Jarix
@Jarix@lemmy.world
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 1 day ago:
Thanks, missed it clearly
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 1 day ago:
It’s from an English language publisher?
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 1 day ago:
I was hoping see Battlestar Galactica
- Comment on Ed Sheeran’s latest foot in the mouth moment… 1 week ago:
It’s delightful, and the covers are fantastic.
- Comment on Won't you come? 1 week ago:
You are a fool to be upset about this because of this definition you decided on.
Every novel I’ve ever seen written about being on another planet has used the term sun or suns to refer to the stars in those stories.
Every movie has referenced the sun as the star that gives to term sunny day.
Many shows I have seen have had alien characters reference the sun of their home worlds as their suns.
It’s easy to accept that the term sun, as used by human beings for the last 100 ish years, uses the term sun to refer to many different stars that aren’t in the Sol System.
It absolutely makes sense for exactly the same reason Chris Cornell wrote the song. He imagined what a black hole sun would even be, which is pretty fucking fantastic to find an object that was given a name before it was even conceived of as a concept.
And you cant see the awesomeness of that happening? You must be mad at every science fiction, fantasy story that’s ever existed. It’s just as rediculous as you being mad at this
- Comment on Everyone should know the name of this iconic dog 1 week ago:
Oppie?
- Comment on Diablo V Teaser 2 weeks ago:
My friend group has a game called not enough mana. It’s a drinking game where once you spend all your mana, the only way to get more mana is to take a shot or do a challenge. No one has ever done a challenge. The next morning is painful
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 2 weeks ago:
The province of Alberta was officially rat free for most of my life. They have decided to do what conservatives do and scrapped various programs for being “wasteful”
Basically they said why are we spending money on eradicating rats, we don’t have any. That’s stupid and we are going to save money on this.
Well guess what. Now there rats everywhere in that province. Maple god damned maga
- Comment on The Bane Of My Existence 3 weeks ago:
Do gloves make any difference? For me stuff like this is noticeably different when wearing even thin nitrile gloves.
Buying a box of them has been an absolute blessing for me
- Comment on Lemmy users having a bit of fun dancing! 4 weeks ago:
The history of skinheads is tied to calypso/ska just like this from Britain in the 60s/70s. During the late 70s/80s neo Nazi asshat appropriated this culture and it has caused this reaction ever since. Especially in the punk scenes
- Comment on Chef 5 weeks ago:
You asked why, i told you. Doesn’t mean it make sense but it is the reason. Notoriety
- Comment on Chef 5 weeks ago:
Because there are certain recipes that are notorious for failing if you don’t do so the extra steps. That’s it a few bad apples to spoil the bunch
- Comment on Housing prices 1 month ago:
Home have different material requirements and construction requirements that means they are(should be if built correctly…) safer and more complex. Also houses are MUCH bigger than they used to be.
That’s not to say there isn’t a problem but it’s not just inflation that has made housing costs more expensive
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 1 month ago:
If its the word of the millenium Im very curious where it goes…
- Comment on Ciao 1 month ago:
Lol care to compare it to Princess Bride?
- Comment on Ciao 1 month ago:
I hope you enjoy that I’m going watch Hackers again for the first time in a long time. I hope it hasn’t aged too badly!
- Comment on Ciao 1 month ago:
it made me smile that you said “joyous” infodump.
Also it makes me happy you found them
- Comment on Ciao 1 month ago:
Did you find your Crash Override?
- Comment on Would you rather be reincarnated into a world of magic or reborn as yourself (with your current knowledge fully intact)? 1 month ago:
Thanks for the clarification!
Magic me allllll the way!
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 month ago:
I don’t have an answer for you other than, I don’t know why it hasn’t happened already.
Yesterday was the best time. Now IS the best time we have left. Later might be too late.
How can we as a group choose to suffer more than we already have? The majority of people have NOTHING if they don’t have a paycheck in the next 3 weeks. We starve and we die. And it’s not pretty.
The militias whose sole existence should be to combat the tyranny of government are the ones putting a boot on the necks of the people they should be marching into ICE held territory and saying this is not happening and I’m willing to fight for it.
That’s only in amerikkka though, which as long been the too big to fail state that has absolutely failed everyone.
That the epstein pedophile ring hasn’t been brought to clean and swift justice is a mockery of all that anyone has believed in as far as governments are willing to operate in anything resembling justice.
It’s fucking bleak. What can anyone do?
- Comment on Would you rather be reincarnated into a world of magic or reborn as yourself (with your current knowledge fully intact)? 1 month ago:
As a lover of science I find your recidivism ghoulish. Math rocks are magic. It’s insulting to think of modern science as magic as they requires me to turn off my brain and live as if I don’t have the answers to those things. But magic as the question asks is a force outside of nature. It is something that could benefit our greatest knowledge seekers. It is purely whimsy as the other person put it.
And I think you are trying to point out how amazing the things we take for granted are.
But I want to make something very clear. We do not have magic in this world. There is no divine being handing out miracles. There are no demons corrupting the world with dark forces.
We humans do these things, the divine and the demonic, that’s us. We can be amazing and we can be the worst thing that has ever been inflicted upon ourselves.
To borrow a thought, we do it to ourselves, we do, and that’s why it really hurts.
If you can’t understand what possibilities magic could do for us, what limitations we have with our math rocks, then I earnestly and whole heartedly implore you to open up your mind and dare to imagine.
It’s those who can imagine a world we don’t have that will give some of us the passion and the fascination to find out where our limitations can be pushed
- Comment on Would you rather be reincarnated into a world of magic or reborn as yourself (with your current knowledge fully intact)? 1 month ago:
Please clarify the details.
Is it reincarnated into a world without magic, retaining all of your knowledge just in a preindustrial revolution knowing and timeline will remain the same minus the changes I make? (Like everything that happened without human influence such as earthquakes, volcanoes, stellar phenomena etc would still happen at the same times, but magic now exists and I don’t have it?
And the other choice. Being reincarnated into a magic world without knowing who I am or anything I knew in my previous life but I will have a magic system to utilize that I’m fully informed of? And also does everyone in this magic world have magic or would I be a rarity or at least uncommon as someone who can use magic?
- Comment on It's a service I provide 1 month ago:
I have a phrase I have used many times for things I dont like such as this.
You may have my share of the world’s sweet pickles
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 2 months ago:
I very much am not confused about this, you just aren’t willing to consider other view points and keep shifting the goal posts.
I thought this was an interesting conversation. You have shown me that I was wrong. You aren’t worth any more of my time. And thats sad
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 2 months ago:
It absolutely did give me ownership of the software on everysingle NES game I bought. NO ONE can tell me I don’t own that plastic and can use it in anyway I want so long as I do not distribute copies or derivatives works of it. But I can create and make as many copies of it as I want as long as I keep them to myself.
Owning something doesn’t mean there aren’t conditions, but I absolutely own those 1s and 0s on that piece of plastic. No one can delete them or take them or prevent me from using them in anyway.
This ISNT a 1980s thing either. Copying what’s on my Plastic NES cartridges is no different than is no different than forging a copy of the Mona Lisa if I owned it. Distributing that copy in any way is currently prohibited, but I can paint it as long as I don’t try to claim it’s the original.
Owning a NES cartridge might also give me a limited license to certain things but I OWN that copy of 1s and 0s even if I can’t copy it and sell it or give them away. I didn’t sign a EULA when I bought Chrono trigger. YOU may have, but I didn’t
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 2 months ago:
I need to preface that I don’t know how to say this any better and I’m also short on time so I’m going to ask your forgiveness for my bluntness and any offence this may come across as. I promise you im not attacking you and you are just going to have to accept it. Again my apologies but here we go…
Your logic is screwed up and I’m having a hard time trying to sort out where your flawed logic is, so I’m gonna need some grace and more self reflection from you than is probably expected, I hope you can accomodate my shortcomings in this.
It’s not an attack, you seem to make a well thought out argument, which is more than I usually see. Credit to you and I do respect you for it.
All work created by a creator CAN be owned by someone else.
A horseshoe is no different from movie on DVD or SD card from an ownership standpoint.
I disagree that recording performances is a technological anomaly. Because it requires entirely too narrow a perspective.
The only different between someone writing a book describing a play and a recording is the medium used to record it. That medium is a physical thing.
We can’t literally record thoughts, not in any meaningful or useful ways at the moment but we ARE close to that. There is a research experiment where they recorded someone’s brain activity while they dreamt and were able to play that recording back to some degree of success.
In a hobbesian sense (as you described it, I’m not claiming mastery on the mans philosophy just trying to meet you where you are) you cannot own someones thoughts that use used to make a creation, whether it be a performance or a recording of the performance. The only difference between a horseshoe and a performance of a okay or music, is that not many people cared to bottle up the performance of a blacksmith making the horseshoe. Until YouTube.
Owning the horseshoe doesn’t give you rights to the performance of its creation, neither does owning a copy of the recording of the performance grant you ownership of the horseshoe.
There are different things at play from start to finish. And they are treated differently. I don’t think anyone is making the same arguments that you are claiming and refuting, and that’s why I think there is a flaw in your arguments logic.
Owning a game on a disc or cartridge is not equivalent to owning the right to a performance. It doesn’t give you ownership of anything other than what you purchased. In this case that we are discussing owning a game IS owning the code that exists on the physical medium, be it a hardrive, a paper printout, a disc. Ownership of that specific copy of that specific code is what ownership of a digital creation is. It’s an ordered number of 1s and 0s. It’s a copy of a pattern that is absolutely useless to anyone who can’t read binary on the medium purchases. Ownership does not require usability, but it MUST provide a product that is tangible, regardless of its usability to the owner.
Im not understanding why you are using the examples of right to a performance the way you are using them and I think what I’ve written here should be enough to explain what I understand about the situation. My ability to communicate my thoughts clearly and precisely to you, anyone else reading this and also to myself are perhaps insufficient, but that doesn’t automatically invalidate my understanding just because I can’t explain it well, or that I’ve made errors in my attempt to communicate them in this medium
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 2 months ago:
Also the patrons of the people and organizations that produced these works have often been owned by those who funded them, stop kidding yourself
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 2 months ago:
The opinions of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau are not absolutel nor ubiquitous. They may have said things that are no longer, or never were accurate and almost certainly should never be held to be inviolate/permanent.
- Comment on time flys!! 2 months ago:
Yes. It’s called growing into an adult. Kids usually do this
- Comment on time flys!! 2 months ago:
James Dean, Robert Redford, Brad Pitt
Hollywood has a mould and I don’t know who is going to take over this position from Brad Pitt. But they probably already have