Tarquinn2049

It’s not indefinite, we just don’t know when it’s gonna end…

Man, I know they are idiots, but that’s just silly.

He isn’t technically able to do most of the stuff he does do. He just does it, and then time passes and then it gets declared retroactively illegal… but it still happened. He’ll probably get punished at some point… right?

Nah, the reason they cited was that he violated ToS for fan created content. Which he did, if his mod counts as fan content. And there is an argument that could be presented that it does. But more importantly, as per patreons policy, as soon as it was reported for dmca take down, it was taken down, and now he has to apply for it being reinstated. And to do so, he basically needs to comply or go to court. Complying is easier. Although since then a second company has done the same, and since Patreons policy is any project being dmca struck multiple times, even if the strikes would ultimately prove fruitless, means the project will be permanently removed from patreon.

So he has taken it down and given everyone a free month for now while he determines what can be done.

I feel like if he had a front-end executable, he would then fall under the same category VorpX does, it’s allowed to cost money despite largely being the same thing.

Generically, as a framework for 35 games.

Similar to something like VorpX, except it doesn’t have a unified front end, so it can’t be called a program, it has to be called a mod package or mod suite. So it falls under different rules for an arbitrary reason.

Confirmed, you have no idea what luke ross does. You read one uninformed headline, and then read another uninformed headline.

Sorry, meant no modding tools from any one specific game involved in the luke ross mod, he supports 35 games with it.

Then the mod suite would only be allowed to support 1 game. Not much of a suite.

They could have chosen to give him permission to continue, in their own words, they didn’t choose that.

There are no modding tools. This is done entirely outside the game. But it does still qualify as a breech of ToS. There are alot of options for how to handle it, this is the option they chose.

It is indeed against their ToS, they do have this option. They also cite themselves that all he would need is their permission, but they didn’t go that route.

Other than the option they said they had, which was to give him their permission… they could have chosen that.

They didn’t, and he respected that choice. He is in the process of the week or so of hard work it’s going to take to remove the game. The mod suite is shut down in the interim while he complies.

When you say he “did the same thing” with rockstar. What do you think he did?

The mod is for 35 games, yes one other company decided to remove their game from the mod, and luke ross immediately did so… it took about a week of work to remove it while he locked down access to the mod suite at his own expense, sure he grumbled that it was a dumb move from rockstar but we all hoped maybe it meant rockstar was considering their own VR port so it made sense. But they didn’t.

Is that what a jerk does?

I think you have no idea what luke ross does.

I think there is nuance, the mod in question is a suite of about 35 mods that is constantly maintained/repaired as games patch and break parts of it, and is so insanely complex and impressive that it is a 100 hour a week job for the guy. That’s not something that can be done for free or for donations, It’s well beyond “a mod”. And each of those ~35 mods is like 10-20 mods in one, the list of features added to each game beyond “just” VR support is lengthy.

And it’s such an impressive thing to use, and is only done for games that have no plans to be made for VR. So it only adds sales to the games themselves. Maybe not alot, but it certainly doesn’t take anything away. Not only does he make the games VR capable, he makes sure they play the absolute best possible in VR, not only performance-wise but play-wise as well.

While they are in the right to ask that their game not be part of it, they lose out by doing so.

Without being able to charge a fixed price, a mod of this insane level of quality, quantity, and detail just wouldn’t exist instead.

People that think he is grifting or ripping people off have not actually tried the mods. It is insanely cheap for what you get. For 10 dollars you get ~35 games not just in VR, but in better VR than any company has done with their actual VR ports, and not by a small margin, not to mention they will keep working, because he doesn’t just put in all the effort to make a perfect VR game out of them once, he goes back and fixes anything that needs fixing for every single game too. Even if you don’t want to try it yourself because 10 dollars feels like too much to charge for an amazing VR version of 35 games, at least watch videos of how much people enjoy and respect his work before assuming he is some kind of jerk.

Only 2 of the 35 games have decided to pursue dmca against it in it’s entire history, it is a choice, they don’t -have- to, they choose to. ToS can always be amended if a use is deemed exceptional and worth supporting. The law, just like everything else, is not actually black and white, there is always nuance and possibility.

For both games that asked, he immediately acquiesced and spent the week or so of work it took/takes to strip out all support for that game. It’s the only option he has, this is his full time job. A fuller-time job than most people do/have.

CDprojekt Red even said all he needed was their permission, they could have gone that route.

The apology is literally “sorry we didn’t fire him properly”, there is nothing about firing him being the wrong course of action. Every word of the apology is carefully crafted to avoid implying that firing him was the wrong move, just that they didn’t fire him correctly.

It’s really kind of them to protect all the democrats they say are the only ones implicated in those files. They’ve gone to so much effort to protect people that no one wants them to protect. Other democrats don’t want them protected, and republicans don’t generally want anyone protected other than themselves, like each individual republican. So it’s quite the uncommon situation to have so many republicans choose to protect people that are not only meaningless to them, but people you would think they would see as their enemies as well as criminals.

So yeah, anyway… it can be pretty tough to keep 100 lies straight, unless the person you are lying to is also invested in those lies being the truth.

I declare “bankruptcy”!

I don’t see anything to suggest AI was used in the making of the game, but I also don’t see anything that suggests it was going to be a good game. So it may not have taken much pressure to get them to fold.

I don’t know if the plastic in his face is causing problems with his brain, or if the problems with his brain caused him to put plastic in his face. But either way, he looks super weird shaped now. And the brain problems speak for themselves.

Would he do it if it was an initiation ritual/insurance policy to join a secret club that wants to stay secret?

Would he potentially do it if it was a requirement of joining the little girls sex club? Initiation rituals like that not only make it “safe” against people that would try to spill the secret, but photos of it act as insurance to further guarantee it stays secret. And since Epstein was a spy for various countries, it doubled as a way to control a bunch of powerful people.

Giving random people the death penalty, for maybe or maybe not committing a crime that even if it turns out they were, doesn’t even qualify for the death penalty in either the country they are from or the country that is killing them… is so far beyond crazy… it shouldn’t have been able to happen once, let alone keep happening.

And if that wasn’t crazy enough, people that survive the strikes, can’t be legally brought in because the burden of proof isn’t met to even question them… but killing them is happening?