Based on what? Your gut feeling? Exponentially? Looks linear to me.

6% to keep taxpayers healthy and fed in their old age or when they are disabled, after they have already paid into the program (because its an entitlement) is not something I'm going to worry about compared to ~40+% of the discretionary budget going…

Well, at this point, real lawyers have chimed in, and I’ve actually read what the EFF and other people have to say on the matter, not to mention I’ve seen cases where fair use was thrown out precisely because of the ‘amount and nature of the copyrighted work’ and I’m just going to say that you’re full of shit. Simply…

You can, but good luck convincing the judge if you are already so far outside of what fair-use would generally protect because the for-profit nature of the derivative work IS considered. You can usually claim fair-use when you are using the bare minimum of the copyrighted work needed to do your protected thing; “ for…

But that would only happen in a game thats basically a bunch of cutscenes and no actual gameplay....

OH CRAP!

They don’t? Damn. Once again, I’m all alone.

Actually he was exactly correct about it, and you’re embarrassing yourself with your limited understanding of the law.

Are you crazy? Where did you hear that garbage.

Prefacing this with IANAL: SOME derivative works, non-commercial in nature, using the minimum amount of protected material for the purposes of academic analysis, review or satire are protected; the *minimum* amount necessary for the purposes of accomplishing that one…

“Multiplayer functionality on any game is just an extra for a game. If you paid for the game mainly for that, then that was your decision. “

You could say the same thing about single-player campaigns in online games. If its on the box, its part of the game, and you have every right to have it work as intended.

Your…

6% of GDP is not a pittance compared to WHAT?

I agree. So lets quit buying jet fighters with my income taxes to protect rich people's overseas interests (so they can have nice appreciating stock portfolios whose realized gains are only taxed at 15%). Defend our own borders and stop spending trillions to stabilize the price of oil and maybe then I will worry about…

The money never actually runs out - its paid from current receipts — which doesn't mean that we won't have people eating cat food and being sent to suicide booths when people decide they don't want to suffer inflation from printing more currency or higher taxes.

Um, I paid for multiplayer functionality and there was no stipulation it only be with friends. So yes, my comment holds weight. I refuse to dupe - that doesn’t mean that invaders won’t.

More like 3 parking lots and a cave.

“It’s been seven months since Bungie launched Destiny, a video game in which players travel the galaxy recreating the myth of Sisyphus, “

Wait... I missed that travelling the galaxy part. I thought I was travelling an overgrown Volkswagon sales lot somewhere in South America after leaving an abandoned military base in…

I think the split should be along dystopian-teen-drama-schlock and everything thats not about the special people with magical deus-ex-machina abilities in a world set up to create predictable conflicts lines.

That would be a good start.

Well, the don't hire PIs for their management ability or perspective; they hire them because they managed to get a grant once for something that can be massaged into a buzzword like 'omics' or 'precision medicine'

The BNC cables are the worst, I feel your pain.

Honestly, I haven't had a good space opera in about two years now, and with the passing of Iain Banks, I'm not sure when I will. Every other book is a dytopian teen drama set in a postapocalyptic world with zombies or vampies. Even the sci-fi is getting this way "red vampire space"?? Seriously? Space is big. Go…

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He probably did it for years. And was probably chronically dehydrated.

Buttborne. That is all.