Jeffool

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[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I was at Full Sail in 2003-2004. Say what you want, but the point here is that people there LOVED games. We'd set up 2 TVs in the living room, and 2 in the bedroom, and go crazy for hours. A single game of single flag assault on Blood Gulch could last hours. Then we'd play FFA to pick leaders, then go again. After 2-3 games the hype would dwindle, some would leave, and we'd go to Munchkin. Then occasionally poker. Then Denny's for breakfast because it was early in the morning and class was in a couple of hours on Monday.

Talk about a feeling of belonging. Definitely chasing that feeling still, and not ashamed of it.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This was going to be my recommendation, so I'm happy to see it.

Around the same time I also watched The Besieged Fortress. It's about an ant colony attacking a termite mound. It's staged, but handled as it might happen in real life, and narrated as if it's some massive siege in medieval times. It's fantastic.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Good luck getting to some place you're happy being.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Funny, with a harsh ring of truth. I actually would be interested if they could dual boot with the game on a partition. That would make the transition to Linux easy too. But ultimately as it is, it's "use Windows, or say to hell with playing games with your family". I'm lucky that I still enjoy playing games with them, and them with me, so I gotta stick with that.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I love the idea of using Linux. But then I end up playing Warzone every weekend with my family. Can't give that up. The best part is that they want kernel access, and still have cheating problems, apparently. (Must be higher than my level!) But it still inherently affects me, as they won't port to Linux.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If someone posts a copyright violation on YouTube, YouTube can go free under the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA. (In the US.) YouTube just points a finger at the user and says "it's their fault", because the user owns (or claims to own) the content. YouTube is just hosting it.

I don't know of any reason to think it's not the same for written works. User posts them, Reddit hosts them, user still owns them. Like YouTube, the user gives the host a lot of license for that content, so that they can technically copy and transmit it. But ultimately the user owns it. I assume by the time Reddit made the AI deal they probably put in wording to include "selling a copy of the data" to active they want in the TOS.

Now, determining if the TOS holds up in court is of course trickier. And did they even make us click our permission away again after they added it, it just change something we already clicked? I don't recall.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

It's never worked for me either, but I don't find them too intrusive in most streams.

That said if I'm watching a Warzone tournament I usually just pop out the mini player in Firefox's PIP and listen to that. They get their money and I get to keep watching.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The contemporary Modern Warfare series is a remake of the original series. At least a general new take on a lot from that series. It isn't 1:1 by far.

Instead of letting you launch each game individually, or creating a general launcher that you start and then pick the game you want to play... They chose to force players to launch MW2 as a fake hub, and in that game's main menu, click the MW3 option.

The article says you can tell because apparently if you want to play MW2 you just pick the game type and it starts starving for a match. If you want to play MW3 you have to wait as MW2 shuts down and you wait for MW3 to start, after you already waited for MW2 to start initially.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

Like I said in another post:

Seems like a good time to remind everyone just a few months ago he took two active usernames from their users without warning. Both @x and @music were in use and taken by Musk with no warning and no recompense.

At this rate I see it as completely possible that someone buys one, and the first time they don't update within whatever Musk feels like is "too long" that day, he takes it back with no warning.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Seems like a good time to remind everyone just a few months ago he took two active usernames from their users without warning. Both @x and @music were in use and taken by Musk with no warning and no recompense.

At this rate I see it as completely possible that someone buys one, and the first time they don't update within whatever Musk feels like is "too long" that day, he takes it back with no warning.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I forgot where I saw someone else suggest it... But if you really want to win over shoppers this Black Friday? Don't run a week of discounted TVs. Discount groceries.

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