Fair use is a band-aid on a bullet wound. The reason it’s expanding so persistently, yet so inconsistently, is that we keep randomly running into judges who know that something is systemically rotten, but are bound to use the language and framework of fair use to try to justify why they’re giving somebody a break.

Clearly you don’t get NFTs.

It’s weird to me how you seem to think this article in any way made an assertion about the technical legality of the projects at issue.

>Laura Bailey (THE greatest voice actress to currently work)

Orville is just a TNG homage, though. Everything “new” that it does is mediocre to awful - namely, the persistent thesis that mankind can make it to a galactic communty without losing all the poop and dick jokes (except the ones that Shakespeare wrote, because he gets a p’n’d pass,) and that some other alien races are…

>The real issue with a game promising 500 hours of content, then, is that it’s pretty much impossible for a large proportion of that content to not be repetitive, padded, or automatically generated.

They say there’s no accounting for taste, but I feel like that’s one of those statements that’s quite true on the individual level and not really all that true on the cultural level. Overall, most Americans are going to react negatively to Peking opera, even though you’d be much harder-pressed to pick out exactly…

I suppose it would be too dark and too clever by half to reveal that this robo-squad has actually been fixing the majority of the Legends’ screwups (just in a different sequence) as a brutal-but-necessary cleanup crew. It would be a clever explanation for why the Legends have only suffered/inflicted any kind of…

There’s a vain, inchoate hope floating around in people’s minds that technology will translate to a massive socio-ethical disruption. When it doesn’t, they get sad.

On a slightly related note, I was shocked (ha ha, I’m so clever) that Starlight’s power didn’t feature more prominently in the Stormfront takedown at the end of Season 2. It was so beyond obvious that it felt wrong not to do it.

I think it’s fair to argue that culture and media’s primary, dominant sin is that it’s allowing us to entertain and distract ourselves to death, regardless of its substance. I also think it’s fair to argue that proxy battles over art and culture don’t have nearly the impact on the rest of reality that their champions…

Anybody that conflates “altered” with “offended” is part of a problem: a problem of lack of education, reading comprehension, and critical thinking skills generally.

The Tumblr/Twitter crowd didn’t abuse D&D as badly as all the Satanic Panic people, but they certainly didn’t do it any favors, either.

Shit rolls downhill, and the smell can change slightly during the trip.

You should work harder on avoiding sentence fragments.

Eh, is it though? CP is CP regardless of how the children (present or past) feel about it. It’s like stat rape times a billion.

Most people want tort reform because giant corporations told them they want it, and those “tort reforms” are what will make it even more impossibly difficult to recover damages against giant corporations - more so than now, when the entire bench is running active interference for them by drastically reducing all…

As with all of these conversations, he’s probably right... about the 90% of upset people whose opinions aren’t worth a fraction of a community college credit, at Greendale.

I’m pretty torn. On the one hand, this is an unusually obvious scam. On the other hand, I think video games have successfully cultivated an audience that’s already way, way down the nihilism-as-entertainment rabbit hole. These people will shrug and ask why getting their jollies from spending money on a scam is any…

30% “Tank!”, 30% that one scene where “Green Bird” played. It’s kinda ridiculous how many people in my generation suddenly got into anime once some other fan showed them that one episode of Cowboy Bebop.