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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Guys a fucking loser. Needs to get a real job.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I'm glad that someone I've personally disliked for various reasons is finally having a lot of people see them for who they really are.

Man this dude is a total nepobaby tool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Omg.. this comment.. this comment right here πŸ‘†. This is what I needed to see because I relate so strongly to it. F'kn guy sucks! (By guy sucks, I mean coworker of my nightmares that leans on me like a cancer). But my god, I'm so happy for him.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I know it's not going to happen, but I would love it if legislation could go as far as requiring companies to open-source their engines and servers after maybe a period of time, or on ending support for the game. It could be done ID-style where the company retains full rights of the content and trademarks, which would still require players to buy the game to legally play it.

I'm aware there are a lot of cases where games include middleware that's licensed from 3rd parties that complicate preservation efforts. But if open-sourcing the code is the path taken, there's a simple solution for that: just release what you can, even if what's released is in an unplayable state without the middleware. It then becomes the responsibility of any volunteers to take that code and bring it back to a usable state however they choose.

This drama highlights that there's still a great need for better computer literacy. Anyone with even a basic education in how software, source-code, and software licensing works can tell PirateSoftware is full of shit pretty much immediately. That is, anyone educated who are themselves not grifters.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wish he’d stop getting any kind of attention at all. He is a fraud.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Dude had entirely disappeared from my timelines before every youtuber and lemmy poster seemingly felt the need to tell me about how naughty he is.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

That attention is the dying embers of the torch he took to his career

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