I honestly don't think of Omelas as a "good story". It's powerful, makes you think and stays with you, but the power is just conceptual, with virtually no story supporting it. It's a fascinating idea, wrapped in florid description, a nearly nonexistent storyline, and effectively no characters other than the child (who…

For instance, how does Mrs Frisby learn to read in the book? It's legit handwavy.

My people. I have found MY PEOPLE. All these years, I thought that I was the only one who vastly preferred grounded-and-mostly-sci-fi Mrs. Frisby to bullshit magic Mrs. Frisby!

Err.. "copyright". I can spell, really.

This is not even vaguely close to accurate in any way. Please read up on copywrite law a little before posting anything else on the topic.

No, of course not. But they're not obligated to. I'm just saying, there's lots of people in the business who make fan projects, but most people don't hear about them so find it surprising when one of them draws attention.

Which he has. Unfortunately, with the DMCA, Vimeo is obligated to pull it down while he counter-files and the legalities play out. This is the primary flaw in the DMCA (though it's obvious why they wrote it that way.)

Tons of professional writers write fan fiction, professional film editors make fan films, etc. Most of them just do it under aliases to avoid attention.

You get that the things you mention are what makes it a parody, right? Without things like that, it would just be a standard dark reboot (which, while I still think would fall under Fair Use, would be a much less obvious case).

Dude, a ton of us look forward to Cool_Breeze's comments every week (as evidenced by the number of stars it gets every time). Just let it go, and ignore his thread if it really bothers you that much.

And it was great as usual. I missed your lengthy review last week!

This entire thread reads like it's from a strange world where you have no experience with how the internet works or its social norms.

What, you think that the companies running that legacy code aren't still constantly writing new applications in it? As long as most of your base systems are written in COBOL (like, in my experience, the healthcare and insurance industries, and I'm told most banks are), all of your upgrades and at least a significant…

It's not like COBOL jobs are particularly hard to find, even today, and they don't seem likely to disappear anytime soon.

1. So what if you don't care about or read metacritic scores? Far more people do than don't, and as a developer, he can't just ignore that. His livelihood may be directly affected by that score.

No, it's not.

The deepest pit of debugging hell:

The woman who ran the inn opened a peep-hole door in the main door and told the drunk to go sleep it off. He then whacked a hatchet into the door. The court was asked to decide if there had been an assault on the innkeeper or not.

I actually agree to a certain extent - though my personal theory is that the winner's album gets sculpted by the record company within an inch of its life, whereas the runner up almost always still gets a record contract but also gets more artistic freedom. But AI has genuinely turned out a lot of success stories,…

See, I don't necessarily agree with the proposition that "processed" (whatever that means, as most of the food we eat is processed in some way, including every cheese that has ever existed) automatically equals bad for you, and "un-processed" automatically equals good for you. So I don't think this conversation is…