within the constraints of an arbitrary ruleset.

In AAA games with teams that have up to hundreds of people, maybe. According to Wikipedia, though, there are about 40 people working on this, so maybe. Supposedly the team is putting in a lot of overtime because of their passion for the project and there may or may not be a separate team working on the console port.

But doesn’t hesitating to identify yourself as a liberal/Democrat in turn just make you more smug/self-important than other liberals/Democrats?

Is that an actual exploration, though? I mean, you’ve produced a pretty succinct summary that 1) the government kills people 2) some of those killings seem beneficial 3) some of those killings suck. Can you go any deeper than that? The killing is at the core of our culture and a lot of things are actively built on it,…

What’s being explored here? That the government kills people? That some people still feel bad about it?

Its a very slippery slope when art can be criticized not for its intent, but for what feelings and opinions it elicits from its audience.

Assassin’s Creed takes the credit for me. I hated the last 10 hours of the game but forced myself through it because everyone told me there was a great twist ending. The Altair stuff was okay if utterly predictable but people said the Desmond twist was mind-blowing. Turns out it’s basically nothing and nowhere near…

Nah. The judge pointed out that the forum post was ambiguous in who it referred to and what rights were being reserved/limited, but acknowledged that it could indeed be considered open-sourced if not necessarily abandoned (my emphasis added):

The way games typically work is that you can’t use trademarked names/titles. So, you can make a pretty direct clone and blatant rip-off as long as you’re not re-using any assets/code or anything else that infringes. I think art style depends a little on how close it is but there’s probably a lot of room.

Nah, from a legal standpoint, nobody owns anything until they can prove it. As far as Valve is concerned, Blizzard doesn’t have the right to use the term Dota other than in connection with certain maps, and as far as Valve is concerned, Blizzard owns the rights to certain names/characters like Skeleton King,…

I mean, technically, Valve came to a closed-door agreement with Blizzard which is why they are both suing. I find it interesting that neither of them want to publicly state who actually owns what rights, which probably indicates they aren’t actually sure from a legal perspective.

I would guess whoever wrote that caption probably hasn’t played Dota 2 recently (or possibly at all). There’s a fairly superficial resemblance, but they look more like Warcraft characters, and even then there’s a “fair” amount of deviation for a clone.

If you are a seriously committed player to the F2P game, then Clan Wars is very much possible and a lot of fun. If you’re someone like me who likes to hang out at tier 5 or so, then you can either spend some money or just play it as a free game without missing out on much. The premium vehicles are usually fairly…

Not really. If Toyota has a new car coming out and starts a program where only specific individuals are invited into a specific program that lets them have early access to a new car for promo purposes, they may be limited in what they can say about it / what they can show / etc. These are not publicly available…

You’re right that criticism isn’t a copyrightable offense, but Foch had exclusive access to in-game content/assets that aren’t publicly available yet. That may have come with strings attached about how that content/assets can be used.