☑️ i’m in this picture and i don’t like it

why not get an ambernic or something?

i don’t remember much about the dlcs, other than one of them being a tower defence game for some reason?

aaaahaha, the “tv at your parents” filter.

i’m thinking back to the blu-ray decryption key thing, where a key was spread in the form of a flag and therefore didn’t count as copyrighted material. of course live broadcasts use rotating keys anyway so it’s not possible to do that.

a streaming site can be a private thing if it is gated by some kind of login, so that’s also a way of getting around the issue.

what complicates it even more is that we here are even allowed to save media from any source for personal use, and we pay a “private copying tax” on all storage media purchases because of that. RAM included. what constitutes “personal use” is also a bit diffuse but seems to hinge on whether it’s for profit.

so technically, as long as it touches a storage device, and as long as it’s not publically available (e.g. passworded or something), and i am not charging for it, it should be entirely legal here.

it’s weird when it comes to broadcasting though. they send the match footage to everyone over the air, but only those who pay get the decryption key. so is the footage the ip, or the key? furthermore, if i pay for the key, then let a friend watch at my place, is that ip theft? if i go to their place and re-stream the footage from my house so we can watch from there, is that ip theft? if i leave but they keep watching, is that ip theft? if they get a friend to come over and watch, is that ip theft?

the definition seems to be that hosting a restreaming service (“pirate iptv”) is ip theft, but narrowing it down isn’t really possible.

there was a study here a few years ago by a digital rights company that estimated how much iptv piracy cost the rightsholders. using their numbers everyone in the country would have had to pay 200€ a month for tv for the result to make sense.

so yeah ip theft isn’t fun, but when the big corporations constantly lie about it and go after people who isn’t even aware they’re doing it i tend to side with the consumer.

funny, i seem to remember apple’s on-device scanning being extremely overzealous a few years ago.

god i can’t wait for century of steam

i mean i can, that’s what’s gonna make it so good, but you know

also what asinine dev team manager is “optimizing for output”??? that’s like the worst idea. it’s like judging carpenters by “most nails used”.

voice-dampening? as in, it moisturises your breath?

that’s what i thought, then i read what they actually want from an interview allard did in 2022. he’s basically invented a new class he calls the “transferiat”, which he claims is the main leech on society. the members of this class? public servants, journalists, and people on social security (allard even specifies “immigrants” there). he wants to get rid of this class, in order to achieve smaller government, “higher quality” reporting, and fewer welfare queens.

that’s a textbook right-conservative agenda.

you’re getting there with the colours, but that last image is waaaay blown out in the reds.

ac2 and co are all really nice places to just… exist in. makes sense they got the tourism modes added on. i heard somewhere that they took the most detailed scans ever made of venice at the time, and that they were used in city planning after the games.

that guy is definitely a case of incorrect texturing; that’s what happens when you point both eyes in a wrap-around head texture in the same direction. it’s why most head textures are cross-eyed, or rather, why most close-up head models have separate eyes <insert the horrifying ac unity floating eyeball picture>.

what is it with the recent influx of people who only posts “i’m gay and everyone around me fucks”? am i the only one noticing this? violet vibes, but at least they stick around for a while.

same, i found the perspective shifts interesting in bf but when you know it has no resolution there’s no purpose.

also do you think it feels dead because you… looked at it with the saturation all blown out first? :P jokes aside ac2 is a bit dream-like in its presentation so while i don’t see the piss-filter thing i do concede that the palette is uh… soft. the two spinoffs are more bright, if i remember correctly, but then again it has been almost 15 years since i played them.

architects, i think it was. so yes.

lots of different warm ochre tones on italian buildings of the time:

if most of these look the same then i think that’s just you.

i went back to look at screenshots and honestly i don’t see it.

oof, that colour looks way oversaturated. i found the colour grading of ac2 to be really nice, it really gave the cityscapes personality. try toggling reshade in different places.

and yeah people hated the modern day story beats and arbitrary gating, especially in ac4 and forward when desmond wasn’t the main character anymore. makes sense the remake stripped all that out.

IT’S GONNA MOOOOOVE

i think someone needs to take vitamin D supplements.

see, i can also make assumptions based on a single unverified data point.