Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: emphy

Quoting: Mountain ManWhenever I hear people talk about "game preservation", it always sounds suspiciously like, "I want free games."

Because, of course, no one ever spent anything on the re-releases on steam/gog or the evercade cartridges.

Except we're talking about emulators, which is something else entirely. More often than not, using emulators to "preserve" games is just a thinly veiled excuse to pirate software.

Erm, so am I. Quite a few of aforementioned releases come packaged with emulators. The evercade is an emulator box.

People who pirate for free games will pirate regardless of whether emulation is used or not.

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Quoting: Mountain ManWhenever I hear people talk about "game preservation", it always sounds suspiciously like, "I want free games."

Because, of course, no one ever spent anything on the re-releases on steam/gog or the evercade cartridges.

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The age of cultural piracy, where big companies try to lock down human culture behind so-called "intellectual property" laws, is in full swing.

If you don't want future nostalgia be held hostage by such, do not play their games. They are much overhyped and overrated any ways.

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If you have a kid, don't let their future nostalgia be held hostage by these cultural pirates.

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Even if I were ever in the market for an ultrabookalike, that white blob would be bothering me to no end. Whoever thought that was a good idea, and how did it live on past the concept stage?

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There's a time and place for everything.

Being a clown when leading a major company is not one of them.

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QuoteThe website in question protonge.com, which I am intentionally not making a clickable link, makes it seem like it's all official but the only official place is the GitHub.

Nowadays one should even be wary of github pages; there's been a recent spate of malicious forks of open source projects on github pretending to be the original. I.e.: verify whether one is visiting the genuine github page.

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When the developer views you as an adversary, it is a good time move on to alternatives that don't.

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Hmm, I'm thinking the ui could do with some cleanup. Is there a way to:

Hide (visible on hover) that mass of play, settings, download and store icons at each game cover?

Hide the sidebar?

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Quoting: LoftyThat said, i think a creator has the right to stipulate where they sell their wares and how. That too is a fundamental right, although i could see how some people might disagree with that, it is what it is.

I am perfectly fine with that. My beef is with corporations claiming the right to determine where and how consumers play/view the purchased media (or license or whatever).

This is a vast broadening of corporate power over our culture which should never have been granted through the dmca backdoor.

I distinctly recall people who were warning about this sort of thing (otherwise legal activities getting blocked by the dmca's anti drm-circumvention provision) being framed as panic mongers, turns out that even they did not realise the full scope of power granted by this piece of legislation.

We have arrived at the point of coffee-pads and ink-cart replacements being drm-ed and repairs getting blocked by drm's legal powers now.

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