How’s that working out for you, chief?

… But more sensibly, the argument you are using enables corporations to steal the work and labour of individuals.

It is the argument that means only middle class wealthy individuals get to make art.

It’s a shite argument, and it’s been debunked a ton of times.

I don’t think pithy means what you think it means.

So, something is only theft if it is profitable?

That’s a wonderfully liberating new definition.

I guarantee we are but months away from a senior labour politician resigning because they are found to have incest porn on one of their devices.

This isn’t piracy though.

They aren’t consuming media. They are reselling it.

They aren’t downloading a film to watch or “illegally” accessing a text.

They are using the unpaid labour of other humans as their product and will gouge the rest of society for it through entertainment media, civil infrastructure and healthcare.

Whilst your pithy, cliched statement is fun to throw around when we talk about torrenting a marvel movie, it’s completely useless in this context.

The most interesting thing about this is the fact that step siblings can have legal relationships and even marry under UK law, but depictions of their very legal sex lives are now illegal.

I think someone might challenge this as a human right to expression infringement.

For instance, you and your partner happen to be step siblings, but want to generate income on onlyfans. Now you can’t. Not because you are defacto doing anything illegal.

Also, and here’s where it gets fun…

Imagine you and your partner do make sexy videos but then your respective parents hook up.

The videos were made when you were not step siblings, but now you are.

Where does the law stand there? No one knows.

Such wildly fake outrage.

The real outrage should be that we care what the pronouns of any corporate mascot are.

They aren’t real. They aren’t able to feel. Corporations are not people.

“It” until you are open source and then we talk.

Same goes for Ronald McDonald.

“I’m no expert”

Opinion terminated.

The idea that contrarianism is somehow interaction is similar.

I’ve frequently had people start replies with “I strongly disagree” and then proceed to say the same thing as my comment back at me.

Some people are just fighting a war in their own head.

That’s probably because Google are deliberately nerfing your viewing because you are using an ad blocker.

They tell you as much in the little pop up.

It’s your assertion that “Devs don’t implement these sort of things because they would rather spend their time on things that make their game different” that I disagree with.

That’s just not how it is. Serious thoughts goes into the mundane stuff. The UI, especially.

Ok, but you understand that even at a reasonably low level “plugins” exist for core functionality.

Libraries within code exist to make certain tasks standardised and easy to implement. Game engines abstract common requirements like level loading, control schemes, camera movement…

The point I’m repeatedly making is that these things already exist, and if a designer chooses to implement them one way or another, then I suspect they have a reason to.

No one sets out to make a half-assed game. Even the jank out there was probably a better idea at one point. But often that comes from hubris, not from a lack of “plugins”.

Again, I used to do this as a job. I was pretty mediocre, but I did get to work with some amazing talent… And I think they’d back me up on this. Creating cm games isn’t about standardisation, it is often about exploration. It is an art form as much as it is a technical process.

However, I highly recommend you give it a go yourself. GODOT is a great engine with a ton of functionality and plug ins as well as tutorials. Spend a week making a very simple game with very simple controls. Do the thing and report back. I promise I’ll play it and I’ll celebrate it with you.

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I disagree, rather strongly.

The evolution of gameplay comes from the diversity of design.

This occasionally enables games, of varying quality, to break with orthodoxy and to create new paradigms.

The two stick control method we use for FPS, for example, only happened because someone broke with convention when designing Alien Resurrection for the PS1.

It was absolutely planned at the time, but soon became the standard.

My point is that you don’t know what needs to be improved until the alternatives appear.

So no, inventory should not confirm to a standard. It should be entirely driven by the aspirations of the designer and the needs of the game.

There will be times when games don’t get it right, much like in biological evolution, there are mistakes and dead ends, but the only thing you really want to avoid is a monoculture.

Think you just described a game engine like Godot or Armory.

Ultimately that’s what you are describing there with such a free-form framework. The tools to make anything.

Even at a higher level engines like RPG maker and twine exist within genres.

And that isn’t a mod, so much as a game.

But going back to mods…

And why should that end up with a common look and feel? People have been modding the look and feel of games since the 90s.

Credentials: I made mods and maps in the 90s and commercial games in the 2000s.

Yeah, it sort of is.

There are ways to avoid it, or be excused. If you are self employed and have made work commitments, if you are moving house… You can request an exemption.

I sat as a juror in Scotland (which is slightly different) last year.

You mentioned pay. That’s not strictly true. You can get expenses, provided your workplace isn’t covering your wage. You can also claim travel expenses.

There’s a maximum of around £65 per day.

Aside from all that, I highly recommend it. Some people complain, but I found it a fascinating insight into how the law operates and how justice is navigated. Besides, it really did feel like a civic duty, being part of something bigger as a community.

Fringe.

Not for everyone, but if it is for you, you’ll adore it.

Yeah, it’s now my mission to steal his AI girlfriend pet, and then we’ll see whether he truly thinks she’s sentient and can make up her own mind.

That’s how we get these techbros to drop this shit, we start outplaying them for the affections of the “sentient females” they think they are creating.

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