So game mechanics in DLCs cannot be patented, because they are just mods?

A mod isn’t a standalone game, sure. It requires the base game to have meaning. Unitl it gets spinned off and becomes a “real” (standalone) game.

Many standalone games are nothing without the game engine, which many developers have bought/licensed.

In this case the “standalone game” can be considered the game engine, which allows the modder to create their own game, within the limits of that engine.

From the point of the player, they need to pay for the game engine and the game/mod in any case, either by paying with one transaction, or, incase of payed mods, in two.

To play a specific DLC, you also have to pay twice. And I am pretty sure that Nintendo will argue that game mechanics in DLCs developed by them can be patented as well…

What I mean is Nintendos argument hat mods aren’t ‘real games’ is flawed…

In every article on records about of food preparation, they never say how much of it is eaten and how much of it is thrown away.

I would necessitate that all or a large percentage of it needs to be eaten for the record to count.

This isn’t about you.

Also this kind of liberal argument of, ‘The gestapo cannot catch me because I bought skates!’ is stupid and tiring.

This link is about reasoning system, not reasoning. Reasoning involves actually understanding the knowledge, not just having it. Testing or validating where knowledge is contradictionary.

LLM doesn’t understand the difference between hard and soft rules of the world. Everything is up to debate, everything is just text and words that can be ordered with some probabilities.

It cannot check if something is true, it just ‘knows’ that someone on the internet talked about something, sometimes with and often without or contradicting resolutions…

It is a gossip machine, that trys to ‘reason’ about whatever it has heard people say.

Is this some kind of touring test for chess players? Figure out if the person your are playing chess with is a human or robot? LLM’s aren’t yet successful doing that by chatting with them, and as a newbie I suppose that test could be easier, but what do I know…

Publicly traded companies aren’t children though, where being nice or bad is a force of habit to them, and they are able to learn and improve from their mistakes.

AMD has been an underdog under Intel and Nvidia for most of their existence. If they become the market leader, they will behave like them and start being anti-competitive.

Funny, it turns out it is more brand damaging not to sell adult games, than to sell them…

I’m not sure the royals caused this. I guess the main issue is that some democracies become too entrenched, and groups of elites take over the role of nobility, term limits doesn’t help, since to be in a position to become someone, you have to join those that already rule. Capitalism also doesn’t help and even accelerates this process. Abolishing FPTP and instituting ranked choice would be the first step I think on improving democracies, by breaking up these elite groups.

I think we also should require to set some energy limits to those tests. Before it was assumed that those tests are done by humans, that can do those tests after eating some crackers and a bit of water.

Now we are comparing that to massive data centers that need nuclear reactors to have enough power to work through these problems…

That is what the author said they switch to, but TBH XMPP also has issues with MFA and messages frequently not being decrypted (using OMEMO) and ‘unencrypted metadata’.

I wouldn’t say that it works better than Matrix, it just has some different strengths and weaknesses.

I also don’t know what “Fallout 3 Remastered” entails, but if it means forward-porting the content to Starfield’s engine, that’d be pretty cool, though I do wonder how much effort will be required for mod-porting.

I think all their previous games will eventually get the Oblivion Remaster treatment. So a frankenstein’d UE5 renderer + gamebyro backend.

What might be a valid argument in 5.x might not be an argument for 6.x.

But IMO, Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 have more in common with vista than vista has with XP.

Codeberg is great, but it is hosted in Germany, and subject to their laws. AFAIK, Germany has laws against tools for “circumventing copy protection”, or “hacking”.

So I am not sure that they can provide a save haven for tools, where some lawyer could argue these points successfully in front of a court.