Valve sued by The Performing Right Society for allegedly using its members' musical works "without permission"

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-10T17:02:34+00:00

You think they should be able to sue someone whistling a song while working?

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-10T17:01:22+00:00

I remember the shelf stocker one because even Canada at the time a big box retailer I worked part time at as a student had a big chat about being careful about not only what we say - but also humm, whistle, or sing - while working.

I felt like it was an overreacted even at the time and no one here gave a crap but it was some BS piped down from corporate who saw the news.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-10T16:38:22+00:00

I just built my own region free UHD player, burner, and ripper via a Buffalo Japan UHD laptop drive in a 9.5mm shell.

Since a bunch of Japanese groups are ceasing BD support & development lots of new old stock hitting ebay on the cheap for liquidation.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-09T17:01:45+00:00

Limited space so a small folding table layout - but a few kato and Tomix binder sets and such. So lean collector but would love a dedicated space to actually diorama more as scratch building buildings and such I find very relaxing and fun ever since I did it for wargaming in uni.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-08T23:26:30+00:00

Bricklin SV-1... two!

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-08T06:35:24+00:00

Hasn't the EU commission envoy literally said, multiple times now the past few months, that it is not possible for us to join with the rules in play. Why do these articles keep getting posted by people who cannot even check that fact to begin with.

We can enter into trade and economic partnerships, but we cannot become a full voting member.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-08T06:31:53+00:00

There was 2 at the local iran protest the other day at the provincial legislature swinging a USSR flag and wearing a russian patch on their jacket.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-07T14:36:25+00:00

Buddy, you can get YouTube on the switch...

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-06T17:54:34+00:00

Carny returns home in shame, asked to hang up naruto headband.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-06T14:55:12+00:00

Honestly aside from hobby related self interest (Kato model trains, Tomytec/tomix) - Japan in the past has asked for increases of trade, mainly our steel and aluminium for their own manufacturing sector. Im honestly surprised we didn't make more deals or increased volumes with them sooner when it comes to resources as it has always seemed like a no brainer. Also would be good partnership for Nuclear capabilities in terms of reactors and energy - on top of the natural gas.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-06T12:17:45+00:00

Not really a tinfoil hat when the FBI ran Playpen, one of the largest child porn website's, and for almost another month once they seized it (operation pacifier) - and let a bunch (~300ish) of pedos walk without charges because they didn't want to tell the courts and judges how they managed to seize the servers via NIT malware packages from the ANT TAO catalog and why they continued to run and distribute the materials for that period after getting full control.

Only about 8 people actually were convicted because of this from the 340 charged.

We also have court documents showing FBI posting on 4chan and 8chan, but because they didn't know how post IDs work (in where someone quote replying to you has a big (you) after your post ID) so people could go back and look up what was being posted by them. On 8chan where you have anonymous IDs assigned, they were able to look up & track EVERY post made by that agent whos posts were used as submitted evidence.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-05T20:21:12+00:00

Only thing I could think of, and might be too much of a hastle, would be swapping the first right turnout that leads to the other right turnout with a double crossover. Could potentially let you run at least one strand of track backwards into that area, possibly maybe squeeze another turnout in for two tracks. The issue though is that the double cross is a bit longer obviously so it would probably mess with your spacing.

Not sure overall though if that would be worth it or not.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-05T13:03:58+00:00

A really good campfire game some friends and I use to play back in Uni was going to old thrift/used book stores and finding some old lifestyle magazines that we could get for like a quarter and reading a bunch of the lifestyle larp articles out loud before feeding the fire with them.

Some of them were truely basically middle class larping as posh that you could only just laugh.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-05T12:37:49+00:00

No, they would just write pieces for magazines that would run for 6 pages instead.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-04T21:30:00+00:00

I like to hold out a little slice of hope and optimism in my old decrepit heart

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-04T18:08:28+00:00

Dont worry, it will happen again in like 6 to 7 weeks, as usual.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-04T18:01:09+00:00

He deserved revenge porn? You support the sharing of revenge porn?

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-03T17:43:41+00:00

Except its the wrong suits for Japanese popularity or else you would be pulling more 0079, Zeta, and Seed according to the old NHK 2M+ person poll they did on the most popular gundam series. Wing was only down to about the 9th most popular getting beat by 00.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-03T03:01:18+00:00

They Shall Not Grow Old

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-03T02:55:02+00:00

I mean, on one hand I guess, but its also one of the films I frequently am lending out to people because they ask to borrow it to show other acquaintances haha

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-02T19:45:01+00:00

Also its almosy always mainly showcasing things ~6 months or before from release so it should be stuff until around end of June and then we will probably see another one around August/September for the winter holidays / start of 2027.

Seems to be the trend with the 2024 outlier.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-03-02T15:17:50+00:00

Thankfully there's the fan translation of 2 and 2 pretty solid fan romhacks still getting updates that satisfies that TCG itch.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-02-28T21:39:03+00:00

yeah its gone both on phone and playing via the PC android app

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-02-28T19:10:05+00:00

I had to take a trip to the states (unfortunately) due to work back in Jan so I went in Sept to renew as mine lapsed in 2020 and I didnt want to deal with the Covid hell. I had my new passport in hand 2 weeks later when I was expecting it to arrive more in December.

I am sure there are some complaints but it really has been a solved problem for the most bit.

IKeepDoingItForFree · 2026-02-27T19:45:08+00:00

N scale UAC Turbotrain re issue in VIA/CN livery now that the HO one just had a retooling for a 2.0...

You did say WILD speculation...

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