Omnificer

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[–] Omnificer 60 points 9 months ago (3 children)

As horrendous as this ruling is, I'm also pissed at the pro-forced birthers that are upset by this ruling. It's so intellectually dishonest to object to this ruling when it uses the same justifications they use to oppose abortion.

These people pick issues to be passionate on but never actually put in the effort to research. And not just whether their position makes any sense, but what the downstream effects of the position would mean.

The politicians who write these anti-abortion laws are even more lazy. This is literally their job and they should have seen this coming. They could have put in exceptions for IVF from the get-go but they didn't, because they are more interested in winning points than writing effective legislation.

[–] Omnificer 51 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In the 2004 Bard's Tale game you keep running across kids who die thinking they are they chosen one.

And then trows (basically goblins) come out and sing an oompa loompa style song mocking the kids.

[–] Omnificer 11 points 9 months ago

Nice, thanks for sharing the cover itself! It really is a delight

[–] Omnificer 42 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I had gay couples explained to me as a kid over twenty years ago and understood it no problem.

Geometry on the other hand, I still struggle with...

[–] Omnificer 68 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If Elon Musk is looking for more money pits to throw cash into, baseless law suits against Disney is certainly the way to go.

[–] Omnificer 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's kind of similar to numerology and cargo cults. They understand there is a cause and effect, but think that ritualistic actions are the cause to achieve their effect, instead of understanding that actual law is only superficially similar to ritual.

[–] Omnificer 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lawful doesn't mean following the laws. A lawful person isn't obligated to follow the law in the Kingdom of Baby Eating.

[–] Omnificer 2 points 10 months ago

Good explanation, thank you. It looks like fair use is a lot more limited than I had thought. And obviously not worth the risk for the average person to try and use as a defense.

[–] Omnificer 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, thank you for that context, I didn't see any mention of Patreon in the article.

[–] Omnificer 62 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm still stuck on him suggesting a submachine gun for police use, especially having also criticized submachine guns as promoting inaccuracy.

[–] Omnificer 10 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Not that this would save the average person from litigation hell, but does Nintendo actually have a legal leg to stand on? What would make a (free) mod any different from any other artistic expression?

Also assuming the mod creator didn't do anything crazy like rip assets from an existing Pokémon game.

[–] Omnificer 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

They reported 9.9 billion in profit for their third quarter last year, so I think 458 minutes of profit from that quarter.

I assumed 90 days in the quarter, or 129,600 minutes.

So dollar or minute wise, that comes out to a 00.35% penalty to that quarter.

Edit: Which isn't even close to the 36 minutes in that article, so I'd err on me being the wrong one.

Edit 2: I think I see the difference, I was looking at their profit, not their revenue.

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