WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
@WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 17 hours ago:
Peace Through Strength
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 17 hours ago:
Lousy Smarch weather!
- Comment on Anyone? 2 days ago:
Donald has only got one ball
Bannon has two but very small
Miller has something similar
And Johnson, he has none at all - Comment on Tell us the truth Donny. 2 days ago:
Well it is right next to Canada.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 2 days ago:
Albuquerque?
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 3 days ago:
- Comment on The car of the guy who insists that you have a terminal case of TDS 3 days ago:
Isn’t Taz an illegal immigrant?
- Comment on They Wylin' 3 days ago:
“I did not have sexual relations with that timeline.”
- Comment on How to find 3 days ago:
So what is it?
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 5 days ago:
Pamela Anderson’s ex-husband.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 6 days ago:
Capture two people.
- Comment on Enlightened 6 days ago:
Some
- Comment on Therapy works 1 week ago:
“Hate me, but do it honestly.”
- Comment on what in the actual fuck 1 week ago:
But birds aren’t real.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
Apparently it works better than rechargable water.
- Comment on Betrayal 2 weeks ago:
I’ll have the last laugh when that asshole encounters a new breed of criminal.
A labradoodle?
- Comment on Don't try to stop me 2 weeks ago:
If Shakespeare could compare people to summer days then I can compare one type of fruit to another.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Superman was first published in 1938. He’ll enter the public domain in 2034.
However, the only things going into the public domain then are the first year of Superman comics, which didn’t include some key aspects of the Superman mythos. For instance, while it was established in the first issue that Superman came from a destroyed planet, it didn’t tell us anything about that planet; we saw it blow up in the first panel but we didn’t get its name or see any of its people. That would be added in the newspaper comics, which would start in 1939 (so they wouldn’t be in the public domain until 2035.)
Likewise, we don’t see anything about Clark Kent’s childhood in the first year of the comics; that would be fleshed out in the novel The Adventures of Superman by George Lowther (one of the script-writers on the Superman radio series) in 1942, so it’ll be in the public domain in 2038.
Superman also was just really strong, really fast and really tough in those first stories. He didn’t start using X-ray vision until 1939, he didn’t fly until 1941 and he didn’t have heat vision until 1961 (although he’d been performing heat vision-like feats with his X-ray vision for years prior to that.)
Finally, while Clark Kent was a reporter from the beginning, his paper was originally called the Daily Star. It wouldn’t be known as the Daily Planet until 1940 (no in-universe explanation was given for the change; they just suddenly started calling it by a different name. Its editor also changed from being named George Taylor to Perry White, although aside from the name the characters were the same.)
However, one foundational piece of Superman media is already in the public domain; the Fleischer/Famous Studios cartoons from the 1940s. Their owners didn’t file the paperwork to extend their copyright (back when that was necessary) so they’ve been in the public domain for decades. Up until now that didn’t mean much since Superman himself was still under copyright, but anything introduced in those cartoons such as the Mechanical Monsters (an army of giant robots that Superman fought in an early cartoon) or the Arctic Giant (basically Godzilla before Godzilla existed) would immediately be fair game. Arguably Superman’s flight was also introduced in those cartoons, but there are some earlier comics where it’s debatable whether or not he’s flying or just jumping with bad physics.
- Comment on Is it wrong that I want one? 2 weeks ago:
Now I want a Titan-wreckage aquarium decoration.
- Comment on Pronouns history 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 2 weeks ago:
When I’m finished with my current game (a 2D platform-adventure game made in Godot) I’m thinking of prototyping my next game in Luanti. It’ll let me experiment with ideas for a large, open-world game without needing to implement my own world-generation system and, since everything is block-based and the expected graphical fidelity is low, it’ll make creating the content a lot easier.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 2 weeks ago:
Are we talking about the DOS game or the Charlie Sheen movie?
- Comment on Obligatory 3 weeks ago:
Must go faster.
- Comment on Her slumber is now complete. 3 weeks ago:
Must go faster.
- Comment on Easter can't come soon enough. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Life is unfair.
- Comment on Helpful guide 3 weeks ago:
The Hapsburgs?
- Comment on Helpful guide 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Helpful guide 3 weeks ago:
They thought it was made of carbon.
