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I want to see Atlus mop the floor with Nintendo over this because Shin Megami Tensei had all these features 6 years before the first Pokémon game ever existed.

I am completely certain he would find some way to try and make himself the victim and most likely open a lawsuit against his “aggressor”

There’s a super easy way to solve this. Especially for corporations.

“The company’s operations will be suspended during the suit, until such time as the court can determine whether the company is operating illegally.”

You want to flood the zone with shit to draw out your court case for 18 months until everyone loses interest? You can still do that. But you won’t be making any money while you do, and I expect your employees still need paychecks if you want them to still be there when this wraps up.

This isn’t a silver bullet for every sort of court case, but I think this is a very sensible and obvious solution to corporate crimes.

I am quite certain they would be happy to hear that their friends and family back home continued to live on past them.

Climate change is the sort of existential threat that will literally kill every single person you’ve ever met. It is not the same. If I could volunteer to give my own life to reverse catastrophic climate change it wouldn’t even be a question. But no matter how many of us go and die about it we are now past the point where we can make a difference. The ice caps are in runaway melt loops. This is now a self perpetuating problem that cannot be solved without some new major scientific breakthrough. Habitable portions of the earth are going to shrink to single digit percentages of what we have right now, over the next couple hundred years. We can no longer stop this from happening, and it all happened because some of the very worst parts of humanity decided they needed a few extra thousand dollars every year.

Housing prices? That’s your argument? That’s your bleak outlook?

Can’t afford a home? That means you’re homeless. That’s a crime now. To the prison work camp you go, chop chop.

Dude, up until relatively recently you couldn’t have a baby without it dying or dying yourself.

Still can’t in a lot of places. Not to mention, in America, assuming you both survive you’re now $50k in medical debt for the privelege of reproducing.

Common cold? Deceased.

People still die from pneumonia daily.

There are people alive today who are being murdered because their existence maddens someone and your argument is that your housing costs have gone up.

Two problems can exist at once.

Get some perspective. Your life isn’t that bad.

My friends and family and coworkers are the ones being threatened with murder because their existence maddens someone. Get some perspective.

monochromatic flag referred to as a “no quarter” flag

Intent or not, that’s what it is, the black flag or no quarter flag is one that states I will kill you dead even if you surrender.

Chuds think this means they’re tough manly men, what it really means is a declaration that they cannot be trusted with anything for any reason. It’s broadcasting to the world that you don’t intend to abide by any rules of engagement so it’s best to just blow you off the map pre-emptively. Flying this flag, even if you don’t even engage with an enemy, is itself a war crime according to the Hague conventions.

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There it is, nearly instant profit

I feel like that’s a little disingenuous because all those things actually serve a purpose. You need that computing power to keep up with modern software. But in 99% of cases, plugging KB+M into a USB2 vs USB3 makes no difference whatsoever. Excluding edge cases where say, your keyboard has its own USB port that you’re then trying to put a splitter on, or charge your phone on, it otherwise just legitimately doesn’t need the extra power of USB3. The basic input processes of the keyboard and mouse haven’t changed in 40 years and that’s why such a comparatively ancient piece of tech is still usable. Even just USB2 already has enough power and bandwidth on a keyboard to run your RGB backlights while still taking input with no additional latency.

I think if the manufacturer cared more about their customers and their brand image, then yeah, they’d just go ahead and make all the ports USB3 regardless. But if you’re cranking out 10,000 shitty PCs a week that you want to sell for under $500, and you can save 3 cents a unit by making two USB ports USB2, that’s still a technically viable product that can be sold and used without issue (at least, without issue pertaining to these USB ports, anyway). It makes the manufacturer a bit skeezy, but it’s not like they’re selling you something you can’t use, the things work just fine. You just don’t want to be doing mass file transfer or power transfer through them because they’re bad at both, that’s what your 3.0 port is for, which you have been provided.

This is a Minimum Viable Product sort of thing, this isn’t going to win any awards or any glowing customer praise, but for the market it was intended for (likely business) it’s a cheap ass PC tower that works well enough. I don’t know if that’s actually the case for what OP is posting here but that’s what I imagine the design decision was behind this sort of style, and it makes sense to me. I don’t really like it, but I do understand it.

I don’t, but I doubt it beats my autoclicker script ;)

On one hand yes, on the other hand though USB3 is wildly overkill for driving your keyboard.

I can really see both sides of this argument to be honest.

Stolen, but this time passed through an additional bullshit layer for even less reliable results! Buy now!

Been seeing some of that as well, so I looked it up myself. The actual text of the EULA states:

"You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with the foregoing restrictions Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.”

That’s a brick. They haven’t actually done it to anyone yet, but they’ve reserved their rights.

On constant dialysis that you never get unhooked from, I don’t see why not.

If you can just pipe nutrient-rich blood into the brain directly you can probably bypass the entire digestive system. That takes care of the liver, and with the only waste products coming from the body being whatever the brain produces, that should be a pretty light workload for an artificial kidney.

The Lord of the Rings cast also pretty famously trained with their weapons outside of just choreography

At least Viggo did, I might just be misremembering John Rhys-Davies beating the ass off all the orc actors during choreography

I can’t imagine what might have given it away.

Hell yeah. I saw this yesterday when you first posted about it, immediately sent it to all my friends, and then I’ve been busy afterward.

Which is a shame, because classic Luthor had extremely valid concerns about ceding ultimate power to someone you can’t take it back away from. He used to be one of the most sensible “villains” I knew of.

Same, and I know this is true and not just me being crazy because I’ve heard it rather than felt it when my phone is sitting on my desk.

Love my guy George. Listening to Cardboard Castles got me through a really rough time in my life and I don’t expect to ever be able to repay it. Least I can do is to spread the word.

Watsky, et al - Exquisite Corpse

For best results this should be cheesy B-movie as hell, the song really leans into it I think