wizardbeard

I'll tell you something you missed:

Steam's DRM is notoriously easy to bypass, allowing that. They also don't force DRM on their platform, it's entirely developer/publisher opt-in (and they are also free to add additional DRM on top if they wish), and many many releases on Steam run fine directly from the executable without the launcher running.

Edit: For the record, I pirate before I buy, buy on DRM free platforms (GOG mainly) where possible, and use a third party launcher to unify my collection across multiple storefronts and many many loose executables into one spot.

Let's also not forget how absolutely groundbreaking Steam was for digital distribution.

I really have a hard time accepting that they "pushed" the industry rather than that they offered a platform with features that were worlds beyond what was available at the time for game developers and publishers. No one was bribed. There were no shady backroom deals. No assassinations of competitors (in fact the opposite, doing experiments with cross platform purchases with the PS3 and with GOG). There was no embrace extend extinguish, as there was nothing already existing like it to embrace or extinguish.

Also saying that they are now supporting linux and open source is ignoring a long history of their work with linux. This isn't something new for them. What's new is yet another large step forward in their investment, not their involvement.

Look, like you, I am concerned about their level of control over digital distribution game sales for the PC market. But from a practical standpoint I find them incredibly hard to have any large amount of negative feelings about them due to their track record, and the fact that they are not a publicly traded company so they are not beholden to the normal shareholder drive for profit at any cost. I'd love to hear more reasons to be concerned if any exist rather than "proprietary" and "too big".

On top of that, Steam DRM is pretty notably easy to bypass, with what appears to be relatively little effort from Valve to eliminate the methods. They aren't doing the normal rat race back and forth between crackers and the DRM devs that you would expect.

Anyway, again I'll say: I'd love to hear more reasons to be concerned beyond "proprietary" and "too big".

This is probably the simplest option. I've seen a good number of simple yet functional and pretty sites built in markdown and converted to html via some simple tool like pamdoc.

Supernaturalists is the title I think. Should be on my shelf at home, so I might be able to edit this and confirm later.

They are, even in name. There's some weird business structuring loophole where the "uber" OpenAI group is a non-profit, that runs/oversees the for-profit subsidiary OpenAI. It's like OpenAI inc vs OpenAI co or some rediculously meaningless distinction.

The assets following you are here to help.

It's always vintage meme time at !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

Yeah, this whole mess takes on an entirely different light when you know that these fines are entirely performative since they couldn't track down anyone from libgen to force into court or to collect from.

While I wouldn't be so quick to lump everyone with a (obvious to you) stupid belief as being absolutely inconsolably incompetent, as everyone has blind spots...

There's that very old saying: Ignorance is bliss.

It very, very much is.

What a clickbait title. Not OPs fault, they just copied the original article title.

Saved you a click: This is about a short interview with one of the leads behind Fallout Tactics and Brotherhood of Steel. When 3 was coming out, Todd Howard said that for their purposes, Tactics and BoS didn't happen.

Game lead says it sucked to hear, but he's happy that elements have become canon in kind of a back door way, and thatcs good enough for him.

It was a different time with far less people needing clearly defined canon lore for things, and the canon of the other series Todd oversaw/sees Elder Scrolls was/is a massive clusterfuck with multiple conflicting events being simultaneously canon due to "dragon breaks" allowing multiple conflicting game endings to somehow all have officially occurred all at once. Seriously look up how the lore handles the endings of Daggerfall, or the fact that the entirety of the gameplay area of Oblivion (the Empire) had been consistently described as a (tropical) jungle in every game pre-Oblivion.

Anyway, here's the relevant quote in its entirety, with bolding added by me that changes the sentiment from the headline significantly:

"It sucked," says Orman. "You don't want to be told that what you've done is non-canon. By the time he said that I had a lot of distance from this, so it wasn't heartbreaking or gut-wrenching—it was just like, 'Oh man. You didn't have to officially say it, we could have existed in this weird quantum state where it was kind of part of things.' But the way things go now, with the reinterpretation of IPs and the retelling of stories—and especially with the creation of the TV show, where it's existing in the universe, but they're taking liberties and they may have to make adjustments to make that world work for TV—lots of ideas are going to get shuffled around. There have been little bits and pieces of Tactics which you can see kind of are canon now, just through the back door over time. And that's good enough for me. I don't need anything more than that."

Is this an ironic community where people just repost shit from facebook?

Where in the fuck am I?

And if you want to avoid the Microsoft stank, there's VS Codium that has been de-Microsoft'd, like Chrome vs. Chromium.