I often see them in offices. People who are working 8 hours in an environment where thy don’t control the AC will often want proof that it is or is not working effectively. As there are potentially multiple vents along a duct these ribbons are a handy way to see how much the duct pressure varies across the room.

For a company that is iterating on its products this is probably fine from a mechanical sense but would be a nightmare for their IPs.

Consider the early Super Mario series:

• 1985 - Super Mario Bros
• 1986 - Super Mario Bros: The lost levels
• 1988 - Super Mario Bros 2
• 1988 - Super Mario Bros 3
• 1990 - Super Mario World
• 1996 - Super Mario 64

If in 1990/people could legally make their own “lost levels”-esque remixes with the SMB1 engine that would be paltry competition with SMW.

Similarly if people started remixing SMW in 1995 it wouldn’t have stopped SM64 from defining the 3d platformer genre and presenting a very strong argument for the analog stick being required for any 3d console.

But if people could tell their own Mario stories, that might tarnish the brand. If that happened we might not still be getting Mario games today.

I’m not sure how you open source both engine and assets without losing control of the narrative.

True, “community” might not be the right term.

But nonetheless if the OG developer structures their license so that each version becomes open source after 5 years then people publishing that as is or creating forks will always be a few steps behind the official release.

Of course if the title has any kind of community support that crowd sourced effort has the potential to outshine the OG developer, its important they time their license to give themselves a head start.

I think Friday Night Funkin’ will turn into a cautionary tale here, by releasing their game with much hype and open sourcing their code the first 7 weeks in 2020-21 they allowed community to really flourish. The player community has created content and then content that builds on and responds to that content (both narratively and mechanically) for several cycles now. Much of this content is now viewed as core to the FnF experience by players but much of it is also now built around other people’s IP (video games, TV shows, music, etc)

At the same time The Funkin’ Crew has been quietly working on Friday Night Funkin’: The Full Ass Game but I suspect that as a commercial game bound by the resources of single dev team and the rule of law they will be hard pressed to compete with the community they spawned.

While this is a win for remix culture it might not turn out as being the most prudent business decision. On the other hand they pulled off a two million dollar kickstarter so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the other hand if the code from the 5 year old release was open source but the updates from today was still closed source for another 5 years that would encourage continual improvement addition content to differentiate from the community releases.

Thats what i get for using google translate.

Thanks for correcting!

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/a2a6bc534868773b9320ec3ca7399283cf7a375b

Anytime

Newspaper classifieds used to be full of arcane abbreviations.

Now we have the internet we can look up a cheatsheet, but no longer use newspaper classifieds.

For anyone else who is curious but doesn’t already know “por qué” = “because”.

As i understand it emulator software is largely viewed as legal are long as they don’t ship other people’s IP (decryption keys, bios, etc).

I don’t think dolphin is doing that so they should be in the clear.

Steam’s own numbers show that it had a peak of 36,905,706 players today. Both of those numbers beat the previous record of 36,354,393 concurrent players, which was set in mid-March of 2024.

36905706 ÷ 36354393 = 1.015

This is 1.5% more than the previous record set 3½ months ago. I suppose its nice that the numbers haven’t declined but I’m not sure I would call today’s figure remarkable in any way.

The devil is in the details, remasters are often “two steps forward one step back”.

We don’t know until its in our hands if they have messed up something critical.

From a game accessibility perspective the important release was in 2016 when it was posted to Windows / PS4 / Xbox One. Before that it was only on Xbox 360 which made it much harder to get hold of.

Its strange how flashbacks are often a little different from the original presentation

I have that one in the alarm library on my phone.

Its not good as a daily driver - if you use it every day you will end up with the song stuck in your head. But its great as a sometimes tone, I think I have it set for Wednesdays at the moment.

The PSU article cites this:

https://gamebiz.jp/news/388317

Which my browser translates to:

Sega’s fiscal year ending March 2024 results show a 6.6 billion yen deficit due to European restructuring, and operating profit also falls 87% to 2.3 billion yen. “Yakuza 8” sells a million copies in the first week after its release.

[Emphasis mine]

So it looks like there is an off by 1000 error somewhere.

But which regions code are you referring to?

Yep

So you can shit on me

No, I’m genuinely curious about the different clients we, the Lemmy community, have available. Knowing their strengths and weaknesses helps people make informed choices.

OP couldn’t post a picture as a picture format?

GIF is a picture format. It may contain multiple frames or it may not but it is a perfectly standard pallet based image format that has been around for 37 years (for comparison its older than zip or PDF). This is not the same as linking to a 1 second YouTube video.

My current client (Boost) is also treating it as unzoomable, but that is clearly a defect in my client. Even if it was an animation I would want to be able to zoom. Its something to raise with the developer.

In the meantime I just opened the link in my browser:

https://yall.theatl.social/pictrs/image/eb5063df-4151-47d4-aeda-ac16b2f34f62.gif

It’s basically a universal format.

True, it even has “interchange” in the name!

CompuServe encouraged the adoption of GIF by providing downloadable conversion utilities for many computers. By December 1987, for example, an Apple IIGS user could view pictures created on an Atari ST or Commodore 64.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF

Which Lemmy client?

It was a thing back in the day. Its just that the day was 30 odd years ago.