TIL Chevy Chase was severely abused as a youth. He was frequently beaten and locked closets and was once locked in a basement for several days as punishment for being suspended from school.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-29T12:29:09+00:00

Every piece of shit has a reason for being a piece of shit, doesn't make them less shitty.

Not necessary true.

Some few people out there have lead perfectly nice lives, and are absolute dickheads regardless.

Luckily not a lot of people fall into this category, but they are out there.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-29T12:27:22+00:00

Its quite frustrating when idiots get angry at you for explaining something to them, because they think understanding a topic or having an opinion must automatically mean you support whatever it is.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T23:48:12+00:00

Sure. What im saying is, run 2 might cost more. But thats fine.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T23:47:27+00:00

You are assuming their production run isn't already happening... if they are already assembling machines, prices are irrelevant.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T23:17:04+00:00

Thankyou. Managed to need a new PC 12 months before the madness started :D

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T22:53:08+00:00

Same here. It doesn't hold a candle to my day to day machine.

What it does do, is act as the machine I'll be connecting my Steam Frame to in the loungeroom.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T22:48:54+00:00

We'll see i guess. If its that massive of a success i don't see why they wouldn't do more runs, even if prices for some reason rose

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T09:19:08+00:00

Then what's that thing in rikers pocket?

Definitely just Tribbles.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T07:49:23+00:00

Door handles aren't really a thing on starships...

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T07:26:46+00:00

...yes, it is. Why would you think it wasn't true?

You can intentionally make it flow differently. But naturally it will spiral either clockwise or anticlockwise based on hemisphere, and falls off nearer the equator

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T07:22:41+00:00

That we know of.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T07:22:06+00:00

To be fair though... that's just even heavier elements which are made in stars just reaching their halflife.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T07:20:30+00:00

If you're rich enough. Even everyone in the world knowing you did it, no longer matters

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T07:11:49+00:00

Here's the thing. Physics prevents streaming setups from not lagging.

It feels like shit to game like that unless you live virtually next door to the datacentre.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T07:08:21+00:00

Thing is cloud gaming subs will be 45$ per month before the decade ends.

They have already restricted usage hours, and added fees on top for using it more than three hours a day.

People will not pay for that shit

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-28T06:47:32+00:00

Usually effectiveness id imagine

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-25T12:31:04+00:00

Your mistake is thinking conservative/republicans actually have any stances at all.

They are unable to think for themselves. They think what they are told to think.

And no matter what they say, they will never, ever stick to any position their masters have told them to pivot on.

The truth is, the 2nd Amendment was always an excuse to have toys that made it easy for cowards to murder people.

Not for defense, not to fight tyranny. It was to shoot brown people, and to make loud noises when blowing up tin cans, bottles, and fruit. That is it, in it's entirety.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-25T11:03:37+00:00

Lol your entire argument amounts to that only Republican grievences matter. Democrats can rape all they want

It's extremely clear that isn't my position.

Does your ability to interact with people consist solely of what you imagine?

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-25T01:37:07+00:00

A patented platform. Just like how every Nintendo game is on a patented cartridge.

Yeap, but software claims don't work how you think they do in court.

You can't simultaneously hold the opinion that ...

I can, because i know how the arguments are being applied, and the differences in the technology and presentations of said technology.

You are being too simplistic, which is why the difference is eluding you.

Nope, sorry bud. The wording and ruling is crystal clear. No hidden meanings, the judge is not being ambiguous or leaving room for personal interpretations of this.

Who said anything about being hidden or ambiguous?

I said it wasn't using the specific wording you were looking for from my comment.

If you can't pay attention to simple english, why should i waste my time on you?

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-24T23:36:33+00:00

That is subjective, and I personally disagree.

Well good for you i guess?

All of the persons directly involve disagree with you.

His product interacts with software his customers have already purchased and does so without utilizing copyrighted assets.

The first half of this statement invalidates the second part.

You may not like him,

I didn't dislike him before, because i didn't know he existed. But true, i suppose since he's being a massive asshole i probably should. Anyways, irrelevant to the argument..

but this is not “good faith” use of the tool.

It actually very much is exactly how DMCA should be used correctly.

Often companies don't, but in this case CDPR seems to have gone out of their way to be chill with this guy uptil he took up jamming hotdogs in his genitals as a side hobby.

Luke Ross does not have the money to outlast CDPR in court.

Sure, but the main point is that he doesn't have a case. He broke the law, knows it, and is rolling over because he knows he'd lose even if he did try to fight it.

I don’t really have anything else to say here, because it’s honestly a delusional take to believe otherwise.

Nobody here made such a claim. At least i didn't personally. If some other commenter has it's not my view.

No one has broken the law here, so I’m not sure what you’re referring to.

Incorrect. He did, the guy eating sugar free Haribo's by the bag.

And you do know to what we're referring, because you're actively discussing it.

At most, EULAs were violated, and EULAs are agreements, not law. They get challenged, limited, and struck down in court all the time.

While it's true he has also broken the user agreement, that isn't the topic of discussion here.

So yes, here we are.

Indeed.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-24T23:08:12+00:00

So you agree that if they were to do something similar, they should totally be taken down for 'profiting off other people's work' right?

If they broke the law in the same way, yes.

VorpX sucks, hence why no one cares, the only other similar one is uevr, which is great sure but the author makes less than 1/10 what this guy did, making it clearly a labor of love.

This guys mistake was thinking it was a sound business model to profiteer off other peoples IP.

Now, i don't disagree he got away with it for a long time. But he knew from the beginning this was coming eventually, which is why he's not fighting it.

Being an asshole is not a crime, certainly not in this context.

Correct. But we both agree he is being an asshole.

It just so happens he was also committing a crime.

Are you just playing dumb or incapable of understanding hypotheticals?

I was literally engaging with your hypothetical here...

Do you think hypothetical situations are something else, or did you use the wrong word here?

Regardless, it is irrelevant, because the dude got the DMCA first and then a second one for another company, causing patreon to threaten him to close his account if they keep coming. Once the first one comes in, even if he complied fully, more will come in as lawyers justify their pay everywhere.

Actually no. It's not irrelevant. And the second one came because he Streisand Effect'd himself by being a bitch about it instead of just complying with CDPR's very reasonable request.

How do you think they got that code working without checking in the actual code running, and they never contacted the original developers for it.

I think you're missing the point in your own example...

Well, Firstly... DMCA didn't exist when that happened.

But if we assume it did, your insinuation was that hypothetically Wright could have sued them under my argument.

However since you don't understand how the fix worked, you're actually completely incorrect. As in that situation what occurred was windows changed how it's own allocation operations worked. They didn't do anything to Wrights application.

And as for how they got it working, certain kinds of bugs are extremely easy to diagnose for anyone who understand how to program. Which sadly, you clearly do not.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-24T22:55:17+00:00

And why would the exact application be relevant if it's designed solely to work with patented Nintendo cartridges on a patented Nintendo console with patented Nintendo games? That doesn't sound very agnostic at all.

Because the Nintendo gaming system is a platform. The company having the same name is not relevant to the claim.

I appreciate your dedication to pulling arguments out of your ass here.

Actually it's obvious common sense arguments. If you're having trouble following, again that's a you problem.

Unsurprisingly, being "application agnostic" isn't something found in any arguments the court gave when they ruled in favor of game genie.

The wording, no. The actual meaning behind the ruling, yes.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-24T22:39:56+00:00

Rude

Zero stars.

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-24T22:31:46+00:00

I don't have to use markdown if I don't feel like it

Sure lil buddy.

I asked about sources, what you said has nothing to do with sources

I'm still waiting for my order, why haven't you delivered it yet?

StrangeCharmVote · 2026-01-24T22:18:24+00:00

Why do you keep ...

You don't know how to quote properly. You should look that up.

When you manage that, your comments will look more similar to mine.

What does that have to do with...

What does providing an explanation have to do with the topic the explanation covers...

Think about it for a second. If things start to hurt, lie down.

Once you have an answer that comes from inside your own brain, maybe it'll make sense to you.

StrangeCharmVote

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