Just for clarification I am implying modern copyright law - not all the way back to the 18th century as the durations of many copyrights prior to 1978 are extremely muddled. Also I would never go off of the laws set in 1790 as we are talking a system of government that was in its fledgling state and then stating that…

While I generally agree with you that the term is too long - making it so this would be in the public domain would be too short. Fate of Atlantis came out in 1992, that would make the term only 25 years. That’s shorter than it was even at inception (95 years from date of publication).

Imagine if you wrote a popular…

I can see that - personally I would label that as a “trash fandom” but that’s more of a matter of semantics but I can see that argument all the same. In either case I guess stuff like that never bothers me because regardless of how a fandom behaves it doesn’t change the overall quality of the product (making…

Note: The following is not an attack on you; just my insight into statements like “fandom trash”

I hav never trusted the “it’s overated fandom trash” statement - mostly because generally if something is THAT popular it has to be doing something right. The question really is just is that something anything you care…

When I was a kid, this song was sung so badly and was so awful to me that it actually took me a long time to actually realize he was singing it to the tune of Super Mario Bros.

This song however mysteriously I still like and gets stuck in my head to this day

My wife and I are in our early 30s and occassionally people think we’re still in high school - I have still not figured out how to process this.

This is generally true but when I See people saying that they NEVER take a vacation because of it - or that since somebody is streaming 8 hours they now have to stream 9 - or thta they will do 24-48 hour streams to try to garner views it does create a destructive behavior that is not healthy.

On top of this the…

It’s a bit of both from what I gather. And I think there is only one streamer who I watch almost all of their stream and he only streams once a week - but generally I do believe that most won’t watch an entire one - though in chat (asssuming they are telling the truth) I would say there are a lot who admit to watching…

Never thought I’d have context for this

For some I think that is the case, because the idea of “I play video games for a living” and not in a testing environment can sound particularly appealing. Afterall, people always say do what you love. the problem is that in order to be succesful at it there are serious real pressures as you’re basically operating a…

Well that depends on the job, afterall it is an inherent risk to many sports and public safety jobs (police, fire etc.). But intrinsically I agree with you, I think that many people don’t appreciate the risk especially since when you’re young and generally healthy most probably wouldn’t consider just how much this…

I would love to know what happens between 34 and 35 (which is admittedly oversimplifying the age group) that cuases unintentional injury deaths to drop by 16%.

The article I believe sums up the risks pretty well. The sad truth is that A LOT of streamers will give advice that in order to grow as a streamer you need to stream long hours (at least 5) as you are trying to basically outlast your competition so when they go offline, their viewers move to you.

So basically it’s a…

See my above reply to LoyalPhoenix - it contains the general answers to your questions in a legal article I wrote for Anime News Network last year. To answer your question though character names are not subject to copyright except i VERY RARE circumstances, the name would be a trademark at best but many of the names…

1. It’s “fair use”
2. It doesn’t protect as much as you think as is a legal defense only thus it’s only use is actually in court not something that protects you from a takedown notice or being contacted by the company

It’s called Tumblr, have a look sometime.

I assume you mean in competitive? I haven’t had this experience in quickplay.

How about man plays Cookie Clicker?

Play some of the older titles, pretty much anything before Awakening - that will give you the mechancics and story without the dating-sim aspect. The titles are a lot harder because death is permanent and no other mode exists but it should alleviate at least that one concern.

Personal recomendations go to the Gamecube…

This is absolutely true, I think the difficulty there is the job market for these type of positions is generally highly competitive and the number of people claiming to have this particular skill set has only grown in that time thus making it expotentially more competitive.