MudMan

I think the Criterion Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted games are underrated. I get why, they're very Burnout-y for NFS fans but don't play just like Burnout, but man, are they sticky and precise and smooth.

And they still look great today, too.

It's telling the guy went "what did Brave do now?", though.

Maybe telling that we have a couple meme opinions in our head for these recurring arguments and we don't particularly consider anything else, but telling nonetheless.

Maaan.

I mean, I would take a Burnout instead. I just wonder if it'd make sense to try that at this point with a completely different market and group of people. I guess we can see if they figure out that Skate reboot and go from there.

For sure. There's plenty of unenforceable stuff in EULAs. For one thing a bunch of these are trying to apply globally across places with way different laws managing customer protections.

But if you don't mind that logic getting turned both ways, just because a EULA clause isn't enforceable doesn't mean you shouldn't add it.

If the idea is your lawyers think there's a risk of people buying a copy, refunding it and keeping it and you want to make sure that doesn't happen it makes some sense to add the clause. If a judge ever says that clause doesn't apply to a given situation you still mitigated the risk from the intended applicable situation.

That's why these license deals also tend to have boilerplate about how a clause being unenforceable or made illegal should not impact the rest of the clauses. It's a maximalist text, by design. It mostly exists like a big wet umbrella to keep companies out of the splash zone. Whatever ends up being used in practice is anybody's guess. The world of civil law and private deals is way less of a black and white exact science than most people getting their legal intuition from crime dramas tend to think.

Admittedly, this game doesn't look particularly good on a CRT, either.

The hype about the visuals being "3D" was so weird and misinformed, and you could absolutely tell at the time.

It's boilerplate meant to clarify that if you refund the game you can't keep a copy (and that you need to accept the eula and if you don't you can't keep a copy either).

Notably a lot of the games in that list are strictly single player.

Also, the same line shows up in all sorts of private contracts. It's probably in your work contract if you work from home.

Online discourse is broken. It doesn't help that everything else is also dumb.

I am mad about how dumb we all are, and how easiy swayed by simple narratives that reinforce our biases.

From the Baldur's Gate 3 EULA:

This Pact shall remain in effect for as long as you use, operate or run the Game.

You may terminate the Pact at any time and for any reason by notifying Larian Studios that you intend to terminate the agreement. Upon termination all licenses granted to you in this Pact shall immediately terminate and you must immediately and permanently remove the Game from your device and destroy all copies of the Game in your possession.

This didn't cause any stir when it came out. That makes sense, right? Nobody reads these things.

Except everybody in the press read this one, because it went viral for being written in character as a D&D document and having a bunch of jokes in it.

Admittedly this is meant to apply to refunds and things like refusing the privacy agreement, but that's the point, it's fairly standard boilerplate for that reason.

Not what it says.

It's in the Baldur's Gate 3 EULA.

Read the article.

What they're saying is this is a relatively common temrination clause. It's meant to apply to, say, refunds.

I am not advocating muting over blocking. I am saying blocking here sucks, so "block fast" isn't particularly useful. I'm confused about what part is confusing.

No, it's more the other way around. You can't block. Blocked posts/people still exist attached to your post, they can keep seeing your posts and replying to them, I'm pretty sure. All blocking does here is keep you from seeing what the blocked person is doing, but it doesn't affect them in any way.

I guess it's an expedient way to make them think you're super passive aggressive. So... like a mute button.

Not sure you should block fast on Lemmy and its derivatives. Fedi in general, really. It's a mute at best.

Honestly, for such a well intentioned meme I'm surprised by the general icky feel I get from it. I think these general advisory things based on a world that is still super into social media and terminally online may feel outdated now. You may just want the being kind part somewhere not on the Internet.

Wait, who wins between scissors and wax tablet? Does that count as rock?