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Re: Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 'Second Wind' Expansion Mod Adds Age Of Calamity Boss And Mammoths

Coach_A

@nessisonett @Nayr :
"Private copying of copyrighted material is illegal in the United Kingdom.[1] According to a 2009 survey, 59% of British consumers believed ripping a CD to be legal, and 55% admitted to doing it.[2][3]"

"U.S. copyright law (Title 17 of the United States Code) generally says that making a copy of an original work, if conducted without the consent of the copyright owner, is infringement. The law makes no explicit grant or denial of a right to make a "personal use" copy of another's copyrighted content on one's own digital media and devices. For example, space shifting, by making a copy of a personally owned audio CD for transfer to an MP3 player for that person's personal use, is not explicitly allowed or forbidden."

The above can be found on Wikipedia under "Ripping". Gray in the US. Seemingly pretty clear cut in the UK where this site is based.

And regarding modding:
"This means that mods are “legal” only insofar as game developers suffer them to be so; the moment a developer finds a mod distasteful, it can be found to infringe copyright. Mods, no matter how well-respected or validated by developers, can also be found to infringe copyright through statute."

We know Nintendo don't allow use of their IP so it is copyright infringement.

Re: Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros. 3 Sells For $156,000

Coach_A

@johnvboy my last comment, but the "wider" view of capitalism is the effect it has on third world countries and the lives of those in countries that are unfortunately under communist regimes. Most of your stuff is likely made in China by people with very low qualities of life. Your chocolate is picked by African children. Your jewelry from mines in underdeveloped countries, mutilated for their resources. It's not hard to see the issues when you actually take a wider perspective.

@AndyC_MK84
Glad to see your quick Google search gave you a very basic concept without elaboration on mimetic desire's cause for violence whilst ignoring the factor of distance creating elevating tension and then not reading far enough to acknowledge the broad and deep association of people using scapegoats to quell mimetic chaos. You have a bit more reading to go

Re: Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros. 3 Sells For $156,000

Coach_A

@AndyC_MK84

I'd rather use what little influence my comments here have to at least lay groundwork for a casual open-minded reader to potentially expand their horizons.

Once your curiosity for new information dies, there's not much else you can possibly learn or evolve into as a person.

It's quite clear I'm not going to change your mind right now on anything and that you're spending a lot of time defending yourself under the guise that you're somehow defending the entire western civilisation, which is fine as long as you become aware of that.

I'd personally recommend doing a small bit of research into philosophy and mimetic desire though. You might find it interesting ✌️

Re: Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros. 3 Sells For $156,000

Coach_A

@johnvboy "trickle-down economics" is a fallacy and everything else you've just mentioned is basically a justification to ensure the inequality a capitalist society is built upon remains in place.

You can read my comments above for more detailed insights on my thoughts and broader psychological and philosophical ideas that back these thoughts.

In fact, rather than read my comments you'd be better off just doing your own objective research through philosophy, psychology, spirituality or mindfulness and you'll come to the conclusion yourself that capitalist society is not how humans are meant to live or thrive. If you could find any philosophies from renowned thinkers that supports the ideas of great inequality and capitalism I'd actually be quite impressed and have to look into it myself.

Re: Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros. 3 Sells For $156,000

Coach_A

@AndyC_MK84
We're all on a different journey and at different stages. My journey is at the stage of limiting my new consumption of material possessions and sharing what I have consumed with those who may want to use them for their own enjoyment. Never do I spend retail prices on games, or anything else for that matter, and have built up something more akin to a "library" than what I would call a collection due to the fact that I know I can't play all the games I own and others are welcome to use them. The experiences the games provide are akin to music or movies or books in the same sense that they can provide something to temporarily distract us from other hardships, but outside of that I don't really have much else. Physical Blu rays no longer appeal to me much in the same way I have grown past collecting CDs. This ideology is easier to accept when you realise that all of it is essentially an indestructible plastic burden on our planet and will outlive me.

Re: Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros. 3 Sells For $156,000

Coach_A

@AndyC_MK84

I could debunk your thought process here again, but it seems you keep trying to take the route of defending yourself rather than objectively comprehending the arguments being presented.

In the scope of broad existence in the fabric of our reality, humans are almost all identical. It is merely our circumstances, the stories we tell ourselves and the blame we deflect to others for our own shortcomings and inability to be better which create our "differences" in a philosophical sense.

"Happiness" through material object collection is a consumeristic narrative based on mimetic desire to push forward an ultimately non-existent economy. The small amount of adrenaline or dopamine that you receive when obtaining a new object quickly diminishes and we believe to recapture that feeling, we must repeat the process in the hopes that next time the feeling will last longer. Being aware of this psychological fact can help bring you out of the facade.

Re: Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros. 3 Sells For $156,000

Coach_A

@AndyC_MK84 the problem with all of your points is that they're coming from your immediate perspective.

Not that it matters, but "most" of us humans don't actually live in this life of perpetual bliss that you're implying by the analogy of things making you happy. Modern Western capitalism is the main reason for sweat shops in under-developed or developing countries, for the existence of Blood diamonds, for the over-pollution of our air, pollution of our oceans with plastic, the deforestation of our natural land for cattle farming and palm oil plantations and for child labour (read: slavery) in industries seemingly as innocuous as cocoa bean farming.

On a planet of finite resources and finite currency, for one to succeed they effectively take away from their "family" in the way of other humans and our closely-biologically related animals in the way of their habitat through the aforementioned reasons.

I don't feel the need to publically parade my income or lack-there-of as it's a meaningless measure of wealth that our lovely "society" has based all sense of worth upon as a human. If the only reason you used that point was to belittle me and, therefore, my argument I believe that that speaks louder than any criticism towards wealth and power imbalances alongside the well-known mental health issues that these issues (taking more than one needs, hoarding) have long been associated with.

If you truly are seeking and obsessed with the idea of finding true happiness, you're more likely to discover it by helping your fellow humans, disregarding all your unused and unnecessary material objects, meditating and bringing yourself into the present moment where you may find that life is more than acquiring currency from people who will always be financially better off than you, not through their own hard work, but because of yours.

Re: Sealed Copy Of Super Mario Bros. 3 Sells For $156,000

Coach_A

@AndyC_MK84 "you can't drive five cars at once even if they all be Cadillacs" - Alan Watts

The constant need to purchase things in an attempt to feel "happy", as you've insinuated, has been debunked many times through psychological studies on the effects of desire.

Money and things don't make you happy beyond the difference between having next-to-nothing and having enough to live comfortably without the fear of death or illness due to a lack of it. There are people who genuinely live with that fear on a daily basis. Not knowing when their next meal will be, yet we accept spending $156k on a bit of plastic in a box that will never be used for its intended purpose is a totally fine and normal thing for someone to do?

Re: Abzu Is Just $1.99 On The Switch eShop, That's 90% Off

Coach_A

If you're at all into Marine life, I highly recommend this.

The attention to detail put into the animals' movements and behaviours is more than you'd expect from a title such as this. The Orcas and whales featured in this game really make me feel things.

Playing through the title as I'm typing this

Re: Spiritual Successor To "Underrated And Misunderstood" Zelda II Could Be Switch-Bound

Coach_A

I feel like this would have benefited from being released about 25 years ago.

The more successful modern "retro" games feel and look a ton smoother than the games that inspired them. The obvious examples being the likes of Shovel Knight and Celeste. Gameplay evolves and what I'm seeing from the video is a game with more modern visuals and outdated repetitive gameplay tropes from that NES era.

Re: Random: This Unofficial Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Mod Makes It Pad-Smashingly Hard

Coach_A

Why are there articles about unofficial (illegal) mods for a game that came out 3 years ago, yet no coverage at all on the Risk of Rain 2 update?

And I ask that because I believe Damien actually reads the comments and may provide a response of some sort.

You could say the lack of RoR2 interest determines its lack of clicks and yadda yadda yadda, but then you have the EA "catch 22". More exposure for RoR2 on a site like this may increase its interest and, therefore, clicks.

A 1.0 update on, I believe, the only "Early access" game to ever land on a Nintendo system seems pretty damn newsworthy

Re: THO Simulator Is Your Chance To "Examine Damage" And, Erm, "Ensure Safe Roads" On Switch

Coach_A

@Eel the game sold over 1 million copies on Steam alone after its first month on sale in Early Access.

That was prior to the game's launch on consoles in Early Access and obviously the 1.0 patch on PC a few months ago and now on consoles as of this week.

Not to mention the game was featured in a Nintendo Direct which was my first exposure to it over a year ago before picking up the physical which included the prequel which has also been available on Switch for quite some time now.

You not being aware of its existence means nothing when talking about its broader appeal

Re: THO Simulator Is Your Chance To "Examine Damage" And, Erm, "Ensure Safe Roads" On Switch

Coach_A

@Eel This website has numerous posts that are "sourced" from Twitter or Reddit. Many more based entirely on rumours that never come to fruition.

Hopoo games has made it very clear for a long time that the 1.0 release of Risk of Rain 2 would be coming to consoles this week. Since the last time this site reported on the game, it has received at least 2-3 major updates to performance and visuals that far exceed any other Switch game performance updates I've ever been aware of and multiple other news outlets have reported on them.

Not being sent material isn't really a valid reason

Re: THO Simulator Is Your Chance To "Examine Damage" And, Erm, "Ensure Safe Roads" On Switch

Coach_A

@Eel that's nice and edgy of you and all, but it's still news and you're associating frequent comments that you've chosen to let annoy you with a game experience that is of incredibly high quality.

Associating the two only means you've allowed my comments to negatively affect your perception of a quality game you've not played due to your bias towards this website due to your position and, therefore, identity as a Moderator.

Re: THO Simulator Is Your Chance To "Examine Damage" And, Erm, "Ensure Safe Roads" On Switch

Coach_A

@Chlocean I appreciate the straight forward and helpful idea in your response.

I may do that, but it would also be a little bit disappointing if they let something like "he's asking for it so now we won't do it" be the reason not to report on a genuinely big Switch milestone.

I still believe it's the first Early access title to release on a Nintendo console and get patched to completion.

Re: The Outer Worlds On Switch Has Been Updated To Version 1.2

Coach_A

@TheAwesomeBowser all your comment has done is confirm you haven't played the game.

Risk of Rain 2 is a phenomenal experience made by a team of 3 people that has earned its spot as one of the most enjoyable and anticipated games of 2020.

The Polish and surprising lack of any major bugs or glitches is testament to its care in design.

Also if you're attacking grammar to deflect the attention away from your lack of an argument, that's quite sad.

Re: THO Simulator Is Your Chance To "Examine Damage" And, Erm, "Ensure Safe Roads" On Switch

Coach_A

So I'm going to assume there's one of 2 things happening

1. The Nintendo Life staff deem Risk of Rain 2 too unimportant to report on at all

2. They are literally unaware that the game they reviewed and forgot about in its Early access stage exists still and is now complete

There is no other explanation that can possibly exist that gives reasoning as to why "THO Simulator" gets preferential posting - assumedly because it would get more interactions due to morbid curiosity.

Re: The Outer Worlds On Switch Updated To Version 1.2, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

Coach_A

@HeyItsFlapjack

I do not. But just thought I'd point out the inconsistencies with the reporting here.

Disappointing they go where "the clicks" are even if it means going with cat related Twitter or Reddit posts rather than one of the console's best games receiving its 1.0 update. A pretty big moment. How many other early access titles have ever launched on a Nintendo system and had their development completed?