Culturally insensitive people never anticipate cultural sensitivity, the same way racist people decry racial sensitivity as “SJW” “cancel culture.” They don’t recognize the existence of the original problem at all, so the concept of efforts to fix the problem appear to them to be completely out of left field and…

Maybe not with like, night vision or underwater breathing, things that aren’t actual human characteristics to begin with (it’s a lot easier and more flexible to play around with things that never actually existed, as several other commenters have alluded to in various threads), but it’s kinda dicey when one race has…

Your family sounds surprisingly (or, I suppose, unsurprisingly, given the shared experiences) to mine. My father’s family also went to Lebanon before eventually making their way here a decade later; he also married a jewish woman because his beef isn’t with Judaism, it’s with the occupying entity where he grew up.

I was going to ignore you because you’re arguing against a strawman (nobody, especially myself, said Israel == Judaism), but frankly I was so annoyed by how much you think you’re part of the solution when you’re actually part of the problem that I had to step in.

Yeah my thought was that it could be very regional, which is why I was curious where that commenter is from

The American-fascist-conservative perspective on Israel is really fucking weird.

If only there was an example for them to look to of the writers of an extremely popular site having walked out en-masse when their writers were censored by corporate overlords for discussing socio-political issues.

This is far too informed and nuanced a take for a generally toxic commentariat, but screw it, let’s try to rise above it because you clearly tried to.

It’s 73 and sunny out. Mass Effect will be there next week, especially since they removed the multiplayer.... I’m cooking out this weekend

Considering how pretty much every piece of publicly distributed software in history has been pirated, the idea that “copyright infringement .... [is] really all you need to protect digital software” is beyond absurd.

That’s technically incorrect and being repeatedly glossed over in the comments. A user doesn’t have to own a license to the game and its assets; the user has to possess a copy of those assets. How those assets are acquired is left unstated and a lot of people in the comments are making the assumption that, because…

I think what you mean is “otherwise legal” things. Otherwise, that is, except for the statute that makes it illegal to tamper with or disable the lock. That reverse engineering might be protected; the disabling of the control mechanism is not. 

Not until they actually have a network to rival Steam’s, which is what they’re spending all this money on. Because the #1 thing Steam still has over Epic (which, after three years, finally is in usable condition with most of its key features) is network effect.

Totally understandable. If you don’t do this for a living you’re probably not trained to look at the yellow sticker and question who introduced the evidence. 

Not sure if this is a rhetorical question but this is the plaintiff’s exhibit, so Epic (or, indirectly, Epic’s lawyers) provided it. Courts don’t introduce evidence, parties do. 

Because as a trial attorney you never, ever assume the factfinder knows something you haven’t told them. If they miss the point of your argument because they don’t know that “Switch” is a proper noun and not a verb, you can fail to make your point. And if you fail to make your point, and the case is close, you can…

That header gif is facts.

Couldn’t put my finger on why I was so into it, but there it is

Definitely had no idea this dude was Tigole. No idea who Jeff Kaplan is (probably because I’m not an Overwatch guy).... extremely familiar with Tigole. Thanks for the clarification.

To get that fun crust on top, you sprinkle the sugar onto each jar and let the broiler function on your oven do the rest for about a minute.