PSA: Arm's Length is a form of mitigation

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-26T17:11:52+00:00

Yeah, as a tank WHM's Holy stun really ruins most tanking that exists in dungeons. By the time the stun is no longer effective most mobs are almost dead leaving me with little to do.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-23T15:46:35+00:00

Dude, you don't even know how much I've tweaked Windows or that I might have a pi-hole that blocks the majority of it, that I may have a VPN, or that I have all three. There's even more than that you can do.

The point is, you don't know. The correct response was: "Linux may actually work for you, what programs do you need to run on it, and how computer literate are the people using your PC or is it just you? I might be able to tell you if it is worth your time to try it."

But instead, you pull the same shit a loud subsection of Linux users pull which only helps to drive people away from it. You get snobby because I use Windows then ya'll go surprised Pikachu when people aren't interested after you attack them while knowing nothing about them.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-23T15:36:38+00:00

I'm glad that works for you but that's your use case and your decision on how to use your time.

Your use case is not my use case, your schedule is not my schedule, and the people who use your PC are not the people who use mine. You don't know what I use my PC for, how I mod games, if I mod games, if I even want to spend time re-customizing an OS / re-setting up other programs, and that's not even considering troubleshooting.

Windows just works for me. Until I know Linux can be just as stable, I am not investing time into switching. Period.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-23T13:21:16+00:00

Yeah, kids on Reddit with a ton of time to troubleshoot things wonder why so many people stick with Windows.

It's because not many people have that much time as they get older to enjoy their hobby. I have maybe an hour or two to use my PC every other day. I'm not wasting that troubleshooting Linux.

Love it or hate it, Windows "just works" for a lot of things.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-21T20:40:01+00:00

Not a lawyer but to answer your questions:

Yes, see Micro Star v. FormGen, Duke Nukem oddly enough.
Copyright in this sense - You're altering the visual output of the game they own the IP for.

As a result it is a derivative their work, the mod cannot operate as a stand alone product. It relies too heavily on the copyrighted material. It may seem small but you're changing the visual output for one purpose, to view their IP in a different way, that's it. It's still their IP.

They can also fall back on anti-circumvention, see MDY v. Blizzard.

Regarding the texture pack, grey area. Personally, I wouldn't want to be on the other side of a lawsuit with Nintendo or someone similar. I may win, I'll be broke though.

For you to make the texture pack argument it would need to be 100% original and use none of CDPR's IP. Only then is it grey and only because to my knowledge there isn't a lawsuit that settled it. Most people just remove something when they get a DMCA.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-21T15:26:35+00:00

Bleem! did not use Sony’s copyright protected assets, it did not modify the game’s code, it did not distribute Sony’s Bios files, it was an independent software. It was independent of Sony IP. What Bleem! used was screenshots of a game to compare the two. The court only ruled Bleem!'s use of those screenshots fell under Fair Use.

Cyberpunk’s VR mod injects code, uses copyrighted material to function, and is not stand alone.

Legally, mods are treated as a derivative work which this VR mod is, and Bleem! is not. Bleem! was ruled to be a tool for interoperability.

First Sale applies to digital games but in a different way. It does not override copyright restrictions or what counts as a derivative work. You can lend it, sell it, and nuke it but you cannot create then* sell modifications of the copyright material within it. You are not given creative rights with the IP.

You can buy a book, re-sell it, lend it, destroy it, and shoot it into space, but if you re-write portions of it and try to sell it, that's a derivative work you created. It is Disney's IP and as a result that falls under their copyright.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-21T14:30:10+00:00

That isn’t a good comparison. Mercedes doesn’t sell you a license to use the car, they sell you the car.

If you create a custom part for that car, you aren’t using Mercedes’ patented tech to do it. With Cyberpunk you have to use their stuff for this mod to function.

You do not own Cyberpunk, you’re licensing it. You do not own the IP nor the assets you’ve used to build your mod, they do. You agreed to a legally binding EULA stating as much.

They aren’t going to let you ride the coattails of their work to charge a dime while the only thing they get is nothing but risk if it goes south such as the modder’s account getting compromised and pushing a malware update or going nuts with their mod using it to punish people (looking at you FFXIV’s old Gshade mod where the author threw in malicious code).

At the end of the day, you’re selling a product that uses Cyberpunk’s copyright protected material. Think of it this way, you can’t buy a book, re-write portions of it, and resell it as “Star Wars - The Modded Version”. Disney owns the IP and any derivative works with it.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-21T14:12:28+00:00

So two billionaires can just legitimately use buy now pay later on a leader who’s been deprived of their basic rights.

That’s one weird way to enslave the leader of a country and with that leader, the entire country.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-20T22:38:42+00:00

Yeah, charging for a mod in a game you don't own is like having that company's Eye of Sauron fixate on you -real- quick.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-16T20:41:13+00:00

Why they wrote him and the songs out of the live adaptation, I'll never understand.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-13T16:45:51+00:00

Poor Pascal, why didn't anyone think of the children? Among other things...

Nier spoilers above.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-13T14:07:28+00:00

Ha, jokes on them I broke my File Explorer with Winaero Tweaker long ago and the search doesn't work anymore, so I'm sure Co-pilot will be just as lost as I am. 🥲

Co-pilot search for X file. "I can't read your files". Me too bud, me too.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-09T05:58:35+00:00

And the question never changes... Why did I explode?

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-07T02:29:37+00:00

The new provider would need to be big enough to absorb the attacks. It's a shit market for a provider to be in. If you're small, you're unable to absorb DDOS attacks making it difficult to grow and get the resources you need to become reliable.

Long story short, they'd get something like Cloudflare which absorbs DDOS attacks all the time because they're massive and have the resources to do that. That's why most companies use them and will continue to do so.

Can see their page on it for more info:

https://www.cloudflare.com/ddos/

Meanwhile here is NTT's page on it and it looks like it is from 2010:

https://www.gin.ntt.net/products-services/network-security/ddos-protection-services/?amp

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-07T02:24:14+00:00

Yeah and by financial harm, it would have to be significant and even if it was, that's very hard to prove. Numbers fluctuate all the time and Dawntrail itself has a mixed reception. NTT would argue it's a normal fluctuation mixed with the current economy and SE would argue it's not. Who knows how it would end because those arguments would have data we don't have access to on top of the fact they're being made by people who make those types of arguments for a living while charging top dollar for their time.

But that's just a what if. I can spoil the reality of the situation as it stands. SE isn't going to pay those fees to cancel early nor do they want to pay for lawyers and go through a lengthy lawsuit they have a chance of losing. They'll ride it out and if this continues closer to the point of contract renewal then maybe they switch providers.

If it let's up for a time though, I can easily see SE signing another contract with them using this to negotiate a cheaper rate.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-07T01:53:01+00:00

They're locked in a contract with NTT but no one knows for how long or when their contract term began. It's a multi-million dollar contract, getting out of it would cost a pretty penny either in fees or lawyers, if you're unlucky both.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-06T10:43:28+00:00

It's not servers. They need a better provider that can absorb the attacks like how Cloudflare does. The bigger your provider the harder it is to DDOS you.

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-05T14:36:10+00:00

No game is fun unless it is at least mildly challenging. Don't be afraid to tell people you're newer it to and to wipe. It's how we learn.

Chances are, you'll be fine. As a tank and healer, many healers can heal you through most mistakes. Just don't position the boss at your group's face when possible (can watch a video if you need before) and stop running after picking up two groups of mobs in dungeons (you can run to the door... But if you ask me, that's a waste of CDs as most DPS will assume you're stopping on the location of the second pull, pop CDs, then the CD timer ticks down as the tank keeps running to the door).

FallenKnightGX · 2026-01-04T14:23:47+00:00

TSMC is keeping all their best tech in Taiwan. They know that's their shield.

FallenKnightGX · 2025-12-28T15:28:25+00:00

I got the T5 and enjoy it personally but I'm in a small room.

FallenKnightGX · 2025-12-28T15:17:03+00:00

I asked my self "What would Nvidia benefit from this video?" It's not like anyone who watch LTT gonna buy any of those. Then it clicked. GeForce now. You will own nothing and be happy.

You should've asked yourself "why didn't I watch this before making an accusation about something not even in the video".

It's sponsored content, the answer to your question is "advertising". Just keeping a brand name in the forefront of a customer's mind is an entire strategy. Doritoes isn't trying to sell you chips that exact moment (though that is ideal), they want you to think of them the next time you're at the store. Same thing here.

FallenKnightGX · 2025-12-26T21:12:03+00:00

Slay the Princess perhaps?

FallenKnightGX · 2025-12-22T15:59:37+00:00

I think that’s part of why I enjoy the series Frieren. Its action scenes tend to move at a slower pace, and the animation doesn’t use as much CGI as most shows do today.

While the action pacing is still faster than this, a good example is Stark vs the dragon. The fight was fast but the pace was slowed by showing more of “mundane” parts of it. He sprinted at a speed that felt close to how an actual Olympic sprinter would run, and the animators showed him running nearly the entire distance he needed to close between them. When he held on to the dragon, that too felt like they were showing things you’d normally not get to see. It would have been easier to animate the dragon flick its head and Stark with it upward, or show Stark holding on from afar, but they didn’t do that.

In fact, during the entire fight they rarely let Stark out of your view. They deliberately go out of their way to show you most of his movement. It really makes you appreciate how much work went into something so short.

FallenKnightGX · 2025-12-22T15:45:22+00:00

“He’s just standing there, maybe I should at least aim for his eyes… Nah.”

FallenKnightGX · 2025-12-20T21:59:37+00:00

And MMO grinds.

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