“Our community” feels a bit monolithic. It’s like saying “film watchers” or “readers”. Lumping anyone that plays video games regularly into a single social group feels unhelpfully reductive.

Ye gods, that’s bloody hideous. Throw a CRT filter over that, at the very least!

The laws vary by jurisdiction.

In the UK copyright infringement is a civil matter, not a criminal one, which means that the owner of copyrighted content must be willing to spend time and money pursuing legal action. That means that whilst it’s not legal, it’s a sort of “what are you going to do about it?” situation.

There’s also an element here of “if you get caught”. If no one but you knows then there’s unlikely to be legal consequences, for obvious reasons.

The “grand question” is about what constitutes transformative work and how your jurisdiction handles ownership of transformative works. You’ll need to look that up yourself.

Ultimately it seems like a lot of hassle and risk for far too little gain.

“We found several tapes with lost Doctor Who episodes in an old Nintendo office!”

Ye gods, America, you had four years and an open-and-shut case and it wasn’t enough to get rid of the orange ghoul.

Here’s what I found when I was trying to do this:
https://krita-artists.org/t/how-to-set-white-balance-according-to-a-specific-point/52297/

When I tried to use Krita a few months ago I couldn’t set the white point in the levels tool. I looked it up and the tool apparently doesn’t exist. That makes it awful for processing scanned artwork in my workflow.

Soooo, The GIMP.

Wow, that may be the most apt description I’ve heard for Joomla in a while. Well, my memory of what Joomla was like nearly twenty years ago.

Same. I want to play it but until it’s available in some sort of convenient package at a price point I can justify, I’ll play something else.

The lack of UHD drive is pretty funny.

Ooh, hardware encoding? Now we’re talking!

You’d hate my IDE at work. It’s bright pink.

That’ll certainly make it easier to pay the CEO.

The approach they took with the framing device really confused me. I very much enjoyed the Desmond arc, until it ended abruptly, never delivering on what it promised.

The following games seemed to be a scattered mess that I found difficult to follow.

I very much enjoyed being able to exit the Animus at any time, have a wander around, talk to friendly characters, and take a breather. I found the Animus concept worked well for me as a way to suspend disbelief. Why can’t I go over there? Because the person I’m playing as never did! Oh, I died? Well that didn’t happen, so let’s rewind that and get back into synch.

There’s some good stuff there, but it’s such a fragmented mess that it feels hard to retain and contextualise.

Why can’t we have some present day sections that advance the overall plot? Feel free to write the protagonists being defeated, or having to flee, or whatever if it’s needed to keep the saga going. Let them win sometimes and lose others.

In general the framing device makes me like the series a lot more than I otherwise might. It allows for all sorts of fun things (such as the reason for things like the cyclops to exist).

Luckily the feck attribute is too obscure to be in the line of fire.

Windows ARM devices, eh? I guess it’s time for another round of “how long until Microsoft give up on anything that’s not x86?”

It’s a working title, despite having run for nearly thirty years.

Whenever I see an Isuzu flatbed I smile inwardly. They’re practical, have lots of capacity, and don’t dominate the road for no discernible reason. I like practical solutions to real problems. I do not like ridiculous solutions to fabricated problems (you’re never taking that SUV up a mountain, be honest with yourself).

I was simply quoting The Simpsons - the KBBL radio DJs face being fired and replaced by the “DJ 3000”. The generic comment about congress is one of the things it spouts - and as you can see, it worked!

Looks like those clowns in congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.

Unless they’re suddenly shoving a UHD drive in there, I’m not interested.

It seems a weird oversight - gamers that care about 4K surely also care about films in 4K? The notion of it being an external add-on is laughable.

Then again, this whole thing is a solution looking for a problem.