I can’t speak to performative whining or insecurity projection, those seem to be characterisations your own mind has fabricated. I wouldn’t pretend to know how your thoughts work nearly well enough to help you explain how you came up with them.

I’m pretty sure the ‘free’ thing is a persistent myth about fan works. Charging money is a factor in the fair use test but it’s not the only one. Free art would still have to pass the overall test.

Isn’t fan art also technically illegal without permission?

Maybe he forgot to take timezones into consideration when he decided to pretend to be Australian.

If we want the Star Trek future, automation is a prerequisite. The whole reason Star Trek’s utopia works is because people are freed from the need to labour (because technology handles it automatically) and have time to indulge in more enriching activities that they choose for themselves, like space exploration.

It was a DMCA takedown, just under section 1201 (circumvention of copyright protection). 512 grants limited liability to service providers for copyright infringement, the section (and its process) doesn’t apply to circumvention.

If true, you’ve lived such a sheltered life it’s no wonder you don’t understand the problem. If you have any specific questions on parts outside your experience, I’m happy to answer.

It was met with derision by some FaZe fans who accused it of being a desperate clout chase by corporate suits raiding the brand to line their own pockets.

Just gonna say, when I posted my reply earlier today Kinja showed exactly no other replies to your question. Now it’s decided to show 8 of them. Sorry for the duplication then!

The Ferengi are an alien species in the Star Trek universe. They have an especially male-dominated society focused on acquisition of wealth with little regard for ethics. Women in Ferengi society are very much second-class citizens, disallowed from acquiring wealth, talking to men, or even wearing clothes in most…

You’re not thinking big enough. How do you deliver these unthematic cosmetics, in a way where the player doesn’t actually get what they want most of the time? Loot boxes.

“The problem with women designers is they don’t pitch classically man-oriented games like war and fighting” is such an incredibly stupid argument to make. It’s not even “oops I misphrased”, there’s no charitable way to read this.

Naturally it’s the females’ problem for not being able to take harsh criticism, and not the critic’s problem for not being able to give constructive criticism without being a dick about it.

They give you units with store purchases too, one point per dollar (example below). They award them immediately at purchase. This is an example with the currently discounted Valhalla complete edition.

Sure, but that’s just a limit on what the points can be spent on, the “get the points then refund the game” problem still exists in both cases. If Ubisoft doesn’t need to delay issuing its points, I don’t see why Epic would need to.

I took it as shorthand for “my interest/patience has been exhausted”, a statement that works perfectly well. The more odd thing is the ten upvotes his hostility seems to have attracted, but it wouldn’t be the first time obvious trolls have managed to rope in fake/edgelord support.

Some actual differences between two consoles (and between Steam and EGS):

How does a 5% discount at sale offer less enticement than a 5% cashback two weeks later?

If the purchase price was discounted 5% at the checkout, there wouldn’t need to be a delayed cashback system and refunds would work exactly the same as they already do.

The depth of field is a bit hard to judge. If there’s an inch or two gap between the port and her face, I imagine it’d probably work at an upward angle.