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by shawn 8y ago
It is shocking. It was completely unheard of behavior at S2 Games. I was shocked to even be in the same market segment.
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by shawn 8y ago
Uhh, that logic doesn’t folllow. Heh. I’m a former S2 dev (heroes of newerth, a pretty similar game). The player base is uncontrollable. It’s a bunch of testosterone fueled teens. Granted, we didn’t have any women in leadership positions ei
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by shawn 8y ago
I was thinking that exact thing in the name of experimentation. A sort of "Please come harass me, I want to see what people have to deal with."
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by shawn 8y ago
It is easy to imagine a world where all game content, no matter how derivative, was not allowed to be used without the explicit permission of companies. Do you think that you'd be better off in that world? One where Let's Plays ar
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by shawn 8y ago
Yeah, it's more like "Any time someone presents a problem with systemd, someone else will claim politics." It's kind of fascinating to watch software become so polarizing. Like, it's technology. It doesn't inhe
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by shawn 8y ago
So, speaking of jailtime, where are the ROMs coming from? I see that the games simply work, and you can pick any you want. I've been trying to make this concept, but distributed, so it can't be taken down. Curious if this will get
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by shawn 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rja7tCtxSN4 It fits too well.
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by shawn 8y ago
Wow, this is a fascinating answer. Thanks for sharing.
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by shawn 8y ago
Ah, yeah, I completely forgot about swatting. Good point. The sooner that problem gets solved, the better.
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by shawn 8y ago
So, at the risk of getting murdered for this sentiment: Who cares? So what if someone knows your address? I guess it's a bigger problem for celebrities or for those who are targeted. But even then, the police are there. Just call them.
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by shawn 8y ago
Again, Disney did exactly that . They ruthlessly exploited Alice in Wonderland and built an empire on it. And you're arguing that no one should be able to do the same. This is the definition of unfair. I see we're very far apart
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by shawn 8y ago
I use 28 screens where I work. Just sayin'.
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by shawn 8y ago
Mm, a fair critique. This is one of the classic arguments where people feel strongly in one direction or another, and it takes very little effort to essentially set up a yay/nay vote. We can find common ground, but I wish it were possi
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by shawn 8y ago
Yeah! We're thinking along the same lines. I think with a bit of work, libretro can be modified to do it: https://github.com/libretro/parallel-n64 It's already been ported to the web. https://mediu
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by shawn 8y ago
Good idea; I tried that. Unfortunately IPFS doesn't yet seem reliable. Or at least I couldn't get it to work very well. I'll try again though. Wanna collab? Shoot me an email and we can work it out. I'm really interested
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by shawn 8y ago
Ah, a small correction: I'd never pass someone else's work off as my own. The idea is more along the lines of "Look at this silly hat I put on Picachu. Won't you give me a few cents so I can keep dressing up Pokemon as s
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by shawn 8y ago
The argument is that it's harmful for society to restrict artists from remixing other people's work. And when you put it that way, how could it be otherwise? We'll have to agree to disagree that it'd cause problems for p
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by shawn 8y ago
I don't disagree, but at least some money would come my way. Currently no money comes. And yeah, I could build my own game with my own characters instead of modding old ones, but why? It'd be fun to put a silly hat on Starfox an
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by shawn 8y ago
At least it'd be a fair matchup. Me vs big companies is like an ant vs you. I'm less worried about a talented Russian who's stuck one generation behind my latest work anyway.
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by shawn 8y ago
I remain hopeful that the outrage machine will fizzle itself out. The key is to make sure resources are distributed as widely as possible, but without eliminating the concept of private ownership. When people want for nothing, there's
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by shawn 8y ago
Just like Disney did with Alice in Wonderland, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4 "And now you, dear filmmaker, want to come along and want to make your own version of Star Wars: A New Hope? For shame!
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by shawn 8y ago
Yes! This is an important point, and I completely agree that decentralization is the main driving force here, not necessarily blockchains. Blockchains are a nice fallback mechanism to enforce trust, but Bittorrent proves that you can have h
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by shawn 8y ago
There's just one small problem: Blockchains are massive, slow, and it takes new users hours or days to join an old blockchain. Once those miiiinor problems are solved, I'll agree. It makes sense as a store of value. But a realtime
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by shawn 8y ago
Effing thank you. I don't think most people realize just how convenient green threads are. It kills me to see devs stuck in the local maximum of callback hell. That sad, https://www.usenix.org/system/files/con
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by shawn 8y ago
Alex isn't wrong. But I don't think it's blockchain. It's decentralization in general. For example, I want to release a tool that can mod old ROMs. I cannot legally sell this. This is a new idea, I'd like to make a
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Wiretapping the Secret Service can be easy and fun [video](youtube.com)
1 points by shawn 8y ago|1 comments
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by shawn 8y ago
Is there a nice xv6 equivalent for x86_64? How do MIT students learn about 64-bit arch? https://aaronbloomfield.github.io/pdr/book/x86-64bit-ccc-cha... This was good, but it leaves a lot out. No mention of kernel
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by shawn 8y ago
It’s because args to syscalls are passed in registers rather than the stack. This is a security mechanism I believe, but I’m mostly guessing based on xv6. Basically, if you want a kernel space and a user space, you have to ensure users can’
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by shawn 8y ago
Yesss, [0] saves me so much work if it does what the label says. Thanks!
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by shawn 8y ago
If there is no privacy, why not host the data on s3 or Dropbox? Data storage is dirt cheap. The privacy concern seems like the prime reason to build such a service.

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