I think you’re missing some nuance here.

3DSen is based on reverse engineering and not IP since it’s not selling the ROMs that come with it. All completely legal to sell and don’t mind buying to support this guy’s reverse engineering and transformation effort. If it was just some stock NES emulator that he was selling, eh, I’d probably just say legal but bullshit.

Lossless Scaling is a tool/actual framework that uses released/open source API calls to apply frame gen to any game, as far as I know and that’s not violating any terms or conditions or IP either.

With this, while I can appreciate that he’s done this for other game, the terms and conditions for them is “don’t use our tools to sell mods”. Do I agree with it? Actually yes, for the most part. I’m of the firm belief that the modding community should be open, I think that these are things that should be done for passion, I like having donations set up, and that we’re lucky that we live in an age that many game companies are kind enough to release modding tools without demanding a license fee. Plus he’s not selling a framework here, he’s selling his framework built with a company’s tools that says “No paid mods because we think the modding community should be open”.

I think that IP is often tricky and I think that this is fine and not a slippery slope argument.

I’d like to briefly address the discussion around the “Cyberpunk VR” mod created by Luke Ross. We have indeed issued a DMCA strike, as it was available as a paid mod (only accessible to Patreon subscribers). This directly violates our Fan Content Guidelines: we never allow monetization of our IP without our direct permission and/or an agreement in place. We were in touch with Luke last week and informed him that he needs to make it free for everyone (with optional donations) or remove it. We are big fans of mods to our games — some of the work out there has been nothing short of amazing, including Luke’s mod for Cyberpunk 2077. We’d be happy to see it return as a free release. However, making a profit from our IP, in any form, always requires permission from

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So they offered this guy to make it free with donations, which is reasonable in my opinion, and he said no.

Given that, I’m okay with this DCMA.

There nothing available to the rest of the world because AI companies have bought the supply and they’re not going to not buy it just because of the tariffs.

Now onto the cheering of lowering prices.

I honestly think it wont, especially in the long run.

If they move production onto US soil with the threat of tariffis and not with incentives like the CHIPS act, the prices will go up greatly, not just for the US but for everyone.

Take a look at TSMC and their current investments in the US. This investment is going to alter the global supply chain with these plants expected to provide around 30% of the global supply. And even now with the first plant, the company announced that the ROI is of course less than because it costs more to build here from materials, regulations, and staffing, which they’ve been moaning that they have a lack of qualified people in Arizona, go figure.

TSMC has already announced that they plan to raise prices by 10% in the 2026 year and expanding in the US so do you think that this raising in prices is just due to AI or do you think they’re also making up for US production costs too? I tend to think it’s a reaction to both since they did officially say it was a price raise to “expansion costs”, that’s with the billions in incentives, and what do you think will happen if the a company like SK Hynix, which is planning on expanding fabs, move it to the US for all global supply, will do to prices of RAM?

My two cents.

As this asshole and his asshole company tries to force adoption via shoving it down Windows 11 users without consent.

Reminder that now is a great time to switch to Linux desktop.

Yup. I expect nothing less from a silver spoon moron that daddy bribed officials for his “prestigious” BS in economics.

My fight or flight response is geared heavily toward stand-still-and-hope-their-vision-is-based-on-movement, so unless I’m fighting a t-rex I’m hosed.

I’m not pretending I’m all powerful. I’m stating compliance is nonsensical.

Oh for fucks sake there Internet Bravado, you might not have understood what my point was damn you sure as hell proved it.

Don’t go around telling others to fight and die when you aren’t willing to do so yourself.

And I’m sure we’ll be seeing you on the front lines actively fighting against ICE…

Unless you’re part of the Black Panthers, I find these Internet tough guy comments laughable and even I who have went to the No Kings protests carrying, I’m not going to be fighting multiple ICE agents if they ask for papers please on my minority ass.

James would probably come in with Panda Linux, especially if he’s in Bolivia.

So what distro would James May be bringing up the rear and is total rubbish?

You’re going to use some bog standard self defense class against multiple armed, stupid, violent ICE agents?

Yeah, that will end well.

If you’re going to do anything you’d better off going to a protest, finding like minded individuals and then deciding where to go from there.

Damn you Onion, you got me today.

Camera’s can be easily confiscated and broken by fascists.

Instant uploads are much harder to suppress.

Cripes all of that and not even, “Buy a burner SIM card”, “Use a VPN at all time if you have to use data”, “For the love of god don’t use biometrics as authorization, use a alphanumeric password to unlock”, “Use the damn encryption solution provided by your phone’s OS”.

Hate to break it to you but consoles aren’t going to be exempt from any of this.

The good old days. I wish I still had mine but alas my old floppy box died in a fire.

Yup and they’ll be over in China instead, ramping up their research and development in all areas, giving them the competitive advantage now.

Talk about cutting off your scientific and industrial competitive advantage to spite your racist face.

Thanks Republicans!

I will say that the 10.11 update for me was a freaking nightmare with so different types of failures.

I’m still waiting the ability to remove seasons without deleting the media, especially since I now have ton’s of duplicate season_xxxx seasons from the major version update, mucking up most of my seasons that I didn’t have before.

Oh and chromecasting on the app is still a giant mess.

Still great to hear they’re making progress.

Very cool. I am still running Bazzite as my reintroduction into Linux as a daily and it’s been great for gaming but I will say that as more and more familiarity rolls in, I do get frustrated with it being an immutable distro and having to jump through hoops to get it do what I want.

Still I think it’s a great distro for those who don’t want to deal with MS bullshit anymore and a great friendly, works right out of the box while you learn or relearn Linux, and gets you gaming without a lot of hassle and having to deal with less than friendly Linux users.

Yeah, sorry, random.org didn’t roll your number. I may have a copy of WWE 2k23 if you’d play that.

Don’t forget that they’ve also announced they plan to reduce GPU production because of their AI BS.