What a hilariously stupid comparison that has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on this particular situation.

Whaaaat? I’m not sure if you’ve played the game or not, but the safe circle continues to get smaller and smaller, forcing players out of safety and into view of one another eventually, no matter how far apart they were at the start.

Oh, no, no. I meant a GOP member from another state bitching about how California wants to do its thing, despite previously ‘championing’ ‘state’s rights.’

Is that so bad, though? That’s still not very many in the grand scheme of things.

Acting like they’d won the superbowl when it hasn’t even passed in the Senate yet, to say nothing of the moral shittiness of the bill itself.

What’s the over/under on a GOP member who supports the current healthcare bill under the guise of ‘states should choose how to do healthcare’ opposing this because... reasons?

Perhaps winning a game could get one a key as well? I feel like that’s not unreasonable, right?

Every last one of them voted against it. They are concerned.

To WHO?

That’s a funny example, since there are specific laws regarding bullion salvage that address the precise situation you’re talking about, and the law is equally clear on stolen intellectual property.

Who would he sell it to? You’re talking about the source code for the gold standard of RTS games here. He’d have needed to get into some SERIOUSLY deep black market TOR contacts with bitcoin transactions and shit to even have a chance of selling it at all.

When you unknowingly purchase stolen property, the law will almost always side with the true owners. The issue of reimbursment would be taken up with the person the stolen property was purchased from, and in that case, the person who purchased it is really only entitled to whatever money they paid for it with in the…

How much money could the guy have made if he’d chosen not to give it to Blizzard?

The disk is worth negative thousands, if not millions of dollars to the person who possesses it, because if they do something stupid with it, they’re going to get sued into the next millennium.

The one who found it bought a storage unit with a truckload of old Blizzard merch, and the gold disk was evidently inside. Considering that it was reported stolen in 1998, it’s a pretty reasonable assumption that this is the same disk.

Is this really what ya’ll have come to when analyzing things in life? Blizzard did an objectively good thing. The fact that they got good PR out of it is entirely irrelevant, they did an objectively good thing.

Jesus tapdancing Christ, the amount of cynicism in these comments is unbelievable. How do people live such cynical, shitty lives without throwing themselves into traffic before they hit 20?

He got almost $800 of free stuff for something he never could have successfully or legally sold anywhere, and would have received a pretty damn harsh punishment if he’d uploaded online.

As long as it gets there, I suppose!

That they can be retrieved at sea is the huge one. It took a LOT of failures before they managed to really start to consistently nail that, but SpaceX took the wise approach of simply not giving a shit when they did fail and had their rocket explode on the pad.