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  • It’s *less about shitty trademark or copyright laws, and more about Nintendo.

    First off, in all of your posts, you really don’t seem to realize that trademark has nothing to do with fan fiction or recreations. Not a single project that anyone has referenced has attempted to mimic Nintendo’s name and brand to sell a product. Zelda is trademarked, yes, so people can’t sell video games with “The Legend of Zelda” name- which has no bearing on this article or the work cited.

    Second, the statute of limitations doesn’t go back three years to some arbitrary date, it goes back to when the alleged crime or infringement occurs. So if someone begins selling a TLoZ knockoff game, they have no grounds in court to say something dopey, like “well actually I started thinking about selling Zelda knockoff games five years ago, so even though I just started last month it is out of the statute of limitations”.

    Third, from your list of shitty companies making it the norm, try Valve, who actively gives permission for people to mod and remake their games, and even allow the selling of remakes on their own platform. Or try Capcom, a Japanese company who has never attacked a fan game and still has full control over its IPs. But I digress, not being the norm has nothing to do with this.

    If the laws surrounding copyright were suddenly and drastically changed today, Nintendo wouldn’t change their stance or their scare tactics. They don’t have to do it, they aren’t losing out on sales from it- and if modders had the ability to stand up for themselves in court, I don’t believe Nintendo would win even a notable amount of cases.











  • Ender of Games@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlLinux gaming is fun
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    1: play CS:S or 1.6, they’ll run better than CSGO on hardware that ancient anyways.

    2: You can play CSGO, in the beta options, and find a Gun Game server online (browser is broken from this update, so you’ll have to search online to get address). “Arms Race” was valve’s new name for gungame for some reason.

    2.5: combine 1 and 2. It’ll be easier finding servers in CS:S right now, anyways.

    2.75?: The compatibility of making CSGO available for a wide range of devices kept it from progressing, the Source 2 change is for people who have a desktop from maybe ten years ago. My low end surface from nine years ago gets similar frames as your Thinkpad, and I don’t try to play games with it much anymore… but if you want to play new games, especially on the go, you gotta be expected to upgrade at some point.