Which version of FF7 are you referring to? And also which version of Link?

Either way, probably depends on who the writers want to win lol.

While this super sucks and is a loss for the wider Emulation community, I think this is the first time where I can actually see where Nintendo is coming from in one of those legal dilemmas.
(Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, some of this is hearsay. I'm only an avid reader, but haven't actually ever done any switch emulation myself. Keep your salt grains ready and correct me if I share wrong information please.)

Yuzu appearently raked in 30k USD per month on their patreon. And many of these patreons were most likely not just donating out of good will and with a "Thank you" mindset, but they were actually in it for the supporter/early access builds, which were time-gated behind these subscriptions. This automatically raises an eyebrow for me. Second problem, one of these early-access branches appearently had optimizations for running Tears of the Kingdom, even before it officially released (the game got leaked 1~2 weeks early). This meant, for a short period of time, the yuzu emulator was the only way to play Nintendo's game (besides using a homebrewed switch) and I think this put them in a direct competition against Nintendo.
That is just an absolute no-go when you're trying to provide legal and safe emulation. This basically invites pirates with a big welcome mat. Correction: I just found out, official yuzu builds never ran TotK pre-release. It was modded versions through 3rd party devs.

The core idea of "good" emulation is video game preservation and the right, to do whatever you yourself want with your property.
The yuzu devs in this scenario seemed like they were trying to make a profit off of giving early access to someone elses copyrighted work. And that does sound pretty illegal to me.

What Nintendo is trying to argue in their writing doesn't super resonate with me though. yuzu emulator needs a file from the switch OS called "prod.keys" in order to decrypt and to actually play switch games. Nintendo argues that any attempt at extracting this file is "circumventing digital copyright millenium act", and therefore yuzu is facilitating piracy because it ONLY works with this file. This also seems to be the reason why they went after the tool that is used to extract prod.keys, called "Lockpick" earlier last year.

I don't think using a program to obtain your own keys from your own property should be illegal. While sharing those files might very well be.

Overall, very iffy topic, just a reminder to any Emulation Devs to always take the safe route whenever possible. In my personal opinion, I don't think developers should even try to emulate any games that are newer than ~1 year, as a show of faith that there is no monetary incentive.

Get well soon!

Entirely depends on what you're looking for in an anime and manga. It's full of hornybait and fanservice, but also does manage to tell a romantic high school story about how you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover and how you gotta keep striving to be your best self while also staying true to your feelings.

It's genuinely wholesome, but also targeted more towards guys. If you're put off by that description, avoid it. If it sounds like your cup of tea, go for it.

Honestly, pretty decent adaptation so far.
I like the VA for Sung Jinwoo. He's definitely doing a banger job.

But I do miss some of the more intricate page-spanning artworks where you had to scroll from left to right to even get the full picture of what's going on. I guess that is just very hard to adapt to an animated format.

Okay, so far not bad.
I like that they don't rush things, but I haven't really felt blown away either.
The manhwa managed to really incorporate the amazing art on these beautiful colored pages with big impressive moments, but that's not the vibe I am getting from the anime yet. Hoping for episode 2 to do "the grin" justice.

Personally I enjoyed it, but it definitely felt more like a "slice of fantasy world life". Elaina doesn't really play the hero too much, and there aren't any big overarching plots that stretch over multiple episodes. It's really inspiring and interesting from a fantasy perspective, but as you already pointed out, sometimes there are things in the worldbuilding that could bother one.

If you want a cozy magic anime, might I suggest Little Witch Academia?
It also has a fair amount of action/adventure, but it doesn't deal with any heavy topics IIRC.

Have you already found out what Koroks are and what they do?
They are hidden throughout the world and are important, and help alleviate the stress a bit when a sword/shield breaks.
There is a character on the road to kakariko, between Twin Peak Stables and Kakariko. Keep an eye out for them.

Yo, that is so good to know!
Wish there was a link to some quick stylesheet guide that kbin supports when you write a comment. Haven't seen this feature before.

Time to dig out the sonic shitposts.

You know what, that's fair.

I saw a lot of discussion in the comments about their workers pay, but honestly, they make a great product. Wouldn't wanna be counting pennies in someone elses pockets. I donated a one time 25 bucks, I hope they will continue to ask for donations whenever they are in dire need of server running money.

Troll post or shill, same account recently asked "why do people dislike google, they're only doing legal data saving for stuff you search" and then ignored every bit of legitimate croticism that was handed to them.

Makes no sense to interact with such an account.

Jesus. Is there no vegitation around the sidewalk to spend at least a little shade? :(

Why are you entering/leaving the house through the garage? That seems odd to me.

Hab gelacht. Scham.

"Legal" doesn't immediately mean "moral". Everything is legal as long as there isn't a law specifically banning it, and those laws often only get created as a result of someone abusing their legal right to something.

Google collects also way more data than you pointed out, in every avenue possible. Ever solved a captcha? You likely helped Google train their image recognition AI. Got an android smartphone (a brand that previously had committed itself to being open-source and linux based)? Have fun with pre-installed unremovable Google Spyware. You're forced to create a GMail account to interact with the whole App ecosystem of the market.
Google can remotely (without your consent) download and delete apps on your smartphone, read your personal data (including stuff you have saved on your SD card) and accesses your camera, pictures and GPS-Data regularly.

I just read an article to prepare for writing this comment and feel actually sick now, I wanna jump ship and get an independent OS, screw the AppStore...

Today is Wednesday, the 8th of November. This is GameSpot, bringing you your daily GTA6 News. There has been no news to report today. This has been your daily GTA6 News.

My best guess is Katamari Damacy.
You start out as a small ball that rolls around and smaller than you things you touch stick to you, making you grow.
Eventually you start ripping out entire islands from the sea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkUxYlTA3Uc

Wouldn't be surprised if mod tools never come at all.
If there's one thing I learned, it's that gaming companies will promise you anything to get on your good side. Take statements like these with the biggest grain of salt.

This game is probably the reason I never got into TMNT. Super unforgiving lifr system which throws you back at the start of the game, and very wonky hitboxes

Alternatively, upvote/boost your own posts by default when posting.

I've struggled with this question before myself. On the one hand, there is a notable impact in visibility on posts which I've self-upvoted versus posts which I did not self-upvote, so it does feel like an unfair advantage. On the other hand, I am also a community member in the community I post. I wouldn't post something, if I didn't think it contributes to the overall community. Plus, there's a bug in kbin going on, that new posts only show up in new but not in hot at all, until there is at least some sort of interaction (a comment, or an upvote, or a boost).

They can control your watch time better if you make less decisions. Just be a good little brainless consumer and scroll through endless amounts of bullshit instead of specifically finding one video, then doing something else.

It started with autoplay, wormed it's way into search feature, and now it's all over home and subscriptions.

"If you are using an iFrame to display a site that isn't yours, even for legitimate purposes, you have no control over that content—it can change at any time," Simmons warns. "One day instead of looking into an iFrame, you might be looking at an entirely different kind of portal."

Holy shit this guy is amazing.

I get it though. People trying to monetize your work which was purposely hosted for free without ads would drive me mad too.

This is only the pilot and they're trying to get the series greenlit.

Uhhh considering the amount of views and the hype it generated, I hope they reached their goal?
But in terms of production, well, no idea how long it will take. If they want to make a whole season with episodes on this quality level, then I can imagine you might have to wait 1~2 years minimum? But that's just my uninformed opinion, take it with a grain of salt. Might be more, might be less.

Be sure to set the audio track of the video to your preferred language!

So this animation randomly exploded and made it's way onto my frontpage.

I watched it just out of curiosity and have been kind of obsessed over it ever since, so I thought I'd share it with the fediverse.

To add a little bit of background on why this video went viral, it should be noted that this is produced by indie animation studio called "Glitch" and the creator called "Gooseworx" had a following from a previous animation. I can imagine the artstyle in this one is not everybodies cup of tea, but I am personally amazed by it and very intrigued!

Anon can't even win in his creative writing exercises. Wild world.

I appreciate your consideration but if you smoke regularly, chances are you don't truly realize how bad you smell and just how far the stench carries.

Also the argument of dying early is flawed. It's not just about dying early, it's about the quality of life you'll face at the end of your life. I don't mean to freak you out, but heavy smokers have a LOT of trouble doing anything physical in old age (climbing 10 stairs, standing up, walking a few steps, eating,...). I've seen firsthand how my grandpa that liked to take walks for hours a day went to basically disabled, in the timeframe of roughly ~15 years. All due to decreased lung capacity caused by smoking.

Personally, I block anything related to news&politics on the fediverse (same on reddit).

Humans have a structural problem with any system that allows voting on the visibility of headlines. It encourages outrage, populism, attention grabbing headlines while discouraging more refined factual discussions. Kinda like tabloid journalism.
Reddit has the same problem and way worse, but with enough time it will happen here too.

Most users read the headline before giving their own opinion, not many take their time to read a majority of other comments and the least amount of users actually read the linked article (which is to be honest also often the fault of the quality of an article, i.e. being too long, boring and partially ai-generated).

This results in the most lukewarm most agreeable opinions being top comments, while they're also oftentimes being uninformed.

This is just what I gathered from my own personal experience with social media, I don't have any good sources to back up my claims.

Oh man, I totally missed that link by just skimming over the post back when it was posted...
Thank you!

I'll try to make an effort to actually read things more carefully in the future >_>

Sounds like a lot of personal problems, wish you all the best with them!

Regarding the funding, do you think you can set up an alternative way of donating that accepts other payment options like PayPal? Personally I'm not using a credit card, which is the only payment option one can use on your buymeacoffee.

Let a man have a break without psychologically analyzing him lmao

Why are you mixing two pieces of the Hero of Time outfit with the hat from ... the Armor of the Hero (or is that Wind Hero Cap?)?
Color doesn't quite match lol

Thanks for the context!
Yeah, I suppose I will just have to create a new account on lemmy then :)

Slightly off-topic, but I think ani.social is not properly getting federated with kbin.social.
I can't see any episode discussion posts posted by shinobu on anime@lemmy.ml .

Like a true businessman should, maximizing short-term profits!

I recently watched the documentary this article talks about on why Gollum had to fail the way it did. It was a very informative piece, questioning a lot of the devs and the company in question, and receiving in-depth answers from them (sometimes anonymous).

It boiled down to exactly what you would expect. Overworked developers and artists, who regularly were subjected to crunch, while also being criminally underpaid (some of them even weren't considered real employees and just voluntary interns, so the company could dodge german minimum wage).
None of them made a bad videogame on purpose, they were just insanely underfunded, not experienced enough in this new genre and the new engine and on top of that, the rights to the LotR IP were time-limited, so they had to release it sooner or later.

The "apology" that was tweeted out, was actually sent out without any of the devs input or knowledge, by their parent company "nacon". And yes, ChatGPT was likely used for it.

Source here (it's in german, but english CC are available)

Maybe we could have read the text on the door if the image had more than 3 pixels.

Ohhh that's so cool!
Wish more people used signal instead of WhatsApp Facebook in disguise.