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I recently played through 2 and true colors. I have the lost records game too. I haven’t gotten dual exposure yet because I know if I’m patient enough it will be free

If it were up to me copyright would be nonexistent for non commercial use. Who gives a shit if someone makes a fan project of your precious idea

Commercial use I don’t know but far less than lifetime. Disney has fucked our brains with propaganda here. Creative processes flourish by remixing and making derivative works. That’s literally how Disney got to where they are. Realistically if you can’t make money in the first 10-20 years of release how likely is it that you will ever make money? Should we really stifle artistic freedom for the 0.0001% of creators that make something and take 30 years for it to catch on?

Not to mention that this doesn’t mean your gravy train is cut off. If people buy your book or cd or whatever after 21 years you still make money. We could even make a compromised law that derivative works are okay but as long as you’re alive commercial use of the original work is protected, eg if someone wants to just sell a copy of your book or use your song in an ad you can demand payment or stop them? Although this is stupid because then you get into the pissing match of what defines the boundary of a derivative work

And eternal life of copyright is what has led to us having our current culture in decline media landscape of endless sequels, remakes, milking licenses, and reboots. Why risk a new IP when you own 3000000 “safe bets” you can endlessly recycle bullshit

Like what’s at my local theater right now:

Thunderbolts: milking the marvel IP still

The accountant 2: never heard of the first one but it deserved a sequel, apparently

Minecraft: not a sequel or remake, at least, but cash in license nonsense to print money from kids and nostalgia bait the older zoomers that grew up attached to ipads

Final destination: bloodlines: good thing there’s not already like 8 final destination movies that are progressively shittier

Lilo and stitch: not the original, a live action remake. Fun fact: the writers guild doesn’t cover animated films so when Disney remakes these classic animated movies as live action they can reuse the same story and screw the original writers

Mission impossible: the final reckoning: I bet this isn’t the final reckoning

How to train your dragon: live action remake, probably using the same Disney loophole to fuck over writers

Interestingly they’re also showing a mystery horror movie Plus some others that to be fair seem like original IP: sinners, shadow force, the last rodeo, ballerina

Then a bunch of classics like one flew over the cuckoos nest and raiders of the lost ark

7:4 garbage to original. 64% “we’re out of ideas”.

or, hear me out, if we had more reasonable copyright and IP laws the permission wouldn’t be necessary for a completely dead 28 year old game that fans spent a great deal of effort reviving with no help or financing from the original rights owner

If the person who holds the code refuses to give it out because they are a jerk then so be it I guess but the law should not stop them from doing so in this scenario. It is absurd

So the decompilation project created a bunch of interest and now Lego will capitalize on their tremendous effort because they own the IP and can shit out a port? awesome, super fair

Hard to say. Consoles have certainly gotten more sercure and people finding vulnerabilities are far less likely to just give them out for free these days

But there is incentive to hack any console and nintendo has historically attracted the biggest dorks. Additionally they also seem to historically make pretty huge blunders, though the switch exploit was nvidias fault tbf

If I am murdered please don’t do this. I do not care if you feel like it will help you process the events

Hint books were an experience back then. I remember the hint book for myst had this whole narrative about some other person who got trapped in the book, which was supposed to be like the player. It was this whole story of how they solved all the various puzzles. I remember it being quite long but I was also like 9 so maybe it was just like 10 pages

gonna be wild to see what this thing costs with tariffs

It’s good that you’re looking to expand your food repertoire

If you’re dealing with arfid though you should consider a desensitization protocol to help deal with sensory or phobic response driving the arfid. What this looks like varies because it depends on what drives your arfid: is it a fear of aversive reaction, is it sensory, disinterest, etc.

That said building on what you have can be helpful. Changing the burritos slightly - change the protein, add a new vegetable, add guacamole, etc. try a new flavor of protein bar, etc.

If you’re looking for something in the healthy/low prep side of things I tend to make one big meal on sundays for the week and portion it out. It takes about 30-60 minutes depending on what I make. Japanese curry, various pastas, salads, soups, etc. how healthy these are varies. I am vegan so they tend to be a little bit better than the typical recipe you’d see online but some are still not the most healthy (Japanese curry for example is fairly high in fat but portioned correctly with rice is still filling and a reasonable amount of calories)

All those old games were so punishingly hard

You’d play leisure suit Larry or whatever and get 3/4 of the way through and get stuck. Then you’d check a walkthrough and realize you didn’t check the trash can on the first screen of the game for a key item and now you’re fucked and literally have to start over from the beginning

Or you’d get to a death condition and get a screen that just mocks you: remember to save early and save often!

Yeah, basically every game that runs on scummvm is a good candidate here: leisure suit Larry, kings quest, police quest, the dig, sam and max, Indiana jones and the fate of Atlantis, all the sierra and lucasarts ones

Myst series is another good one. Journeyman project trilogy. These all ruled when I was like 12 years old

I miss when games were confusing and aimless by default. I know there are still games like this but I feel like the default now is a game that’s like “oh hey, go down this hallway full of locked doors! Except one door is unlocked, that’s a secret area, good for you! But otherwise go down the hallway to the next hallway!”

My dad used one of these for work when I was a a kid and I used to play with it all the time. He hated technology so he kept using it far beyond its reasonable lifespan. I remember I was in college and he was still using it, so it was like 2006 at that point?

Eventually the something got messed up somehow (image sensor?) and every picture was written to the disk incorrectly in a way that the right half would have fucked up color data. He finally got a normal point and shoot that took significantly higher quality images and could now store more than like 20 images without having to drag around 20 delicate floppy disks through sites filled with things very hostile to floppy disks

For now. Their most recent round of venture capital was 40 million and that was like the 7th one. Those investors are gonna be demanding returns if they haven’t already and they will eventually push to monetize as much as possible

If plex works for you now then sure, don’t fix what isn’t broken. Jellyfin isn’t going anywhere and is just getting better, if anything holding off on migrating just increases the chances that migrating will be smoother. But guarantee you that in a certain amount of time plex will fuck over their customers

I was considering purchase a Japanese switch 2 because my Japanese is decent enough for most gaming but then I saw it was region locked pretty hard so I can’t use any of my us e shop purchases. Plus fuck Nintendo, even without the tariffs the price on this thing is a bit much and their behavior is garbage

If I ever do get one it’ll be because someone broke theirs and I got it cheap as fuck and fixed it. That’s how I got my switch, had a busted battery management IC and a fucked usb C port. I think in total I paid like $90 for it with parts. It would also help if the console was exploited for piracy

Some of my stuff is consumer level (the netgear modem, which tbf I’m genuinely surprised has lasted this long). some is in that weird “prosumer” space like the synology stuff; they are a bit pricier but have, in my experience, more resilient hardware. They also had much better support but in recent years they’ve kind of scaled back on this, bummer

My best advice is to not overlook the potential of e waste. The best and most resilient networking gear I have also happened to be the cheapest. The brocade switch? $45, 48 gigabit ports and 8 10 gigabit sfp+ ports. The hp POE switch? 24 gigabit poe ports and 2 port 10g sfp+. The server for pfsense was $50. These were good deals from local sellers, ebay prices are higher, sometimes quite a lot (especially with shipping). They also use much more power than just a consumer router which is worth mentioning. I’m transitioning to solar so I’m less concerned about it

My network stack has been running for many years now.

netgear cm1000 cable modem - since 2018 pfsense running on an old 1u supermicro server as router - since 2020 brocade icx switch - since 2016 hp procurve poe switch - since 2022 synology rt2600ac - since 2018, was router 2018-2020 and is AP since pfsense took over routing synology mr2200ac - secondary AP since 2020 cyberpower 1500va ups to run them - mentioning because power conditioning is maybe a factor in longevity Plus zwave and HA shit

Some of the stuff is way older too. The switches were bought from computer recyclers for real cheap and had definitely been in service for some time. The brocade is probably 10-15 years old at this point and the hp is probably 8 or so years old. The server running pfsense is from like 2009, maybe older.

house is running gigabit internet, 10g intranet, poe cameras, iot devices, etc with no issues. Probably over 100 devices on the network.

This is an argument I regularly make

I have several shows in objectively better quality than streaming. We can argue about bitrate (mine definitely has more) but putting that aside, my anime has better subtitles almost always, many of my movies combine physical releases for best quality (eg video from release a with audio from release b)

But more so than anything my library doesn’t have to deal with stupid licensing and reactionary bullshit. My library has Daria but with the original music spliced back in, not the bullshit version you get on streaming now that has all the licensed music stripped out. My library has beavis and butthead with the original music videos and all the parts they had censored. My library has the dungeons and dragons episode of community. Etc.

Mine is similar to this except it’s a rack mount case with bays that holds 15 drives (using 14 right now, 252tb -36tb for parity). All of my drives are 18tb and were bought refurbished in the 160-200 range depending on where prices were at.

To anyone looking to do this I strongly suggest reading about raidz expansion. You do not need to just go out and buy 15 drives, you can do what I did and get 2-3 drives many years ago then just keep popping in another every time it gets full and/or one dies

I’m at 80% utilization. Next project: disk shelf to add more drives

My home servers time to shine

Everyone shitting on me for having a nas with ~ 200tb of storage and tape backups would finally have to eat shit because I’d have the only streaming service in town

I got enough anime to make crunchy roll blush, I have something like 3,000 series of manga and like 8,000 books in my komga server, I got non weeb shit. I archive tons of webpages and youtube channels, terabytes of music, etc.

In a situation like this I could even throw a lemmy instance on it or something. I don’t do that now but I could

Also all my anime has dubs stripped out to save space and the majority of my manga is in Japanese. 英語しか話せない奴らはクソくらえ

So I eschew your 1tb limitation. I have seen this scenario coming. I planned for it. I’m ready for it. There are others like me on lemmy in the home server page, plus if you look on the truenas, proxmox, unraid, etc forums you’ll find even more

No need to be sorry, I did not take it that way, we are best friends forever. More to clarify that there are a ton of old server parts out there for dirt cheap if you’re okay with saving e waste from the trash heap.

You are absolutely right that homelabs are totally fine on consumer grade hardware but check server parts too, you might be surprised at the deals you find, especially locally. My build was a 10th gen intel build and cpu/mobo/32gb ecc ram/heatsink missing fan was $125. That was several years ago though and now we got tarrrrriiifffsss