Here, I'll treat you with the same respect that you have shown to other people:
It sounds like your support of Trump is quite possibly the single non-idiotic opinion that you hold.
But I'll bet that if pressed about it, your reasons for supporting him are also idiotic.
What an awful article.
"Wow, look at how Kamala is reaching out to young men!"
"Trump tried to do the same thing a long time ago, but he's a hateful bigot and his hateful bigot channel got banned for hate and he hates gamers and thinks games cause violence."
Anyone who opened an account and downloaded said content should be sweating right now.
Only if they went on to share it again. Otherwise there is no conceivable scenario that IP holders would go after the receivers, let alone be successful at it.
Even back in the Napster lawsuits, they were only going after people who had shared songs.
Ori was a Super Meat Boy precision platformer hidden inside of a Metroidvania.
If you like precision platformers, it's decent, but the story is nauseating saccharine "everybody in the forest learns to get along and it was all a big misunderstanding" syrup.
So you're describing behavior that doesn't describe what I've seen from Fuentes, and I agree that that the behavior you've described is 100% fed-speak.
Which is why he comes off as more of a troll to me than a fed.
Fuentes is exactly like that though. He is a literal meme of a Mexican mutt short guy jerking off to femboys while screaming about how Jews bad and women evil.
I don't follow him. I've caught a few long-form interviews with him on podcasts that I do watch over the years (Hodge Twins recently). He did none of this. He talked about stuff that I would classify as mostly reasonable, and nothing he said made me feel like I need to go and subscribe to his channels/feeds/etc because I just don't find him that interesting or insightful.
Maybe he acts differently in other places. I don't know or care. I don't think he has much real influence; he has almost no presence outside of very specific Internet niche, but when he does leave it he at least seems to be able to behave himself.
But apparently not thinking he is a fed and is merely a troll is insufficient. Whatever.
That didn't answer my question.
Furthermore, I'm an atheist, and that sounds like a load of shit to me. Clearly there are different characteristics in different religions; some are supremacist, others are not.
But if you do respond again, you'll still dodge the question and argue about religion in general instead of specifically about individual people who think they are, literally, part of "God's chosen people," and are perfectly willing say it to your face.
Feds don't bring up good points. They act as a racist caricature cartoon to serve as an example of "wow, don't be like that crazy guy."
I don't follow him, but from what I have seen, Fuentes doesn't strike me as that.
Fair enough; as long as things remain niche, they'll probably be able to fly under the radar.
Anything that achieves widespread recognition will bring the fury of IP lawyers upon them.
And it will have been 100% avoidable. Don't use copyrighted artwork, and don't use trademarked names. That's all they have to do.
Some people don't like hearing the truth, but this is the correct take. It's a ridiculous luxury item that will be literal garbage in a few years.
The only reason I have a decent GPU is because I need it for work -- which is developing a 3d rendering engine.
The last top-end GPU I bought was a Voodoo 5 5500. What an expensive mistake that was.
There are dozens of Zelda mods like this for basically every game. OoT has the most by a long shot, as it has had roguelike modes, expansions, and other fully created new games using its assets and engine.
Mods are completely different than a new, stand-alone product. Even if they're reusing assets from a ROM, the actual distributable "code" is (essentially) entirely new. It's legal to create something new to modify something, and it's legal to modify something that you already own, so neither of those are legally actionable. Best they could do is send scary sounding letters making unenforceable demands.
And yeah, not everything gets struck down. Nintendo's Eye of Sauron legal team can't see everywhere at all times. But if you don't want to be spotted, at least don't try to wear the damn ring when you're in Mordor.
Using copyrighted artwork and trademarked names?
Yeah, this is going to be gone shortly.
I don't understand why people do stuff like this; they're just begging for a takedown and/or a lawsuit. Use some fucking AI to generate assets similar to the original artwork, change the name, and then just describe it as "inspired by Zelda: Link to the Past" and they'd probably be in the clear.
Instead, it'll be a blip on the radar before it disappears and people who don't understand copyright and/or trademark law will whine about Nintendo being assholes for a clear case of reasonable IP protection.
And I say this as someone who has Zelda-inspired apps on the Google Play store. I didn't use Nintendo's artwork and I didn't use Nintendo's trademarks, and they've been up for more than a decade with no legal issues; not even so much as a strongly-worded letter. And they've got hundreds of thousands of downloads.
Know how to not get smacked by IP lawyers? Don't fucking break IP laws.
Not AI-generated men. Those are soy-generated men.