Author Topic: 2020 Miscellaneous Links: Untitled Moose Game (Read 145582 times)

Fenrir · « **Reply #750 on:** August 30, 2015, 10:21:27 PM »

People complained about Quiet's lack of clothes from MGS5. Here is her combat suit:

Kojima said in a tweet that there is a REAL reason for this and that people who complained will feel ashamed once they learn about it.

https://twitter.com/hideo_kojima_en/status/376424398023962624

Spoilers The REAL reason is that she is a mutant who constantly needs oxygen or something so she needs to have her skin as exposed as possible.

Wow. He sure showed them.
Kojima = best writer

Grefter · « **Reply #751 on:** August 31, 2015, 03:18:59 AM »

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/08/29/john-scalzi-is-not-a-very-popular-author-and-i-myself-am-quite-popular-the-audiobook-read-by-me-john-scalzi/

It keeps happening. Also hey, free audiobook!

Shale · « **Reply #752 on:** September 03, 2015, 10:39:40 PM »

That's the sterling storytelling I've come to expect from the Metal Gear franchise.

(Best part: even if you take that backstory at face value it doesn't explain the stocking/thong situation at all)

Grefter · « **Reply #753 on:** September 09, 2015, 12:35:59 PM »

So hey I am stuck in the Kickstarter hole again I guess? here is two things coming out that I figured I was interested in enough to throw money at.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/152640612/souls-of-darkness-a-retro-style-dark-souls-book

Guy that does podcasts I like is doing a Worlds of Power style book as if Totally Not Dark Souls came out on the NES. There is some funny stretch goals.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/larianstudios/divinity-original-sin-2

Divinity 2: Original Sin. Because some people liked the first one and Larian could use the support I guess?

Fenrir · « **Reply #754 on:** September 09, 2015, 12:52:18 PM »

Divinity Original Sin 2: Unoriginal Sin

NotMiki · « **Reply #755 on:** September 09, 2015, 07:54:03 PM »

https://www.humblebundle.com/books

Neil Gaiman book bundle that supports the exemplary Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Buy buy buy.

Fenrir · « **Reply #756 on:** September 11, 2015, 10:03:40 PM »

Nintendo releases Super Mario Maker so naturally since they're fake-nice like Disney they try to destroy youtube videos of romhacks.

Which is unfortunate since they can be pretty fun to watch.
Last chance to see these things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmfvpiTWStA

Grefter · « **Reply #757 on:** September 12, 2015, 01:46:44 AM »

Escort quests in Mario games? So you are saying I don't need to buy a WiiU and Mario maker? Cool.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #758 on:** September 12, 2015, 05:40:26 PM »

Hopefully the coming explosion on Mario stage design will bring some more focus to hacks which emphasise things besides being punishingly difficult.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #759 on:** September 13, 2015, 07:01:58 AM »

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/sterilizing-a-child-for-a-better-life/279765/

Cotigo · « **Reply #760 on:** September 13, 2015, 01:54:49 PM »

Quote from: Fenrir on September 11, 2015, 10:03:40 PM

Nintendo releases Super Mario Maker so naturally since they're fake-nice like Disney they try to destroy youtube videos of romhacks.

Which is unfortunate since they can be pretty fun to watch.
Last chance to see these things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmfvpiTWStA

I gotta say this guy does a great job with editing his videos to be watchable. Usually these things are so tedious to watch since you have to watch the guy do the same fucking puzzles 500 times, to the point where I just end up watching a TAS and not really seeing the hilarious deaths, but he does a good job of cutting that shit out.

Fenrir · « **Reply #761 on:** September 13, 2015, 05:03:41 PM »

Yeah 100% agreed
I like how his emotion is shown through Mario's actions too
And how the music adfs to the madness

metroid composite · « **Reply #762 on:** September 14, 2015, 12:16:38 AM »

Quote from: Fenrir on September 11, 2015, 10:03:40 PM

Nintendo releases Super Mario Maker so naturally since they're fake-nice like Disney they try to destroy youtube videos of romhacks.

Which is unfortunate since they can be pretty fun to watch.
Last chance to see these things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmfvpiTWStA

I don't think Nintendo will win that in the end. Sure, they can issue a DMCA takedown, and that'll take it down for a month. But to push it longer than that they'd have to take it to court, and I really don't think they have anything that would win in court.

It's Mario assets? Yeah, companies have tried this before when, for example, a youtuber gave them a review they didn't like, or made a video about a glitch they didn't want public. The only thing that's different in this case is that it's a ROM hack, but ROM hacks are legal. (Distributing ROMs is illegal, but it's legal for you to make a backup of a game you already own, and legal for you to have an emulator).

The only thing I can think of that they have is that people who made the ROM hack broke the end user agreement. But that just voids the warranty as far as I know.

Cotigo · « **Reply #763 on:** September 14, 2015, 02:31:23 AM »

Quote from: Fenrir on September 13, 2015, 05:03:41 PM

Yeah 100% agreed
I like how his emotion is shown through Mario's actions too
And how the music adfs to the madness

The first note of Mario's death music played on repeat is the funniest sound in the universe.

NotMiki · « **Reply #764 on:** September 14, 2015, 07:40:32 AM »

Quote from: metroid composite on September 14, 2015, 12:16:38 AM

It's Mario assets? Yeah, companies have tried this before when, for example, a youtuber gave them a review they didn't like, or made a video about a glitch they didn't want public. The only thing that's different in this case is that it's a ROM hack, but ROM hacks are legal. (Distributing ROMs is illegal, but it's legal for you to make a backup of a game you already own, and legal for you to have an emulator).

Here I would imagine you're looking at whether the video falls into a fair use exception for copyrighted material. Reviews are very clearly fair use, and you could characterize a glitch video as educational in nature. So the examples you cite seem fine to me. But where you are looking at videos of romhacks you are on much shakier ground. You're reusing art assets wholesale, but rearranging them. Could be ok. You're probably reusing music without any change in it at all and that's certainly bad. Is the romhack clearly a parody of the original work? Is the original work transformed to such a degree that we're in fair use territory? Or is this more like an unauthorized sequel? I think a court case could go either way. (disclaimer: my grasp of IP law is...unsophisticated.)

Grefter · « **Reply #765 on:** September 14, 2015, 08:47:54 AM »

Quote from: Luther Lansfeld on September 13, 2015, 07:01:58 AM

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/sterilizing-a-child-for-a-better-life/279765/

Quote from: NotMiki on September 14, 2015, 07:40:32 AM

Quote from: metroid composite on September 14, 2015, 12:16:38 AM
It's Mario assets? Yeah, companies have tried this before when, for example, a youtuber gave them a review they didn't like, or made a video about a glitch they didn't want public. The only thing that's different in this case is that it's a ROM hack, but ROM hacks are legal. (Distributing ROMs is illegal, but it's legal for you to make a backup of a game you already own, and legal for you to have an emulator).

Here I would imagine you're looking at whether the video falls into a fair use exception for copyrighted material. Reviews are very clearly fair use, and you could characterize a glitch video as educational in nature. So the examples you cite seem fine to me. But where you are looking at videos of romhacks you are on much shakier ground. You're reusing art assets wholesale, but rearranging them. Could be ok. You're probably reusing music without any change in it at all and that's certainly bad. Is the romhack clearly a parody of the original work? Is the original work transformed to such a degree that we're in fair use territory? Or is this more like an unauthorized sequel? I think a court case could go either way. (disclaimer: my grasp of IP law is...unsophisticated.)

Both of these things are really fucking difficult from different ends of the spectrum. One is none of the emotions and all the ideas, one is all the emotions and having no idea where to start.

I literally how no idea how to feel or what to think about carers making huge life impacting decisions about the bodies of people without the consent of the dependant. Especially when they are likely to improve the quality of life of both the carer and the dependant. On the one one hand they already pretty much make/have those kinds of decisive decisions their whole lives for things, whether they are to do with the body or not. But then we make similar decisions for children all the time on a less emotionally land mined spectrum...

IP law on the other hand is all "lol legal definition of art" and "copyright? more like COPYOFACOPYAMIRITE?" and "Down with Disney" but needing to respect and support the artist otherwise it will be significantly hampered.

Captain K · « **Reply #766 on:** September 16, 2015, 03:52:12 AM »

R. Mika, meet R. Pika.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrii1LAksoE

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #767 on:** September 17, 2015, 05:26:13 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvpOwQaqRXA

New Persona 5 trailer.

I have no idea what this game is.

Grefter · « **Reply #768 on:** September 17, 2015, 10:03:14 PM »

LupinXLovecraftxLesMis

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #769 on:** September 18, 2015, 05:31:49 PM »

Metal Gear is dead. Suikoden is dead. Castlevania is dead. Silent Hill is dead. But PES lives!

Veryslightlymad · « **Reply #770 on:** September 18, 2015, 11:51:26 PM »

Wanna help join my kickstarter to buy the rights to Suikoden?

SnowFire · « **Reply #771 on:** September 19, 2015, 02:28:23 AM »

Since somebody (CK?) was talking about it a bit ago in chat...

http://xseedgames.tumblr.com/post/126706403020/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-in-the-sky-second

#N's gone loco! (and gone through a purple mist castlevania gate to a boss fight)

Meeplelard · « **Reply #772 on:** September 19, 2015, 02:32:34 AM »

Quote from: Veryslightlymad on September 18, 2015, 11:51:26 PM

Wanna help join my kickstarter to buy the rights to Suikoden?

Konami would likely send an army of Pachinko Ninjas after you to prevent the Kickstarter! This is Konami we're talking about; they'd rather be overprotective about IPs they do nothing with rather than, you know, find ways to make money off them that aren't pachinko machines.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #773 on:** September 19, 2015, 04:49:14 AM »

They could make a microtransaction-based port of S1. "You have liberated Kwaba and spared General Rosman. Recruit him for $5!"

NotMiki · « **Reply #774 on:** September 19, 2015, 05:57:41 AM »

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/18/epa-volkswagen-used-defeat-device-to-circumvent-air-pollution-controls/

yikes.

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