Ain’t nobody told you to hurt me like that… Right in the feels man…

It sounds to me like you are talking about what Steam is doing, with the geolocking and refunds (not fraud), while the other person is talking about what Sony is doing, with adding PSN requirements after the fact (maybe fraud?).

I’ve been thinking it’s just a rebranding of the idea of karma, which is old as dirt. “The Law of Attraction” is just the way I’ve seen it discussed online in its most recent manifestation (pun intended)

To all the people downvoting: “Law of Attraction” is not a lay person’s way of saying “Law of Gravity”.

It’s the belief online that “if I give off good vibes, good vibes will be attracted back to me. You know, because everything is, like, made up of vibrating strings, and stuff” (that last bit is just the connection to String theory OP mentioned)

OP is not endorsing these beliefs, just observing them.

Couple things.

1. I don’t think that the whites-in-blacks worked as servants when there wasn’t an active target on premises. They just wanted to stay around (since they live there, and want to be around family), but needed a reason to be there. The other white-in-black was just a regular dude, right? Until he got flashed?
2. I don’t think they were racist in the sense of “black people are inferior”, but more “black people are exotic”. Post full-on-racism there has been a rising objectification of black people, in the vein of “once you go black, you never go back” that is dehumanizing of black people in a subtler way than southern belle racism.

We’d probably end up with a situation where wild deer don’t have the gene and city deer do, excepting any cross-breeding.

Ah, missed that. Yeah, I see where you’re coming from.

I feel a little bad for such a short response, but fair enough. Good points all around.

Sorry, American here. Did WW3 start and I missed it? Is it Ukraine/Russia? Israel/Palestine? Horrible though they are, they seem pretty contained this far, unless something new happened I haven’t seen anything about.

I think that only applies if you can make an argument that the two characters are distinct. Your Mickey/Steamboat Willie example is good because they are distinct (slightly different looks, and different names). Another good example is Sherlock Holmes. There was a big lawsuit where the current rights holders tried to argue that the later works are still under copyright just because Sherlock has emotions, and he didn’t in the earlier stories. I don’t remember how the suit turned out though.

Saving this for later, as I want to hear responses as well.

Also, slight spoiler ::: spoiler spoiler Has the most Cox on screen of any Marvel show so far :::

Finished first episode. Starts with some new stuff, then does a quick recap of what happened in Maya’s life through the end of Hawkeye. If you watched that, you can skip it, as I didn’t see anything new. Then, the second half sets up the central conflict for the season.

Some unexpected elements, which you’ll see in the first few minutes. The show might not be a straight up crime drama like I was expecting (but will probably mostly be a crime drama).

Some fun, subtle, stuff in fight scenes involving the fact that Maya has a prosthetic leg.

Secondary characters seem fun so far, especially her cousin, who I hope survives the series (but probably won’t, cause no one is allowed to be happy)

Rating 3.5/5, because recap was slightly boring.

Oh, that released? Dang… I need to get on that…

For a minute I mixed up Gary Bowser and Doug Bowser, and was left wondering what beef the president of Nintendo of America could have with Nintendo as a whole :P

I think you’re right, but also I think OP was more thinking mass shooters, or maybe serial killers.

Oh, shoot. House House were the people behind Untitled Goose Game? Suddenly I’m a little more interested in this, honestly

At some point Japanese video game titles just start to feel like the Asian equivalent of all those Chinese tattoos that white people get that just say something like “Hot Waterfall Oven”…

In Unix shell scripts 1 is false, so there’s that

Moe is hard to define (I can’t do it), but if you just switch it for “cute” no one will probably know the difference. So: Fit-cute, kimono-cute, smol-cute, etc. Also, it’s used as an adjective, so some is more, not is a moe.