Are you speaking as someone that struggles with this or are you speaking on behalf of a hypothetical neurodivergent person?

I would have thought it was implied that my comment was directed at neurotypical people (insulting neurodivergent people for social interaction issues? Is that what you assume of me?).

Readers that cannot tell that I’m being sarcastic need to be supervised near crayons.

Giving bullies what they demand usually works out super well.

Not really, no.

I had a dev add a load of unit tests that mocked values and then tested for the mocked values. I mean… They passed…

Is this why so many of these fuckheads are keen on LLMs? They’re great at vomiting out reams of code.

Sure, but that sounds insane compared to just blocking out the time in the next four years.

Ugh, I’m going to have to prioritise ripping my old miniDV cassettes, aren’t I?

Correct. The copyright owner controls the rights related to copying.

Unless the copyright holder specifically grants free distribution rights (e.g. releasing as a public domain work such as with a CC0 licence) then they can decide to do what they want. That includes choosing not to distribute the work in any way.

So no, Championship Manager 01/02 is not available legally for free. It’s no more legal than downloading ROMs. No one will stop you but that’s not the same as legal.

I’m not defending this approach. I think IP law is a fucking shambles and needs massive reform for a number of reasons. The duration is ludicrous and it’s horrendously restrictive in a way that chokes the life out of human culture. I see someone downvoted me, which is pretty funny in and of itself. Sorry for pointing out how IP law works…?

They took out H264 hardware support?

Reading the instructions, no, it’s not. It was given away for free by Eidos and no longer is. Unless they granted distribution rights to someone back in the day then whoever is distributing the files is doing so illegally.

I don’t really care, I just find it funny that it’s touted as legally when that’s absolutely not how copyright law works at all.

Old racist xenophobe says something racist and xenophobic. Colour me shocked.

Isn’t that Mona Wilder?

I’m reminded of the riot police taping ball bearings to flashbangs during the Ukrainian Revolution

For me this is more about open world games losing cool features than wanting to play a game with that feature. In GTA 4 it affected the choices I’d make whilst driving as it was entirely possible to make a vehicle nearly impossible to drive without coming close to blowing it up.

I couldn’t be bothered to come up with a neat way to say “GTA-like games” and decided to hope that the reader could intuit that context.

The vehicle damage modelling from GTA 4. The fact that it hasn’t been surpassed is tremendously disappointing to me.

I hate the notion that fringe lunatics have opinions that are just as valuable as anyone else’s. Push that fucking Overton Window back to somewhere sane. We do need people shutting these disruptive idiots down. The answer is not just to act like they’re not there.

Has that approach worked on any bully ever?

If someone shows up at a party and starts shit the answer isn’t to expect the other partygoers to put in earplugs.

Single serving friends. I really don’t like it.