xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@Junes I remember all the drama surrounding that guy.

It looks like ThinkPenguin launched a new proxy service that allows you to buy almost any physical goods from any clearnet shop anonymously.

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/privacy-proxy-purchase-physical-goods-proxy

@beardalaxy @picandor @Lemonid @tomie I wonder why that guy didn't go after projects that Nintendo genuinely doesn't care about like the Mother 3 fan translation of the Satellaview restoration projects.

@beardalaxy @picandor @Lemonid @tomie I remember Iwata saying that he didn't care about fan games, but after his passing, Reggie made comments saying "please respect our properties and we will respect yours".

It wouldn't surprise me if half of these Nintendo C&Ds are fake. It seems like Nintendo themselves go after fan projects because they have something similar they are working on (e.g going after AM2R because they already had a Metroid II remake in the works). Meanwhile there are so many fangames and ROM hacks that Nintendo never seemed to care about like Mari0.

@picandor @Lemonid @tomie Why would someone even create a fake C&D? Are they trying to stir drama?

@Lemonid @tomie Normally I do, but I do know that Miyazaki made comments about the tool and how it was "an insult to life itself".

@tomie @Lemonid Some Mastodon user was passing it as real. I assumed it was real because of a recent quote from one of the people who worked there.

This is just bullshit. I don't care that much about the whole Ghibli AI filters, but they are really stretching the current copyright system with this. The only thing that Gib Studio could be violating is trademark law by calling it Gib, but everything else is wrong.

1. You cannot copyright or patent an art-style.
2. The AI is only using Studio Ghibli's work as a reference while also using a real life photo to create a drawing. It's like if I took a photo and drew a cartoon version of it in Butch Hartman's style and used Fairly Odd Parents screenshots as references.
3. People are mostly using the tool to share images on social media. They aren't doing anything for commercial purposes. It's no different than people who draw pictures of themselves in the Powerpuff Girls art-style for example.
4. People aren't stupid enough to believe that Studio Ghibli would endorse something because something is drawn in it's artstyle. People have been drawing offensive memes using various works and they almost never harm the reputation of the original creators...unless you are Ben Garrison.

@therem @picofarad
>in support of a fascist agenda
>doesn't give a shit about copyright

Okay let's get into what fascism really is. On the economic side, fascism supports the merger of state and corporate power (i.e the creation of artificial monopolies).

Copyright (along with other forms of "intellectual property") is when the state gives a person or a group exclusive rights to use a certain idea, thus creating an artificial monopoly on said idea.

It seems like copyright itself is inline with the ideas of fascism.

@beardalaxy @icedquinn I wonder if it could be moddable enough along with having online play so that two people would essentially be playing two different games while being connected to one server.

That's one of Sim's creator, Will Wright's ideas when creating the original Sims, back when it was still called Dollhouse. One person could be playing a restaurant simulator, commanding workers in an RTS-style gameplay while another person could be playing a DOOM-like FPS and try to rob the store, all on the same map.

https://yewtu.be/nsxoZXaYJSk?t=4374