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It’s such a garbage argument when you can just counter with “okay then, release software which allows the public to run them for themselves”.
There are plenty of famous games, including Minecraft (only the most famous game in history) that manage to do that just fine. Acting like it’s impossible just so that you can force people to buy the next game is bullshit.
It’s a weakness in the sense that there are times this place turns into a straight-up echo chamber…
But when there is actual debate going on, it tends to be a lot more civil than on other sites (most of the time)
As @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de beat me to replying, I meant the OP picture of a reply from ChatGPT.
Though just realised I had accidentally implied your GF was a chatbot, which did give me a chuckle
I hate to side with a chatbot, but the right-wing rarely opposes systemic injustices, and this was definitely opposing system injustice imposed by healthcare insurance agencies
It should’ve been obvious by now whose side Reddit is on, but not allowing neutral reporting on Luigi’s own words is a bit too establishment even for them
So the Judas gets nothing while knowing the whole internet now hates them. Funniest shit I’ve heard all day!
If I’m interpreting this right, basically YPG have mutual beef with Turkey, and thought they’d shot down a Turkish drone. Instead they shot down a US drone that had nothing to do with them (?), thus awkward stare memes ensue while Turkey laughs in the background
You make a good point. Even disregarding how well known Itch is, their registrar acted woefully incompetently by not even attempting to contact Itch.io about the takedown request (which is what Brandshield should have done in the first place)
Related to the previous posts bit, but I remember first seeing the Man vs. Bear memes.
I’ll admit it was hard not to take it personally at first, because even if you agreed with the core of the message, it feels like you’re being lumped in with the worst of menkind for no good reason. That’s probably why the reaction was so toxic, because people just replied with their gut reaction, which was to take offence…
But upon giving it a bit of thought, I realised that as a guy who’s lived in some dodgy areas, I think I too would oftentimes prefer to take my chances with a bear than alone with a stranger at night - not cause I think I’d beat the bear, but at least you know what the bear’s probably gonna do…
And if I feel that way being a man, then considering (on average) women are weaker than men of the same build, I can see why women would feel that way too.
Because they want to check if there’s Nothing in your history! 
As nice an idea as this is, I’d be willing to bet anyone who knows even an inkling about jury nullification will be filtered out before they’d make it onto the jury.
I think we’re beyond the point of being surprised how far the justice system will go to bat for the rich, while (at best) ignoring all the poor they leave to die in their wake.
Don’t be fair to them either.
Iwantmyname acted incompetently, but so did Brandshield, who decided to go straight to the nuclear option of a registrar takedown, rather than issuing a takedown request to Itch themselves
Yeah, if Iwantmyname are so neglectful as to pull the entire plug on your website over a singlular copyright claim, then I’d move right the fuck along too. They’re clearly not a trustworthy registrar.
To make things worse, Itch.io isn’t exactly a small company either. If this happened to someone smaller, with less outreach to fight back with than Itch, I can only imagine they’d have no recourse against this neglectful behaviour.
Fair. But if that’s the case, the last line is over budget with the last “f…”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you have any doubts that Trump is in bed with Russia, wait until his peace deal comes out - I guarantee you it’ll be the almost exact same abhorrent “give me your all your land or else” peace deal Russia already offered to Ukraine. Ukraine will (again) vehemently refuse, because what moral country would abandon its land and people to Russia, and Trump will use that refusal to pull funding from Ukraine “because they don’t want peace” or “they refuse to negotiate”
So Funko issued a non-apology blaming Brandshield.
Brandshield issued a non-apology blaming the registrar (Iwantmyname), and saying their AI tool definitely had nothing to do with it
And Iwantmyname hasn’t even put out a statement.
Fucked all around, yet it seems nobody will be facing consequence for this except Itch.io who got their website nuked out of nowhere.
Though if I were Itch, I’d get a new registrar ASAP.
Anyone want to tell him the fourth line isn’t twice as long as the 3rd?
Fuck, we should’ve been looking for a guy in a spacesuit! /s
While I honestly believe nobody can get that kind of money ethically, the fact that he actually put his money where his mouth was on philanthropy whike still alive, and almost all anonymously, is very admirable
I hate to tell you OP, but there’s just about 0% chance that’s gonna happen. Rich people want someone to make an example out of, and the government is all too keen to do it