My own decisions have certainly not always been the right ones. A bit of insight, even from strangers, can sometimes help.

P.S. I don’t do anal.

No deal.

Ask friends and family to look over your cv. There might be something off about it that you haven’t noticed.

Your degree isn’t my domain but it would help to know what jobs you are applying to. What’s your applying rate? I aim for 15 applications per day and usually get a job within a week or so. Not every sector has that many openings however.

I don’t think any other emulators or console mods do this either tho.

Extra named NPCs was what I was hoping for. I understand why they didn’t because it would of been a huge change and I’m sure some of the fan base would have been very vocal about it.

I would have loved if they shipped it with mod support and maybe a oblivion+ version with official mods built by their teams like added npcs and other extras.

Fuck pancakes (fluffy), marry French toast (eu citizenship), kill waffles.

I played oblivion when it first came out but I put a lot more hours in to skyrim. I do think they could have improved the game a bit more. I’ve only been in the capital yet but it felt brutally empty, with all the npcs having the same path/walking speed and so few of them.

I think a bit of decorations and a few new npcs would have gone a long way. I wished they would have worked on the AI a bit more. Taverns don’t have bards and little ambiance, walking into one is disappointing and ends up with all the npcs in a clump moving at a snails pace because all their walking paths overlap at the same time when they spawn it. It was the same in the original but it’s also 2025.

The waterfront could have really used a bit more shacks. The arena posters just slapped onto walls bother me as well.

Thankfully, I imagine mods will fix all this so I’m optimistic overall.

Sorry, I was talking about HiQ labs v. Linkedin. But there is Google v. Perfect 10 and Google v. Authors Guild that show how scrapping public data is perfectly fine and include the company in question.

An image generator is trained on a billion images and is able to spit out completely new images on whatever you ask it. Calling it anything but transformative is silly, especially when such things as collage are considered transformative.

Training on publicly available material is currently legal. It is how your search engine was built and it is considered fair use mostly due to its transformative nature. Google went to court about it and won.

Creators who are justifiably furious over the way their bosses want to use AI are allowing themselves to be tricked by this argument. They’ve been duped into taking up arms against scraping and training, rather than unfair labor practices.

That’s a great article. Isn’t this kind of exactly what is going on here? Wouldn’t bolstering copyright laws make training unaffordable for everyone except a handful of companies. Then these companies, because of their monopoly, could easily make the highest level models only affordable by the owner class.

People are mad at AI because it will be used to exploit them instead of the ones who exploit them every chance they get. Even worse, the legislation they shout for will make that exploitation even easier.

Whatever it is, it isn’t theft

Yup. Audio books aren’t very big once converted to a reasonable format and with the amount of space these days, I can comfortably keep a dozen on me at all times.

I think lemmy is a lot less averse to users posting their own content as long as there is a proper summary, it isn’t a youtube video and you disclaim it. I would also avoid cross posting.

Maybe you can message the mods of a few communities ahead of starting to post just to be safe.

A community is also a good option. Pretty sure you can make it so only you can post on a community so it ends up filling in the same functionality.

I only know of fonttik and iris but neither of those are in the patent pledge. Those were actually open sourced, so Im guessing there isnt much need for it, but everything since has gone through lawyers from what I know.

I’ll admit though, I haven’t read through all their patents. I’ll be happy to be proved wrong.

Well, you are being quite belittling and passive agressive, I don’t think my brand comes into it.

In any case, what you describe as cool open source tools are literally just a paragraph and some screenshot for the most part and only really benefit their legal team. This isn’t anything praise worthy.

It seems we both have been factually wrong, except I’m the only one that has admitted to it and clarified my points to move the conversation. I also believe your overall message is wrong but on a deeper level.

Try pondering about what’s being talked about. You also don’t need to slip in a paragraph of your angst every comment.

You are misrepresented it, that’s all.

I’m just informing you of what it really is and how it isn’t as altruistic as it seems.

If you can’t respond without being rude, you can just choose not to interact.

You’re going to give me attitude?

They’ve already open sourced a bunch of their (actually cool) accessibility tools.

My whole comment was setting you straight that it was a patent, there is no code and it isn’t open source at all.

I’m getting mixed on the detail because I went through their patents quite a while ago, but it doesn’t change my points.

1. This isn’t open source.

2. Patents are gross and don’t belong in the industry.

3. They cannot be trusted because of the mountain of other patents not in the pledge (like the dialogue wheel which does exist, I just checked) and the mountain of other anti-consumer behavior that makes up their history. This is basically just posturing.

You ever ask yourself why you are trying so hard to defend them? Like ya, I assume they are the bad guys but a literal scratch on the surface shows that they still are in this case.

The caveat is literally that they patented ui color changes, as well as a bunch of other stuff without the pledge for those to boot.

You are asking me to trust them but that very behavior makes them untrustworthy. There is no need to wait and see what they do with it since since the base action is already bad.

They have a patent for a simple dialogue wheel which isn’t under any pledges. There is no defending them imo.

Ok, but it’s simply not open source and patents aren’t something that should be encouraged in the videogame industry. Patents are expensive (too expensive for the indie scene) and usually used to bully smaller players.

Not to mention they patented things that were already common. If they were altruistic, they would have just actually open sourced it and called it a day. They also have other patents of common things that they didn’t add to the pledge, this “altruisme” is mostly just there to add weight to patents in the industry when it thoroughly didn’t exist before EA and Warner Bros smelled blood in the water.

The wording from what I understand also means they can hit back for any kind of patent related litigation, not just for this one specifically. It’s a threat. “Don’t fuck with us and you can keep using this thing we made”, but the thing they “made” has already existed for a decade or two and they certainly weren’t the first. It’s just bad vibes behavior imo.

“You can use it as long as you don’t sue us” isn’t very open source. Although I was exaggerating when I said they can refuse access for anyone they don’t like.

The things they patented are also seriously simple. One of them is for changing UI color, they should have never been given them in the first place.

It’s better to assume the worst when dealing with EA.