This. SOOO much this. I’m getting up there in years, I have no kids, I’m (at least for now) reasonably secure financially, and more and more I’m getting to the point where I just don’t give a fuck and am perfectly happy to let the world burn if that’s what everybody else wants to vote for.

Google and Amazon etc... can afford to create upload filters which scan incoming content.

Because this law is putting the onus on twitch/youtube, not the streamers? And considering the sheer amount of content being uploaded, how are you expecting twitch/youtube/whomever to moderate the content and ensure the streamers have the rights fee for whichever specific media they are streaming?

They aren’t missing out on any money if cost of the resulting lawsuits/fines/etc. from continuing to do business is higher than their advertising revenue. Companies don’t last long with negative profit margins.

1. That blurb doesn’t say youtube etc. are off the hook if there is no technology capable of doing this work. Just that member states will try and help make the technology. But let’s just say somewhere there is a blurb that says that.

by “paperwork fucked up” you mean didn’t bribe the right person?

If the whole case is sealed as other news articles seem to indicate, then it isn’t public information though?

Companies are finding it more cost effective to simply toss a million at Ninja (or some other influencer) to get him to play the game for a day than pay 10 marketing guys a $100k salary each to come up with and implement an “actual” marketing plan?

One thing about your summary. It removes the possibility that at least some of the 350 people affected will actually remain with EA (just at a different role/studio) and thus won’t be laid off or need to find new jobs.

Maybe, maybe not..

Cool. But does she have any plans to do anything about the real issue with modern education? Which is that most of what the teachers are teaching is a complete waste of time and they should be focusing more on useful vocational education/training starting some time in high school and continuing through secondary…

Yeah, my first thought when reading it was his Attorney saying that (and that it’s all sealed so nobody (except those involved) can say otherwise) is that maybe his attorney was simply lying... but I’m sort of curious if lying about an actual “what happened in the courtroom” would be grounds for disbarment, or if…

According to HIS attorney, there is no deferred prosecution, there is no deal, they simply dropped the charges.

I disagree with the analogy. People committing suicide frequently choose a symbolic place in which to do so. In this case outside the town hall.

Eh, it is terrible.

Uh, sure? What, you’re incapable of sticking one of your toes in something that’s large enough for pretty much everybody to put a pointer finger in with plenty of room to spare? Try actually thinking about it. Most peoples toes other than the big one are smaller than a finger (and thus small enough to fit between…

Yeah, but for some reason it always jams if I fold the corner over like the picture shows.

If “food” is a concept in game that is even slightly pretending to be realistic enough to have “food” as a gameplay concept, then it is stupid that a common food source throughout most of human history doesn’t provide it. Either don’t have deer, don’t have food as a concept, or they should provide food when slain. Any…

Uhm.

So...