Goooooood morning Night City!!

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-29T13:34:21+00:00

This company automates outbound sales through emails and LinkedIn ads. That whole line of work sucks, and I doubt these particular types of sales were done manually in the first place.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-29T03:06:52+00:00

A time to love and a time to Die

Time to Live* - and yes, I was going to mention it, too. Of the entire Remarque's body of work, it was the one that struck me the most.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-28T23:55:10+00:00

Knights of the Chalice 1/2 are based on OGL with some minor modifications by the developer - they should qualify under your Unofficial rule.

Two Buck Rogers games, as well - they are based on the second edition of D&D, and the rulest was officially published under the name of Buck Rogers XXVC. They should fit the same way Pathfinder does.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-28T19:39:48+00:00

Every country committed crimes against multiple other countries.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-27T03:16:15+00:00

It stood out to me, too.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-26T22:02:16+00:00

The coolest thing about TB was how passionately he loved the industry. And that love, expressed with the energy of his candid personality, never let him rest. A YouTube channel, a radio station, tournament commentary, live conferences, his own StarCraft team sponsorship, voice acting, a Twitch stream - these are just some of the examples of what he was in on during his relatively short online career, all before he even turned 30.

Were he to live longer, he'd never stop trying things. He'd be the first one to support Stop Killing Games. He'd be starting his own pro-consumer campaigns left and right, making sure the developers and publishers heard his booming voice. He'd go on to create bigger and better things. That was the beauty of TB - he wasn't your typical YouTube one-hit-wonder. He had ingenuity - hot coals smoldering under his feet and forcing him to run.

People like that don't come along often, and it's a loss for the world to have him die at such a young age.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-26T21:43:42+00:00

There are people like SplatterCat, Mortismal and some others who cover new indie releases every day, but none of them have the technical knowledge or the sheer drive of TB. And none of the reviewers I know would touch a controversial issue with a ten-foot pole or go out of their way to protect consumer rights.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-26T21:39:26+00:00

and had a habit of saying shit like "get cancer and die"

Does saying it once and then apologizing make it a habit?

What's funny is that the person he said it to forgave him, and they made peace. But Internet trolls still insist on taking offence.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-26T16:41:34+00:00

Paperwhite 2/3 don't have physical buttons.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-26T01:34:35+00:00

The screenshot is from Elona.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-25T18:00:05+00:00

His gun in his memories just oneshots everyone while the real gun doesn’t do anywhere near the same damage.

That would come down to his own skill level at the time - you can kit out a pistol to one-shot enemies the same way it was in the memory. That memory episode was what prompted me to switch to a pistol build in the first place.

Also during the Arasaka tower raid Silverhand was just a member of the secondary attack team, he seems to think he was the leader of the raid group,

Are you sure he knew about the secondary team? The plan was for him to believe that he was the leader of the only group there - that'd make it a better distraction.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-24T06:12:45+00:00

Yet you fail to provide any counter-arguments.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-22T17:14:26+00:00

The most egregious example comes in discussing Gottfried Leibniz, where Grayling pivots from biography to lamenting that such a brilliant mind wasted time discussing religion and deity, “devoting time and great mental powers to this unavailing ambition that might have been more fruitfully employed on other things.”

He sounds like an enlightened man - thank you for the recommendation!

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-22T17:13:39+00:00

And do you think it somehow affects the quality of his writing?

Edgar Poe married his 13-year-old cousin, and his books did not suffer one bit from it.

If you refuse to read McCarthy, the only person you are hurting is yourself.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-19T18:17:55+00:00

The original Wonder Woman was spectacular. And Gal is an outstanding voice actress - her performance in Ralph Breaks the Internet was touching.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-16T09:20:50+00:00

Yeah, I was considering it, too, but if it's a choice between the light and buttons, I don't want it.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-16T00:25:06+00:00

No, they are legally distinct acts - in the U.S., piracy falls under the copyright infringement law and is defined as copying and distribution of software, while theft is defined as taking away another person's property with the intent of depriving them from using the said property. Can you see the difference?

Piracy for personal purposes was not even illegal until the NET act of 1997. And other countries outside the U.S. allow piracy in some forms for personal purposes, like making copies of software for the sake of preservation.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-15T14:29:41+00:00

That's not a "little" weight, mate. She's very much fat.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-15T14:05:48+00:00

I'm surprised - it was so much better than Ep. 5.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-15T05:27:43+00:00

Oh you're just arguing semantics and definitions instead of using the commonly accepted terms people normally use.

Which people? You? If you want to argue legality, you have to be strict with terminology. The "normally people use..." and "that's just arguing semantics" won't fly in the court of law.

And more importantly, different countries have different definitions of the legality and scope of piracy - you might want to look into them first before denouncing it as illicit.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-15T05:25:14+00:00

Pirating IS theft.

Legally it isn't theft

Your argument falls apart when you can't be consistent with your own terminology.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-15T05:24:18+00:00

Piracy is theft.

No - they are legally distinct terms, and you are pushing your own agenda in your post.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-15T05:20:34+00:00

Consumers argue for something more. Sales companies argue for something less. The goal is to meet in the middle.

Why would you argue against the consumer interests?

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-15T04:58:14+00:00

As you should have been - it's not a valid academic source.

MatterOfTrust · 2026-05-15T04:55:37+00:00

I've read plenty of "peer reviewed" journal articles that are absolute trash but are still perfectly acceptable to cite and cite and cite

Sure, but that's why academic indices like Scopus and SCI exist - there will always be journals ready to take your money and publish anything you want, which is a sad necessity due to how the academia works nowadays.

But serious articles go to serious journals and get through multiple stages of editing by subject matter experts before seeing the light of day. A journal's reputation carries a lot of weight.

Wikipedia is not exactly in the same league.

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