Honestly, as someone who has read the books... the characters and worlds are really fascinating beyond the flavor text of the cards... but if they were going to show people that maybe start with a TV show to onboard people and end the first season with a teaser of the many other worlds/planeswalkers beyond the story…

Actually in the US, federal policy states that until she hits 18 any bank accounts opened must be custodial accounts which belong to her but must be approved with a parent or guardian as manager (with not only complete access but the right of refusal to limit the minor’s access to those funds!) and she cannot reclaim…

Likely yes. While the game mechanics are not copyrightable, the visuals including the environment, the UI, and the visual FX are. The first threshold for discussing if a work is an infringing derivative (and therefore liable for suit) is the common sense question: “Would most people and assume it was adapted from the…

Tributes require attribution. If they were attributing, Black TikTok creators wouldn’t be so upset. The single largest resounding thought among Black content creators discussing this issue is not that they are repeating dances/songs/whatever, but that they are doing so in a way that misrepresents themselves as the…

Repeat after me: If your status as an ally relies on others tailoring their tone, message, or image to be something you feel comforted and validated by, you are no ally at all.

I think the confusion likely arises from what they mean when they say the timeline splits. The way they’re suggesting it suggests it’s more of a concept of super-positional parallel universes. Bear with me.

I’m expecting the TVA to fall at the end of this because Marvel has set up something that simply cannot continue to exist in the MCU: a fated outcome that strips all gravity from outcomes. And I’m hoping that the writers pull a wink-and-nod by having Loki ask the question in Episode 1 “Why haven’t I heard of you?” —…

Copyright infringement isn’t defined only by the illegal sale of infringing products but also the potential for the infringing product to reduce opportunities for profit. If I listen to music in a free game and by the end of it decide I’m exhausted of it and not interested in hearing it again by legal means that…

I don’t completely disagree, but how much of this is because the inner lives of women in the MCU has been non-existent until Captain Marvel and/or WandaVision?  

She has not exited academia. It is inappropriate to frame it as if her refusal of this position, particularly while still holding a prestigious position at University of Maryland, “hurts students.” By that same logic her accepting the position hurts students who would have otherwise been under her care at Maryland.

Yes, even more so then. In Japan we practice a system translated as White Label studios, where whole studios exist to quietly provide work to other studios and not even be mentioned in the credits. White Labels have are seen as less socially acceptable in the wake of many game dev scandals since, but this time would…

I do AI research and will probably be getting one.

As someone who started their career working at one of the big Japanese houses, this is an incredibly rosy-tinted picture that ignores a lot of the history of Japanese game development (and our larger culture). Buckle up, I’m going to take you on a little ride through the seedier parts of Japanese game dev…

Do you understand what a parable is? Because that’s what you get when you take a short, specific set of events in a potentially fictional scenario and use it to tell a story that casts characters in specific moral roles. The nature of a parable is that, whether you mean for it to be or not, it is instructive.

Tell me you don't understand cultural appropriation without telling me you don't understand cultural appropriation.

So let me recap this for you as succinctly as I can:

Not really, but I love that you tried.

The right to refuse to share aspects of your culture with the descendants of the people who actively worked to destroy it is a pretty understandable position, but go off sis.

Nobody says that just because you are not welcome to learn a language that it means no language exists for communication between you and those parties. As I mentioned in the thread, many indigenous peoples who ask to be left culturally isolate learn outside languages specifically so that a way to communicate is…