Counterpoint: before the internet and streaming services, what were your options if you wanted to watch Hard Boiled and didn’t own it? Go to your local video store and *hope* it was there in the first place and it wasn’t already checked out. We’re extremely spoiled in this age of access.

A controversial take I’m sure, but I’d like MK more if it was “less”. Like, I get that gore is its schtick, but damn that’s a lot. It’s been ramping up for a while now and it’s just too much for me.

Depending on the development agreement, Hasbro may not have the rights to do that. They may have the underlying rights to the characters and IP, but not to the game code. Correspondingly, Activision may have the rights to the game code, but without a current agreement in place, they may not have the rights to use the…

I started playing it literally last week. It’s a fun 5-minute killer.

What’s funny to me is that I never owned Zelda 1, but for some reason bought Zelda II, so Zelda II is what I grew up on. I LOVE Zelda II and have never understood the hate for it.

Knit nook seems like the best answer. Or Yarn Barn. 

I think it would be cool - as in I have no expectation that it would happen, it’d just be nice - if devs built into the game from day 1 a retirement plan that let users run their own servers after you stop supporting the game. Sure, you’d have to get comfortable losing control of assets etc on the copyright side when…

I think you also need to view it from the perspective of someone that doesn’t do that with any regularity.

Yeah, that’s fair. I haven’t bought one yet, and wasn’t exactly inclined to change my mind. But I at least wanted to know what’s possible if I were to buy one second hand (so they *don’t* get any of my money).

Because I don’t want to give that cancerous company Meta any of my money or data. I don’t expect every company to be an angel, but they knew Instagram was effing up teenagers and chose not to do anything about it.
When I heard that, I deleted all my accounts. Eff them.

Can you use the Quest 2 with Steam without creating a Meta/FB account? That’s the really big thing that stops me from buying one. Well, that and the thought of giving FB any money. I’m currently holding out for the Index 2, but I’m curious about what you can do with the Quest without a Meta account.

That IS a great trick. Still not sure I want to give them any money, even if they sell it at a loss, but it’s good to know there’s at least a path to remove the FB/Meta hooks.

Price is irrelevant to me, tbh. I’ll gladly give Valve 3x the Quest’s MSRP for a Meta-free Index 2. Meta is a cancerous company and I refuse to give them any of my money or data.

For me it’s less about trust (I had an FB/IG account for a long time until about a year ago) and more about not wanting to give the company a cent or use their products. After the “yeah, IG is bad for kids, but we don’t care enough to change the product” info came out, I swore them off forever.

Eh, that ain’t right. Code absolutely can be copyrighted. It fact the GPL relies on copyright to force people to make derivatives of GPL’d code available.

Please show me something where it is 100% clear and “concept is already legal and has legal precedent” where the end product looks and plays the same as the original game. I’m not talking about things like clean room implementations of a BIOS where how it looks doesn’t matter. This is a clean room implementation of a…

Luke’s point is that if nintendo could stop it, then they would. 

It being legally in the clear and Nintendo (in that case) not going after someone are two very different things.

So it was never about what’s actually fair, it’s that you feel you should get other people’s hard work for free.

So what is the business model you want to support? A la carte rentals? Pay $5.99 for one season of a show?