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Hey, kraken live a long time. Maybe it picked up heirophant levels back in the 3.5 days.

I'd agree with that. The updated version from the early 90s is the one I played, and it's probably the easiest to find unless you really go looking for the old version.

I still think it counts. It's still the same fundamental Starflight experience.

Starflight came out in 1986, and if you liked Mass Effect, you should give it a try. IMO it has a deeper and more interesting implementation of the space/planet exploration mechanics, not to mention a solid story to tie it all together.

The UI looks dated, of course, but it's straightforward enough to use. It influenced the Star Control games, another series that holds up (but just barely misses the 1990 cutoff).

Lol, this DLC description:

With the DLC, you will have 50,000 coins in Holy Clash Cards and this coin allows you to open all cards. It also gives you in-game privileges. You receive priority in error reporting

Kind of in awe of the guts to ask people to pay for the privilege of having their bug reports read.

Yeah, I think it's a particular server. Kagi has been working normally for me this morning, and I use the Firefox VPN that resells Mullvad access.

This is tough to answer, because a lot of pirated stuff is literally priceless, i.e., can't be bought at all.

I'd be happy to pay for the recent Ace Combat 5 and 6 upscaled ports, but they were only available briefly with preorders for AC7 on consoles I don't have. They haven't been sold outside of that brief window several years ago. Even if you tracked down unopened copies from 2019 and bought them from third parties, the license codes they contained expired long ago.

Fortunately, the Ace Combat community has put a lot work into making emulation work. The older games are playable, just not in a way you can pay money for.

No, not least because almost nothing in this area is self-evident due to the state of caselaw at the moment.

Putting aside for the moment the question of whether "generative" implies "transformative" in the specific sense under discussion in copyright law, the definition of "transformative" in this context is highly contentious, and courts have avoided defining it in an unambiguous way. Even here, the courts will probably avoid answering these questions if at all practical.

This is a big part of why fair use is in such a bad state right now: no predictability in how courts will rule on it as a defense, plus no way to keep you out of courts in the first place.

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It sounds like there are different biomes and air piracy now, but I haven't yet had a chance to see how different this makes it play.

We can ask this question from the other direction: why doesn't everywhere else have a flamethrower helicopter?

OpenAI and Microsoft recently redefined “artificial general intelligence” as OpenAI making $100 billion profit.

Defining intelligence this way means that virtually no human who has ever lived qualifies as intelligent, either. That's one way for machine intelligence to reach parity with human intelligence, I suppose.

Then again, Sam Altman has lit enough of Microsoft's money on fire that he especially doesn't count as intelligent according to this definition. So maybe it has some merit after all.

"It's a safety feature to reduce spalling!"