Considering other patent laws in Japan, I definitely agree with you.

Especially when companies like Nintendo are somehow able to patent video game mechanics for something as ridiculous as riding on a flying creature.

To anyone who is reading this comment without reading through the article. This ruling doesn’t mean that it’s okay to pirate for building a model. Anthropic will still need to go through trial for that:

But he rejected Anthropic’s request to dismiss the case, ruling the firm would have to stand trial over its use of pirated copies to build its library of material.

From the Grayjay FAQ:

Does Grayjay require a subscription?

No, We offer a way to pay for the app once. The app will function identically without paying.

Yeah that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

Out of the 133 countries where Helldivers 2 was previously locked out of, now there are only 7:

1. Belarus
2. Cuba
3. Iran
4. North Korea
5. Russian Federation
6. Syria
7. Viet Nam

https://steamdb.info/sub/906471/

Update: now there are 8… Japan was added to the list: https://steamdb.info/sub/137730/info/

However it looks like Japan has its own individual game package so players aren’t actually locked out over there.

Edit: formatting

Announcement from the Institute for Justice, which took up this case:
https://ij.org/press-release/u-s-supreme-court-sides-with-atlanta-family-in-wrong-house-raid-case/

A deeper dive on the case here:
https://ij.org/case/martin-v-united-states/

Body camera footage is also included lower on the page under the “Video” section.

Definitely a great nonprofit firm that does a lot of good work bringing cases before the Supreme Court. Especially for those that can’t afford to do so.

Did I miss an announcement somewhere? Are they actually getting rid of NAV mode?

Last I heard they were making a few changes to it, but not in the way of removing it.

Yeah, they showed off a video in the past where they want us to be able to attach vehicles and pretty much any item to ship cargo grids as well. It’s only partially implemented for now.

But even when they get that fully working, it looks like you would only be able to fit some hoverbikes on this ship.

I would assume that looted ship weapons should attach as long as they’re small enough. That does seem to work for most weapons on most cargo ship grids right now.

Has it been? I just got the email from Steam a few hours ago that it’s Live now. They must be really late to notify everyone in that case.

Looking through the community it looks like they had originally planned to release the demo today, but ended up releasing it early on June 5th, and the game will only be available to play until the 16th.

Edit: typo

That’s the one, looks like they switched names about a year ago?

GrayJay if you’re on Android. Go to download, then select None for Video, and choose the audio quality at the bottom that you want.

There’s a desktop application for GrayJay as well that should also support downloading it.

I really hope that this lawsuit helps to invalidate any sort of terms of service which uses this language and forces you to agree to their terms simply by loading up their site for the first time.

Here’s an open letter to the Organic Maps Shareholders with the most info:
https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-04-16/1/

Which is referenced in the article here:
https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

And discussed on the OpenSource community here:
https://lemmy.world/post/30461779

Basically some drama went down between the devs.

• Organic Maps has remained an LLC instead of transitioning to a Nonprofit.
  • The projects finances have not been made public (they’re not required as an LLC) and there are concerns about how that money is being used.
• There was a decision made to include Kayak affiliate links in the app: https://web.archive.org/web/20250602163403/https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/6523
• The current board only consists of 3 people: Roman (@rtsisyk), Viktor (@vng), and Alexander (@biodranik). Major decisions can’t be made if only 1 person objects.
• The code for their map download service was closed sourced when an MIT license was removed and there were concerns about Organic Maps keeping in line with its open source values: https://web.archive.org/web/20250523094656/https://github.com/orgs/organicmaps/discussions/9837#discussioncomment-11569196
  • When these concerns were raised, Alexander (@biodranik) revoked Roman’s (@rtsisyk) access https://web.archive.org/web/20250427142515/https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/pull/9860
  • The situation was resolved about a week later with the code for the map download service becoming public and With Roman’s access being restored.

Edit: ‘to’ the shareholders, not from

I definitely played into this metric. I hadn’t played for a while, but when I heard Super Earth was under attack, I knew that I had to protect managed democracy.

You could use Ruffle since its an emulator for Flash:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruffle_(software)

https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

Websites like HomestarRunner use this so you can still experience the site as it was intended.

I mean, it really depends on how you define scam. If you’re so loose with the definition that you would have considered No Man’s Sky a “scam” when it first released, then I can understand that.

Otherwise it’s not really a scam. There’s a free trial going on right now in Star Citizen.You’re free to check out the game for yourself. It’s in a really good state compared to what we’ve previously seen (not even close to bug free, but way more playable than before).

Sure, larger businesses have more developers to get more work done. But there comes a time when throwing new developers at a problem convolutes the process and actually slows things down more than it helps.

Something that seems simple to you like a flashlight attachment may not be so simple under the hood.

Solo indie devs have an advantage because they’re familiar with all of the code. They’re the ones that wrote it.

They don’t need to learn a new part of the code when making fixes or changes. They don’t need to explain to another dev that “you don’t change how this information is passed in here because you’ll need it to look just like that in some other section that you’ll never touch”.

Additionally any decisions/changes/etc. are all decided by one person, no need for meetings to get everyone on board and explain exactly what you want to do. No need to try to get everyone to understand your vision for what you want to happen.

A famous comic might explain this process a little better:

To quote one of my favorite authors:

“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Maybe some people just don’t like grinding for hours and hours to replace stuff they already acquired in a video game.

Personally, I would rather that we have a variety of different game types and options. There aren’t very many MMOs that make death feel meaningful. If it’s not your type of game, then don’t play it.