I’ve been wondering how continued cord cutting is playing a role in the movie business. It seems like live TV was one of the more aggressive marketing avenues for upcoming movies, but with fewer and fewer people watching traditional TV (and the ads they bring) there is bound to be some level of collateral damage.

If it makes you feel better, you probably also hold a stake in their direct competition.

Especially with a company that once decided they owned “scrolls” in any video game title.

You were just that good at circumventing it. You had to be double-banned in response.

He is a certain type of anti-intellectual who believes “nothing is true unless I discover it myself.”

Education is useless, truth is a lie, etc, etc.

So he destroys everything he touches until he can recreate knowledge himself, poorly, expensively, and redundantly. Then declares himself a genius for getting back to basically where the rest of humanity already was years ago.

Seriously. The only people willing to pay what it’s “worth” will end up doing the same thing (or worse).

What we need are some actual privacy laws with teeth, so that the data isn’t worth as much to begin with.

FH4 and 5 are effectively MMOs. There is plenty to do alone, and the other players can mostly be ignored, but it’s still a shared world.

The copyright industry has pushed the “making available” narrative for so long, that’s sort of become the dominant talking point. IANAL, but as an internet user, I have opinions*:

a. That seems entirely backwards from what the law intends. “Making a copy” is done by the downloader, which is explicitly what the law is about.

b. The industry only went the other way because it was more convenient from a litigation perspective. It’s far easier to sue one person for seeding to 100 peers than to go after the 100 individuals who downloaded from that seeder. They got a few courts to go along with the more loose interpretation to get precedent for the next and the next suit.

* always be aware of your local copyright laws before listening to some rando online.

I was working tech support at my university when all these search engines first started appearing. It was also the era of aggressive typo squatting domains.

AskJeebes dot com was a hardcore porn site.

So what I’m hearing is that we need to throw 99% of our garbage away at the north pole.

It’s always amazing to me how consistently it’s in the top 10 best sellers on GOG.

You’d think at some point everybody would have a copy, but month after month it’s in, or near, the top of the list.

Causing a complete collapse of society to own the libs.

In addition to the others this is also an association fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy

For example, a fallacious arguer may claim that “bears are animals, and bears are dangerous; therefore your dog, which is also an animal, must be dangerous.”

Back pain.

It’s probably a good thing I’m not a national leader because the first thing I’d do is recall all diplomats and cut off relations. He wants isolationism? Give it to him and let him feel it for real, not just his tough-guy head-canon version of it.

Use whatever human rights violation justifications necessary (shouldn’t be hard) to hit the US in the wallet. Cut off US businesses from customers abroad. Expel military personnel. Pull travel visas. All the tricks America uses against everyone else. Make the people feel the inconvenience of not being a world citizen.

Your first type (treasury) isn’t usually called inflation, AFAIK.

That’s a metric more widely referred to as ‘money supply,’ and it has a number of different types even within that (M0, M1, M2, etc), depending on if you’re talking about simple cash, bank deposits, and other liquid assets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#Measures_of_money_supply

The Watchers

It is difficult to describe how exactly it met my expectations. Truly one of the most -whelming viewing experiences.

I haven’t played the remake, but the original AoM is the only RTS I’ve ever played for more than a game or two. Is the Retold version a real upgrade? Worth the cost of buying again?

Folks pointing out GCN/Wii internet abilities are missing that the experience was awful. Like sure, the guts of broadband were there, but actually playing a game with friends online was way more trouble than it was worth.

So to your point, real online gaming was indeed way behind other consoles (IMHO).

“Mooom, get me my CHEESY POOFS!”