Gog-games has returned; if you missed it, they went private for a while, then announced they were coming back in a week. They seem to have come back early.

  • LiveLMEnglish
    36•3 months ago

    Nice but also kinda worrying no? What is up with this private-unprivate dance?

    • DdCno1
      45•3 months ago

      They released a few statements about being upset about people sending demanding/rude messages to them. They also complained about the cost of hosting (there are no ads on the page). Originally, they wanted to only open for people who are donating, but they appear to have backtracked on that, at least for now.

      It’s a common issue on the Internet. The moment you’re doing anything, especially for free, you are basically inviting vitriol.

      • @[email protected]English
        16•3 months ago

        A thing that always felt so weird to me is that there are so many other websites and services that work basically the same yet the people that run them don’t have such a shitty attitude about it. I’ve been in that position myself and you need to just ignore the idiots, they’ll always be there no matter what. I’ve always felt that the people behind gog-games need to get their heads out of their asses, if you look anywhere they communicate with people (which is VERY little) it’s just complaints, defensive and offensive statements.

        Please note that this in no way means I don’t appreciate the heck out of their work, I do and I have donated to them.

        But I really think they’re just doing themselves a disservice by treating basically everyone like shit. I’ve seen this exact behaviour in other places and it never ends good, and it was always their own damn fault by being unable to ignore and filter out the crap. Everyone else handles it and doesn’t act like dicks about it.

      • LiveLMEnglish
        6•3 months ago

        Ah. Man, if I were in their place I’d get rid of any and all means of communication.
        Idiots can’t send you rude messages if they can’t even e-mail you.

    • Armok: God of BloodEnglish
      7•3 months ago

      Fun fact:

      By default, in the US, you have copyright on anything you write. Putting a CC license at the bottom of your comment is a waste of electrons, unless you’re making it CC for some reason besides a futile attempt at persuading a scraper to not harvest your data.

      • @ChakravantiEnglish
        3•3 months ago

        Fun Fact: Dwarf Fortress is the only video game I still play once in a long ass while. I quit with VG with board games. I have zero regret.

        • DdCno1
          14•3 months ago

          This is the tech bro equivalent of posting this kind of message on Facebook:

          https://i.imgur.com/In7lZg5.png

          It doesn’t work. If you don’t want things you post publicly on the Internet to be scraped, don’t post things publicly on the Internet.

            • DdCno1
              9•3 months ago

              There’s a German word called “fremdschämen”, which roughly translates to “second-hand embarrassment”. It think it’s appropriate here.

              At the very least put a space bat between thingy and CC.

            • @mindbleachEnglish
              1•3 months ago

              You can’t retain extra rights by slapping “NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED” on your own comments.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 months ago

          He’s right you know. Scrapers and journalists will simultaneously know and respect the fact that he is not in the US, nor does he allow them to use his content without adherence to the license that he tacked on. I mean who would do that? And if they do? Oh boy they’ll be in trouble. Cory Doctorow will probably fire on them from his balloon or something. It’ll be glorious.

    • PirateJesusEnglish
      3•3 months ago

      Do you copy/paste that as a signature every time or is there a browser plugin?

      CC0

      • @[email protected]English
        1•3 months ago

        It’s a keyboard shortcut that calls this script

        #!/usr/bin/env bash
sleep 0.5
xte "str ::: spoiler Anti Commercial AI thingy"
xte "key Return"
xte "str [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)"
xte "key Return"
# TODO figure out how to print it self
#xte "str \`\`\`"
#eval $(sed -e "s/.*/xte 'str &'/" -e 'a xte "key Return"' "$0" )
#xte "str \`\`\`"
xte "str :::"

        I wish it were a functionality of the lemmy frontend.

        Anti Commercial AI thingy

        CC BY-NC-SA 4.0