Hazmatastic
@Hazmatastic@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation? 4 days ago:
I had a friend who would say awkward situations were “worse than Mormons making eye contact at the liquor store,” so that tracks lol
- Comment on Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation? 4 days ago:
Sounds like a mormon i (briefly) dated in high school. Couldn’t take a sip of my Arizona bc caffeine, had no problem showing up for a band competition rolling off her ass after a rave the night before. The logic leaps sound exhausting to keep going
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 4 days ago:
Doing something to make money and making enough from doing it to keep doing it full-time are two very different things, and I would argue the latter would be more difficult, not less under your proposed system. Yes, corporations do that already because they can throw enough money at the case to wear down the plaintiff into settling. But how much more do you think they would steal if they didn’t even have to do that?
Why do most people lock their doors at night? Do they really think that a piece of metal stuck in a slab of wood would stop any thief who really wants to get in? No, of course not. But the amount of effort and risk required is enough of a deterrent that most thieves won’t bother.
Copyright law is similar in my eyes. Will it stop a huge corporation that is willing to dump huge sums of money into any one case? Not really. But the effort and money involved is enough to deter them in most cases. Remove that they have no incentive not to steal work. Find a catchy song? Get one of the thousands of artists on contract to re-produce it to a T, send it to your millions of online viewers, and rack up 100k views in 12 hours. Congrats, you beat the artist to their 15 minutes of fame and any chance they could get at exposure, their potential earnings are yours now and it hasn’t even been a day. Any future web searches for the song will show you as well, so the original artist will likely be very quickly lost to time, and everyone remembers that one track the Capitol Records conglomerate put out that one time. That’s the kind of stuff I envision happening with literally no safeguards.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 4 days ago:
Not the person you responded to, but how would a recording artist earn a living in that model? If their work can get scooped up by a mega corporation and sold for pennies on the dollar due to the massive existing resources, reach, and infrastructure available to the corporation, what protections would there be against that happening?
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 6 days ago:
You telling me this guy is our first Vtuber president?
- Comment on Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds are now suing their former execs for stealing docs and sharing them with the press 3 weeks ago:
Are they trying to speedrun their way to the bottom of the public opinion barrel? Already had low hopes after the takeover debacle, now even that is gone
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Nextdoor Nightmare 2 months ago:
I use it as new Craigslist for scooping up second hand stuff, but that’s about it. I check the market maybe once a week at most.
I also live in a crime-ridden desert city, so occasionally people post about people scoping out or burglarizing their houses or cars, comes in occasionally useful if there’s repeat offenders to look out for.
But otherwise it’s the NIMBY cesspit others have described. Occasionally I’ll see a dog get back home because of it, but damn. Every time I see the comments of regular users, all I see is the desperation of Facebook moms mixed with the self-importance of LinkedIn posters
- Comment on Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes 2 months ago:
Ffs one of the few games I was actively but patiently excited for, pretty much down the drain. I can only hope they make their own studio
with blackjack and hookers - Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 2 months ago:
Ah that makes sense. I thought maybe the jalapeños were inside or something, but honestly your explanation is more likely and I’m just kind of a dumbass
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 2 months ago:
I’m not personally familiar with these jokes, but the signage does appear to be Polish or some similar language. This may not have been the intent?
- Comment on Unrealistic body expectations 2 months ago:
Is it possible to learn this power?
Not from a butterfly…
- Comment on good advice 2 months ago:
I could have gone the rest of my life without seeing the name Jostens again, goddamn scam
- Comment on Protip: 2 months ago:
“Hookwoorms, get in my feet please!”
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 3 months ago:
Understood. Don’t do anything apart from stop him entering the room.
- Comment on Grieve with me 3 months ago:
This. I was sure I had mine completely clean 3 times and was pretty resigned to wireless charging only before a hardened sliver of detritus dropped out. Back to working like new.
- Comment on Does the digestive tract count as a pneumatic propulsion system? 3 months ago:
Well, I kinda had the impression peristalsis loads the cannon, so to speak, while pneumatics fire it.
- Submitted 3 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Guys, Real Life Women can look pretty too. 3 months ago:
“Artist is guy who has unrealistic expectations of women’s bodies” Nope, this time, the artist is a bombshell who used her own body as a reference for drawing
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 4 months ago:
I think the idea is one of them is convincing someone to not do something they still have the power to do, while the other would be taking that power away completely. There may be a truly foolproof way to disarm a weapon, but there will never be a foolproof way to convince someone of anything due to the unpredictability of people.
- Comment on xkcd #3077: de Sitter 4 months ago:
You made an enemy out of a sitter today. You’ve turned Willem de Sitter into Willem Dafoe.
- Comment on Do you really have to let everyone know 5 months ago:
Right? Like, we get it. Farms are important. No need to shove it down our throats.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Ooo, I think I’ve seen this one
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 6 months ago:
Nothing in particular, just Disney being Disney. Had the subscription for family, was finally able to cut the cord recently
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 6 months ago:
Don’t worry, I assume nothing. Call me naive, but I’d rather be likely shouting into the void than staying quiet and possibly missing an opportunity to be heard
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 6 months ago:
I know it’s unlikely to have done anything much, but if no one speaks they definitely won’t be heard. At least there’s a small chance for someone to understand the company is shitty. A small grain of doubt can grow into dissent with time. Worth the gamble of a little time to me
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 6 months ago:
Because I need to at least try to tell them their shitty practices are hitting them in the only place that matters to them: their wallet. I don’t think my little survey will do much in the grand scheme of things, but many small thing make big thing so I do what I can. I made it very clear they’re pushing people back to the high seas
- Submitted 6 months ago to [deleted] | 64 comments
