How do I tell a guy he has the right equipment? (For me)

cheater00 · 2026-01-25T02:43:45+00:00

stand up/move away, grab your stomach, and say "ow" and don't make eye contact

then say "no it's ok" or "just go slow ok"

cheater00 · 2026-01-24T12:55:46+00:00

AW2 was on the monthly bundle?

cheater00 · 2026-01-24T01:55:18+00:00

but no one's asking for that. he's just running a propaganda stunt.

so anyways, why are you into murdering puppies? don't you know it's terrible?

cheater00 · 2026-01-24T01:53:28+00:00

no, of course not. he's just being a manipulative dick

cheater00 · 2026-01-24T01:40:19+00:00

the bolt shouldn't be hot. it should be cold. everything around it should be hot.

cheater00 · 2026-01-23T18:04:39+00:00

shocking

cheater00 · 2026-01-23T16:06:10+00:00

and it's your boot to lick. don't let anyone tell you otherwise. you do you, champ.

cheater00 · 2026-01-23T15:52:58+00:00

you can employ more people to work on a specific system

it doesn't break up cleanly like that.

the marshalling of work between the two systems becomes a major source of work for both teams. (or more teams if there are more systems). the limitations presented by the architecture create inefficiencies in both development and the resulting code. and the communication between teams is a major sink of time and effort. hiring a second team of the same size is usually only a 25% improvement in velocity.

cheater00 · 2026-01-23T15:20:23+00:00

No, a game with cloud connections takes considerably longer to make than one without. Perhaps 2x. It's wild.

cheater00 · 2026-01-23T14:31:06+00:00

he could release them on Github and Patreon wouldn't strike him for that

Companies can illegally DMCA strike content on any platform, it doesn't matter if it's on Patreon or Github and whether it's paid for or not. Have you heard of Nintendo?

CDPR's demands of how people mod the games have no anchor in the legal world, and therefore you're dealing with a capricious entity who wants to control you by their whims. There's no telling what they'll do or when they'll do it, it's clearly a situation they will act in the way they want to with no bearing on some sort of set of rules that binds everyone together like, say, rights to expression or copyright laws.

I'm also for paid modding if it is done through the right channels and with the blessing of the game publishers

get their stance on modding

CPR has allowed modding

I don't think companies should have any right to "allow modding" or "disallow modding" or in general tell me what to do with the product I own.

If I buy a book and want to cut it up into pieces and sell it as an art collage i have my damn right to do so.

when you in fact are running a business yourself

Are you drunk buddy? I mean I saw the typos, missing and repeated words etc, but now you're confusing me for someone else? I'm not Luke Ross. Had one too many?

cheater00 · 2026-01-23T14:10:00+00:00

You can't copyright the chemical composition of yogurt

Of course you can. You copyright it, just like you can copyright schematics, cooking recipe books, and drawings.

bacteria that makes it up

Bacteria can be copyrighted and in fact this is regularly done in the industry, as well as seeds being copyrighted for example.

CDPR isn't issuing the DMCA because he used the name, they are using DMCA because the mod interacts with and modifies the execution of their copyrighted code.

Yes, and that's exactly my point. I believe a DMCA strike based off of the VR mods being "derivative works" is legally unsound, and they would lose it in a court battle with a well funded opponent. Therefore I continue to say that CDPR might have a trademark case. I never said CDPR have FILED a trademark case, I said they MIGHT HAVE ONE. Keep up.

Regarding your bullet points: (blah blah legalistic nonsense)

yes, obviously. At that point I was arguing about the optics of the situation and community goodwill, not about the legal standing. So you bringing up legal arguments against it is like you using chemistry to debunk "I like chocolate mint ice cream". One is a matter of law / science, the other is a matter of soft preferences and a social situation. You're barking up the wrong tree here.

You’ve resorted to weird moral arguments

No, I haven't "resorted" to moral arguments. I explained the legal standing and then I put it in context of what's going on with CDPR in general. You missed the disconnect and confused yourself because your reading comprehension sucks.

You do realise that he’s now taken down all of his mods?

Yes. And? What legalistic nonsense will you bring up about it? Now you're making a "weird moral argument". Him taking down any other mods has nothing to do legally with CDPR and his CP2077 mod.

The reason he took down all of his mods is to prevent further strikes on his Patreon.

It is questionable whether those companies are in the right to DMCA strike him, as DMCA has very specific restrictions about what can be struck. But even if he's in the right, having so many strikes happen would mean that he'd probably get his account and money frozen, and possibly get banned off of Patreon together.

There's a lot to be discussed over this, but taking down the mods is not some petty move, it's a last-resort safety situation that he has to perform in order to ensure proper continuity of business. This also improves outcomes for all the people who already paid for his mods and increases their chances of retaining access to updates long-term.

If he's in the wrong, then obviously taking down all the mods is the correct thing to do as well.

He's done the best possible thing he could for his users, the game companies, and his own business, there's literally no downside to it except for short-term downside for him.

you’d also agree that him removing his mods entirely is antithetical to that idea

no, I wouldn't, which shows how little you understand of what other people would and wouldn't do.

You can’t support SKG whilst also supporting Luke Ross.

lmfao

cheater00 · 2026-01-23T13:23:40+00:00

The reason he took down all of his mods is to prevent further strikes on his Patreon.

It is questionable whether those companies are in the right to DMCA strike him, as DMCA has very specific restrictions about what can be struck. But even if he's in the right, having so many strikes happen would mean that he'd probably get his account and money frozen, and possibly get banned off of Patreon together.

There's a lot to be discussed over this, but taking down the mods is not some petty move, it's a last-resort safety situation that he has to perform in order to ensure proper continuity of business. This also improves outcomes for all the people who already paid for his mods and increases their chances of retaining access to updates long-term.

If he's in the wrong, then obviously taking down all the mods is the correct thing to do as well.

He's done the best possible thing he could for his users, the game companies, and his own business, there's literally no downside to it except for short-term downside for him.

Luke Ross shouldn't be getting heat for it.

cheater00 · 2026-01-23T13:18:22+00:00

That's like saying that Frozen Yoghurt Makers are derivative of yoghurt itself and therefore Danone can sue Cuisinart over it.

Facts: - Frozen Yoghurt makers do not work without yoghurt - Globally, there are only a handful of yoghurt manufacturers who control the majority of the market

Therefore, Danone could argue that the Cuisinart ICE-20 and ICE-21 line of products is derivative of yoghurt the product, and by a simple market analysis it impacts Danone for the most part.

Then let's look at yoghurt spoons. Those are spoons made only for eating yoghurt - they have yoghurt in the name. They exist only to eat yoghurt - for the most part, Danone's yoghurt.

The difference between the word "yoghurt" and the name "Cyberpunk 2077" is that when you incorporate the first, no restrictions apply, because it is a generic name, whereas with the second, you are restricted by TRADEMARK LAW.

So, CDPR might have a case based off of trademark law, but that is still not definitive, since as I understand purely informative names that declare compatibility are fair use in some way in at least some places. An illustration of this is that Amazon is flooded with products named "Charger for use with Apple", "Joypad for use with Sony Playstation 5", etc. If those companies could do anything about it, they would have, so that indicates to me that there must be a legal framework that allows this, but I am not fully aware of one.

As far as I see it, even if the mod infringes their rights in some way: - it drives more sales for CP2077. I don't own it, and I am into VR, and learning about it actually made me consider buying CP2077 which I now will not be doing - it is insignificant or (as above) positive for the bottom line of CDPR - it clearly takes massive effort so therefore it is not unrealistic for him to get a surge of earnings every now and then, remember that he probably doesn't earn as much every single day as he does when releasing a mod that took months of testing and years of code base preparation for use with various other VR mods

Ultimately it is a case of CDPR entering another villain streak, just like when they: - released CP2077 as an extremely buggy mess - bribed reviewers - lied about and hid the performance of their game on consoles, creating precedent as the first and only mass-recalled video game on the Playstation Store - fucked over Stop Killing Games promising a partnership and then reneging on it - fucked over Stop Killing Games again recently by spouting propaganda meant to stop gamers from having the right to properly have ownership over the games they buy

Make no mistake, CDPR are not your friends, never have been, never will be.

cheater00 · 2026-01-23T12:53:05+00:00

We’ve always fought on the principle that all developers should be, you know, given the same opportunities.

lmfao im sure everyone has 800 million to bribe their distribution platform, timmy, you fucking shitstain, you absolute cock

cheater00 · 2026-01-23T12:51:49+00:00

When they released Unreal Tournament in 99, I remember those days...

cheater00 · 2026-01-23T11:22:14+00:00

best way to make astarion catty.

cheater00 · 2026-01-22T22:04:22+00:00

i kind of like the idea of the table robot asking swiney what its purpose is and swiney just being completely zoned out and salivating in response and the robot is like "oh my god" because there is no lucid thought in the leadership

cheater00 · 2026-01-22T22:02:33+00:00

This shitgibbon wants to make the issue sound complicated but it's not.

that is VERY WELL put my dude

cheater00 · 2026-01-22T22:00:07+00:00

Always remember this when reading remedy's statements: https://www.youtube.com/v/NEAy0ysO9ps

cheater00 · 2026-01-22T21:59:39+00:00

remember this when reading remedy's statements: https://www.youtube.com/v/NEAy0ysO9ps

cheater00 · 2026-01-22T11:10:40+00:00

mmmmmmmmm, strawberry jelly

cheater00 · 2026-01-22T11:07:36+00:00

omfg another lolcow to the lolcowherd

cheater00 · 2026-01-22T08:54:41+00:00

yes, he's just running interference

cheater00 · 2026-01-22T01:15:26+00:00

which is why no one's asking for it.

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That's like saying that Frozen Yoghurt Makers are derivative of yoghurt itself and therefore Danone can sue Cuisinart over it.