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  • Flashback and Ultima VIII

    Both games were inspired works of art with unbelievably frustrating mechanics, often involving jumping onto moving platforms. I think I actually broke a keyboard playing Flashback. And yet I kept playing.

    Back then, if you had a game, you finished it, even if it made you cry. Because you didn’t have anything else.










  • But reading and learning from a library, then writing and selling your own book based on that is NOT stealing.

    It could be argued that these AIs are not actually learning but collecting and rearranging. That’s still stealing in my book, especially if it happens on a massive industrial scale and by a megacorp instead of a person.