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I just wish that there was a way to play my Ubisoft games on Steam without Uplay at all.
Chris Pratt seems like a person who is nice to other people in his life. That’s good! He’s also a Christian. That’s fine! He’s also not super vocal about politics. That’s okay! But what things he does put out there through the specific church that he attends to the people that he seems to support on social media are…
What do you mean, write off? The poll was just asking which one out of four people like least. I didn’t see any significant number of people suggesting that he was awful in Park & Rec, or that he should be fired from Guardians 3. People just like the other Chrises better, and part of that is that while Pratt seems…
Are you sure that those food containers actually get recycled? In Portland, at least, plastic that contains food bits doesn’t go in the recycling. There’s an open question as to whether most plastic put in recycling actually gets recycled, but I’d be at least a bit skeptical that plastic which has been used over and…
Snape wasn’t good. He joined the wizarding equivalent of the Nazis and was perfectly happy to serve the cause until they came for the One Good One that he liked. He never really repented, and only escaped imprisonment because Dumbledore saw to it. And even at the end it wasn’t his rejection of Voldemort’s philosophy…
Ultimately, I’m skeptical enough of rogue-likes that despite what sounds like a lot of positive stuff about the game being less skill-focused than most games in the genre that I’ll probably hold off on a purchase until a Steam sale or something. There are too many games to play already. But I absolutely do not want to…
I mean, as a legal issue of who gets to exercise what rights, yes, it’s an issue in the hands of lawmakers. But people are allowed to have opinions on moral or ethical issues, even if some people have bad opinions about some areas. Rowling has taken a transphobic position, which is unfortunately not an uncommon one.…
No, I absolutely do not like the Souls games. But from what I read of the review and other people’s comments here, it didn’t sound like it was the same thing. It sounded like failure was obviously an expected part of playing the game, but that the game made your character more powerful over time so that it wasn’t just…
And that sounds like something that I can live with. Accepting that dying is part of the game, but that the game will allow you to get more powerful over time in order to progress further, rather than just expecting you to train yourself to be better at playing the game, is the one thing that makes this seem like a…
People can have all the personal opinions and disagreements that they want about things like pizza toppings. Denying someone’s fundamental personhood or their identity, is not remotely the same thing. Someone who is racist, is racist. Someone who is a transphobe is a transphobe. Neither should be tolerated.
Every game, whether it’s a video game, a board game, or a TTRPG, has to teach its mechanics to players, and as players play the game the will learn how the mechanics work and understand how the mechanics can work together to make them more effective. I don’t have a problem with that at all. By the end of even the…
I like Diablo fine, but don’t love it. It’s a game that I primarily associate with loot collection as an end in itself, and I don’t particularly care about that stuff. But the “clicking on things until they die” and story part are enjoyable.
I hate, HATE, rogue-likes specifically for their focus on difficulty and mastery. But I have to say that the first several paragraphs kind of sold me on the game. I don’t want a game to expect me to “get good” in order to get some kind of enjoyment out of my leisure time, so a game that gives you a steady stream of…
I had a much longer, ramble-y response. Here’s the short version: right now, I’m not aware of any right for a tattooed person to sue a tattoo artist if they reproduce the tattoo on another person unless they had a specific contract that the original tattoo would be unique to the original customer. To me this says that…
No, Warhol’s painting is clearly fair use. Depending on what your painting of a child with a Mickey Mouse backpack on is like, it may or may not fall under fair use. It depends! Your insertion of “substitute” isn’t really a thing by the way. There’s no requirement that a reproduction take literally the same form as…
I don’t think that I do. I said that it could certainly become the legal precedent that all rights to artwork transfer upon purchase of a tattoo, but that is definitely not currently the case, and it might well not become the case. Indeed, I don’t think that it is, and that tattoo artists should have the same rights…
Yes, digitally recreating the artwork, adding it into a video game, making hundreds of thousands of copies of that game, and then selling those copies, is a reproduction of the artwork. You couldn’t, for instance, create a digital recreation of the film Black Panther and then sell it as part of another product. You…
No, my point is that wearing a tattoo on your skin and walking around in public is personal use. A third party company reproducing copies of the artwork and including them in a commercial product is not personal use.