https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoa6UZ6iM9Q Ive made it to the final like 250 players, we're in the endgame of the tera battle royale to see who keeps playing Kappa
games
Monday, February 1, 2021
I just want to play my 8,000 year old Elin mage in peace
Rob made that same argument back in the day
and I had no idea if it was legitimate or not
smaller hitboxes in Tera PvP, coupled with better animations
I mean none of us did
I don't think games can fundamentally last forever
Tera could have been much bigger for sure, especially in the beginning
also true
MMOs are kind of dead rn
it's hard to even find an upcoming MMO with any promise
I'd be interested in trying a new MMO, but there really hasn't been anything new that's worth playing in years
Most seem to just die in beta
Elder Scrolls Online was the last high profile MMO launch that had any legs out of the gate
I'm not counting any of the live service games as MMOs
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
We need to blow up IP law
Valve just got fined millions of dollars for putting a button on the back of their Steam controller
because apparently that was a patented idea
The Patent office in the US has stated they will approve patents for anything, and leave it up to the courts to decide if they're enforceable or not
Courts (mostly the fault of juries) see a legal patent document and just take it as law
it's a broken system
they don't know or care
also a lot of patents or ip lawsuits are purposefully super vague/ broadly defined
or at least the lawsuits I've heard of
if you're tapped to serve on a jury, no one tells you you're empowered to decide "that law is bullshit" and rule however you want
and the times where that does happen, the media will then call you idiots with no respect for the law or label you dangerous terrorists
so when you see a legal document, and both sides basically agree that they violated what the document says, you're railroaded into a "don't rock the boat" verdict
and yeah, patents get more and more vague over time
