> Diablo 2 was my jam. Loved it.

As somebody who came to the remaster without playing the original, that game did NOT live up to the hype. Diablo 3 certainly wasn't perfect, but I could see where they deliberately made improvements that addressed deficiencies in Diablo 2. Also split-screen multiplayer.

Younger gamers are already treating the games I grew up with as "golden oldies" and "timeless classics" the same way I used to treat the music from the 60's.
There are youtube channels where young guys dive into the c64 and other "antique micro computers" , expressing their wonder at this ancient archeo-tech.

feels weird, in a good way though.

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37000 in the first few weeks. That number will likely grow to at least double by June. And, it's a non trivial revenue stream.

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It's times like this I am happy I never gave a shit about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or whatever the hell else people use for socializing.

The only one I do use is reddit, and that's mostly to keep up with games, music, and movies, as well as the regular world news.

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It's about time, now everyone can get a blue tick. People are saying that they're shooting themselves on the foot but I really don't think that's the case. It's still going to be free to use and this is just a way or getting more money.

For those that want to become influencers and small businesses it's great news because they're taken seriously with a tick and people will take them way more seriously if they are paying for it. Not to mention that if getting the tick becomes an actual trend it'll get to a point where it'll be very ease to spot a spam/troll/bot account

Just giving you a word of warning. You're arguing with an idiot. Probably best to leave it be, they ain't listening.

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>After Immortal nobody should trust them again

You probably should have just finished your comment here, to be honest.

It’s actually 37,000. If you think 37,000 people paying $8 is going to make a dent in that $44 billion dollar purchase I’m not sure what to say

Your argument neglects the business side of the situation which explains the motivations to allow and disallow use in the two scenarios… if I run a content website, a search engine crawling the site so it can generate search results which send traffic to my site is beneficial to both parties, it’s symbiotic.

Alternatively, if I run a content site that an AI company crawls and then uses to train a model which then negates the need for my site to would-be visitors, it’s parasitic.

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Because I'm not talking about defining a model, I'm talking about scraping copyrighted material. Why would I change the subject to your strawman argument?

Go check out /r/sleeperbattlestations

There has been for a long while, a whole community of antique computer enthusiasts.

Some people is simply silly.

They actually are. The precedent has been to use public domain material (which is why there are so many fine art style GANs), create your own data, pay for data to be created, pay for existing data, or keep the models private. There are plenty more artists and other jobs than lawyers who know this isn't fair use and will be negatively impacted if these companies are allowed to continue this practice.

If you do the math, it’s almost exactly what it would be if you had invested the same amount into their stocks at the time.

None of what you said addresses anything I said in my comment.

You’ve been a thorn in my side for far too long, Avatar

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I'm speaking about using copyrighted art, music, etc. I understand what training is. I also understand the steps companies take to prevent even the perception that they're training on copyrighted material. They either generate pseudo data or purchase entire libraries from stock photo sites. OpenAI and by extension, Microsoft are hoping they can get enough people on their side by saying, "Nothing is copyright if you think about it," so they can do whatever they like.

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They’re not “pulling a fast one”. There’s no precedent here, and there’s a boatload of lawyers who agree that this is fair use. There are also a number who believe that it won’t be. The courts will have to figure it out, but until then, nobody knows how it will play out.