“It’s just that the culture they come from is Western Christian Euro-American culture”

Sometimes a company is forced to remove a product from the market for a variety of reasons. We literally had a pandemic that fucked supply chains sideways, we have patent and copyright trolls, legal disputes and a little thing called lack of cash flow, among others. If you can’t think of any then I have to wonder if…

Lost sales. There could be a myriad reasons why a product isn’t on sale anymore. So if it is freely distributed while it is not being sold then the market when the product is reintroduced is smaller. It’s not rocket science.

The producer is being harmed if they say they are being harmed. If you feel like you wouldn’t be harmed all the power to you. But that is entirely subjective.

Let’s say you have a piece of media that you made available and in return for consumption of that media you want $20. For whatever reason you decide to stop selling your media, after all it is your right as the producer.

I just don’t believe that other than necessities should this idea have merit. Video games are a luxury no matter how much we want to classify them as art (art is hugely subjective) so I don’t see the societal harm if Nintendo hoards their IPs and goes full Smaug whenever someone infringes on it.

Some art is meant to be a commercial commodity, like video games and movies, music and many forms of entertainment.

“because if you’re not going to make it available to society, why should society respect your ‘ownership’ of it, when the concept of that ‘ownership’ is a purely social construct”

Oh my god, shut the fuck up. Go shoot some Bud Light to make your fee fees better.

This a really bad take.

Right, everyone is against the Republican presidential primary frontrunner.

Gas and rent are necessities, games aren’t.

I am not shitting on people who want to make friends with coworkers. I do it too. But there are far too many coworkers who have no sense of boundaries or manners for that matter who will interrupt what you are doing so they can get their fill of social interaction. Go to a bar after work or go to lunch together. My…

Man, you constructed two strawmen there. Impressive.

I would watch that. Make it happen Scelestus.

Are you under the impression that a company won’t do this if you’re in the office?

“While I’m sure many people dont care, some people (me) enjoy my office mates, enjoy hanging out with them, relish talking to them in person.”

“The argument is that you shouldn’t be applying oils in combat”

I like that they out themselves as the fucking idiots they are.

You think that a 13 year old was actively participating in stealing from other Jews?