As a US citizen, I consider the current administration an enemy, too.

Checks out, that’s about what a house cost in 1979.

$14.99 in 1979? Christ. You could just about buy a house for that.

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I’m not sure a theatrical release is the best option. They might have been better off selling it to Netflix or some other streaming service; as much as I want to see the movie, I’m not sure I’d actually go to a theater to see it. (Not because of a lack of interest in the movie, but rather, it takes a lot more to get me into a movie theater today than it would have 5 years ago.)

Wouldn’t you be least likely to die if you were, say, in a coma, under 24/7 medical surveillance in a hospital, or some other similar circumstance? Being out in public at all raises the probability of dying, so how would you ever go out? You wouldn’t be able to use a knife, or even scissors. You’d never be able to interact with anyone online - there’s a non-zero chance that someone takes such offense with what you say that they find where you live and come hunt you down, so it’s safer - infinitesimally so, but safer - to just not go online at all.

What I’m getting at is, the scenario you’ve laid out with the bounds you’ve set just means you’d have the worst life imaginable. At least you’d be alive, though?

Really impossible to say because, to reiterate the point the post you’re replying to made, the media is not covering protests like it was in 2017. There have been multiple protests in all 50 states, some very large, but the word just isn’t getting out about them.

“Free Speech Absolutist” invariably just means “I want to be able to say whatever I want with no repercussions, but believe that nobody else should have that right.”

Well… 1m^3 of rice, then the next day 1m^3 of beans, then the next day 1m^3 of potatoes, etc. - you might not like what you’re eating for the first few days, but I think you could pretty quickly accumulate enough ingredients in massive quantities to make some pretty nice meals, even if that limitation does exist.

The problem is, nobody in this administration gives two shits if they get ‘condemned’. It only matters if someone actually steps in and does something about it.

The agents that arrested her were masked and had no visible badges or identification. There’s nothing stopping any random group of people from doing that and claiming to be ICE agents… I’d like to think that if I saw something like that happening, I’d step in and try to physically stop them; in reality, though, it’s easy to sit in my house and think that, but I don’t know if I’d be able to do it in the moment. I think we’re well past the point of physically resisting this bullshit by force, though.

Get together with your neighbor, replicate the parts of each other’s replicator. Repeat this daily for a bit. Exponential growth. Give it a month or so, then just go ham and make everything you want, maybe after renting a warehouse to keep them all in.

This one’s fun!

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Another great example of this is Bandi Namco’s loading screen minigame patent, which expired in 2015. The patent was incredibly broad.

“thousands of hours of video.”

more than 15,000 pages of information and 800 GB of data

What the heck, did they just submit every piece of surveillance footage, every news article, every Reddit post talking about it, just every piece of media in the world that had the words ‘Luigi Mangione’ in it anywhere?

She sounds great. I want more of this. Even if she got elected and did absolutely nothing of note, the fact that she’s vocally against the status quo would be enough to earn my vote.

I’d argue that the indie scene is already providing that; it’s really just the AAA studios that’re churning out cookie cutter garbage. However, if everyone had patented game mechanics, those indie studios wouldn’t be able to make those games. I’d challenge you to find a game that hasn’t borrowed something from another. I certainly can’t think of one.

Fair enough; game mechanics really shouldn’t be patentable. Specifically / particularly video game mechanics; every video game uses concepts and ideas from other games - there’s nothing completely original anymore. Imagine if every game had patented all of its mechanics - there would be no new games, it’d be impossible to make something. Imagine if ID had patented the concept of a first person shooter, for instance.

This is a whole separate discussion; game mechanics really should not be copyrightable at all, IMO.

Yeah, this is a really shitty, clickbait title.

“They were only getting paid for the first copy sold,” Fryer explained. “They lost millions of dollars.” Sure, multiplayer games were growing in popularity at the time, but as Fryer put it, “How do we create a single-player game that is so compelling, that people keep the disc in their library forever?”

Really, they finally found that one simple trick to maximize profits: Make a good product that people want to play longer. Go figure?

If you mean “enough copper to make a pickaxe and hammer”, panning is by far the most reliable method. If you mean “Enough copper to make everything I want to make with it”, are you using a prospecting pick? (If not, do so.)