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Comment Re:Don't make an emulator of FUTURE products (Score 4, Informative) 33

One of Nintendo's major Switch releases for 2023: Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom was leaked weeks before it went on sale. That was a separate piracy issue and shouldn't have affected Yuzu development.

And it wouldn't have if the Yuzu devs hadn't majorly fucked up. The release versions (both public and patreon) of Yuzu would not properly play the leaked LoZ TotK game, so they *acquired* their own pirated copy so that they could fix their emulator. After they implemented the fixes, they then kept it behind the patreon backer paywall for a period of time, as they did with all of their initial patches.

Nintendo was able to demonstrate that Tropic Haze, the Yuzu developer's incorporated company, made money by specifically patching their emulator to work with a game that wasn't yet released. Legally, they were making money by furthering piracy.

From their, it's anyone's speculation as to what happened. Nintendo was able to get all of their Discord messages and Tropic Haze folded amazingly fast, so it's likely that the devs passed that copy of LoZ TotK around to each other so that they could implement those fixes. It's also likely that they had pirated more than just that game. Regardless, Tropic Haze settlement tells us that they really didn't want to come close to a courtroom.

Comment Are they still allowing publishing to XBox One? (Score 1) 10

Is this just MS letting developers know that they don't want to publish XB1 games? Because if I was an indie studio, I would want to go for the lowest common denominator and since the Switch is already a valid hardware target, and with the XB1 being more powerful than Switch, releasing on the XB1 would give me the XSS/XSX market as well.

If I'm only releasing for *exclusively* the Series systems then I may as well skip all Xbox.

Comment Re:Maybe he should not have raped that woman (Score 1) 327

By that definition the western nations are infringing on the cultural norms and religious beliefs of 2/3s of the world, and their racists.

Which group of racists is it that the western nations are infringing upon? Is it their own racists? I think that's allowed and even looked favorably upon. Is it the two thirds of the world which the western nations infringe on their cultural norms, religious beliefs, and apparently their racists as well? No, I think that's still looked favorably upon; at least belittling their racists part.

I just don't get it. I don't think I want to.

Comment Re:what for? (Score 1) 57

Familiarity. It requires Minecraft because everyone under the age of 16 has heard of it and most of them have played it. It is a simple virtual world where children can gather and learn, and possibly even experiment.

This is precisely why Microsoft bought Mojang. Having a port to the dying Windows Phone was nice but not really the reason. Having a special port for Windows 10 that connects with Pocket Edition players was something that they could have got if they simply asked Mojang and 4J for. Getting every kid to associate your name with their favorite part of school? Yes, that's worth 2.5 billion dollars.

Comment Re:The Pirate Bay (Score 5, Insightful) 302

Actually, you do. Once something has been released to the public, no matter how, it becomes part of the public domain. Copyright is a limited privilege that is granted to the creator during which time they are exclusively allowed to distribute content in order to make money off of said content. This was created to further the creation of more works for the public.

I believe that denying the content creators financial gain by circumventing copyright is wrong. However, if content creators continue to extend copyright or use DRM to make sure that their content can not ever return to the public domain, they are stealing from the public. Having the public return the favor is to be expected.

This vicious cycle can be solved, but neither side seems to care enough to fix it.

Comment Re:Emma Watson is full of it (Score 1) 590

If that was the only issue, then you would be correct. However the gender hiring bias and gender income gap aren't that intertwined. They are part of the same problem, but they don't directly affect each other.

Regarding the gender income gap, I support the idea of legislation that would reward equal work with equal pay.

However, the gender hiring bias can't be simply solved with legislation, and potential income gap legislation could cause the hiring bias to worsen. This is quite possibly one of those problems that won't be solved in our generation simply due to how ingrained we are in our beliefs. Hell, as a woman who has been in IT for 15 years, I look at other women in the field differently than I look at the men; it's as if the men belong there and the women have to prove themselves. It's rather humbling to realize this. I think everyone should read this and re-examine how they view their colleagues.

Comment Re: Talk is cheap. (Score 1) 266

Portal and Portal 2 are all about murdering people! Of course in this instance the people that are being murdered are the protagonists but it's not like it's non-violent.

I'm a big proponent of Minecraft as an educational tool. Granted it also has violence too but I'd say it's a less violent game than the Portal games. At it's basic level it teaches survival in a hostile world. If the kids get into it, it teaches planning, resource management, resource conservation, programming, and math, and also spurs creativity. Add in multiplayer and it teaches basic tenets of society like community, sharing/trading of goods, and respect of others property. It really is the best edutainment ever invented.

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com...

Comment Re:Comcast (Score 1) 133

The lack of an edit button is a feature and not a bug. It mimics verbal communication in that someone can correct their statement with an additional statement but their first statement still was heard and processed by the listener.

Having the ability to edit, even one that marks posts as edited or even shows revisions, makes conversation shaky. Posters often have to QFT in order to have their statements be resistant to potential edits. Conversations can still be parsed and followed but it is nowhere near as easily understandable as before.

It can be argued that Slashdot only exists as a place for dialog as the news stories here are often older than ones in printed media. Once beta is crammed into live, you can have your edit button.

Comment Re: And so it begins... (Score 1) 252

The season 5 (and series) finale Sleeping in Light was made as part of season 4. It's the one that takes place 20 years in the future. When they got picked up by TNT, they quickly made Deconstruction of Falling Stars as a season 4 finale. That's the episode that shows things far in the future.

It also explains why Ivanova was in Sleeping in Light and Lochley wasn't even mentioned.

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