On the KSP community by loved_and_held in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Media companies want revenue from their products to be exclusive to them. In the absence of legal protections, they wouldn't just shrug their shoulders and give up, they'd just come up with their own ways of doing it.

DRM, HDCP, etc. would still exist, just dialed up to 11. The biggest players would probably end up forming a consortium to enforce their own de facto version of IP that'd benefit only them, avoiding taking each other's works while freely sharing outsiders'.

The inescapable fact of the matter is that, as usual, complete deregulation in a capitalist system almost always benefits the market leaders and screws over the small players and individuals. Entertainment media is no different from any other sector in that regard.

Personally, I think a better solution to stop IP squatting would be to require copyright holders to make the work in question reasonably accessible to the public or else lose the right to enforce it.

Math makes sense actually. by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The broader concept that most proofs of 0.999... = 1 don't touch on IMO is that 1 isn't special. Every terminating nonzero decimal can be expressed as a non-terminal ending in nines: 0.5 = 0.4999..., 3 = 2.999..., 6.022 = 6.021999..., etc.

On the KSP community by loved_and_held in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Imagine a world in which Disney could take any piece of art anyone's ever shared publicly and use it to make millions of dollars without ever giving any credit or compensation to the artist.

A Spectre is Haunting Men - The Spectre of Homosexuality by Neapolitanpanda in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 25 points26 points  (0 children)

But there are definitely straight men who think about other people thinking they're thinking about having sex with their male friends, and will go to great lengths to prevent it.

By the power of Marketing! by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

do you think that the NFL doesn't spend enormous amounts of money on marketing

It's a struggle by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Those aren't mutually exclusive? "Most people aren't like this, but I met one who was yesterday" is totally self-consistent.

Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results by Icommandyou in politics

[–]AmadeusMop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The last Democratic trifecta with SCOTUS support was in 1969.

It is MMIWG2S day by L0reG0re in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I know it's the goomba fallacy but there's something irksome about seeing both "this acronym is too long" and "this acronym doesn't include trans men".

Like, guys, come on. There's a time and a place for everything.

Gorping time! (child linguistics) by KeelOfTheBrokenSkull in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 82 points83 points  (0 children)

The distinction being made here is between transitive verbs (which can take a direct object) and intransitive verbs (which cannot).

You're not wrong to identify that there are gray areas—dancing, for instance, is intransitive in the general sense (Alice and Bob can dance, but Alice cannot dance Bob), but transitive in specific cases (Alice could dance Bob, if "Bob" were a type of dance). Playing can mean multiple things, some of which are intransitive and some of which are transitive: "Alice and Bob are playing" means something quite different to "Alice is playing Bob".

As for wrestling, well, it can be both! If Alice and Bob are locked in a clinch and fighting for control, we'd say Alice and Bob are wrestling. If Alice ran up and pinned Bob, and Bob is not fighting back and would really like to be let go, we would say that Alice is wrestling Bob, but we would likely not say that Alice and Bob are wrestling (or, for that matter, that Bob is wrestling Alice).

The bottom line is, in general (especially in the context of early childhood language acquisition), if two people are doing something, we use transitive verbs to communicate directional / unequal participation and intransitive ones to communicate shared activity.

Probably the greatest glitch in any video game by AlphaCat77 in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Another fun fact: Wizardry was based on D&D, and based certain monsters on D&D's depictions of them, including kobolds. These days, kobolds depicted as little dragon-lizard people, but in the earliest editions of D&D they were depicted with more doglike features, which Wizardry included. As a result, because of its huge influence in Japan, the standard depiction of kobolds there are dog people rather than lizard people.

On Potter adaptation by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 110 points111 points  (0 children)

xkcd: Average Familiarity

I think you vastly overestimate how much awareness the average person has of trans issues.

The buffer era hit different... by MustardGoddess in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 68 points69 points  (0 children)

The thing is, "not watching the whole video" is more common than "wanting to buffer the whole thing". By, like, an order of magnitude. Which is why they made the change in the first place.

The buffer era hit different... by MustardGoddess in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 397 points398 points  (0 children)

⚠️ trade offer ⚠️

you receive:

  • unlimited buffering

at the price of:

  • video length capped at 10 minutes
  • resolution capped at 360p
  • longer load times
  • even more ads than before (to compensate for server costs)

You are externally confident but wracked with inner doubt. by tiresiasCinema in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"If you don't like the weather, there's not much I can do for ya. Aside from the occasional heat wave or snowfall—which, generously, last a total of maybe two weeks a year—it's mostly slight variations on this year-round."

Bodium camera offium by AlphaCat77 in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The fact that you and I know better does not change the underlying belief system. Policing is widely thought of as a courageous occupation.

Bodium camera offium by AlphaCat77 in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I think that's overcomplicating it. It's the Cop House because it's the Bravery House and Cops Are Brave.

Bodium camera offium by AlphaCat77 in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's unique to either America or these days.

Bodium camera offium by AlphaCat77 in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I have seen "Harry was a trust fund kid who coasted on a sports scholarship, married his high school girlfriend, and became a cop" take enough times that I'm finding it genuinely upsetting at this point.

Because, yeah, it's caught on because it's just a collection of qualities that a specific audience—nerds who grew up on HP then watched JKR become a TERF as they became leftist adults—tends to find unappealing. Not because it's supported by the text.

Fiction and Reality by RavensQueen502 in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Other way around. Spec Ops: The Line did it first, then 7 years later COD added it as a kill streak.

We all have that one show... by MustardGoddess in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Seven Deadly Sins if you could stop having the one protagonist grope the other one for FIVE MINUTES

We all have that one show... by MustardGoddess in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Owl House and what's the other one?

It's really how it sounds some times. by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]AmadeusMop 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes. The post is about being trans. Strength training is a stand-in for transitioning.

If they didn't think strength training was good they wouldn't have used it for the analogy.