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As dual_sport_dork said, you really shouldn’t worry about it, and you’re better off not having anything to do with Admiral Patrick, but if you really wanted to pursue it, you could PM Admiral Patrick and (very nicely) ask him how you ended up on the list and ask him to remove you. (Right now, he’s probably getting flooded with messages that are likely to generally piss him off (more so than usual), so it’s definitely worth being extra nice if you want that to have any chance of success.)

Oh sweet. Perchance if I 🥺👉👈 fill my posts with keywords like “what would the french do” and "crossposted from anarchist.nexus", famed boot licker Admiral Patrick will declare death to me and try to remove me from reality and then maybe I can be part of the list of proletairat freedom unit users in his “policy.json” list where I can claim Tesseract is censoring me. Hey @admiralpatrick@lemmy.world: ACAB.

Quote from the article.

Last season ended with the Star Trek friends fending off a Kingon farmer’s corn crops from little pink aliens

Kingon

“Kingon?” KINGON!?

Which is it? Either:

• Scouts mispronounces the name in a “baby talk” way.
• “Kingons” are a distinct species from Klingons.
• Scouts changed the name of Klingons.
• That article was written by someone who apparently lives under a rock so huge that they’ve never heard the word “Klingon” mispronounced.
• That article author typoed.

Whichever it is, I’m pissed.

Is it too late to get on the list?

I have to wonder how the intellectual property shakes out with Beholders and Mindflayers and Kuo-Toa and so on that WotC has trademarked. I think if you’re doing business on DM’s Guild, I think they let you do more than if you’re not, but I haven’t found any indication that MZ4250 is doing business on DM’s Guild.

I once knew an author who wrote a book with a character whose name was the same as a D&D character (I don’t remember which one… it wasn’t “Vecna” or some super-well-known character name, though) and he got a cease-and-desist from WotC. And he didn’t have the means to fight anything, so he quickly unpublished the book and hoped they’d leave him alone. (They did, AFAIK.) At least he didn’t get harassed by the Pinkertons.

But yeah. WotC is basically Satan, and not in a cool way. (Oh, sorry. I misspelled “Hasbro”.)

Anubis is nice. Like, as a user I get kinda pissed when I have to deal with CloudFlare’s CAPTCHAs, so seeing Anubis instead is always a breath of fresh air.

Totally valid. And I tend to think CC BY-NC-SA is probably used more commonly than CC BY-SA. And I’d imagine folks tend to see that NC option and wonder why anyone would ever want to not do that. (I can certainly see why people would be like “Great. That’s all permissive licenses need: more Capitalism /s.”) Just to explain why I don’t usually use the NC (and please don’t take this as shade by any means):

When Linksys took a bunch of GPL’d code (including the Linux kernel), compiled it, stuck it on hardware, and sold that hardware to end users, they violated the terms of the GPL. The GPL has no non-commercial license terms, but it does require that the source code (or at least a written offer of source code) be conveyed along with any compiled versions – including compiled versions on devices sold. Copyright owners for some of that GPL’d code were able to go to Linksys and force them to release the source code of much of what was running on the devices, which enabled the creation of the first versions of OpenWRT (As well as off-shoots like DD-WRT and such).

Something similar is going on in the courts now with regard to smart TVs. With luck, we’ll have open source software distros for TVs similar to what OpenWRT is to routers.

If the GPL had forbidden commercial use, we wouldn’t have the cheap routers that an ordinary consumer could run OpenWRT on that we do. (And cheap devices and greater availability means more people engaging in the community, submitting PRs, and otherwise contributing and enjoying the freedoms afforded.) In short, commercial use can be a feature in service to end-user freedom. It’s not always strictly a bad thing for permissively-licensed works.

So, that explains why I almost always go for GPL licenses when writing software, but of course that doesn’t speak to 3D models.

With regard to 3D models, I’m just hoping that by allowing commercial use, it ends up raising some amount of awareness about things like Creative Commons and intellectual property reform in general. If I ever found someone was selling my models, as long as they give me attribution and inform recipients of the license, I’d feel good that at least a few normie non-nerds would have a chance of being exposed to the whole idea of Creative Commons and intellectual property reform in general.

Again, no shade. Just thought it might be germane.

I don’t sell anything.

Good on you. In the realm of 3D printing, if I were to start a business based on 3D printing stuff, I wouldn’t feel bad about, say, commissions for printing something the client found elsewhere on demand or commissions for designing a model. (I suppose theoretically a “3d printer repair service” would be something I’d be ok with charging for as well.) But I definitely couldn’t feel good about selling models or prints (as opposed to selling my labor and potentially a little bit for raw materials and wear/tear on my printer) that I’d previously designed/printed. I think probably one of my conditions for model design commissions would be that I could publish the model under a CC BY-SA license.

“Information wants to be free.” Something I deeply believe.

“You?” As in me? I’m confused.

Ah. Ok. I did watch it at double speed, so I guess I can’t really argue.

What was wrong with the video exactly?

Of course! Just figure out how to get the potato into superposition for long enough to run the algorithm first. The rest is the easy part.

Anything can run on anything with enough effort and ingenuity.

My most played game is probably The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. No idea in terms of how many hours. But I played it, then hundred-percented it (yes I found all the Korok seeds), then the DLC came out and I played that, then I started over in master mode, then I replayed it with mods, then I replayed it with cheats, then I speedran it for like a year.