Someone got arrested and jailed in Japan for copyright infringement over sharing youtube videos of visual novels, and people are getting mad about it for some reason?
Visual novels have always had some degree of content embargos on them because you literally kill all reason to buy them if you can just watch the entire thing.
It’s not rare to see fresh releases have a clause that prevents showing material of them beyond a certain point in the story in their entirety, forbid commentary-less runs and/or ending videos.
Not to mention the youtuber was making edits to reduce run time. Essentially condensing the story into an abridged and more easily consumed form. Without commentary!
That will harm sales because some people don’t want to sit through a 20+ hour visual novel.
All the online outrage seems to be just around “evil corporation crushing youtuber with copyright abuse” and it’s completely missing the nuance of the case.
A visual novels gameplay is the story, so by putting that story out there you are violating copyright.
The fact they were cutting down the runtime by removing any of the filler parts which makes it more consumable than the source material, which makes it a substitute. AND the content was monetized.
This guy deserved to be slapped with copyright infringement.
As Starfield consumes my soul, with about 20 hours playtime in the two or three days it’s been out… I would like to bring you this chapter.
I promised myself I’d rush the main story so I could do the repeated NG+ needed to max out the skill tree but…
Hmmmmm… it’s getting difficult to resist the allure of unravelling mysteries now for one full playthrough later.
I might surrender to my desire.
Anyway enough rambling, here’s your chapter.
So Starfield reviews are now starting to go live, when you read this it should have been out for a day I think?
Honestly I really really want to play.
But I cheaped out and bought the normal edition not the early access edition.
Ahhhhhhh torture!!!!
But I will persevere. Hopefully.
On the upside I get to exploit all the guides for mistakes to avoid I guess?
I have decided that I will be buying Starfield.
It took me a long time to work out which game I wanted from the three new releases but I settled on that.
The winning factor was the science and tech system.
Do I know what it is? No.
But I do love me some science!
I like technological progression and if I can do that then I will do so.
Baldurs Gate can come after. Or maybe Armored Core.
So there’s this kickstarter for an mmo-style anime fantasy roleplaying game that’s about half way through it’s run.
I’ll put a link at the bottom.
Anyway I’ve been reading up on it and I have to say there is some serious temptation for me to get it.
I knew about it early on, but wasn’t interested, but my interest has been building bit by bit.
And now I am convinced it’s like the perfect system for an Isekai campaign. Which is super tempting.
My Omnibus for A Certain Magical Index arrived.
The thing is HUGE.
It weighs a nightmare amount too. It’s like 15lb or something. I dunno my cooking scale capped out at 6kg and it kept going over, but it’s probably less than 7kg given the volumetric weight on the shipping label. Yes, I did some maths.
Anyway. It’s BIG. Like REALLY BIG.
And amazing. Man am I glad I got it.
I have no idea where I am going to keep it though… I will figure that out somehow.
I plan to watch the meteor shower either tomorrow night or the night after.
I’m not sure yet, but I think I will go regardless.
Not sure where I will go though, unless I can get transportation.
The only places within walking distance that would be dark enough for optimal viewing would be the beach but even that has streetlights.
I’ll have to figure out a plan.
I just realised it’s been a full year since that time I went out to watch the meteor shower…
That means it’s that season again and I should check when the peak hours are.
Future Robin here! I checked, it’s literally this weekend, thank god I did check!
I will have to consider what I plan to do, maybe I will go out and watch them, might be fun.
Last year the peak happened when the moon was super bright which was a shame.
Okay so, I actually forgot I had this open to post. So good think I left it open and didn’t shut down my pc last night!
Here’s your chapter.
Oh and the original ramble that was here was all about recycling, but that’s pretty boring.
It was something about buying lottery tickets by putting cans in machines.
I think I saw it on a youtube short.
I meant to do some more of the Girls Frontline event today and totally forgot, I just left the emulator open all day.
So that’s a day of farming lost for me, since I have more important things to do now.
Oh well, it’s not the end of the world but it’s still a bit of a pain.
So my copy of magical Explorer is still AWOL.
I have my Magical Index collectors edition dispatching in a week.
And then I also plan to buy a couple of supplements for Star Trek Adventures…
Hmmm, it appears that next month is a book related month for me!
Let’s hope I enjoy all my purchases without regret. Especially that expensive collectors edition.
With Blue Archive and Project Neural Cloud both doing major story events at the same time I am absolutely swamped by gacha content.
It’s actually kind of insane how time consuming both are despite both being side games!
Neural Cloud’s is taking the lead on time consumption due to the fact all the story event stages are like mini-puzzles of their own!
It took me quite a while to work out how to do one of them in the two turns it needed for the extra reward.
And I found a bonus easter egg in one of the later levels which has made me concerned about if there’s other easter eggs in previous ones!
Things are getting interesting though.
Our previous enemies are now our allies, the main enemy is putting on major shows of force and our quasi-allies might be less benevolent than we thought.
I joke, I actually do have a ramble, as much of a miracle it is that I am making 12 of these a week or something like that now.
I have to run Dungeons and Dragons soon, and I haven’t prepped for it at all-!
Yes, I am very smart.
I got distracted by other things and well, you know how it is.
I will make it up as I go along!
