In other crimes, this is handled by how a reasonable person “should have known”. Compare with the crime of buying stolen property: if you buy something from a retail store, and the owner was actually putting stolen goods on the shelves, you wouldn’t be found guilty. But if you bought something from the back of a…

Even if you ask for ID, and they show you fake ID, you’d still be guilty under these laws.

I was questioning the design of such laws. I’m uncomfortable with laws that criminalize normal behavior randomly based on a variable out of someone’s control. Almost always, the person prosecuted is really a creep (like this guy), but going to prison for being unlucky is unfair.

That definitely puts him on the creep side to start.

That’s the problem: there is no way to know. I don’t see a good solution to the problem, because either creeps get away with molesting minors, or people with no criminal intent get prosecuted. I just normally follow the adage that it’s better to let the guilty go free than to punish the innocent. But that would…

I’ve never liked how such charges can occur even if you truly don’t know that they’re underage. Most of the time, the perpetrator *does* know, but when they don’t, this is a justice system gone awry.

If you have a way to execute those cards as instructions on the CPU, yes you do win.

Article 2 Section 3 of the Constitution: “He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union”.

In some percentage of Super NES systems, pressing the select button of Mario All-Stars’s version of Mario 3 will change your current outfit as a debug cheat. This is because the debug enable variable wasn’t initialized. As a result, the variable had whatever value RAM had at power-on, which differs randomly from…

No, young wild cats meow too. Meowing is a kitten behavior that generally disappears in adulthood. However, when cats live with humans, they figure out that we don’t respond to most cat communication, but we do respond to meowing, so they will meow for us.

English has some counter words, but yes, in Japanese, you almost always need one. Example of English counter words: “sheet” of paper, “ream” of paper.

“Labo”/“rabo” (ラボ) is the Japanese abbreviation for the English word “laboratory”.

The Dragon Quest/Warrior 1 run was crazy. It’s basically a TAS that can be done by humans.

I wish that the video had shown things like doing wall kicks and backflips, to show how crazy they look from Mario’s perspective.

The only reason they don’t just use actual SD cards is to make piracy harder. There’s no technical reason to have custom cards at this point.

The United States is not the only country involved here.

He’s lucky that he didn’t get a visit from the Feds. DDoSing someone is a federal crime in the US.

I played Guitar Freaks and Drummania a decade before Rock Band and Guitar Hero became popular. To me, this is the second time that the genre died out.

Zelda games in particular have a long history of being glitchy. A Link to the Past in particular can be beaten in less than 2 minutes.

“Niggardly” is etymologically unrelated to that other word. It’s only with the unfortunate pronunciation/spelling similarity that it’s become inappropriate to use.