“Carlson’s first episode attracted 114.7 million views”

I agree with you that specific regulations would add clarity. Problem is, the crypto industry is fighting specific regulations - that’s what all that mealy-mouthed complaining about how meeean the regulators are is about. So regulators will look at crypto to see what category it fits into best. It’s not actually the…

“Innovation” is often the same old thing dressed up in new clothes, which legislation covers just fine. I know the tech sector likes to think of itself as having only original ideas that the rest of us can’t keep up with.

It’s the same reason that very small children will have a meltdown if they are stopped from hitting another kid and taking their toy, or grabbing handfuls of candy off the shelf at the grocery store. They’re emotionally stunted people. Any reminder that other people exist and have feelings, too, sends them into a…

I don’t understand what you mean by ‘sub-divide’ here. You seem to be saying that if a problem has multiple causes, or if it’s impossible to 100% eliminate a problem without rigid policing, why bother trying to fix the problem at all?

Not everybody has had that experience, but of those who do, some try to monetize it on YouTube.

Thank you! Can confirm, this is a good summary. (I also appreciate the swipe at defense lawyers about knee-jerk removal.)

“Throw lots of money at it” means Disney would settle rather than fighting it in court. Honestly, having a lot of money to throw at it is no guarantee of victory unless the other size is dead broke.

How many reports of roofies per 28K people would there need to be for you to have serious concerns?

Did you read the complaint?

Exactly. It’s not an intellectual property lawsuit, it’s a theft lawsuit. They’re claiming that an employee ended his contract working on a card game, and then either was already employed by a rival or immediately jumped to that rival, taking their intellectual property with him. That’s very different than “hey, your…

You would if someone from Magic left a top secret MTG spinoff, immediately started working for whoever makes Pokemon cards, and then produced a Pokemon game that was just like the spinoff.

Literally none of that is true? The lawsuit isn’t about “game mechanics” - which aren’t copyrighted anyway, and it doesn’t matter if the judge ever played D&D - it’s about a breach of contract. They’re not asking the Court to make a groundbreaking ruling about TTRPG mechanics and intellectual property law, they’re…

Lion King is ripping off the plot of Hamlet.

Genuine question: are you an IP attorney? Because “copyrighted” and “patented” are wildly different things.

The elephant in the room is that “cultural change” requires men in the industry to take this shit seriously and take action to stop it - and by taking action, that means shutting bad behavior down, not just sitting back and pinkie-swearing to “take it seriously” if a woman complains. Imagine if gaming companies…

There were plenty of non-cute-girl nerd girls around, and the cute girls tended not to come back after the first time they got swarmed.

Anyone can see, but remember the right-wing griftosphere isn’t about what’s true.

The right-wing knobs really don’t care whether it’s true or not. BS and his cronies are people who don’t have any other marketable skills besides bullshitting to a base that enjoys being bullshitted to.

Shocking, true, but in all fairness that kind of sloppy journalism is cross-platform.