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.
Ok, so I read through that article.
I want my time back.
Ignoring all of the fluff that every fucking urinalist seems to think is a necessary component of their storytelling, all I learned was that there are some (unnamed) politicians in the US that agree with Taiwan on some things. And some of them are in red states and some are in blue states.
Oh wow, in a situation where nearly every reasonable person agrees with Taiwan on many things, some US politicians also agree with them. What a revelation!
I feel dumber for having read it, and not because it opened up a world of information that I was previously clueless about.
All of the daily wire's other stuff is crap.
Most of everything is crap. That's just life.
I don't even particularly like Daily Wire or Matt Walsh, but What is a Woman was brilliant and Am I Racist looks to be another solid hit.
I think you must have missed or misinterpreted the "shaking down" bit.
And even without it, one person robbing another and then "giving" it to a third (with kickbacks to the family and friends of the original thief) isn't exactly "giving a dollar to a beggar."
I think it's mostly self-hating white liberals.
This is yet another case where the per-capita numbers are important. I have no idea what they are, but I suspect that the fragile race narcissists aren't disproportionately white people.
And yet the assertion that it is self-evident that a full blown international, intertemporal, racial conspiracy to exterminate the white race makes sense?
No, it's just that some Jews are Jewish supremacist assholes. Such as the ones who run an industry based almost entirely on nepotism and child trafficking that overwhelmingly hires other Jews who may or may not also be Jewish supremacists.
If you're able to find someone who admits that, congratulations: you've found a unicorn that displays a tiny bit of honesty.
Most of them will claim that being trans is somehow inherent to their nature and you're making it political by disagreeing.
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.