fishos

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it has to do with copyright issues and having to defend them. If someone else is selling “your product”, it enters a legal area most companies aren’t comfortable with. This is why in the past some very successful mods have been given licenses from the company themselves that allow the mod team to operate as a sort of “independent contractor”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but the ones who don’t sell tend to exist for longer. The ones that do sell ALWAYS go down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. And then people point to those mods as proof you can charge for your mod and act Pikachu surprised when someone actually does something about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem was he sold it. Can’t profit off a mod because it’s technically profiting off someone else’s work. Not defending it, but it’s well known in the modding scene that you don’t do exactly that or this predicably happens.

  Basic rules are simple: don’t announce you’re working on it, just release it. Can’t remove the files from the Internet once they’re there. If you announce too early, you give them time to shut it down before release.

  And never, EVER, try to profit from it. You run into all kinds of issues, even just using the games name.

  This isn’t legal advice so much as “if you want to mod and actually have it see the light of day, follow these guidelines or you’re pretty much guaranteed to get screwed”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Install steam. Run in big picture mode. Done. That’s a steam machine. I don’t get what.you think a dedicated machine is going to do any differently. There is a reason Steam abandoned the idea themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot ship with Linux. And having a full PC you can use is a downside? So you’d rather have a limited box? That’s not even valves philosophy, so I don’t know where you’re getting that BS from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called a Mini PC or a NUC. They already exist. Go buy one and slap Steam on it. Done.

  The people who actually want this have already done it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They already exist. They’re called mini PCs or NUCs. Just buy one of those and you’re already there. Literally. This whole article and thread is garbage. They already exist. They just aren’t branded Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨105 Trillion Pi Digits: The Journey to a New Pi Calculation Record⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Google it. It only comes up in AI text. OP is probably a bot. “Araffed” isn’t a real word, it’s hallucinated. Every search result is basically “what is ‘araffed’ and why does AI produce images using this fake word?”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So if you don’t have any records then you can’t prove it was done properly and the assumption should be on the fault of Boeing.