TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on Happy American import day 4 days ago:
I’m from Ireland. Going door calling is absolutely part of it. Specifically saying “trick or treat” is not, because, y’know, English. But it doesn’t really matter what English phrase you use, it’s not going to be Irish. So?
I’m with you on pumpkins but there’s more interesting hills to die on.
- Comment on Happy American import day 4 days ago:
Are you from Ireland or from Scotland?
- Comment on Potentially Unmoderated Community 1 week ago:
This previously harmless troll is in the midst of an AI-caused psychological break where he’s imagining sentient goddesses persisting in a image AI model. lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/comment/20091298
Please don’t give him more buttons to press
- Comment on egg time 1 week ago:
This is the other way around. There are some who want to push back the definition of “bird” to include more dinosaurs via earlier divergence. There are even a few that argue that certain conventially non-avian dinosaurs are actually from the agreed bird lineage but converged back on a bipedal dinosaur shape.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Here’s the thing…
- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 1 month ago:
Please don’t ever play D&D with real people
- Comment on do what you love 2 months ago:
CS is Computer Science, Cyber Security is abbreviated as CyberSecs, Google it
- Comment on Where will nsfw game creators go now that itch.io has "changed"? 2 months ago:
Based on what Steam did, isn’t uh, specific categories of NSFW that were removed? Or has itch gone 100% no NSFW?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 2 months ago:
It’s not redirecting the conversation to respond to your statement that whataboutism is when the hypocrisy is “unrelated”. Which conveniently lets you decide what is related or unrelated.
Do you not consider Russians human?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 2 months ago:
You want examples of Chinese companies disregarding copyright? Uh.
www.aliexpress.com? Or, yknow, the actual article we’re commenting on?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 2 months ago:
You think I’m going to shift the goalposts for one example? Ok, yeah that definitely overrules literally decades of behaviour. You win. Here’s your Internet reward for the best argument. ⭐️
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 2 months ago:
Explained is not the same as justified.
I would have thought this was obvious but forcing your rivals to abide by their own rules while flouting them yourself is not an endorsement of those rules, it’s a mockery of them.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 3 months ago:
I have no issue with people going after China. I’m not a hexbear/ml stooge. It is possible for two things to be bad. It is possible for something about a bad entity to be neutral or at least unsurprising. Which is how I would describe China’s lack of real interest in engaging with, from their perspective, the global order’s new fad interest in intellectual property rights.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 3 months ago:
And, as always, it is in the sealion’s power to determine what is the same, and what is “different but related”.
Arf arf arf
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 3 months ago:
No, but this might shock you, other countries have different definitions of what theft is. Theft is taking something from someone.
The funny part being that it is literally enshrined in American law that game mechanics can’t be copyrighted, so its not even in the definition of theft in America either.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 3 months ago:
“Issues with westerners” is an odd choice given that I’m Irish but ok.
It’s not my job to comfort American fragility. Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 3 months ago:
If you think that historical context doesnt inform culture, you must be an American, in possession of neither.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 3 months ago:
We used to just call that “pointing out hypocrisy” before Americans found a thought terminating phrase for it
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 3 months ago:
abduct Chinese paper makers, imprison them, steal the technology
sneak into China, impersonate religious figures, hide silkworms on your person, sell to a Roman emperor
sail into China, pretend to be a botanist. Steal tea and grow it in your starving colonies instead of food
“Why don’t China care about western patents and copyright?”
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 3 months ago:
I’m spelling it the Hiberno-Hellenic way
- Comment on get sum 3 months ago:
It think that rather than early - really early - exposure to porn turning everyone into sex-fiends, it’s actually terrifying a lot of them. What if I don’t want to gargle cum like Adriana Chechik? What if I don’t have a 10 inch cock to stuff my stepmother with?
A more optimistic reading might be that masturbating is easier, freer, quicker, and more accepted than ever before. Rather than risk an STI, pregnancy or human relationship, just crank one out and get back to work.
- Comment on SNAIL PRO TIPS 3 months ago:
Birds eat the snails. Bird-eating Spiders eat the birds. Phorusrachids eat the bird-eating spiders.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 3 months ago:
I’m so sorry that they called you that
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 4 months ago:
What do you think the word boffin means? Do you mean buffoon? You should probably double-check your phrasing before quoting anime protagonists from memory
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 4 months ago:
“an actual, real, specific person in the system”
What system is that?
“Sends an email to the security team”
I can’t tell if you’re my father trying to understand Facebook or my nephew trying to understand a mouse.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 4 months ago:
No, I talked about putting this energy into convincing others to vote with their wallets, not just “doing nothing”. A boycott is an active campaign. It doesnt just mean not buying a product. It means not buying any associated product. Not even tolerating them in conversation.
I’m basing my opinion on how the commission has responded to similar successfully raised initiatives: “that’s already covered by legislation and up to EU states to manage”, “no that’s something we cant support, but feel free to appeal endlessly”, and in the most effective one, “committing to making a legislative proposal by 2023 but actually if thats ok we’ll make it 2026 and I suppose then if legislation is agreed it may be in place within a decade” (end cage farming, which polls at 86% approval already in the EU).
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 4 months ago:
No you cannot
(16 words later)
Like, ok, I guess you could
lol
OK buddy, cybercrime never happens and interpol will come arrest your python script if it did because you messed with an EU “government” form that might have resulted in them having to get a 60 year old Greek politican to ask what a EULA was
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 4 months ago:
What on earth makes you think an online petition, which has never led to any of the consumer friendly regulation you mention, has the ‘highest’ chance? Or that the alternative to a petition is doing nothing?
All of that regulation came primarily from legal cases.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 4 months ago:
You need to input a number matching a regex, the format for which is helpfully provided on the page.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 4 months ago:
Answering doesn’t mean doing anything, and all they have to do is generally wave in the direction of the overwhelming popularity and profitability of the products compared to the online petition that 0.2% of the EU’s adult population will have signed.
If the general public does not care, legislation will not follow. Filling out and promotinh a glorified change.org form is energy wasted on actually popularising your viewpoint instead of trying uselessly to get it in unpopularly.