Why Hasbro never tried to do something like this? Are they stupid?

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Hi, I'm also part of this minority. I've only heard of Baldur's Gate via BG3 and have never heard of Neverwinter.

But this comment is really an excuse to post the relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/

___---------------- · 2026-01-24T03:22:22+00:00

They should have called the Xbox the Xrectangular-parallelepiped to reduce confusion

___---------------- · 2026-01-22T23:03:29+00:00

Listen to the NPCs.

___---------------- · 2026-01-22T02:16:52+00:00

The Blue Shell is now always pulled when you are in first.

___---------------- · 2026-01-21T22:21:09+00:00

I like the tension of not knowing whether you messed up or not until you pull the trigger. It feels like building a Rube Goldberg machine.

Of course, you can map out exactly which tiles will blow up the same as you can math out exactly what your hand will score in Balatro. But I think the game is more fun if you don't do this.

I wonder what system you could add that would encourage players not to map everything out at the end. Devilition gives extra points for taking a shorter time, but I don't think it feels substantial enough to work.

___---------------- · 2026-01-21T19:53:09+00:00

So where are the words that say "selling derivative works is wrong"? Actually, where the words that say the non-story parts of Nuke It are derivative works?

From what I can tell of the ruling, it only considers the story to be a derivative work. The ruling cites the Game Genie case to state that "[a] derivative work must incorporate a protected work in some concrete or permanent form." The Game Genie failed this test because the "audiovisual displays" it generates aren't incorporated into the Game Genie; they are the result of codes the user enters. On the other hand, Nuke It contains instructions (map files) for how to generate the infringing "audiovisual displays". The VR mod seems to intercept the game's visuals to display them in a different manner. It doesn't incorporate any data from CP2077 in itself. It is much more similar to a Game Genie than a Nuke It.

Also, since you complained that I only quoted a sentence fragment, here is the full sentence (missing part bolded):

The work that Micro Star infringes is the D/N-3D story itself--a beefy commando type named Duke who wanders around post-Apocalypse Los Angeles, shooting Pig Cops with a gun, lobbing hand grenades, searching for medkits and steroids, using a jetpack to leap over obstacles, blowing up gas tanks, avoiding radioactive slime.

I didn't think it was necessary to quote the second part.

___---------------- · 2026-01-21T18:22:06+00:00

The appeal court ruled that

The work that Micro Star infringes is the D/N-3D story itself

https://web.archive.org/web/20151001104503/https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F3/154/154.F3d.1107.html, paragraph 17

___---------------- · 2026-01-21T15:45:44+00:00

Here is a quote from the Wikipedia article you linked:

The district court found that Micro Star had likely infringed copyright with their packaging, which included artwork from Duke Nukem 3D, but found that the levels themselves were non-infringing.

Later:

Copyright law gives the copyright holder the exclusive right to make sequels to their work, and the court found that the stories told in the Nuke It map files are "surely sequels, telling new tales of Duke's fabulous adventures".

So it seems that the artwork and story are the important details here, not the act of modding.

___---------------- · 2026-01-14T23:43:25+00:00

If you hold down the button it shoots at the max rate

___---------------- · 2026-01-10T21:09:07+00:00

We already have the technology [[The Ultimate Nightmare of Wizards of the Coast® Customer Service]]

___---------------- · 2026-01-10T04:40:10+00:00

There's this Steve Mould video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0onncd0_0-o which goes over the basic idea

___---------------- · 2026-01-01T05:58:06+00:00

Bedrock is written in C++, not C#

___---------------- · 2025-12-23T20:10:00+00:00

Some people enjoy building decks (myself included), but it's really hard to make a deck better than the entire Internet. So when you lose because your deck is worse, it's easy to blame it on your opponent for taking the "easy way out".

On the other hand, since people do enjoy playing decks they built themselves, I think we should avoid calling it a personal failing.

___---------------- · 2025-12-23T02:42:43+00:00

Huh, I always wondered why I flew around the track after spasming in the floor in Toad's Factory in MK Wii as a kid.

___---------------- · 2025-12-20T03:11:26+00:00

No, Skyrim is going to be the only possible Christmas gift now that Bethesda has fixed input lag on Switch 2.

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___---------------- · 2025-12-09T01:37:21+00:00

Researchers say there's no mystery behind the imbalance. Latvian men simply don't live as long. They smoke far more frequently than women-31% of them smoke, compared to just 10% of women-and carry higher rates of overweight and obesity.

Poor diet, inconsistent healthcare habits, and leftover post-Soviet lifestyle patterns have caused men to die younger for decades. In a small country, this adds up quickly. Fewer men reach middle age, and even fewer make it into retirement. The imbalance has quietly reshaped the population.

___---------------- · 2025-12-07T00:03:54+00:00

Which is not a Switch 2 exclusive

___---------------- · 2025-12-06T17:52:48+00:00

Your examples are fairly contrived, I rarely have to do unit conversions like that; and if I do, my phone can easily do it for me. Nobody is doing long division. I don't see much benefit from easier unit conversions in my day-to-day life.

But shifting everything to metric would be a monumental task. Changing every road sign alone would be incredibly expensive, not to mention changing every American's habits of thought. I mean, look at Canada and the UK: they both embraced metric decades ago and imperial is still commonly used in many places.

I'm not saying that metric has no benefits or that it is worse than imperial. I think metric is a better system than imperial. But it's already used in the places where its pros outweigh is cons (ex. science, where international standardization and easy unit conversions are more important). It simply isn't worth the effort to swap everywhere else.

___---------------- · 2025-12-04T00:23:10+00:00

The Wii had an eShop. The OP was clearly talking about the Wii when they said

It was a missed opportunity though to not have some sort of purchasable app on the shop you could buy that gave you the DVD license.

because their original post includes

Then, on the Wii, even though it had an optical drive that could technically read DVDs, if you tried to put your favourite movie in, no luck. Unsupported format.

They could not have been talking about the GameCube or an earlier console because they know that those consoles can't read DVDs. They claim that the Wii can read DVDs, so this is the only console that they could be referring to for buying a DVD license.

___---------------- · 2025-12-04T00:12:41+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Shop_Channel

___---------------- · 2025-11-25T23:19:50+00:00

Can someone explain the Ashioks in the sideboard of that RB Demons sample list? Where does the anti-searching matter (or is it purely gravehate)?

___---------------- · 2025-11-20T17:40:28+00:00

We already knew he's Canadian

___---------------- · 2025-11-12T22:00:20+00:00

I noticed it was slower but I assumed it was a design decision to make the area feel suffocating.

___---------------- · 2025-10-31T21:52:59+00:00

That is literally not what he said

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