In theory this is more like patenting a specific dolly track path. The worry is a small dev is probably not able to pay to fight a bad lawsuit if their non infringing system looks kinda sorta like the nemesis system.
Humans invented nothing they just took it from environment and pretend they made it. With cartoon network owners your fiat dollar is worth ten cent. GAME is made for auto-aimers with 30 PREMIUM FPS doing macro-transactions for cut content giving out their personal data and that data is being exploited by publishers to inflate their scam and keep people in the loop. Welcome to the brave naive world. Developers of said naive world can't face the facts so they suppress, censor people. Outsource their dirty work to influencers which get high when they receive free merch. Free merch > free speech. Is your mind blown how people fall for same thing every time? It shouldn't be. Because divided, singled out individuals has no chance against organized criminal entity; corporation. Corporation is an approved scam & spy business. Their approval was obtained through manufactured consent. Corporation is not the industry of manufacturing products. Corporation is in the industry of manufacturing consent. As well Corporations [through governments] are harvesting our biometric data on global scale. So they can get to know us far better than we know ourselves, and they not just predict our feelings but also manipulate our feelings and sell us anything they want- Be it a product as a service or politician. Hardcore corporate defenders please check out "The Corporation", "Surveillance Capitalism", "The century of the self", "Stockholm syndrome", "Milgram Experiment" and "The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know")
Google: "ISPs won't do something like add restrictive data caps to users." Comcast: "Beginning 1/1/21, we're going to add restrictive data caps to all customers."
@@MarquisLeary34 No, that would wound trump voters feelings. Biden wouldn't do that. Also the corporate democrats are sponsored by the ISPs, like the Repubs. Legalized bribery is the US way.
@@Cudgeon We honestly just have to hope that certain businesses like netflix and the like lobby for more than the ISPs. This isn't that probable unless they all get together to do it because ISPs rich af.
@@nfzeta128 be honest here how much did you puke after writing this comment? Had to be at least a little. Our only hope to stop company fuckery is to hope for a different company to try different fuckery. God damn that’s sad, and it’s sad because I agree to a certain extent.
What sucks is that there aren't human beings behind warner bros that will decide to reverse the patent. Fine bros only tried it for a week or 2. WB has been trying for 5 years.
No, they tried to _trademark_ the word as a brand for the streaming video market, they did not try to patent the concept, that was a wild misconception everyone seemed to have for some idiotic reason. It was still stupid though (See also: King, who owns Candy Crush, tried to trademark the word "candy" as a brand for the video game market)
Is this a joke? I seriously ask that because they literally attempted to do that in the early 90s and even went to court over it. Well, specifically they tried to patent the concept of using combos in a fighting game. Imagine if they had won. Fighting games wouldn’t have had combos unless they were Capcom or they paid out the nose for it.
"Some Ghost of Tsushima loading screens were extended so players could actually read tips" Really ? I guess the "pressing a button to close loading screens when player is ready" feature is patented by someone.
This is like Nintendo patenting the mechanic when Mario/whoever jumps on an enemy, he hops off and doesn't take damage. A mechanic in many, many platformers. Patenting "game mechanics" stifles creativity and limits the types of games people can make jfc
As BK said, the company is censoring asses to begin with because people cared more about wanting to cover butts up, rather than abuse allegations, because that is what is considered to be the worry. This is all due to Leftist puritans that need to inject their morality into things. The truth is that as long as you like the product, you don't care about how you get it. Masks are a good example of this. After all the crap we got from China taking all the face masks, and the talk of growing our own supply. I very much care about not buying masks from the countries that screwed us over when the pandemic started. I literally cannot buy a Canadian face mask. so I got a hand made mask instead from my aunt. Somehow, despite all the government talk about making our own masks, the only reason we got any was because China felt it had enough. EDIT: Since I am asked. -Left leaning, liberal puritans are a typically twitter mobs and game journalists. They say that sexy shots of women is exploitation. Don't get me wrong though. I hate the right wing puritans as well. -Right leaning, conservative puritans are the religious, that say lusting after women is a sin. They currently don't have the power to censor like they used to though.
I hope a bunch of indie developers just start publishing really terribly made knockoffs of Shadow of War/Mordor but change one teeny, tiny thing (different for each knockoff) and name them all really offensive titles (offensive to WB, not offensive to the general public) to see how much damage they can do to the brand.
I remember a few years ago when Bethesda Trademarked Fallout . If I had any amount of game making ability, I would have anonymously flooded the market with games where the point is to fall out a window...
Agreed it would only limit the ability of developers in the end. Even companies like CC2 mention looking at the improvements of the industry as a whole to create more unique experiences for the future. BTW ------ DATA DRAIN!!!!!
@@antonyduhamel1166 Genious. I always thought about making something similar in my mind - a game (which’ll be “18+”, NOT “E” or “3+”), which consists of paying lootboxes or whatever to progress the game until the end. Inspired by the EAs masterworks of “Fifa” and whatever the specific name was for that Star Wars online game. But, for every player, I’ll send back the amount of money they spent on this game. Because I’d rather be a much nicer person than the EA. Edit: I hope that everyone who reads this takes it more like a nice concept for a game, and not as an actual game that I wanted to make some day. Sure, I always wanted to make a game of my dreams, some day, but... this isn’t the one.
to my very limited knowledge you can ask the patent office to reevaluate the patent and, if they don't revoke it, you can take it to court. if you use example of past art that is similar (like, say, any other game with enemies that evolve over interactions with players) then you could get it revoked that way, assuming you have the cash to win (start a go-fund-me, well off developer hopeful reading this, i'll donate and i'm sure lots of others will to bring wb down a peg and to protect art). you could also develop in a country that isn't a corrupt corporatocracy, i guess
You know what? I like where this is going. If we can get AAA to patent all the shittiest monetization maybe we can finally see an industry that's (mostly) free of that shit. LET'S GET ON THIS, PEOPLE.
Nothing has been more scary in my life than when, during that Irish salad sequence, my iPad crashed and shut UA-cam down. I think it was trying to protect me.
Warner Bros: We now Own a thing we didn't create, and now people have to pay us to use it. Gamers: Hooooray! Smart Gamers:.....the fuck is wrong with these people?
I can only speculate but I imagine these gamers (the stupid ones) are applauding WB because now they don't have to play any 'weak pretenders' to the Nemesis throne. No one is going to make a game with anything even remotely approaching the Nemesis system (apart from the ones that already exist.) And these fanboys are wallowing in elitist snob-ism. "That's right! You don't like our game? You don't get to play anything else! You want a Nemesis system to munch on? It's our way or the highway bitch!" And it's entirely pointless to try and point this out to them but: what harm does a 'knockoff' or 'pretender' to the Nemesis throne do to you and yours? You are not required or obliged to play every game that deigns to have a Nemesis system in it. But maybe others don't want to play a Nemesis system with Orcs in Mordor. Maybe they want to play it with pirates in space. Or ninjas under the sea. Or emotions inside your psyche. Do you really think WB is going to make all those variants when the Shadow games are doing as well as they are? Of course not. There's no incentive for them. But others might have done it. They might have done it up until the point that WB made it effectively illegal for them to do it unless they want to pay a MULTI BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY for the privilege. Patenting a game mechanic is a direct refusal of the saying: "There is no perfect pasta sauce. There are only perfect pasta sauces." Variety and freedom are the catalysts of innovation. Today, those gamers celebrate stagnation and corruption. And that's sad.
@@antonyduhamel1166 "Today, those gamers celebrate stagnation and corruption. And that's sad. " Yea but theyve been wanting that for years now. Coughgamergatecough Whining about newer games etc.
I watched an OxBox article with a list of this kind of bullshit. This one was on it but most of, if not all of it, made me angry realizing this is why we can't have nice things. Nintendo had a patent on the D-Pad for crying out loud. Though the creative ways everyone got around that one made the whole thing ridiculously pointless.
Patenting game mechanics is like if someone wrote a book and then tried to patent the "trusted mentor turns out to have been the evil bad guy all along" plot twist trope.
@@belyayevsfox4753 Yeah, but sometimes your look just requires hair down, or my hair frees itself from the hair tie, or my hair is already tied but some is left put for style, or you just don't have an extra hair tie on you. Either way, if the hair wants to get in the mouth, it will find a way. XD
I grew my hair out starting like two years ago and it’s VERY annoying having to make the decision between tying up my beautiful hair and keeping it down but accidentally just fuckin eating it when it gets in the way
I don't understand Metal Gear or Kingdom Hearts. I just play Rambo Snake Easter and put Goofy in compromising situations he'll have to explain in an interview some day.
I've spent half my life and a ridiculous amount of hours on obsessing over Kingdom Hearts and its plot, and while I believe to understand it by now completely, I'm not sure whether I should be proud or deeply ashamed. Probably both.
As someone who is questioning their gender identity, you using just your normal voice is very very reassuring to me. I can’t really get into my own thoughts on my gender identity on this platform but I am so happy for you being able to express your true self
@@necropolistc6357 That’s biological sex. Gender is a social construct. What boys or girls are “supposed” to dress like and act has changed all the time. If one feels like they prefer being socially seen as a girl, well, it’s not as if you ask everyone you meet to drop their pants to see if their genitals (which, hey, surgery exists if someone really wanted that) match their outwards appearance. Did ya know about 100 - 200 years ago boys were supposed to be dressed in red, and girls in blue?
imagine if Doom had patented their game. No 'doom clones'. No FPS genre. edit - while I understand it might not technically have been the first, it was the most popular and the most iconic, to the point that before we used the term "first person shooter" everyone called the genre "doom clones". if they had tried to patent that mechanic, considering how people talked about it, they might have been successful. regardless the point stands at how awful that would have been for gaming.
Singular they is literally older than singular you, since "you" used to be the plural version of "thou". People shit their pants when that bit of language shifted too, writing entire novels about why using "you" instead of "thou" for singular people would "destroy society" or whatever. Singular they was used in the bloody King James Bible and by Shakespeare. People aren't mad about singular they, they're mad that it's being used as a gender neutral pronoun actively by people.
You forget the non native speakers. I didn't learn anything about the singular they in my english class, partly because my native language has no equivalent and partly because the use outside of the internet is far more infrequent. I sincerly hope that this is the more common reason people use the wrong pronouns and not that they are being dicks.
Actually, the question was from me, and I asked because English is not my first language, so it really confuses me, anyway I learnt something new from you too, thanks :D
@@TheSwartzj It's a very good point, but also -- and you're a fine example -- non-native speakers don't get pissy when they come across an English formulation that they aren't familiar with cus that's kinda the whole game of learning a new language especially one as wacky as English. But there are absolutely a huge number of native speakers who aren't just confused but downright angry, furious even, saying it's just wrong and an abomination of language to use "they" as a singular pronoun. And aside from it clearly being they who are wrong, they aren't upset about it because it's an English formulation they aren't familiar with because that happens to native speakers all the time, too. They're upset because someone is asking them to learn a new thing as a form of basic decency and respect for someone that they. Do. Not. Respect.
Imagine if Rothko just straight up " hey you know using colors and abstract form to convey emotions? Yeah that's sorta my thing now" and everyone would have to pay the Rothko Foundation of Fuckery
And even if it hasn’t been, Languages are made up nonsense that are always evolving. Plenty of people use “they” as singular for different purposes, even if it isn’t official.
Yep. Similar to how our concept of "race" is actually a relatively recent concept. Funny how people living hundreds and even thousands of years ago just didn't give a shit about stuff people in the 21st century are getting killed over. Obviously I'm not saying they were nice. Humans have never been nice. They were just too busy hating each other for different things, and we're far too busy doing that to hate you for your gender, sexuality or skin colour.
Two points: 1. The judge that approved this patent must be one out of touch douche-queen. That patent needs to be obliterated. 2. Bayonetta has a mini game during loading. I don't think anything happened to Platinum games.
The thing is, them simply HAVING the patent is what scares off anyone doing anything remotely near it, because if they chose they could just throw money at it to tie up the courts until your own cash dries up, no matter how in the clear you may believe you are. Bayonetta was specifically not a mini-game, it got around it by it being just the normal game in a sandbox to test combos.
Okami had two minigames in it's loading screen. But they were more micro, than mini. Still, at least they gave something to do, and a reward if you did it right.
Does Bayonetta have minigames? I remember seeing it lets you run around and practice combos in an empty screen while stuff loads, tho I'd hardly call that a minigame
Jim's point isn't that games can't have loading screen mini games, but that we lost 17 yrs of iteration and innovation because of the patent, and because of it, the majority of devs don't think to include them and we accept their absence as the norm.
"patenting game mechanics is bad" to anyone who doesn't understand that we learn and grow from iteration, take a look at the current state of academia where the quality of scientific discoveries is in absolute shambles since everyone is expected to make a "new" study and not comfirm or deny results from any other study
@@kogorun see this is exactly the problem, if you actually had confirmation/refutation of the results using the same subject and methodology you wouldn't need meta-analyses, because you'd just confirm/refute. But instead you have research which is kinda similar but is encouraged by academia to be its own thing, so meta analyses have to go in and work to make these studies work together somehow so you'd actually get a significant pool data. Like, it's not that repeat studies don't exist but they're highly discouraged and a toss up whether they get published or funded because they're repeats
@@kogorun What he's referring to is the lack of "replication studies". A replication study is simply what it sounds like: replicate someone else's study. How can we know if the results were correct or representative of a general case if we don't repeat the protocol? The reason we don't see these is they're not "sexy". They don't get published in high impact journals, and they're never cited as much as the original study they seek to replicate., so they don't raise the researchers' profiles enough.
@@tenfivesmiths7802I currently work as a researcher in academics (just started out fresh out of college). I was always of the notion that research must be new and that the point of research was to contribute fresh ideas to the pool but your point of view didn't occur to me till now. Thank you for pointing this particular perspective. Definitely gives me a lot to think about.
Its funny how you never see the "FREE MARKET!" crowd advocating for less pro-corporate patent and copyright laws that would actually encourage more free competition.
@@Clero77 if only we could support individual ideas regardless of where they came from and identity politics getting in the way. If we truly lived in a democracy individual ideas would be voted for in isolation. Mob rule in the most democratic sense rules.
This reminds me of a short story by a French writter (Alain Damasio) Basicaly syllabe have copyright in public usage. You follow poetes that try to creat copywright free lexicon.
I remember in highschool when I was writing papers and would use “they” in a singular sense and my teacher would always tell me I have to use he/she instead. Well.. who’s laughing now? Nobody probably
I used he/she in a short story once because I'd previously been told to use he/she instead of they. Said teacher then told me to find a way to reword the story so I didn't need to use he/she as much. But I still wasn't allowed to use they. What do they want from us??! 🤣
See that's weird, because I was taught to use singular they, which made the backlash I saw about it really confusing lmao. conversely, I was told to never use a / in prose so who tf knows lol.
People have used "they" in the singular sense for centuries, and anyone who says what you ~should~ use is just giving an opinion, so I wouldn't worry about it! Write what you like, it's all good (unless you have to follow a style guide for some specific reason)
@@TheMightyBone I've been a PC gamer since I was 8, and playing MMOs since I was 15, I don't play them anymore but it just occurred to me that playing ESDF would be a really comfortable set up game with a lot of hotkeys, like FF14, it opens up a lot of really good emergency hotkeys that are easy to hit. Thanks for the idea, sucker!
The worst thing about the Namco patent is they didn't even invent 'loading games' on the PSX, the Commodore 64 had 'Invade-a-Load' back in '88. Apart from the fact software patents are BS anyway, it should never have been granted.
I don't think so because they aren't in a hierarchy nor are their procedurally generated. Still, this mechanic is begging to be used in rogue-likes and other genres.
Exactly! I was just thinking about that. I'm only watching these videos to steal ideas. I mean, it's not like I'm making money off of my low-quality games anytime soon.
I love how people like Phil Harrison only ever fail upwards. Also the self own of Capitalist ISP monopolies standing in the way of a Google product cause of data caps.
Yeah - That would be worth writing a series of self improvement books and videos about: "How to Fail, But Never be Fired - A Bastard's Guide to Winning High Paying Positions".
To be honest socialism really is not that bad in a democratic system. It's only bad in a Dictatorship or Single Party Government. It's actually ideal to be more left than right in a liberal system and more right than left in an authoritarian system. This is why (well one of the reasons why the other is because fascism appeals to people in power more) fascism despite killing lots of people is considered less threatening than communism. It's also why most moderately socialist democracies think Americas minimum wage, healthcare and corporate freedoms are absolutely insane and potentially masochistic.
@@noonenowhere877 don’t tell most older Americans about that. A century of anti red propaganda ever since the Russian revolution has turned anything not right of center into soviet gulags in this country
@@noonenowhere877 Just a slight correction, socialism (and communism) can't be conducted by a dictatorship or single party government, the most charitable label that can be applied is state capitalism. If decision-making powers are controlled by a select and/or unelected few, it can be neither socialism, nor communism.
capitalists: capitalism promotes innovation! also capitalists: *patents, trademarks, and puts under NDA any and all ideas they possibly can, choking out any and all innovation*
“Some of you even understand half the plot of Kingdom Hearts. You’ll ace pronouns” I’m gonna use the shit out of that since I understand about 90% of the plot of KH.
If you like Kingdom Hearts, there’s a UA-camr I follow called KBash (maybe you already know about him) and he just finished reviewing every game in the series. I know you didn’t ask, but I wanted to spread the word a little bit. He’s very good and could use all the support he can get.
@@sillyskeleton Foolish mortal, I have the power of a lifetime of piecing together the nonsense that goes on in most anime, and the power of high-function autism with KH being one of my interest. I have studied the wikis, replayed the games on every single difficulty to 100% completion multiple times, and I can tell you with the utmost confidence that the only thing in these games I do not understand is the how the heck time travel works, because shit makes no sense to anyone, and the bs going on in the mobile game because of course I don't its a mobile game.
@@marti5420 They're already a thing. Cyperpunk ran well on Stadia especially when compared to ps4/xbox 1. It was people's best option for that game even when didn't have either next-gen console or a decent PC.
@@Kevin-gb7lk no they arnt bud, you can do a search for "stadia underrated" yourself, right now, in this very browser window too! its a bunch of videos ripping into stadia right now. and as for stadia being the "best option"... anything. just no, and i will wait 8 years for your youtube videos telling us how we were all so wrong about the awesome power of stadia, friend.
As someone who knows half the plot of Kingdom Hearts, I have two things to say: 1. That joke was funny and you get a cookie. 2. Pronouns are, in fact, far easier to understand.
Ironically the one service they've been actively trying to kill ever since it's been acquired is the one that's still going strong 15 years later despite the fact everyone hates it. I'm referring to UA-cam, of course.
Its worse than that. The first recorded mini game on a loading screen was actually done by a pirate group who were breaking copyright protection. It was raised as an example of the idea being in use before them but the Patent Office ruled it couldn't be used as an example because it wasn't a "Legal" example of it being done before hand. Since then the Supreme Court in a different case ruled that because it was used illegally didn't mean it could be denied as an example of previous use but instead shows that the idea was more wide spread and should have been seen as an immediate end to the Patent request.
Is this still an argument non binary has been a thing for millenia there's literally a 8000 year old myth about a non binary homunculus saving Ishtar from the underworld
@@beatnik09 I think the issue is it sounds like broken English to use it in place of him her eg. Don’t talk to him he hates monarchy. Don’t talk to they them hates monarchy. It is grammatically incorrect
Wait. Waaiiit wait wait wait. THIS is why Okami, one of my favorite games ever, has the loading screen timed button-press minigame?! And every other game I've played doesn't?! What kind of nonsense is this?
"Capitalism breeds innovation" Capitalists: *patent everything their employees come up with so nobody else can innovate them, then never actually do anything innovative with the patent*
@@bernardoheusi6146 No need to include the “unchecked” qualifier. Capitalism inherently leads to either monopolies or oligopolies, which are in no way better when they all agree on all of the issues that would lead to innovation. Which is to say you need to throw money and resources at things expecting that you will lose money and resources in order innovate anything, and NO corporation under capitalism is EVER going to accept that and remain afloat for very long.
@@longliverocknroll5 try failed communism, the thing that has thus far inevitably followed communism. Stalin killed tens of millions in just the work camps. I don't like capitalism either and support other social solutions - but just because something is an alternative to something awful doesn't make it inherently better
@@user-vf3cb7vk8z I have no idea what that even means, but I strongly suspect you may not have as much experience with people who are non-binary or transgender as you purport, because I struggle to imagine any one of them would want to spend an awful lot of time getting to know you.
@@B-26354 a quick bit of research would also tell you that while "nonbinary" is indeed a more recent term, people have been identifying as "genderqueer" since at least the 90s and have identified outside of the male/female binary for even longer. It would also tell you that James Shupe is the first person in the US who was _legally_ recognized as nonbinary (and gender markers on government ID aren't pronouns, the legal recognition was not about pronouns) and maybe not as quick a search will tell you that nonbinary and genderqueer activists are split on the usefulness of nonbinary gender markers on government ID.
@@B-26354 transness as a whole wasn't in the mainstream consciousness as much more than jokes at mostly trans women's expense about a decade ago, doesn't change that the history goes back much much further. And the ideas of "genderqueer" go back before that term's coinage with gender outlaws, gender benders, and genderfuck. Neopronouns like ze/hir and the spivak set go back at least to usenet and MUDs. And no shit there's a reason for that split. There's in fact a number of reasons. I'm simply bringing it up because people use Shupe and his detransition as a gotcha against nonbinary people a lot when nb activists don't even agree on if recognition on legal documents is something worth fighting for or not.
Jim Sterling : *Does whatever makes them happy* Everyone else : *Is Happy that they are happy* It's that simple. Also, Stadia? It's not gonna STAY-DIA.. AHAHAHHAHA
I design games as a hobby and in any place for people trying to get into game design, one of the first questions I hear is about whether or not you can copyright or trademark mechanics, to which everyone says no because that would be idiotic. The anxiety that people feel who want to get into design when they worry about this comes from not wanting to waste time exploring an idea, and the feeling that your ideas could be completely stifled because some game already did something similar and you didn't know is a barrier to overcome. WB pulling this shit is exactly what will start making approaching game design less of an art and more of a mine field.
The best thing about pronouns I learned was that "you" is also a plural but we use it for singulars all the time. It's why we say "you are" and not "you is". If it works for you, it works for they/them.
@@B-26354 In psychology books it's all over the place instead of saying "person" all the time, has been for a long time. I didn't mean it's been used as a trans term forever. However, it's been used as a singular to mean "human being" or "person" for quite a while in formal academic texts in certain fields. Was just commenting on it being singular without going into your specific distinction, which is, indeed, an important one.
16:26 This. Triple A companies would just steal the ideas and adjust things slightly so they could defend it in court, knowing the indie studio doesn't have the ressources to hire a team of lawyers.
@@dakunssd I feel literally no pain when I pirate photoshop. "But it cuts into their finances" ... Good. They cant keep getting away with their bullshit.
Before Creative Cloud, it was cheaper for the few piracy-averse Australians to CATCH A FUCKING PLANE TO THE US TO PHYSICALLY BUY THE CREATIVE SUITE than it was to buy it locally. Holy fuck fuck Adobe's elitism.
Imagine patenting a camera angle in a film. Only Spielberg can do a dolly shot etc. That's how dumb this is.
Try patenting "up" and "down". That's how dumb that idea is.
Didn't Amazon patent displaying a product on a white background? That's nuts.
In theory this is more like patenting a specific dolly track path. The worry is a small dev is probably not able to pay to fight a bad lawsuit if their non infringing system looks kinda sorta like the nemesis system.
I think amazon did patent or try to patent photographing something on front of a white screen,
thou that was supposedly to counter patent trolls.
Humans invented nothing they just took it from environment and pretend they made it. With cartoon network owners your fiat dollar is worth ten cent.
GAME is made for auto-aimers with 30 PREMIUM FPS doing macro-transactions for cut content giving out their personal data and that data is being exploited by publishers to inflate their scam and keep people in the loop. Welcome to the brave naive world. Developers of said naive world can't face the facts so they suppress, censor people. Outsource their dirty work to influencers which get high when they receive free merch.
Free merch > free speech.
Is your mind blown how people fall for same thing every time? It shouldn't be. Because divided, singled out individuals has no chance against organized criminal entity; corporation.
Corporation is an approved scam & spy business. Their approval was obtained through manufactured consent. Corporation is not the industry of manufacturing products. Corporation is in the industry of manufacturing consent.
As well Corporations [through governments] are harvesting our biometric data on global scale. So they can get to know us far better than we know ourselves,
and they not just predict our feelings but also manipulate our feelings and sell us anything they want- Be it a product as a service or politician.
Hardcore corporate defenders please check out "The Corporation", "Surveillance Capitalism", "The century of the self", "Stockholm syndrome", "Milgram Experiment" and "The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know")
Google: "ISPs won't do something like add restrictive data caps to users."
Comcast: "Beginning 1/1/21, we're going to add restrictive data caps to all customers."
Wow i tought my country is the only one doing this since 8 years without explaining this is happening at 2017
Ajit Pai is at least gone. Maybe, hoping against hope here, we can make amove to get net neutrality back. Long shot but worth it...
@@MarquisLeary34 No, that would wound trump voters feelings. Biden wouldn't do that.
Also the corporate democrats are sponsored by the ISPs, like the Repubs. Legalized bribery is the US way.
@@Cudgeon We honestly just have to hope that certain businesses like netflix and the like lobby for more than the ISPs. This isn't that probable unless they all get together to do it because ISPs rich af.
@@nfzeta128 be honest here how much did you puke after writing this comment? Had to be at least a little. Our only hope to stop company fuckery is to hope for a different company to try different fuckery. God damn that’s sad, and it’s sad because I agree to a certain extent.
That's it, im filing a patent on Capitalism. That way no one can do it anymore
I'm filing a patent on private property.
Modern problems require modern solutions
i'm taking one on communism
good one!
Or get rich selling sccess to it. Just saying. Why not be the one on top.
Remember when the Fine Bros tried to patent “React”?
I remember.
What sucks is that there aren't human beings behind warner bros that will decide to reverse the patent. Fine bros only tried it for a week or 2. WB has been trying for 5 years.
I was litterally just thinking that
Pepperidge Farm remembers
No, they tried to _trademark_ the word as a brand for the streaming video market, they did not try to patent the concept, that was a wild misconception everyone seemed to have for some idiotic reason. It was still stupid though (See also: King, who owns Candy Crush, tried to trademark the word "candy" as a brand for the video game market)
Imagine if Capcom was like "We've patented Fighting Games"
Is this a joke? I seriously ask that because they literally attempted to do that in the early 90s and even went to court over it. Well, specifically they tried to patent the concept of using combos in a fighting game. Imagine if they had won. Fighting games wouldn’t have had combos unless they were Capcom or they paid out the nose for it.
@@MrZer093 this is a joke.
@@travissloan9411 it's not a joke capcom actually tried it and failed
@@tchitchouan yep, they sued several games in the 90's because it was a fighting game
@@tchitchouan he means it's sarcasm. gees people are dense.
"ISPs are smart and they understand that they're in the business of keeping customers happy" **turns on data caps during a pandemic**
They're in the buisnesses of monopolies
They've been constantly raising our rates. My bill has increase 38% since this time last year, with no change in services.
"Understands what customers want" lol Slower Internet speeds and higher bills
Obviously when he said "customers" he meant "shareholders".
@@abadenoughdude300 soooo good sooo good lmao
"YAY ONE CORRUPTION NOW HAS A MONOPOLY ON A CONCEPT, WOOO, LET'S CELEBRATE!"
-Corporate Slaves
I would correct your spelling on writing 'corruption' instead of 'corporation' but let's be real they're synonyms anyway
"IT'S ONE WE LIKE, HOORAY! GOOD THING IT WASN'T ONE WE DON'T LIKE OR WE'D HAAAAAAAATE THAT!!!!"
Just slobbering all over that boot.
@@BaileyZKerr There's a reason why I never changed it :)
Now quick, dump our mother debt on this leaking raft cash the fuck out, then sue anyone who cares exploit our tiny treasure buried in shit!
“Some of you even know half the story of Kingdom Hearts” I’m fuckin dead
Hey I know half the story of Kingdom Hearts!
It starts with... *robotic voice* accessing... accessing... accessing...
Soren.exe has crashed
i don’t even know the basic concept of kingdom hearts mate
@@sweesbees Big Keys are Swords, elsewise varies from game to game.
If only we could patent "patenting" we could put a stop to all this.
Bureaucratic problems require bureaucratic solutions.
"Some Ghost of Tsushima loading screens were extended so players could actually read tips" Really ? I guess the "pressing a button to close loading screens when player is ready" feature is patented by someone.
Like the Tony Hawk games did? Ok that would have been useful.
I still have a few games that do that. It may be more common on PC because loading too fast to read tips has been a common issue in games for years.
Imagine patenting the heroes journey.
If WB could, they would for sure.
Imagine patenting First-person shooting....
Imagine owning an idea.
Patent the concept of Patents.
@@youtubeuniversity3638 are you trying to become a god?!
This is like Nintendo patenting the mechanic when Mario/whoever jumps on an enemy, he hops off and doesn't take damage. A mechanic in many, many platformers. Patenting "game mechanics" stifles creativity and limits the types of games people can make jfc
2 years later theyre already trying to patent zelda botw and totk mechanics.
At least Z targeting was super specific
I shall henceforth be referring to Shadow of Mordor as *"Assassin's Creed: Arkham Asylum, Mordor edition"*
No joke, that's what I called it after seeing the first footage of gameplay; mind you, I loved the idea.
That’s the best combo
“If only people cared about abuse allegations as much as they care about asses.”
A sad truth.
It always takes two, them both have even stakes in the matter
As BK said, the company is censoring asses to begin with because people cared more about wanting to cover butts up, rather than abuse allegations, because that is what is considered to be the worry. This is all due to Leftist puritans that need to inject their morality into things. The truth is that as long as you like the product, you don't care about how you get it. Masks are a good example of this. After all the crap we got from China taking all the face masks, and the talk of growing our own supply. I very much care about not buying masks from the countries that screwed us over when the pandemic started. I literally cannot buy a Canadian face mask. so I got a hand made mask instead from my aunt. Somehow, despite all the government talk about making our own masks, the only reason we got any was because China felt it had enough.
EDIT:
Since I am asked.
-Left leaning, liberal puritans are a typically twitter mobs and game journalists. They say that sexy shots of women is exploitation.
Don't get me wrong though. I hate the right wing puritans as well.
-Right leaning, conservative puritans are the religious, that say lusting after women is a sin. They currently don't have the power to censor like they used to though.
Can't relate lol, I was trained to multitask for 15 years
@@tomaO2 Imagine living in a capitalist dystopia and rambling about "leftist puritans"
@@tomaO2 my dude you sure did take a whole lot to say nothing at all
Mega corps thinking "making games is easy" comes the same brain trusts that think "crunch is normal", "devs are fodder" and "profit is everything".
And even if games were actually so easy to make, the mega corps would find some way to still ruin it...
"No Angry Birds without Crush the Castle" thank GOD someone finally said it
I know right!
Holy shit
It’s crazy that anyone could defend patenting game mechanics. This was a horrid blow to gaming in general, and I hope something can be done about it.
I hope a bunch of indie developers just start publishing really terribly made knockoffs of Shadow of War/Mordor but change one teeny, tiny thing (different for each knockoff) and name them all really offensive titles (offensive to WB, not offensive to the general public) to see how much damage they can do to the brand.
I remember a few years ago when Bethesda Trademarked Fallout . If I had any amount of game making ability, I would have anonymously flooded the market with games where the point is to fall out a window...
Agreed it would only limit the ability of developers in the end. Even companies like CC2 mention looking at the improvements of the industry as a whole to create more unique experiences for the future.
BTW
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DATA DRAIN!!!!!
@@antonyduhamel1166 Genious.
I always thought about making something similar in my mind - a game (which’ll be “18+”, NOT “E” or “3+”), which consists of paying lootboxes or whatever to progress the game until the end. Inspired by the EAs masterworks of “Fifa” and whatever the specific name was for that Star Wars online game.
But, for every player, I’ll send back the amount of money they spent on this game. Because I’d rather be a much nicer person than the EA.
Edit: I hope that everyone who reads this takes it more like a nice concept for a game, and not as an actual game that I wanted to make some day.
Sure, I always wanted to make a game of my dreams, some day, but... this isn’t the one.
to my very limited knowledge you can ask the patent office to reevaluate the patent and, if they don't revoke it, you can take it to court. if you use example of past art that is similar (like, say, any other game with enemies that evolve over interactions with players) then you could get it revoked that way, assuming you have the cash to win (start a go-fund-me, well off developer hopeful reading this, i'll donate and i'm sure lots of others will to bring wb down a peg and to protect art).
you could also develop in a country that isn't a corrupt corporatocracy, i guess
Lets look at the bright side, hopefully EA patents lootboxes. Hopefully they stay only in FIFA forever.
Ea good?
Actually, that's a great idea. an someone pitch the concept to them , pronto?
And next is Activision Blizzard patenting shitty remakes
You know what? I like where this is going. If we can get AAA to patent all the shittiest monetization maybe we can finally see an industry that's (mostly) free of that shit. LET'S GET ON THIS, PEOPLE.
Who should patent "its just cosmetic"?
“Non-binary finery” classic!
I want a whole channel about non binary finery!
My favorite i've seen is "Them fatale"
His accent makes it sound fancy loll
Not for nothing I was literally wondering about that just before I clicked the video lmfao
Nothing has been more scary in my life than when, during that Irish salad sequence, my iPad crashed and shut UA-cam down. I think it was trying to protect me.
You missed the best part, it's something Ren & Stimpy level
Warner Bros: We now Own a thing we didn't create, and now people have to pay us to use it.
Gamers: Hooooray!
Smart Gamers:.....the fuck is wrong with these people?
Yeah idk why anyone is cheering this. If WB was threatening to force feed these people sewage, they'd probably cheer too.
Im pretty sure they cannot think anymore. They just
They just dont put two and two together.
I can only speculate but I imagine these gamers (the stupid ones) are applauding WB because now they don't have to play any 'weak pretenders' to the Nemesis throne. No one is going to make a game with anything even remotely approaching the Nemesis system (apart from the ones that already exist.) And these fanboys are wallowing in elitist snob-ism. "That's right! You don't like our game? You don't get to play anything else! You want a Nemesis system to munch on? It's our way or the highway bitch!"
And it's entirely pointless to try and point this out to them but: what harm does a 'knockoff' or 'pretender' to the Nemesis throne do to you and yours? You are not required or obliged to play every game that deigns to have a Nemesis system in it. But maybe others don't want to play a Nemesis system with Orcs in Mordor. Maybe they want to play it with pirates in space. Or ninjas under the sea. Or emotions inside your psyche. Do you really think WB is going to make all those variants when the Shadow games are doing as well as they are? Of course not. There's no incentive for them. But others might have done it. They might have done it up until the point that WB made it effectively illegal for them to do it unless they want to pay a MULTI BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY for the privilege.
Patenting a game mechanic is a direct refusal of the saying: "There is no perfect pasta sauce. There are only perfect pasta sauces." Variety and freedom are the catalysts of innovation. Today, those gamers celebrate stagnation and corruption. And that's sad.
@@antonyduhamel1166 "Today, those gamers celebrate stagnation and corruption. And that's sad.
"
Yea but theyve been wanting that for years now. Coughgamergatecough
Whining about newer games etc.
Wow, this is almost as bad an idea as patenting the concept of reacting to something. Sure am glad nobody's ever tried to do that
Tried being the operative word.
I would like to see teens react to that stupid idea
Me: *Throws a punch*
Warner Bros: That'll be Five Dollars.
Maybe they'll set up a PPP system. Pay Per Punch
Beat them to the punch, literally, by patenting striking another person or object with your hand?
The mini games on loading screens thing still makes me so mad. Like holy shit.
I watched an OxBox article with a list of this kind of bullshit. This one was on it but most of, if not all of it, made me angry realizing this is why we can't have nice things. Nintendo had a patent on the D-Pad for crying out loud. Though the creative ways everyone got around that one made the whole thing ridiculously pointless.
Patenting game mechanics is like if someone wrote a book and then tried to patent the "trusted mentor turns out to have been the evil bad guy all along" plot twist trope.
Not even that, it's like trying to patent figures of speech that already existed just because nobody thought of patenting those earlier
"It was all a dream" (TM)
Patent the Hero's Journey.
@@DarkorthAurelius This actually happened with the Omegaverse lol. Someone tried to patent the concept of gay werewolves.
@@LimeyLassen I know! Last week I discovered Lindsay Ellis' channel and watched both videos on omegaverse drama
Not my mother's Jim Sterling? I didn't even know my mother has her own Jim Sterling. Good for you, mum!
They sells clones on their merch store *sorry I messed up their gender. has since been corrected
@@liambrewerpowerlifting cancelled.
My mum gave away her Jim sterling, and I am very disappointed in that.
Imagine if someone patented the FPS...can't see games from a first person point of view.
If my mom had her own Jim Sterling and hadn't shared them with me, I'd be very cross with her!
"Get out of my mouth."
Welcome to long hair problems and my struggle to eat anything without also getting a mouthful of hair.
I’m waiting for them to discover what long hair can do to vacuum cleaners.
That is what hair ties are for
@@belyayevsfox4753 Yeah, but sometimes your look just requires hair down, or my hair frees itself from the hair tie, or my hair is already tied but some is left put for style, or you just don't have an extra hair tie on you. Either way, if the hair wants to get in the mouth, it will find a way. XD
I grew my hair out starting like two years ago and it’s VERY annoying having to make the decision between tying up my beautiful hair and keeping it down but accidentally just fuckin eating it when it gets in the way
For this reason, among others, I started wearing my hair in a pony tail.
It's not completely effective.
Lmao, "if you can understand metal gear or kingdom hearts, you can understand pronouns" is great
I don't understand Metal Gear or Kingdom Hearts. I just play Rambo Snake Easter and put Goofy in compromising situations he'll have to explain in an interview some day.
"You understand Metal Gear Solid, some of you even know half the plot to Kingdom Hearts. You'll ace pronouns."
Well put for us ebin gamerinos!
Yeah understanding half of Kingdom Hearts is no easy task.
I'm up to understanding 2 3rds! ^^
@@SlegiarDryke You sure you're not just climbing the Dunning Kruger curve?
I've spent half my life and a ridiculous amount of hours on obsessing over Kingdom Hearts and its plot, and while I believe to understand it by now completely, I'm not sure whether I should be proud or deeply ashamed. Probably both.
Me, a trilingual, neopronoun using non-binary person: Why do people think KH story is complex? *watches video* Huh...
Filial Piety (n) - the act of thanking God for yo mama, Jim Sterling.
😄
OUR mama
Jim Sterling is a guy and will always be a male. Aka him
James Stephany Sterling is whoever the fuck they want to be.
@@Noxine Only 2 genders, sorry to break it to you. Only 2 genders, sorry to break it to you. Jim Sterling is a guy
"You couldn't make Blazing Saddles or Willy Wonka today, because Gene Wilder copyrighted comedy"
You could.... I mean you shouldn't (looking at you Tim Burton)
But you could
you couldnt even have made them if an ancient Sumerian had patented the worlds first joke
@@Palemagpie To be fair,that Tim Burton version would be completely legal,there wasn't an ounce of comedy in that movie.
@@Palemagpie People are allowed to make multiple versions of the same story. The Burton film is more accurate to the books. Mostly.
@@theangryholmesian4556 for now.... "people are allowed" for now
As someone who is questioning their gender identity, you using just your normal voice is very very reassuring to me. I can’t really get into my own thoughts on my gender identity on this platform but I am so happy for you being able to express your true self
I find it very nice
Your a guy or girl. You don't decide gender
@@marinewife03311 why can't they? You can't decide their gender
@@marinewife03311 well apparently they are what they say they are so idk what you’re talking about
@@necropolistc6357
That’s biological sex. Gender is a social construct. What boys or girls are “supposed” to dress like and act has changed all the time. If one feels like they prefer being socially seen as a girl, well, it’s not as if you ask everyone you meet to drop their pants to see if their genitals (which, hey, surgery exists if someone really wanted that) match their outwards appearance.
Did ya know about 100 - 200 years ago boys were supposed to be dressed in red, and girls in blue?
I’m so proud to have Jim sterling
we all are.
Bless you
Thanks bro
Tank god for Jim
@@JimSterling thank you god
"if only we could shackle everyone else's creativity, that way we wouldn't seem like such backrupt fuck hacks"
"Momma Sterling, the game industry is being an ass again!"
Yes, but the camera isn't allowed to look directly at it.
Non-binary finery is probably the best phrase I've heard all year
Jim Sterling is Jim Sterling nothing has really changed.
Gaming industry does not change it just works. Playing Todd Howard Theme song.
The Industry...The Industry never changes. Dun DUN........dunnnnn.
Let’s all laugh at industry that doesn’t learn anything, tee hee hee
Except the name
I’m surprised by how little has changed lol
imagine if Doom had patented their game. No 'doom clones'. No FPS genre.
edit - while I understand it might not technically have been the first, it was the most popular and the most iconic, to the point that before we used the term "first person shooter" everyone called the genre "doom clones". if they had tried to patent that mechanic, considering how people talked about it, they might have been successful. regardless the point stands at how awful that would have been for gaming.
They'd have struggled. Doom was nowhere near the first FPS.
@@mesothelimoa341 but it was the first most successful one, and that's all that matters
patented*
@@atrane365 It was the most popular but using popularity alone as the justification for a patent would be very flimsy.
But doom does have a copyright on their game. They just don't have a patent on the game mechanics
Singular they is literally older than singular you, since "you" used to be the plural version of "thou". People shit their pants when that bit of language shifted too, writing entire novels about why using "you" instead of "thou" for singular people would "destroy society" or whatever. Singular they was used in the bloody King James Bible and by Shakespeare. People aren't mad about singular they, they're mad that it's being used as a gender neutral pronoun actively by people.
You forget the non native speakers. I didn't learn anything about the singular they in my english class, partly because my native language has no equivalent and partly because the use outside of the internet is far more infrequent. I sincerly hope that this is the more common reason people use the wrong pronouns and not that they are being dicks.
Actually, the question was from me, and I asked because English is not my first language, so it really confuses me, anyway I learnt something new from you too, thanks :D
@@TheSwartzj It's a very good point, but also -- and you're a fine example -- non-native speakers don't get pissy when they come across an English formulation that they aren't familiar with cus that's kinda the whole game of learning a new language especially one as wacky as English. But there are absolutely a huge number of native speakers who aren't just confused but downright angry, furious even, saying it's just wrong and an abomination of language to use "they" as a singular pronoun. And aside from it clearly being they who are wrong, they aren't upset about it because it's an English formulation they aren't familiar with because that happens to native speakers all the time, too. They're upset because someone is asking them to learn a new thing as a form of basic decency and respect for someone that they. Do. Not. Respect.
Yep shakespeare used thou, its literally classical. AAnd maybe from few years ago, but oficial legit english.
@@wyrmh0le I see what they did here.
"no one has the rights to use photoshop"
good to know I'm not the only one
Imagine if Rothko just straight up " hey you know using colors and abstract form to convey emotions? Yeah that's sorta my thing now" and everyone would have to pay the Rothko Foundation of Fuckery
Malevich would rise from his grave :D
Yeah I was just thinking, what if game studios pattented mechanics specifically against Warner Bros? Lol
Lisa Frank kinda does that...
Friendly reminder that singular "they" has been in use longer than the English language has had its currently recognizable form
If it's good enough for Shakespeare and Chaucer, it's good enough for me.
And even if it hasn’t been, Languages are made up nonsense that are always evolving. Plenty of people use “they” as singular for different purposes, even if it isn’t official.
Yep. Similar to how our concept of "race" is actually a relatively recent concept.
Funny how people living hundreds and even thousands of years ago just didn't give a shit about stuff people in the 21st century are getting killed over.
Obviously I'm not saying they were nice. Humans have never been nice. They were just too busy hating each other for different things, and we're far too busy doing that to hate you for your gender, sexuality or skin colour.
Peter Clarke Why would you think people weren’t discriminated for their gender or race thousands of years ago? People haven’t changed since then.
Indefinite and singular they are old, yes, but nonbinary they isn't. To suggest these are the same thing is disingenuous.
Two points:
1. The judge that approved this patent must be one out of touch douche-queen. That patent needs to be obliterated.
2. Bayonetta has a mini game during loading. I don't think anything happened to Platinum games.
The thing is, them simply HAVING the patent is what scares off anyone doing anything remotely near it, because if they chose they could just throw money at it to tie up the courts until your own cash dries up, no matter how in the clear you may believe you are.
Bayonetta was specifically not a mini-game, it got around it by it being just the normal game in a sandbox to test combos.
Okami had two minigames in it's loading screen. But they were more micro, than mini. Still, at least they gave something to do, and a reward if you did it right.
Does Bayonetta have minigames? I remember seeing it lets you run around and practice combos in an empty screen while stuff loads, tho I'd hardly call that a minigame
@dontcare Huh... I had no idea, sounds pretty neat tho
Jim's point isn't that games can't have loading screen mini games, but that we lost 17 yrs of iteration and innovation because of the patent, and because of it, the majority of devs don't think to include them and we accept their absence as the norm.
"Some of you understand the Kingdom Hearts storyline, you'll get there" LMAO TRUE
To be fair, something playable AFTER the load screens could have saved Anthem too.
zingggg
Noice
I'm the 69th like. 😏
Hey-ohhhhh!!!
"Stop! Stop! He's already dead!"
"patenting game mechanics is bad" to anyone who doesn't understand that we learn and grow from iteration, take a look at the current state of academia where the quality of scientific discoveries is in absolute shambles since everyone is expected to make a "new" study and not comfirm or deny results from any other study
Well, people also do meta-analysis, which is kinda like confirming or denying previous research?
@@kogorun see this is exactly the problem, if you actually had confirmation/refutation of the results using the same subject and methodology you wouldn't need meta-analyses, because you'd just confirm/refute. But instead you have research which is kinda similar but is encouraged by academia to be its own thing, so meta analyses have to go in and work to make these studies work together somehow so you'd actually get a significant pool data. Like, it's not that repeat studies don't exist but they're highly discouraged and a toss up whether they get published or funded because they're repeats
@@kogorun What he's referring to is the lack of "replication studies". A replication study is simply what it sounds like: replicate someone else's study. How can we know if the results were correct or representative of a general case if we don't repeat the protocol?
The reason we don't see these is they're not "sexy". They don't get published in high impact journals, and they're never cited as much as the original study they seek to replicate., so they don't raise the researchers' profiles enough.
@@tenfivesmiths7802I currently work as a researcher in academics (just started out fresh out of college). I was always of the notion that research must be new and that the point of research was to contribute fresh ideas to the pool but your point of view didn't occur to me till now. Thank you for pointing this particular perspective. Definitely gives me a lot to think about.
Can someone please explain this to me in a way that I'll understand? I don't know all that much about this subject
Stadia: The joke that wrote itself.
You know something should not be taken seriously when it sells itself with an ad featuring a dude canoe.
Stadia was sad ;)
I really like the newer format of talking about multiple things going on in gaming.
Its funny how you never see the "FREE MARKET!" crowd advocating for less pro-corporate patent and copyright laws that would actually encourage more free competition.
I saw some advocating exactly for that. But they were also hard ancaps, meaning a bunch of weirdos even the free market crowds don't like.
Libertarians and ancaps ALWAYS oppose patents and copyright. They are delusional in other ways.
@@Clero77 That's funny, I never realized that. They're the only crowd advocating for a legitimately free market.
@@Clero77 if only we could support individual ideas regardless of where they came from and identity politics getting in the way. If we truly lived in a democracy individual ideas would be voted for in isolation. Mob rule in the most democratic sense rules.
If only we could have politics withought middlemen politicians.
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
Beautifully said NCR Trooper.
This is a good profile.
The ranger vets are on their way from Baja. I've never seen one before, but I heard they chew nails and spit napalm.
So did 2020
Thank you for keeping us save from the Legion.
"Stadia hell away from that thing". Me, 2 years ago.
I'm, going to patent the letter "e" used in video games. Each usage of it will be a measly 1 eurocent per utterance.
Even in the code.
Patent the number 1 so every piece of code writtten ever has to be attributed to you. You'd be a billionaire within a week
@@kin-3877 Tanking the economy. Nice.
This reminds me of a short story by a French writter (Alain Damasio)
Basicaly syllabe have copyright in public usage.
You follow poetes that try to creat copywright free lexicon.
I have patented air, every breath is 5 cents, why 5? Because fuck pennies
I remember in highschool when I was writing papers and would use “they” in a singular sense and my teacher would always tell me I have to use he/she instead. Well.. who’s laughing now?
Nobody probably
I used he/she in a short story once because I'd previously been told to use he/she instead of they. Said teacher then told me to find a way to reword the story so I didn't need to use he/she as much. But I still wasn't allowed to use they. What do they want from us??! 🤣
I always thought you can use they in a singular sense when you are referring to someone formally or in case you don't know then and want to be polite
See that's weird, because I was taught to use singular they, which made the backlash I saw about it really confusing lmao.
conversely, I was told to never use a / in prose so who tf knows lol.
People have used "they" in the singular sense for centuries, and anyone who says what you ~should~ use is just giving an opinion, so I wouldn't worry about it! Write what you like, it's all good (unless you have to follow a style guide for some specific reason)
I'd be laughing if I weren't so goddamn tired of this...
Remember that time the creators of "Candy Crush" trademarked the word 'candy'?
It was "Saga" that they tried to trademark. Giant load of bullshit.
@@Invariel And tried to insist that Banner Saga would be confused with THEIR game, so Banner Saga had to go.
@@MarquisLeary34 Even though that game came before them which is extra wild/
NASCAR copyrighted/patented the number 3.
@@Invariel They tried to trademark both "Candy" and "Saga" separately.
Alright that’s it I’m patenting patents, pay up Warner bros.
Calling dips on WSAD movement system.
It is mine now.
Good thing I use ESDF..shit I better get to a patent office
@@TheMightyBone EDSF -- WITCHCRAFT!!
Too late, some guy @Apple decided to patent it
Steve WASDiak or something like that
@@TheMightyBone I've been a PC gamer since I was 8, and playing MMOs since I was 15, I don't play them anymore but it just occurred to me that playing ESDF would be a really comfortable set up game with a lot of hotkeys, like FF14, it opens up a lot of really good emergency hotkeys that are easy to hit. Thanks for the idea, sucker!
i want some dip!!!!!!!!
I thought Stadia was screwed when they advertised “negative latency”
What’s that?
@@Gloomdrake It's a "negative" experience due to all the "latency" I would assume...
Wtf, they actually advertised that?!
At least it has 1 win, running cyberpunk better than ps4 and xbox one 😂
I mean 90% of Stadia's advertisements were blatant lies. They should've been sued for false advertising.
imagine tvtropes being a database of patents.
You have literally just described my nightmares.
The worst thing about the Namco patent is they didn't even invent 'loading games' on the PSX, the Commodore 64 had 'Invade-a-Load' back in '88. Apart from the fact software patents are BS anyway, it should never have been granted.
Shit. That's a scary thought.
@@uoodSJW I think you mean to say 'patents are BS.'
I thought the Borg were scary!
In Hades the enemies remember your own past fights with them. So would that be illegal now? Smh
I don't think so because they aren't in a hierarchy nor are their procedurally generated. Still, this mechanic is begging to be used in rogue-likes and other genres.
@@Sirrincai Not for about 17 years it isn't.
WB: You can't use this gam mechanic, it's patented.
Me, an indie game dev: Is that a challenge?
Well if you feel like killing your indie career, sure.
Exactly! I was just thinking about that. I'm only watching these videos to steal ideas. I mean, it's not like I'm making money off of my low-quality games anytime soon.
When Google said they were sending me their Stadia Premiere Edition just for being a UA-cam Premium member, I knew the writing was on the wall.
free controller though
I just rejected that offer, like I don't need more garbage 😂
And that shit still doesn't work on the latest Chromecast with Google TV dongle without side loading. It's insane.
"Lord knows the Jimquisition isn't a place where I repeat myself..."
I assume you were standing under a lightning rod for that line? :P
There ain't a lightning rod on the face of the planet strong enough to to block that bolt, christ most of north america would be obliterated.
@@HoodedLord But outside of losing Jim, would that really be a problem? :P
@@dosbilliam Uh yeah, a whole lot of cute and adorable animals would die or go extinct, like raccoons, polar bears and dogs.
If that is the case, ten bucks says they did get struck by lightning and it just went like when Freeza got hit by lightning in DBZA.
"this ain't ya momma's jim Sterling. It's ya momma, Jim Sterling." That was a good one Jim.
Jim Sterlin OnlyFans confirmed...
Imagine if someone patented the FPS...can't see games from a first person point of view.
I love how people like Phil Harrison only ever fail upwards. Also the self own of Capitalist ISP monopolies standing in the way of a Google product cause of data caps.
But but but socialism
Yeah - That would be worth writing a series of self improvement books and videos about: "How to Fail, But Never be Fired - A Bastard's Guide to Winning High Paying Positions".
To be honest socialism really is not that bad in a democratic system. It's only bad in a Dictatorship or Single Party Government. It's actually ideal to be more left than right in a liberal system and more right than left in an authoritarian system. This is why (well one of the reasons why the other is because fascism appeals to people in power more) fascism despite killing lots of people is considered less threatening than communism. It's also why most moderately socialist democracies think Americas minimum wage, healthcare and corporate freedoms are absolutely insane and potentially masochistic.
@@noonenowhere877 don’t tell most older Americans about that. A century of anti red propaganda ever since the Russian revolution has turned anything not right of center into soviet gulags in this country
@@noonenowhere877 Just a slight correction, socialism (and communism) can't be conducted by a dictatorship or single party government, the most charitable label that can be applied is state capitalism. If decision-making powers are controlled by a select and/or unelected few, it can be neither socialism, nor communism.
Just imagine our ancestors patenting fire.
Why do you think Prometheus got it as badly as he did?
Capitalism!
capitalists: capitalism promotes innovation!
also capitalists: *patents, trademarks, and puts under NDA any and all ideas they possibly can, choking out any and all innovation*
“Some of you even understand half the plot of Kingdom Hearts. You’ll ace pronouns” I’m gonna use the shit out of that since I understand about 90% of the plot of KH.
If you like Kingdom Hearts, there’s a UA-camr I follow called KBash (maybe you already know about him) and he just finished reviewing every game in the series. I know you didn’t ask, but I wanted to spread the word a little bit. He’s very good and could use all the support he can get.
@Orion3227 Do not underestimate my power foolish mortal.
@@Ckoz2829 They've come in my recommendations just haven't gotten around to watching them yet.
@@untoucheddiguise Mate, you can't comprehend the incomprehensible. No one can.
@@sillyskeleton Foolish mortal, I have the power of a lifetime of piecing together the nonsense that goes on in most anime, and the power of high-function autism with KH being one of my interest. I have studied the wikis, replayed the games on every single difficulty to 100% completion multiple times, and I can tell you with the utmost confidence that the only thing in these games I do not understand is the how the heck time travel works, because shit makes no sense to anyone, and the bs going on in the mobile game because of course I don't its a mobile game.
stops listening for a second, now an irish man is yelling vegetables at me
Ronnie Neville?
lol same
Oh god I genuinely forgot Stadia was a thing
Google are probably thankful you don't remember that shitmix.
just wait for the "stadia was underrated" videos swarming youtube in about 8 years
@@marti5420 They're already a thing. Cyperpunk ran well on Stadia especially when compared to ps4/xbox 1. It was people's best option for that game even when didn't have either next-gen console or a decent PC.
@@Kevin-gb7lk no they arnt bud, you can do a search for "stadia underrated" yourself, right now, in this very browser window too! its a bunch of videos ripping into stadia right now. and as for stadia being the "best option"... anything. just no, and i will wait 8 years for your youtube videos telling us how we were all so wrong about the awesome power of stadia, friend.
for a few moments my brain went "wait, stadia came out?" x''D i feel quite out of the loop that it is already on its last leg
You coming out as NB like this inspired me to embrace my own NB identity publicly, Thank you :)
As someone who knows half the plot of Kingdom Hearts, I have two things to say:
1. That joke was funny and you get a cookie.
2. Pronouns are, in fact, far easier to understand.
Imagine paying a subscription to be allowed to buy games...
@Johan Liebert difference is you can buy games without xbox live. Stadia you have to pay just to be allowed to buy the games
@Johan Liebert you don’t need it to buy them
Google is so bad at keeping products alive it's kinda hilarious.
Yup. This is it! Period.
Any other company would be bankrupt by now, but the ultrarich are allowed to fail so many times without any real consequences it's kinda enraging
I think its a self reinforcing cycle. Its hard to feel comfortable buying into a service when its going to get killed in a little bit
yet here you are, on google owned youtube....
Ironically the one service they've been actively trying to kill ever since it's been acquired is the one that's still going strong 15 years later despite the fact everyone hates it.
I'm referring to UA-cam, of course.
"This isn't your mama's Jim Sterling. It's your mama Jim Sterling." Welp, guess I have a new waifu now.
"This ain't your mama's Jim Sterling"
Woah, my mom watches Jim Sterling?
not any more, clearly
I’m getting such “cool aunt that you always wanna hang out with” vibes from them in this video lol.
Yes yes!
The magic of a $5 wig.
starting to remind me of a modern day Dame Edna Everage
I am getting the "I would not let that any where near children" vibe tbh
I'm getting fat autistic troon vibes lmao
Phil Harrison is the concept of "failing upwards" personified.
Capitalists:"Capitalism breeds innovation!"
Also Capitalists: *walls off innovation so one else can innovate on it.*
I think they meant "breeds" as in "literally fucks it" and we were all too innocent to realize it.
@@BalthorYT capitalism is to innovation what feudalism is to royal families. Inevitably inbred into dysfunction.
The loading screen game patent should never have been granted, games on Spectrum were doing it years back.
Its worse than that. The first recorded mini game on a loading screen was actually done by a pirate group who were breaking copyright protection. It was raised as an example of the idea being in use before them but the Patent Office ruled it couldn't be used as an example because it wasn't a "Legal" example of it being done before hand. Since then the Supreme Court in a different case ruled that because it was used illegally didn't mean it could be denied as an example of previous use but instead shows that the idea was more wide spread and should have been seen as an immediate end to the Patent request.
The only good thing to come out of gaming is James Stephanie Sterling. Thank god for Jim.
"Some of you understand the plot of Kingdom Hearts!"
I am not included on that list. :crylaughing:
I honestly feel sad for whoever got roped into the Stadia disaster and spent money on it.
Never trust Google. Rule one of life
Meh their decision.
The singular they/them has been around FOREVER. It's in Chaucer FFS.
Anyone complaining about singular they/them has 100% used those words to refer to individual people before and just not realized it.
yeah it's been in common usage for literally centuries in english. There shouldn't be any difficulty with it.
Is this still an argument non binary has been a thing for millenia there's literally a 8000 year old myth about a non binary homunculus saving Ishtar from the underworld
@@beatnik09 I think the issue is it sounds like broken English to use it in place of him her eg. Don’t talk to him he hates monarchy. Don’t talk to they them hates monarchy. It is grammatically incorrect
I always used they/them for someone before I knew their gender.
Wait. Waaiiit wait wait wait. THIS is why Okami, one of my favorite games ever, has the loading screen timed button-press minigame?! And every other game I've played doesn't?! What kind of nonsense is this?
"Capitalism breeds innovation"
Capitalists: *patent everything their employees come up with so nobody else can innovate them, then never actually do anything innovative with the patent*
Does Capitalism breed innovation? Not really! I’m not rooting for communism either.
@@SlapstickGenius23 Communism literally couldn’t be worse than capitalism though.
Unchecked capitalism leads to monopoly, which always fucks innovation.
@@bernardoheusi6146 No need to include the “unchecked” qualifier. Capitalism inherently leads to either monopolies or oligopolies, which are in no way better when they all agree on all of the issues that would lead to innovation. Which is to say you need to throw money and resources at things expecting that you will lose money and resources in order innovate anything, and NO corporation under capitalism is EVER going to accept that and remain afloat for very long.
@@longliverocknroll5 try failed communism, the thing that has thus far inevitably followed communism. Stalin killed tens of millions in just the work camps. I don't like capitalism either and support other social solutions - but just because something is an alternative to something awful doesn't make it inherently better
Jim has achieved their true form.
The Substitute Aunt of gaming.
He looks like a clown.
Fortunately, not everyone thinks it's an adult response to judge people negatively by their appearance.
@@peterclarke7240 Knowing transgenders this dude is going to put himself in the dirt sooner rather than later and you guys are enabling it.
@@user-vf3cb7vk8z you really gonna project there
@@user-vf3cb7vk8z I have no idea what that even means, but I strongly suspect you may not have as much experience with people who are non-binary or transgender as you purport, because I struggle to imagine any one of them would want to spend an awful lot of time getting to know you.
"Hey, someone dropped THEIR wallet." These people use singular they regularly without even thinking.
What? You mean you don't cry out "Hey! Someone has dropped his biological gender or her biological gender's wallet!"?
@@B-26354 (Psssst. It. Was. A. Joke.)
@@B-26354 a quick bit of research would also tell you that while "nonbinary" is indeed a more recent term, people have been identifying as "genderqueer" since at least the 90s and have identified outside of the male/female binary for even longer. It would also tell you that James Shupe is the first person in the US who was _legally_ recognized as nonbinary (and gender markers on government ID aren't pronouns, the legal recognition was not about pronouns) and maybe not as quick a search will tell you that nonbinary and genderqueer activists are split on the usefulness of nonbinary gender markers on government ID.
@@B-26354 transness as a whole wasn't in the mainstream consciousness as much more than jokes at mostly trans women's expense about a decade ago, doesn't change that the history goes back much much further. And the ideas of "genderqueer" go back before that term's coinage with gender outlaws, gender benders, and genderfuck. Neopronouns like ze/hir and the spivak set go back at least to usenet and MUDs.
And no shit there's a reason for that split. There's in fact a number of reasons. I'm simply bringing it up because people use Shupe and his detransition as a gotcha against nonbinary people a lot when nb activists don't even agree on if recognition on legal documents is something worth fighting for or not.
@@B-26354 imagine being upset about the "historical use of the word "they"", how dull
Jim Sterling : *Does whatever makes them happy*
Everyone else : *Is Happy that they are happy*
It's that simple.
Also, Stadia? It's not gonna STAY-DIA.. AHAHAHHAHA
What about the misanthropes, eh? eh? ;-)
Gon go Awadia.
What's the music at 22:44? I know I've heard it before but can't place it.
I design games as a hobby and in any place for people trying to get into game design, one of the first questions I hear is about whether or not you can copyright or trademark mechanics, to which everyone says no because that would be idiotic. The anxiety that people feel who want to get into design when they worry about this comes from not wanting to waste time exploring an idea, and the feeling that your ideas could be completely stifled because some game already did something similar and you didn't know is a barrier to overcome. WB pulling this shit is exactly what will start making approaching game design less of an art and more of a mine field.
The best thing about pronouns I learned was that "you" is also a plural but we use it for singulars all the time. It's why we say "you are" and not "you is". If it works for you, it works for they/them.
Some languages seperate collective 'you' from singular 'you'. Like Welsh's 'ti' (singular) 'chi' (plural)
Don't forget about "y'all" or my personal favorite "y'alls" with an "s" at the end.
@@Capybarrrraaaa An English singular "you" would've been "Thou" or "Thee" but were considered too disrespectful.
He/him can also be gender neutral.
@@329link of course! Like guy or dude, their "intended purpose" or whatever doesn't matter, it's how they're used.
It's almost as if a company that started as an internet search engine is only - wait for it - good at being an internet search engine..
Seems data is really their forte at this point
sometimes they're not even good at that censoring it for political purposes.
9:08 hot damn, a UA-cam Poop intermission? You spoil us!
"They" being used as a singular is only weird to those who don't read or write more formal texts.
Or cis people who go out of there way to play even more stupid then thay are.
It’s also a completely fabricated phenomenon. I’m not playing ball.
@@scottydu81 So is literally all language.
@@tombrown407 Okay. Still not calling a dude “she” or “they”.
@@B-26354 In psychology books it's all over the place instead of saying "person" all the time, has been for a long time. I didn't mean it's been used as a trans term forever. However, it's been used as a singular to mean "human being" or "person" for quite a while in formal academic texts in certain fields. Was just commenting on it being singular without going into your specific distinction, which is, indeed, an important one.
Warner Bros: We're gonna patent game mechanics, and damn the consequences.
*gets negative response*
Warner Bros: Damn, the consequences!
I'm so glad seeing you being happy after finally starting your transition into someone who enjoys Monster Hunter.
16:26 This.
Triple A companies would just steal the ideas and adjust things slightly so they could defend it in court, knowing the indie studio doesn't have the ressources to hire a team of lawyers.
"You guys know the plot to MGS, you'll do fine."
"Hehe, yeah guys... we all know what happened in MGS..." /sweating
Sneaky man does thing BUT THEN SOCIETY!!
@@TheAzCorner eva stole the philosphers legacy, and you're laughing?
You see
EEYORE
Person identifies as cardboard box?
No one does. Least of all kojima
"I'm an arse and they don't care about me," is one of the realest sentences I've heard in a while hahah
"Nobody has the 'rights' to use photoshop"
About that...
*Cries in Adobe Creative Cloud*
@@CommanderWiggins Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me
The gall of that company, a subscription fee for a STUDENTS LICENCE WITH LIMITATIONS.
Adobe needs to go the way of the dodo.
@@dakunssd I feel literally no pain when I pirate photoshop.
"But it cuts into their finances"
... Good. They cant keep getting away with their bullshit.
Before Creative Cloud, it was cheaper for the few piracy-averse Australians to CATCH A FUCKING PLANE TO THE US TO PHYSICALLY BUY THE CREATIVE SUITE than it was to buy it locally.
Holy fuck fuck Adobe's elitism.