Fuck fraudulent takedown claims and fuck YouTube for protecting the assholes who file them while making it an absolute pain in the ass for creators to fight back against them.

No.

Not at all similar situations.  Nintendo owns their property and they request stuff be taken down.  This is someone pretending to be Bungie requesting Bungie property be taken down.

I think you have it the other way around. This isn’t the people affected suing Bungie. This is Bungie suing the person who impersonated them and made those takedowns.

for the giant multimillion dollar corporation

I mean, have sympathy for the small content creators who were the main ones getting struck by this asshole in his bid to stir up a boogeyman for his own benefit.

Unlikely this will result in any change since YouTube isn’t a party to the suit.

Dino Riders!

I’ll settle for a Jurassic Park and Top Gun Maverick mashup

I think you’re failing to distinguish between value and value proposition.

Right, there’s a huge difference in “there’s nothing on Gamepass/Netflix” to “There’s nothing that I want to play/watch on Gamepass/Netflix”.

It’s like people who complain there’s nothing on Netflix because nothing in the new releases catches their eye.

Anyone who isn’t finding value in the gamepass is bonkers-crazy-pants or has already spent their money on every game to come out each month. As someone on a tight budget, there is at least one game announced each month that pays for the whole subscription. I can understand un-subbing because you just don’t have the…

Smash Bros probably has a role here too.

Is there no feasible route to the Gulf of California?

the fact that Ernest Cline predicted our most likely future is lame. Lame, I say.

As a 30 year veteran government employee, the one thing my career has taught me that the biggest winners are the lawyers.

He actually seems... reasonable? As much as a Republican can be. From Wikipedia:

I mean, there’s no technological reason you couldn’t do this. But from a practical and economic standpoint, it’s about as feasible as towing icebergs down from the Arctic for freshwater.

All the previous climate deniers have switched to, “Well, obviously climate change is happening, but it’s not us that’s doing it, it’s more Earth, who, you know, just does stuff.”