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A follow-up to the legendary Disco Elysium might have been ready to play within the next year⁠—ZA/UM's devs loved it, management canceled it and laid off the team: 'For a while it seemed like miracles in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I think the old ZA/UM developers still have a chance to reform as a new company and work on something new. After a while, this new company can buy off the remains of a now-defunct ZA/UM, get back the rights to Disco Elysium and the Sacred and Terrible Air universe, and make another game or three for it.

But, it has to happen now, and we need to stop talking about ZA/UM. Focus on a new project. I don't quite understand why we haven't heard any news about this.

Is Kurvitz and team so depressed about the current situation to not attempt at picking things back up again? They have so much hype it's unreal. So, it's nowhere near as hard as just getting your name out there like ZA/UM and Disco Elysium, and it would never flop as hard as Sacred and Terrible Air. They've made it. They have recognizable names, and if they ever re-form, it would be all over the gaming sites.

Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Some of the more extreme-minded liberals do a good enough job at sabotaging themselves and the movements they are a part of, without the need for malicious saboteurs. Like Atheist+ or progressive stack.

Then again, Russians orgs are out there, trying to influence politic movements and sabotage others. GamerGate was an entire sea of political actors, journalists, influencers, and Russian agents, trying to push their own narratives to the point of mass disinformation from both sides, with the general public on either side confused and angry at the other's responses.

Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Defund means to essentially get rid of a department or thing. The phrase "defend the police" means "get rid of the police". It doesn't matter if there's some cartoon to re-explain away the phrase or a bunch of other people trying to re-define the English language. English is English, and words have meaning.

The "defund the police" movement failed because us liberals don't fucking understand marketing. Like, at all. I can't count the number of times some liberal movement crops up with their slogan and Republicans turn that slogan against them because nobody spent the ten minutes time to think about how that phrase or thing could be abused. For example, that brief time when the LGBT movement wanted to rename themselves to LGBTQIA2SUVWTFBBQ? Seriously?!?

It's like naming your baby "Assman McAssface" and wondering why he gets bullied in school.

Nintendo Issues Multiple DMCAs On The Modding Site 'GameBanana' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Right, but when companies go after pirated games, they are going after them because of copyright, not patents or trademarks. The way copyrights are enforced and the way the law works is a lot different than how it works with patents and trademarks.

There is no "use it or lose it" clause for copyrights. If somebody is breaking copyright, you still have the right to enforce it for a long as the copyright is still valid, and don't have to vigorously defend it to keep it.