36 fabs is also very probably stupid as hell, assuming you want anything modern.

The actual equipment it takes is pretty seriously limited, to the best of my understanding.

They haven’t created anything.

They just don’t allow games that use DRM (any kind of license check as a prerequisite to run software) on their store. Packaging a game with DRM is an extra step.

Imagining judging someone for a job about communicating with people on their ability to communicate with people effectively.

A disclaimer absolutely doesn’t make it not trademark infringement. It doesn’t even make a dent.

What upsides?

A. Many games that are DRM free on GOG are also DRM free on Steam.

B. Most of the games that are only DRM free on GOG are old, out of date builds that don’t get bug fixes and updates.

C. Even if both of those weren’t true, DRM free isn’t worth a terrible UX and no features. If GOG had feature parity for everything Steam does except big picture mode, big picture mode alone would outweigh the outrageously small chance that Steam somehow removes access to my games.

But they’re not just not at feature parity. They’re like 2 out of 10 software. Better than Epic’s 0 of 10, but still really bad.

No, it’s not. They’re literally advertising the performance of their altered code.

You keep parroting nominative use and ignoring that your definition of nominative use is “as the trademark owner uses it”, and that there’s no legitimate reading of any of that material that doesn’t very blatantly imply endorsement, which is always trademark infringement.

No, there isn’t. You’re just repeating incorrect information.

The second you change how a project works in any way in any context, it is no longer the same product and you are not entitled to use their trademark to reference it.

Functionally, any scenario where there’s any room at all for brand confusion or implied endorsement is trademark infringement. But even if you buy the outrageous lie that what they were doing was somehow ambiguous, as soon as they were contacted and told that their use was unacceptable, that ambiguity goes away.

Heroic is just as terrible. None of the alternative ways to manage game libraries support any of the large list of features that Steam does that I rely upon to make PC gaming a comfortable experience, and that list was far from comprehensive.

Until there’s an open game library management tool in any way comparable to Steam, DRM free has no value to me. I’m willing to (and want to, for the things I haven’t yet) self host movies, ebooks, audiobooks, TV shows, etc, because you can get a functional experience with them. I am not willing to do so with games because you cannot.

Their software. I don’t want to go to a site and download a game to find an actual functional launcher (and file management, etc) somewhere else. GOG galaxy is terrible on windows and doesn’t support Linux, despite the overlap between their philosophy and Linux users.

Steam isn’t just a store. It manages my large library with no work on my part, including reasonably high quality tags to make it easier to find games for whatever mood I’m in. It completely seamlessly handles Linux support on almost all of my games, while giving me all the freedom I need to make changes in the rare cases their out of the box setup has issues. It has an exceptionally high quality input mapping tool that is done per game and has a large catalogue of user generated control schemes. It handles simple modding for a lot of games that don’t need anything too crazy. It handles cloud saves so invisibly between devices that I almost never have to think about it.

I will (and have) pay for a game on Steam when I have it on GOG for free, if I actually want to play it. I’ll eventually be self hosting almost all of my other media, and have taken steps in that direction, but I definitely will not be doing so for games. Steam is just too much better than any third party options.

I reread a lot of books a lot of times, especially ones I actually bought and enjoyed most of the ride. (We’re talking ~100-200 new books a year and more that are repeats, mostly audiobook.)

The ending to the dark tower is so bad I’ll probably never read it again. It’s not the premise. Plenty of books have done that premise perfectly well. It’s the most horrendously bad presentation of that premise that I’ve ever seen.

Steven King endings always feel like he just got bored and wrote whatever awful trash he could think of with no intention whatsoever, and it’s even more frustrating because he has interesting ideas and makes them moderately compelling at the start. I’d say it feels like a pretty solid author just handed the last chapter to a random kid to write, but I think the kid would do a better job. He just never has any idea where he’s actually going by midway through the book, and doesn’t know how to end a book with “spooky” questions still in the air either.

There is no debate.

Nominative fair use has no relevance to a separate, competing product. Nominative fair use gives you permission to use the term in the exact manner they do and no more. Their notice that your version is not “WordPress”, in and of itself, completely nullifies the argument.

Same. It’s not just like a downer ending. They’re also so bland and uninteresting they make the whole book feel bland and uninteresting.

“You can’t put it on the internet anywhere in the world because we own the rights in one country” is some deranged bullshit.

To be fair they did that because law firms were seeking out frivolous arbitration bullshit to try to extort them into settlements.

But their market dominance is definitely primarily about how much better they are than anything else.

As much as I don’t like framework spam, especially when a lot of them are bloated and insecure or need bloated and insecure plugins/extentsions/whatever to do basic things, I have less desire than that to go to C.

If people post lies about trademark rights multiple places, they should be responded to multiple places.

GPL doesn’t give you any rights to trademarks.

I’m sure they use the reliability of your inputs for known images to determine whether to use your input to train unknown images.

It’s all good.

I’ll just call it a deepfake and get on with my life.

I know the first one was only ever intended to be a tech demo, and it did a really good job for that, but does this one feel like an actual full-fledged game?