Honestly this probably applies to most large companies to some extent. Ubisoft is just the one that made the news for it and won’t truly be effected by it unless we demand more of the industry as a whole.

This is your daily reminder that will Ubisoft aided and abetted sexual predators.

Nope. I’m a software engineer and former gamedev, I’ve volunteered my time on mods and addons for a laundry list of games from Doom to Half Life to WoW to Minecraft and everything between. I’ve contributed to dozens of open source projects. You don’t speak for me, and your views on version archiving are thankfully not…

I’m not surprised to see you trying to stir shit here Skyler.

The Sims Drama? Been there, front and center. I personally had DMCA takedowns of my private website and forum because I didn’t hold with that payment for mods bullshit. I had a fairly well known name in the community, and was outspokenly against pay sites.

Modders don’t lose “all agency over their works”. All this change does is preserve archive copies of older versions so collections designed to work with specific versions can download those specific versions without the mod author pulling them. The only ‘agency’ lost is the ability to hard delete old versions and even…

It has become such an expected cycle in our lives to watch something grow from great intentions, find a successful/sustainable business model, then topple into a drive for excess profit until it crumbles into something unrecognizable.

So were actual American slaves, believe it or not.

Yep. If prison labor was (properly) considered Slavery most of America would be guilty.  We intentionally built that slavery “loophole” into the 13th Amendment so we could keep doing it. 

Daily reminder that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, and this applies to all levels of all supply chains.

“Moreover,” Fukukawa continued, “we have never been informed that there was forced labor in our supply chain.” Okay, but do factories that are violating human rights tell others what’s going on? Also, how much do companies really know what’s going on in their partners’ factories?

⬆️THIS. All o’ this. I for one took the whole movie as an extended meditation on frustrated, over-the-hill wannabe tough guys just making up myths about their lives in order to soothe their ironically fragile egos. (I mean, who’s to say that even the final shot— which distances the Dalton character almost to…

I keep meaning to do this. Thanks for the reminder.

No. No no no.

“set for some reason to a sultry cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”

Geez, Sam, I know you’re a hack, but you’re word-for-wording a significant portion of the Variety article without quotes. You just rearranged it. Who is the senior editor of this site at this point?

Good post.
True it’s not a great thing to advertise your IP, but as you mentioned, it’s not something to lose your sleep over. VPN advertising would lead you to believe your entire family will be murdered if you don’t buy their service.

They really stuck it to the rich hedge fund managers by giving money to the rich CEO of a failing business that’s just milking any profits it can before it goes under.

Unfortunately, the US government likes to wait until there is public outcry on a particular issue, before they “do something about it.” Then they will spend a few weeks to a few months saying, they’re working on a solution. In the meantime, they will place minor restrictions on whatever issue their dealing with. It…