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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • More about twitch tbh.

    Twitch auto-configure tool for GPU settings (I think that’s what it’s saying).

    Multiple bitrates can be encoded and ingested by twitch (only real benefit here is that it isn’t being decoded, scaled and recoded on twitches servers. Slight quality boost, big savings for twitch tho).

    And twitch swapping to HEVC codec. So lower bandwidth requirements, better picture quality, potential for utilising spare bandwidth for higher frame rates and resolutions.

    And some bits at the end about AI processing for audio


  • Worth reading the article, but for the TL:drs and comment readers:

    • A patent attorney has narrowed down the list of potential candidates that could be central to Nintendo’s lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair to 28 patents.
    • Out of those, one particular intellectual property describing creature-capture mechanics was labeled as a “killer patent” that would be difficult not to infringe when making a game with monster-taming elements.
    • The said property is part of a recently approved patent family consisting of three more patents, all of which were approved mere weeks before Nintendo and The Pokemon Company sued Pocketpair.






  • That’s like any FPS game ripping off any other FPS game.
    Fight, capture, tame, train, breed animals.
    Base building, research tree, enemy raids.
    Exploration, resource gathering, survival.

    I don’t think Nintendo has a monopoly on enslaving animals.

    I know what you mean, tho. It’s always described as “Pokémon with guns and 3xE gameplay”.
    But does Nintendo actually have a case that will hold up in courts?
    Pocketpair seems confident they can defend against it. So either they have done their research and are up for a fight. Or they (think they) are calling Nintendo’s bluff.
    But Nintendo has a whole pack of lawyers.

    Unfortunately there are no details on what the patents being infringemed upon are, just that they relate to “Pocket Monster”.





  • It’s probably the whole “yeh, still capitalism. Still big oil. Still big pharma. Still genocide and world-police”.
    And you show that Dems are better on all those things. But because Dems don’t fully SOLVE 4/4 of them, it doesn’t matter who you vote for because you still get fucked.

    It’s bullshit.
    Dems have more social benefit policies and track record of social improvements than reps.
    ACA, vet funding/care, insulin etc pricing, student loans. Hopefully things like unions, but idk if I have been caught up in propaganda that Dems don’t care about unions.