Sprinkle some crack on 'em, and let’s get out of here!

Sad thing is, it likely reinforced the already strong indoctrination of a handful of those kids

I was only 4 years and 4 months old, I can barely remember anything of that time.

But when Columbia was en route to enter the atmosphere, I was outside on the front lawn watching, since it was re-entering over my area of Texas at a pretty favorable viewing angle.

I was so fucking happy to see such a momentous occasion…until it started breaking up. I knew something was wrong, but my brain couldn’t piece it together, until the ship started breaking apart into visibly distinct fireballs. It passed over the horizon, and I was stunned. I ran back into my friend’s living room, and continued watching the coverage, now very sombre.

It was 17 years and 4 days after Challenger. I was 21. That shit is burned into my memory. Especially since 9/11 was less than 18 months prior, which I also watched live.

Because the question ignores reality. I’m not going to bathe in hypotheticals.

So I’m going to ignore your question, since it’s pointless.

Want to make it not legal? Understand that it’s currently legal, and go from there.

It is legal, therefore that’s the hurdle we need to get over. If you don’t want it to be legal, fight to make it illegal, or don’t use/buy the product.

But people pre-order video games at record numbers despite everyone with a brain saying that they shouldn’t, so they’re SOL either way.

Trying to side-step copyright isn’t going to get you what you want. You’re fighting an uphill battle with fewer resources.

1. You are buying a license. That’s the legal action you are taking. Even when you buy a physical copy, that’s not ownership of the game. You can’t duplicate and sell the copies. You can’t duplicate and give them away. Both are copyright infringement.

Sure you can sell an older physical copy second hand, because there’s no one there to stop you, which is why companies have moved to largely digital: the communications infrastructure makes it easier (like you said). But also it allowed companies to keep a tighter hold on their property.

I agree that if they wish to end support for a game, it should have a countdown timer to then be in the “public domain” so to speak.

But that’s the uphill battle I spoke of, because you’d need to rewrite a precedent that currently allows for 90+ years of copyright.

And thus is the issue.

No, you don’t own the software in your car. The companies who disabled your car do, and by acquiring that car, you are subject to their whims. Because by signing that contract when buying that car, I bet you didn’t amend it to make you owner of that software.

Instead of continuing to maintain a car-centric culture with software that we don’t own or control, we could incorporate more walking and biking infrastructure, and better more reliable public transit options.

Don’t settle for one thing just because that’s what you know and has been in existence most of your life. Find and build better options.

1: You’ve never owned a video game in your life, unless you were the owner of the copyright, you possessed a licensed copy (including physical copies). That has to change before any other real concrete changes can occur.

2: Online video games are a totally different beast over single player games. Besides direct competition with themselves, there has to be a sustained effort to maintain those servers, while also staying beholden to the copyright holders.

• Look at Project 1999 EverQuest (a “classic” server for a 26+ year game). It almost never reaches 2000 concurrent players, and that requires permission from Daybreak to run as intended. The Hero’s Journey is a different EQ project that is in litigation with Daybreak right now. Project Quarm has been reticent about keeping its servers running during the THJ legal proceedings.

As much as we might want to keep games alive for posterity, we have to figure out a process for online games, and that seems like it’s gonna be a massive uphill battle.

Moving is expensive, especially to another country. Assets or not.

You can show up to a protest armed to the fucking teeth without firing off a single round. That’s how those anti lockdown fucks got what they wanted in 2020 (and one of many reasons why COVID exploded).

Criticism, questioning, ambiguity, or hesitance will also be reported.

I screencapped this many moons ago on Reddit, I feel that it’s apropos

I’m gonna be drunk enough to quiet the fireworks. Every 4th in LA, it’s like a war zone.

Black eye from “his kid punching him after he dared him to”.

Likely actually from falling and smacking his face during a K-hole.

God … fucking… damnit!

Could someone invade this country – for real – and depose our maliciously incompetent leadership?

Leising told the outlet that Noviello’s family said he had epilepsy and was on seizure medication and they had worked “painstakingly to make sure that he got his meds”.

Of course his medical needs were neglected.

As a reminder, California might be more liberal than many other states, but it also has 10% of the entire US population.

While 9.2 million CA voters for Kamala, 6 million voted for Fascist 47.

More people voted for Fascist 47 in CA than there are people in 31 different states. So yeah, CA is blue, but it’s also insanely red, too.

Hey, burning up on reentry is a feature, not a bug!

I’m not saying we should actually make a realistic attempt (according to various videos of actual rocket scientists, it’s virtually impossible anyway), but we could “try”.

You know, as a treat.

Can we impeach him out of a cannon?

Into the sun?

Dunno man, he and Elon are having quite the “will they, won’t they ruin America” moment right now. He’ll be solo for a bit.