Echo Dot

Yeah I did read the article. That’s why I know what the article is about, and the fact that he’s complaining about graphical fidelity in games and not getting the profit benefit. clearly AAA studios aren’t actually having this issue because, like I said, the winner of the game awards this year was a cartoony game, so clearly they are well aware that graphics aren’t everything.

The game of the year was a cutesy cartoon game about a robot. I don’t think there’s a problem here.

Is there a way to actually read the article without having to be exposed to whatever the drug fueled hellscape that website is?

Definitely Minecraft. I don’t play it much anymore but when it was a kid I used to play it all the time.

Probably being paying that game on and off for 15 years. I have to save a pocket money in order to buy it, I think it was about £12, no I have a mortgage.

I honestly think it would be easier to just list games that they allow. I suppose Germans are really into Tetris or something since that’s apparently the only acceptable game.

I can kind of understand Wolfenstein, as Germany does seem to have this thing where they do and also don’t want to face their past.

But Dying light is a generic zombie game.

One of the big advantages of steam and online storefronts in general is that it bypasses PEGI / ESRB and their unnecessary Draconian nonsense.

At one point didn’t a company have a patent over an interactive loading screen?

Which is why loading screens in games have been boring for years, because actually having any kind of thing to do while the game loads is apparently banned.

I’ve said it before. Well they need to replace it with a “pal decahedron”. You have to get real close to realize it isn’t a sphere.

Well technically we’ve had it confirmed all the way up to the PS9. Which presumably will release alongside somehow the Xbox X because Microsoft can’t name a product to save their life

That’s my big problem with the online mode as well. They could have actually made it fun but it’s totally unplayable because they don’t do anything about hackers while at the same time even by legitimate means giving players access to fucking sci-fi death machines.

I’m so sick of spawning in and instantly getting blown up by a flying motorcycle with infinite rockets. That’s not even fun gameplay for the person the flying motorcycle.

Oh well I’m definitely going to get the game then. I was concerned that it wouldn’t be maximally profitable for shareholders.

I don’t need to know anything about the gameplay just that someone who isn’t me will make a lot of money out of this.

They really should because the law has already decided that AI isn’t an independent entity, and is essentially just a computer program.

So whoever initiated the AI is ultimately responsible for its behavior, they can’t claim the AI malfunctioned because they chose not to bother having any human oversight, they knew that this was always a possibility and still they took responsibility for it.

.won dednah-thgir eb ot detadpu neeb sah hsilgnE haeY

?omem eht teg uoy diD

You know there are people with families of the own now who were born after that meme came out, and they still use it.

Maybe the registrar holds some blame too.

Frankly everyone involved in this situation looks bad except the victim who did nothing wrong.

Funko deserves blame for using a dodgy solution that they have no real understanding of.

The brand protection partner, whatever the hell they’re called, deserves blame for being scumbags who go for the nuclear option as a first result. Knowing full well how destructive and completely disproportionate of a response that is.

The registrar deserves blame for being utterly stupid and responding to a report without doing even the most minor of investigations first. Like I don’t know, looking at the website.

No one at any point attempted to reach out to the owner of the site, they called his mother for some reason, not the actual site administrator, so they didn’t make any legitimate attempt at contact.

I honestly have no idea what the end game here was supposed to be, because there’s no way in hell that this was ever going to end other than everyone looking like complete idiots. I honestly think that just everyone involved here is just utterly incompetent.

I have never heard of this particular registrar but they’re going on my long list of registrars not to trust, alongside GoDaddy.

I wish people would stop saying this. That was a political decision from decades ago back when the internet was far smaller. It has no bearing on today where the political situation here is completely different and not only that but the internet is far larger and the ICANN are far more powerful.

Back in the 1980s they didn’t have the political clout to really be able to enforce anything. They just have to basically accept it as a fader complete, not so anymore

They wouldn’t get a court case over this. Firstly because registrars are not responsible for the content on their websites, And social media sites and other sites that allow users to post-content to them are themselves not directly responsible for the content users choose to post.

The appropriate action for a registrar is to contact the owner of the website in question, If it is getting close to the allotted time and they haven’t had a response then they take the website down. All allowable under the law without getting sued.

This registrar didn’t even bother trying to contact the site, they did not do a totally automatable and essentially free action, simply because they couldn’t be bothered.

Peter Molyneux is going to require an entire volume bound in leather at this right

There is a minimum amount of time allowable for Investigations though. It’s not very long and there is a very good argument it should be longer, but the registrar didn’t even take the time to look into the case. Obviously they didn’t, because otherwise it wouldn’t have done anything.