People need to be told how to feel about things these days. It’s weird.

No shit. They’ve been doing it for over a decade.

I want the Abnett & Lanning Guardians back :(

I wouldn’t do it on my phone. 🙄

What I’m saying is that it would probably be fairly easy to incorporate an already existing technology in to an AI.

My phone can recognize text on images. How hard could it be to send that data to an AI?

Clan Lord. An MMO that’s been running since the 90s and still gets regular updates. It’s long past the point of a monthly subscription, only costing $15 to get a character.

Well I just learned they’re making a new Marathon game. I played a bit of the first one, but wasn’t able to follow the series back in the day.

I don’t like it as much as the previous entries, but aside from the Batmobile missions and the twist that was obvious from the start, I enjoyed it

If they called it Labour Day, that uppity working class might think they have some kind of value.

/s

In Canada it’s the first Monday in September.

At least Alberta, anyway.

It’s really good.

And in response to the article; no shit. I myself plan to start Fallout 1 once I’m done Pathfinder: Kingmaker. I can only handle one RPG at a time.

Descent was awesome. Never played the third one…

True, but we could do better

Yeah, but they’re not really concerned with things like corporations farming user data or trying to improving free software everyone can access.

They make sure the government networks are secure, while also making sure it’s American corporations getting your data.

It would be great to have government-funded groups of people auditing open source software world-wide.

Not any one government, but what if 50 countries put together a team of like… ten people to do the tedious work of constantly checking code. That would be 500 people who could regularly put out releases about what they’ve found, which could be verified by anyone world-wide.

In exchange, we all get free secure software for our tax dollars.

Right. A modder’s work is useless without the game because it modifies someone else’s work.

A modder takes someone else’s work and modifies it for their own purposes. Here, a company took a modder’s work, which was based off their own work, and used it for their own purposes.

Should they be paid for it? Yes, I think so. Will they? I dunno, sounds like they removed it pretty quick.

The only point I’m trying to make is that they both used someone else’s work without permission. (I’m assuming the modder didn’t have permission because it’s EA)

If you had permission and they were paying you to do it, you would be a game developer, not a modder. You would be updating the game, not modding it.

And yes, I know some companies are cool with mods and grant permission and even provide tools, which is awesome.

I made no comments on the distribution of mods, only the creation.

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Nope. I know that the modders didn’t do the original work, that’s why it’s called modding.

Most companies don’t support this practice.

Yes, you can do whatever you want with files on your hard drive, but you’re still modding someone else’s work.

That’s all I’m saying. Everyone is griping that the company used the modder’s work without permission, when the modder did the exact same thing: using someone else’s work without permission.

I’m not saying modding is morally wrong - I’m something of a mod enjoyer myself XD - and I agree it’s a dick move to swipe a modder’s work, but I doubt there’s a legal leg to stand on when their work is based on an IP they don’t own.

I do also understand the difference between small modders doing something for fun based on something they love instead of money and a company swiping someone’s work for profit.

But it’s right there in the name. Modding. What are you modding? Someone else’s work.

True

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