Yes, I have. The fact that you open with “there are no laws against it” (which isn’t even entirely true but that’s a separate discussion) shows you fundamentally don’t understand the issue. This isn’t about criminality, this is about civil suits.

This much, much slower than stuff like baton rounds or other “less lethal” stuff - less than half the velocity - so a fraction of the energy (I forget how to calculate it, but less than half the velocity is a lot less than half the energy). It’s true that there’s no impact that can’t potentially hurt the wrong person.

Yeah this seems less like a menace or a barely “less lethal” weapon like the cops usually like, but rather fairly sensibly designed but perhaps not very good at its job? I’d rather have that then them having something actually dangerous.

“Okay, yeah, they said as much.”

“It just didn’t really make visual sense when the next game would establish that all the other Reapers were either giant cuttlefish ships or large beetle ships.”

Yeah it’s out of place here.

Really? All the adults I know who have seen it were unimpressed, “fine” being the main descriptor. No-one hated it, and no-one was particularly keen.

Well, I mean he’s still Frank Miller, but yeah, in 2018 he apologised for all the Islamophobia and the weird-ass comments he made about Occupy Wall Street (which basically boiled down to more Islamophobia), saying he was going through a very dark period in his life, and wasn’t thinking clearly. He certainly seemed…

I mean I guess the point is it’s not really stealing if it doesn’t cause real harm which was the problem for the media industry. Which, still, to this day insists on constantly intentionally creating situations where piracy makes sense and in most cases isn’t even “impacting a revenue stream” or whatever.

People have forgotten the IRA already? Goddamn. I used to go to school through the Ring of Steel every day, and have felt the shockwaves (albeit hundreds of yards distant) of a couple of IRA bombs. Weirdly I don’t hate them, I always kind of felt they had a point.

Mate:

“I did not suggest that JK Rowling has done nothing wrong, or that she has not caused harm to people who are trans.”

You’re not wrong. What’s particularly weird is that there’s huge generational divide. Basically it’s Gen X (but not Xennials, note) vs. all younger generations, with Boomers mostly just confused about the issue (even some Conservative Boomer politicians/ex-politicians are at least neutral or unactive on the…

We already kind of had that study thanks to 9/11 and the brainworms it gave a certain kind of SF or comics writer. Most of whom never recovered (though bizarrely Frank Miller did, albeit only to his pre-9/11 which is still very... Frank Miller). It was noticeable that in most cases, they already has some tics…

Most modern Lovecraft-inspired works engage with the racism and broad fear of difference of Lovecraft. It’s weird that you know they exist but don’t know that.

“I never said or meant this: “I must obey all property laws no matter the human consequences”.”

“Also, aggressively arguing without engaging in a dialogue is unlikely to convince people of your arguments”

“I’d also disagree that she is going out of her way to make the lives of a minority worse on purpose for the sake of it.”

Stealing isn’t claiming ownership you thick bastard. If you can’t see the difference, then that’s on your own lack of comprehension and nothing else. I swear they get dimmer by the day.

You wouldn’t steal a car.