But surely something has to be said for taking ones work, repackaging it, claiming it’s yours, and selling it as a product, no?

Point being that I think just calling it “piracy” seems a bit reductive…

The very same app that almost got removed from Google Play (and Apple’s App Store) for ToS violations such as planning to disable account blocking functionality?

Yes, that is indeed how it works.

I also grew up in a similar situation (abusive parent, evangelical), but it’s a real gamble what with the default leanings of the algorithms I see these days, and I’ve seen enough kids fall deep into alt-right pipelines because of it. It’s not all doom, but I think we were pretty fortunate…

On top of my main authority figure being physically and verbally abusive, talking to normal people and asking my parents questions they couldn’t answer about religion were what got me out. I do understand that everyone will have different situations, freedoms, and experiences, though. It might be easier for me but harder for someone else, or vice versa.

I grew up in that situation so believe me, the abusive parents are going to find a way to be abusive regardless.

Ignoring how impractical it would be to accurately enforce, said parent would simply… not give them computer access to the outside world at all, or just change a password. In my case, they tried to limit access using router mac address rules 🤣

I mean, it’s also one field. Wouldn’t be hard to automate its removal and do a quick test.

Because the majority of parents can’t parent and risk frying their kid’s brain? Not the computer’s problem, sure, but still pretty common…

They probably will, that’s the riskiest part

And a watermarked AI “meme” at that

Pretty cool for folks with type 2 diabetes, but that’s if they can still get any sort of supply.

Thank you for creating anti-boredom content!

Also… “Yes”

I wonder where this is coming from…

And then one can simply remove the requirement for it to be filled, because it’s open source software.

It can definitely be called a bigger jump when they started with terrible 2015 hardware in the first place…

It’s just a shame that the vast majority of non first party games will never see these benefits because they’ll never get a revisit for updates and support, though. A higher resolution or framerate only means so much when it was already capped to 900p30 or something along those lines that was common for Switch 1.

It was a smooth blend of superfans, parents with loud children, and those terrified of economic uncertainty or future price increases, from what I gathered.

Ignoring the peak of all action games that is KH2? Sacrilege!

And it still doesn’t, the blank space does not need to be filled

It really does feel like a random Colin video drop haha

I mean it’s true, why would anyone be surprised that the pioneers of ruining modern games with ML upscaling would do this? After everything Nvidia has done recently I feel even less sorry for them than AMD owners.

Neo New York Internet

Back when it started gaining popularity last year or so it happened a lot.

There was, for example, a tweet (or maybe recycled tiktok, I don’t use those sites and get their content second hand) about a lady re-enacting Civil Rights* era racism in a diner, replacing African-Americans with robots and creating some uncomfortably creative insults. It just started to feel gross very quickly…