At least in the UK modern tellies don’t support analogue TV signals!

I guess you’ll need to play on something that plays PS1 games with video ports from this millennium.

I had a dev add a load of unit tests that mocked values and then tested for the mocked values. I mean… They passed…

Is this why so many of these fuckheads are keen on LLMs? They’re great at vomiting out reams of code.

Whilst I don’t eat mouldy bread intentionally (as in, it will have happened without me noticing on occasion) what’s the actual potentially bad thing that happens if one does? Specifically?

Correct. The copyright owner controls the rights related to copying.

Unless the copyright holder specifically grants free distribution rights (e.g. releasing as a public domain work such as with a CC0 licence) then they can decide to do what they want. That includes choosing not to distribute the work in any way.

So no, Championship Manager 01/02 is not available legally for free. It’s no more legal than downloading ROMs. No one will stop you but that’s not the same as legal.

I’m not defending this approach. I think IP law is a fucking shambles and needs massive reform for a number of reasons. The duration is ludicrous and it’s horrendously restrictive in a way that chokes the life out of human culture. I see someone downvoted me, which is pretty funny in and of itself. Sorry for pointing out how IP law works…?

They took out H264 hardware support?

Reading the instructions, no, it’s not. It was given away for free by Eidos and no longer is. Unless they granted distribution rights to someone back in the day then whoever is distributing the files is doing so illegally.

I don’t really care, I just find it funny that it’s touted as legally when that’s absolutely not how copyright law works at all.

Why would doctors lie to you? What could they possibly stand to gain?

Old racist xenophobe says something racist and xenophobic. Colour me shocked.

Isn’t that Mona Wilder?

I’m reminded of the riot police taping ball bearings to flashbangs during the Ukrainian Revolution

A government’s concern is not in a single area.

For example some counties have free public transport, in part because it’s better for the economy as a whole. That wouldn’t make sense if public transport is privately owned.

“You get less steak, sure, but you get more cardboard!” 😆

For me this is more about open world games losing cool features than wanting to play a game with that feature. In GTA 4 it affected the choices I’d make whilst driving as it was entirely possible to make a vehicle nearly impossible to drive without coming close to blowing it up.

*The notion of choosing to go to bed that early makes me tremendously sad.

The notion of going to bed that early makes me tremendously sad.

Not what this is about but it reminds me of a lamp my mother asked me to fix every time I came home for about five years. I’d check it, find it worked, report back, she’d forget and once again assume it didn’t work otherwise she’d be using it.

I couldn’t be bothered to come up with a neat way to say “GTA-like games” and decided to hope that the reader could intuit that context.

The vehicle damage modelling from GTA 4. The fact that it hasn’t been surpassed is tremendously disappointing to me.