Did he really earn that verdict, though? Is the appropriate punishment for distributing old games “your life must be destroyed”? The average lifetime earnings of a high-school graduate in America is just 900K. This guy is out of work, so he’ll probably be below that. So in theory, this guy will now spend the rest of…

For a second there, I thought you must be living near a really terrible climbing gym, given how often your handholds seem to break off.

The weird thing is that the Uncharted games aren’t just better animated than the Rockstar games, they also feel more responsive. It’s kind of weird how bad the Rockstar games are in that area. They look terrible, and they feel terrible. Usually, you pick one of the two: either you prioritize animation quality, or you…

Real-world climbers also defy the laws of gravity, so that seems like a plus :-)

I couldn’t get through the first when it originally came out, but dang, Uncharted 2 is one of the best games of all time.

I think this is really impossible to predict. A lot of popular online games don’t sound like they should be popular online games (and in fact, often aren’t popular online games for a long time, until they suddenly are).

This looks nice, but nowhere near as nice (or functional) as the 3D-printable files you can get for free and print out yourself.

They’re patenting something that should not be patentable.

I don’t think it’s fair to say that most non-AAA games are buggy messes. You just have to scale the scope of your product to your team size. A single person can create a game that is extremely polished, if they scale the size of the game down to the point where a single person can polish it with reasonable effort.…

I don’t think “fetch quests” are inherently bad. The problem is how they are presented to people, and how much fun they are to do.

Yeah, my first reaction was “how could anyone possibly hate this completele innocent game enough to attack it like this”, but the answer of “this guy wants more LBP” makes even less sense.

That might not be the reason for lots of Christians. The truth is actually much stranger: google “Christian Zionism.” These people don’t support Israel to spite Muslims, they support Israel because they think it is bringing about a Biblical prophecy.

I think it’s pretty fair to point out that Hamas and the Israeli government are both pretty contemptible, and are both profiting off the current situation. But I think it’s also fair to point out that one side is a broken economy whose primary ability is to launch shitty home-made rockets, while the other side is…

The difference is that right-wing complaints are always based on how *they* are the true defenders of free speech, and how everybody else is a triggered snowflake. That’s why it is particularly ironic when their side censors stuff, and suddenly everybody is suspiciously quiet.

1. Copyright law sucks, we can all agree on this regardless of what the current legal situation is, I think. The facts of the matter are independent of the ethics of the matter.

This was a rare example of something that was not a fraudulent DMCA claim, and if there is a court case, this guy is going to lose. You can’t decompile code, and pretend that the decompiled code is now no longer copyrighted. That’s like taking a book copyrighted by somebody else, translating it to a different…

I think the Java case was slightly differently, because Google literally copied header files from Java (or replicated them perfectly). The outcome there was that the header files themselves were not copyrightable, I think.

I’m actually not sure if what they’re doing is copyright infringement (my guess is that it is, since it isn’t a clean-room implementation, which is usually required to avoid copyright issues), but your description of what was done in this case is not correct. While they did not literally copy the words, they did take…

I think it would be valuable to investigate why you are uncomfortable with piracy. As a developer, I think piracy is great. Some of my own games would not be playable today, were it not for piracy.

It seems to me that you have a problem with people speaking up against injustice when they aren’t directly affected, which is just a weird position to take, particularly since you aren’t directly affected by any of this, and yet are still speaking up. Maybe take your own advice.