I am absolutely entitled to Nintendo’s games. Art belongs to society, not to those who create it. Hence the public domain. I have no respect for the current legal structure around the public domain - I believe copyright should be restricted to a 10-20 year period at maximum. So I’m willing to break that idiotic law…

Here we go again. Piracy is not “stealing” - theft deprives someone of something. Piracy doesn’t deprive anyone of anything, ESPECIALLY if they’re not selling it any more.

Hot dogs are DEFINITELY sandwiches, and pizza is just an open-faced sandwich.

Truly gutting to hear Big Bird speak and realize Caroll Spinney is done with the role for good. Even worse than AI Mark Hamill in Book of Boba Fett.

Yep. And they should all be referred to as “less lethal” for that exact reason. Calling them “non-lethal” perpetuates the fallacy that these forms of assault are harmless, and thus don’t require regulation or care in their application.

It’s important to know that you can only play the original Link to the Past and Super Metroid if you get the New 3DS. Very disappointing for those of us with an original 3DS. I’m probably going to buy a Retroid Pocket 2+ to emulate them instead.

If you’re willing to pony up cash, there are TONS of services that will reveal someone’s address. If she owns her house and it’s in her name, you can often find the info yourself using publicly accessible databases. Doxxing someone is dead simple the vast majority of the time, unless you take great pains to obscure…

Rubber bullets at close range can easily still be lethal depending on where they hit. I’d call them “less lethal” not “non-lethal.”

That sounds more like something to address in therapy, rather than to get the rest of the world to conform to your pet peeves.

Why?

We’re all in public, and if you’re interesting enough to stare at, we gonna stare at you. Be less interesting.

“Shit like this” is a conversation, which you can ONLY have with other members of the Left. The authoritarian Right isn’t worth talking to as it doesn’t accomplish anything.

“Maybe we should replace some of GandalfUnicorn’s best friends with other people in order to fulfill a quota.”

You can connect with the setting without appropriating traditional clothing of a real-world culture. Design something that is appropriate for desert wear without dressing like you’re cosplaying Aladdin. Dune is a great example of this (in costuming only - all of the Jihad stuff is a big yikes): the stillsuit has…

I noticed the same thing - it’s because your ad blocker removes affiliate links, and then it collapses the whitespace so there isn’t even a blank left behind.

He killed Nazis because he wanted to be the only one to plunder other cultures, not because he’s some kind of “hero.” I enjoy Indiana Jones as much as the next person, but it’s pretty easy to see that he’s an opportunistic asshole. In the same way that I can both enjoy Rick and Morty and also recognize that Rick is a…

Wow, well if your two friends didn’t care, that must make it just fine for everyone! You’re arguing in SUCH good faith. You’ve gone from “what, I can’t even make fun of the British?” to “well I’ve played a game as the genocidal psychopaths who raped, murdered, and enslaved countless thousands of people, and a couple…

That’s not even remotely similar to what’s happening here. The example from a Spanish perspective would be if you wrote a campaign based in the pre-colonial Americas, and then promoted your “sensitivity” by releasing a video where you wore conquistador costumes.

“At a certain level, going so far out of your way to complain about every little thing becomes an oppression all it’s own.”

That’s not in any way my argument. This is about an extremely public, extremely well-funded performance - not about personal games. They vowed to involve this setting thoughfully and are falling woefully short. Why not address the actual discussion at hand instead of making up strawmen to argue with?