Speak for yourself.
Founder and lead developer at Overclocked Abacus Games
My alternate account on PieFed is whiskytangofoxtrot@piefed.world
- 0 Posts
- 241 Comments
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data showsEnglish
3·4 days agoOr games from the late '90s and early 2000s 'cause they’re just weird.
And Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid.
Superman was first published in 1938. He’ll enter the public domain in 2034.
However, the only things going into the public domain then are the first year of Superman comics, which didn’t include some key aspects of the Superman mythos. For instance, while it was established in the first issue that Superman came from a destroyed planet, it didn’t tell us anything about that planet; we saw it blow up in the first panel but we didn’t get its name or see any of its people. That would be added in the newspaper comics, which would start in 1939 (so they wouldn’t be in the public domain until 2035.)
Likewise, we don’t see anything about Clark Kent’s childhood in the first year of the comics; that would be fleshed out in the novel The Adventures of Superman by George Lowther (one of the script-writers on the Superman radio series) in 1942, so it’ll be in the public domain in 2038.
Superman also was just really strong, really fast and really tough in those first stories. He didn’t start using X-ray vision until 1939, he didn’t fly until 1941 and he didn’t have heat vision until 1961 (although he’d been performing heat vision-like feats with his X-ray vision for years prior to that.)
Finally, while Clark Kent was a reporter from the beginning, his paper was originally called the Daily Star. It wouldn’t be known as the Daily Planet until 1940 (no in-universe explanation was given for the change; they just suddenly started calling it by a different name. Its editor also changed from being named George Taylor to Perry White, although aside from the name the characters were the same.)
However, one foundational piece of Superman media is already in the public domain; the Fleischer/Famous Studios cartoons from the 1940s. Their owners didn’t file the paperwork to extend their copyright (back when that was necessary) so they’ve been in the public domain for decades. Up until now that didn’t mean much since Superman himself was still under copyright, but anything introduced in those cartoons such as the Mechanical Monsters (an army of giant robots that Superman fought in an early cartoon) or the Arctic Giant (basically Godzilla before Godzilla existed) would immediately be fair game. Arguably Superman’s flight was also introduced in those cartoons, but there are some earlier comics where it’s debatable whether or not he’s flying or just jumping with bad physics.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Trump humiliated by fact-check after claiming Canada used AI for 'cheat' Reagan adEnglish
3·12 days agoShall we play a game?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldto
Funny@sh.itjust.works•Do they want me to fuckin' honk or not
1·14 days agoRake in the lake.
The revenge of Schrödinger’s cat.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction IsraelEnglish
1·16 days agoThere’s probably a Rule of Acquisition about that.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled MonstrosityEnglish
5·17 days agoWhy did you have to replace the SSD?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issuesEnglish
1·18 days agoIs this why kerbalx.com is down?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldto
Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Wine-Staging 10.17 Lands Fix For 11 Year Old Bug Report Affecting Various GamesEnglish
4·20 days agoCool. Pretty much everything recent works with Wine/Proton/etc. without a problem these days but a lot of older games still won’t run. I hope the Wine team continues to make an effort to fix these old issues.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human VisitorsEnglish
2·20 days agoVoight-Kampff them.
The first few Final Fantasy games have a hell of a lot in common with Castle in the Sky. The heavy emphasis on airships, the ancient, powerful civilization of which the female lead is the last descendent, the mid-story villain switch, etc.
The best Final Fantasy movie is Laputa: Castle in the Sky.
Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldto
Funny@sh.itjust.works•Some people just can't take a hint
2·27 days agoYeah, the cats came first.
One that’s really easy to drive a camel through.
Except you’ll end up at the wrong store.



Which means if they worked in Linux they’d be exclusive.