You’ve made a good case for better copyright law - which I wholeheartedly agree with. If you want to call it smoofy-booble law, go for it. If you think no such law should exist - and I’m not saying you do - that’s a valid argument too (one I would disagree with, but valid none the less.) Copyright law as it exists…

Physical private property is made up.

“but there’s no real-world measurable consequence to the corporation for my actions alone”

Huh? It’s real in so far as copyright is a set of real rules regarding the copying of cultural works designed to both protect the author (the copyright term) and enrich the public (by having reasonable limits on the rights granted and the length of that term)

“Why do these companies care about people playing non-final versions of their games before they’re on sale? Anyhow, here’s my informed opinion that I wouldn’t otherwise be able to have were it not for a leaked non-final version of a product that Nintendo wishes to bring to market, which may influence your decision on…

“ If the function of the behavior is to seek attention then the only way to decrease the behavior is to cut off attention.”

Humans want to believe in a world that is rational. It’s true that if somebody seeking attention stops getting attention, or never succeeds in getting it in the first place, a rational decision might be to stop seeking attention. But humans are not purely rational, particularly as it relates to compulsive behavior. So…

clout != attention

I think that’s a very good summation. The weaponization of blame is something both parties employ to certain extents, but to one of those parties, it’s their entire platform, and they’ve painted themselves into a corner where their relevancy is predicated on perpetuating it indefinitely.

Seems to me that laws that protect acts of violence in the name of self-defense, laws that protect gun owners when their guns are used by others after being stored improperly, juries and judicial systems that are selectively lenient to certain classes of people create a system in which accountability doesn’t really…

Now, the part that I will agree with you on is “how?”

uh, that was exactly my point to him, it was an example of - if he was going to “solve” something without proposing how to make it happen, then why wouldn’t he propose the ideal solution? neither of our solutions are actual solutions, because neither of them include the details of how to make it happen

don’t worry, in my fantasy world solution, railroads are required to have them.

that’s not simple, because the question isn’t “what do we do” (to get the top of that huge mountain, it’s simple! climb it!) but “how do you do it”

“Are they telling us it impossible to make a game for $44 million today”

If a country had federal law that permitted a member state to create and enforce a law that I felt was fucked up, I would call that a fucked up country. I hope that’s not too confusing.

A parent company that owns multiple brands? Mind blown gif!

The world would be a much better place if we instituted the “travel draft” where every teen was forced to pick a spot in a drastically different culture to live on for a year just to bust up that impression of “normal” before ones worldviews become too calcified. (That we’d be forced to care about the economic health…

Because Dominion is a business and I don’t think any sufficiently complex case can be considered air-tight considering all the opportunity for procedural error, strategic error, nor any sort of guarantee that a judge or jury will agree with the way a plaintiff sees things or interprets both the laws involved or the int…

This is good. Watch it. Can't relate to the MGM is what jokes - it's on Amazon Prime in Canada.