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Which version of FF7 are you referring to? And also which version of Link?

Either way, probably depends on who the writers want to win lol.

While this super sucks and is a loss for the wider Emulation community, I think this is the first time where I can actually see where Nintendo is coming from in one of those legal dilemmas.
(Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, some of this is hearsay. I’m only an avid reader, but haven’t actually ever done any switch emulation myself. Keep your salt grains ready and correct me if I share wrong information please.)

Yuzu appearently raked in 30k USD per month on their patreon. And many of these patreons were most likely not just donating out of good will and with a “Thank you” mindset, but they were actually in it for the supporter/early access builds, which were time-gated behind these subscriptions. This automatically raises an eyebrow for me. Second problem, one of these early-access branches appearently had optimizations for running Tears of the Kingdom, even before it officially released (the game got leaked 1~2 weeks early). This meant, for a short period of time, the yuzu emulator was the only way to play Nintendo’s game (besides using a homebrewed switch) and I think this put them in a direct competition against Nintendo.
That is just an absolute no-go when you’re trying to provide legal and safe emulation. This basically invites pirates with a big welcome mat. Correction: I just found out, official yuzu builds never ran TotK pre-release. It was modded versions through 3rd party devs.

The core idea of “good” emulation is video game preservation and the right, to do whatever you yourself want with your property.
The yuzu devs in this scenario seemed like they were trying to make a profit off of giving early access to someone elses copyrighted work. And that does sound pretty illegal to me.

What Nintendo is trying to argue in their writing doesn’t super resonate with me though. yuzu emulator needs a file from the switch OS called “prod.keys” in order to decrypt and to actually play switch games. Nintendo argues that any attempt at extracting this file is “circumventing digital copyright millenium act”, and therefore yuzu is facilitating piracy because it ONLY works with this file. This also seems to be the reason why they went after the tool that is used to extract prod.keys, called “Lockpick” earlier last year.

I don’t think using a program to obtain your own keys from your own property should be illegal. While sharing those files might very well be.

Overall, very iffy topic, just a reminder to any Emulation Devs to always take the safe route whenever possible. In my personal opinion, I don’t think developers should even try to emulate any games that are newer than ~1 year, as a show of faith that there is no monetary incentive.

Troll post or shill, same account recently asked “why do people dislike google, they’re only doing legal data saving for stuff you search” and then ignored every bit of legitimate croticism that was handed to them.

Makes no sense to interact with such an account.

“Legal” doesn’t immediately mean “moral”. Everything is legal as long as there isn’t a law specifically banning it, and those laws often only get created as a result of someone abusing their legal right to something.

Google collects also way more data than you pointed out, in every avenue possible. Ever solved a captcha? You likely helped Google train their image recognition AI. Got an android smartphone (a brand that previously had committed itself to being open-source and linux based)? Have fun with pre-installed unremovable Google Spyware. You’re forced to create a GMail account to interact with the whole App ecosystem of the market.
Google can remotely (without your consent) download and delete apps on your smartphone, read your personal data (including stuff you have saved on your SD card) and accesses your camera, pictures and GPS-Data regularly.

I just read an article to prepare for writing this comment and feel actually sick now, I wanna jump ship and get an independent OS, screw the AppStore…

This game is probably the reason I never got into TMNT. Super unforgiving lifr system which throws you back at the start of the game, and very wonky hitboxes

“If you are using an iFrame to display a site that isn’t yours, even for legitimate purposes, you have no control over that content—it can change at any time,” Simmons warns. “One day instead of looking into an iFrame, you might be looking at an entirely different kind of portal.”

Holy shit this guy is amazing.

I get it though. People trying to monetize your work which was purposely hosted for free without ads would drive me mad too.

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Actually the old Moderna was having such a harsh reaction on younger people, Germany changed their recommendations to not allow anyone younger than 60 to get moderna.

I also had Moderna back then once and can only confirm, it knocked me completely out for a whole day with harsh fever like symptoms, really wasn’t fun.

Haven’t really been vaccinated for a year now, so can’t talk about the new moderna.

finally a decent use of this dumbass meme format.

I hate how the majority of the time this is used, it can be summed up with “girls boring, boys fun haha”.
Thought we left that sorta thinking behind in elementary school?
Anyway, fuck gender stereotypes, we’re all just humans trying to wing it.

Nah, Discord is already a way into the enshittifation process. Back when it first got popular, people ditched skype to migrate to discord en masse, because discord was lightweight and quick as fuck and had 0 ads.

Nothing about this software nowadays gives me the feeling of being quick.

Remember that anime with the girl with the big bahoongas? It had a great take on mint.

I don’t like the way this question is framed. It implies that IQ is a meaningful indicator of intelligence as well as that intelligence can be generalized and measured accurately. In truth, it can’t.

While there exists a certain correlation between measured IQ and academic success, these things can always explained via different factors as well, for instance the amount care that your parents put into how well you do academicallg early on in life, shaping your values, beliefs and personality. Someone whose parents put effort into making sure they did well at school will probably also care more for taking such an IQ test seriously as well as have academic success. Do note, that there is only little correlation between IQ and later levels of income in their line of work.

To go back to the actual question, you cope with it by realizing that intelligence is a diverse and complex concept, where different people do well on different things. While you might certainly have a domain where you are objectively “better” at than someone else (measured in some way), this does not mean you are objectively better at every domain. By realizing these personal strengths and personal weaknesses we can overcome them by working in a field where we are best at and learn from others at fields they are better at in order to become a better person all around.

Humble yourself and never forget that your own personal experience shouldn’t be the gold standard for everyone else. They have their own values and beliefs backed up by their own experience.

It IS kinda crazy. If you try to create “nothingness” (create an enclosed space and suck out all of the air to have as little as possible), the nothingness actually tries to become full of something again, because of pressure difference.

kbin has different problems. There is a “random” magazine that is just a collection of random posts, and it is featured on the sidebar with no option to turn it off. It sometimes randomly features porn.

I don’t know, that comparison kinda humanizes a corporation that is very much looking to go public and make itself valuable to shareholders. I don’t like to think of these websites as “friends”.

Yes, reddit’s a tragic shitshow, but there is absolutely no guarantee the same won’t happen on any fediverse instance either. We should always look out to jump ship if we start to notice like a website is sacrificing user wishes for personal gain.