ZDL

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[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 hour ago

No it is absolutely not theft. It is not theft by law. (There's a reason why we have both "theft" and "infringement" in the lawbooks: they're different things!) It is not theft morally. (Theft removes the owner's ability to use something. Infringement does not. Infringement is a lesser moral crime if it is a crime at all.)

Please do not fall into the trap the IP holders like to lay by equating theft and infringement in your mind. You can have your opinions on whether infringement is bad or not (and the facts are … complicated with both sides being largely full of shit on this), but it is a matter of fact that theft and infringement are entirely different things.

Use the right term for the offence. Don't let IP holders' deliberate conflation to confuse the issue get to you.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 5 points 5 hours ago

Oh no! Talentless louts don't like people who've cultivated actual skills that people appreciate!

...

Wait, remind me: Whom does this inconvenience?

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

For me it would be Das Boot.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm pretty sure it is too. For starters the part that's been layered on top doesn't have that suspicious 50/50 light/dark thing going on that gives away so many AI generations.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 2 points 9 hours ago

The Ringworld one is brilliant.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 2 points 9 hours ago

Don't care much about either. My phone does the job for me and I have enough clothing to last me to the end of my life. (You know, about six weeks.) (I jest.)

 

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 day ago

If I were the kind who'd want children, I'd likely wish to raise them using a scissor lift.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 day ago

Wow! He has enough self-awareness to figure this out! (Not yet enough to actually stop being a human being made entirely of intestinal effluent mind. Baby steps.)

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, small businesses were already suffering at the hands of big box stores, stagnant wages, and online purchasing.

And now there's a downturn.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anything made in the USA (though that is not primarily because of cost of living, only partially). I used to stop off at various street food vendors for a snack on the way home every second day or so, but now I maybe do that once a month. And that is cost of living related entirely.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think you're missing the point. An American will see the "impact" of the "US President" "globally" while someone in Nigeria will have completely different concerns for what the Big Thing™ will be, and it will be Nigerian-centric, while someone having this same "itch" in Finland will have something Finnish-centric (say, Russia invading again) as their version and so on and so forth.

And yet, historically, when a Big Thing™ strikes it strikes from an unexpected direction from an unexpected place with unexpected outcomes for the overwhelming majority of humanity.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

They also tend to think the Big Event™ will be in their geographical area and will think it's based on their cultural concerns.

 

… that everybody who confuses correlation with causation winds up dying.

 

 

I'm not joking …

… but he is.

 

…but we can do better!

 

So when they return to port they can just Scandinavian.

explanation if needed"scan the navy in"

 

Apparently he doesn't understand cyberpunk either, which explains so much about him.

 

If only this were instead him being revoked membership in Society in general.

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