setsneedtofeed

setsneedtofeed , 2 months ago

You wouldn’t download an anti-piracy message.

setsneedtofeed , 3 months ago

In boots it is quite easy (if time consuming) to worm your way up by wrapping the rope on one foot and stepping on it with the other.

setsneedtofeed , 3 months ago

Hey guys, wanna play this cool game called FATAL?

setsneedtofeed , 5 months ago

People: “What game is that one for?”

Me: “Game?”

setsneedtofeed , 5 months ago

I’ve been doing my best to add content. I’m currently working on a book review, a video game review, and a Battletech post. Unfortunately posts like that take time and are outpaced by the tempo of news articles and resulting arguments within.

If you want a more positive experience you should unsubscribe from all the news & politics stuff. Trust me, when you click on “frontpage all”, it will be there. No reason to also have it in your subscribe feed. Go into the creative communities and at the very least comment. Give some feedback, and ideally add something of your own. Lemmy is too small to simply expect content to exist without adding some of your own.

setsneedtofeed , 5 months ago

I’m also posting faster low effort stuff, but I really want posts with some meat to them.

setsneedtofeed , 5 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b87751c8-a0c0-453e-a097-04c292b54665.jpeg

setsneedtofeed , 6 months ago

Is Halloween or a festival like it in official DND lore? Asking because this image made me actually wonder.

Either way, a fun setting.

setsneedtofeed OP , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Just a thing I’m putting together in one pass.

This is after the Second American Civil War. The country fractured into different states, the United Reformed States of America is the resulting new country that exists as a construction of a treaty between them.

This entire map is just background information for a future war in Alaska (which as you can see isn’t on the map). Alaska tried sitting out the war until somebody won, but since technically nobody won, the ownership of Alaska became a Federal protectorate. Because of global warming, Alaska became a place where cities started being built as a way to deal with overpopulation in the continental states. The growing population of Alaska sparks a war with a revived Eastern European-Asian nation red communist pact.

I didn’t really focus on the URSA, but it’s giving me so many ideas I might have to make a booklet focusing on it when I’m done with Alaska. So far I think it has a council of 7 presidents (one from each state), a court presided over by a Prime Judge and an AI construct, and then a house of Chief Operating Officers.

To sign, each state got some special demand met.

New Jefferson: Got to build and maintain the AI judge, in exchange for not getting more COOs than everyone else despite having the largest population.

Qodesh: Citizens have immunity from numerous Federal laws and mandates such as military conscription.

Texas: Gets a bigger star on the new flag than everybody else.

Travail: Has a special veto power among COOs for economic matters.

The State Of Davis: Exempted from many Federal business and safety laws.

Columbia: The only state with control of a nuclear weapon.

Pert: Special tax zone, and has ability to impose laws even if Federal law does not allow it.

setsneedtofeed OP , 7 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cb34abfc-ac22-4302-8cb5-26d707ba9e7c.jpeg

setsneedtofeed OP , 6 months ago

Honestly, I don’t exactly know. Until I come up with something good enough it’s a “here be dragons” zone.

I want whatever it is to be so bad that even during the height of the second American civil war, the three bordering states, despite being at war with each other had a truce along the border containment wall, with their guards manning the wall without fighting each other.

setsneedtofeed , 9 months ago

So, now what.

setsneedtofeed , 9 months ago

At one point Prime had all of the Star Trek, all of the Stargate shows, the Simpsons, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. That alone made it worth turning on.

These days I stream various YouTube channels on my smart TV more than I open up Prime.

setsneedtofeed , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

You know it’s a lot easier to think about pulling a “Tee hee who released this game? Not me oops.” then it is to be the person staring down the idea of actually having consequences from it.

If Disney sues you, there’s basically no upside.

The downsides are, that even if you win or come to a settlement that you’re on the hook for lawyer’s fees. How many thousands of dollars do you have sitting around to burn on lawyers?

A settlement agreement would of course end with Disney getting the payout, not you. So, decide how much that is.

And that’s all assuming you end up either winning or not going to trial.

If you go to trial for IP infringement, it’s a civil case. That means that Disney doesn’t have to show proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but only that it is more likely than not you infringed. So if a jury needs to be 99% sure in a criminal trial, they only need to be 51% in a civil trial.

And for a trial you will be deposed, which is sat in a room an interrogated by Disney’s lawyers. And you have to answer their questions and you have to tell the truth. Want to pled the 5th? Guess what, it’s not a criminal trial so pleading the 5th in a civil deposition can be used against you to draw the worst inferences. They will ask if you worked on it, and if you distributed it, and they’ll ask in every way possible so you can “technically tell the truth” while trying to weasel out of it. And if you do lie, and your lie gets caught, you’re toasted.

Sounds fun right?

setsneedtofeed , 10 months ago

The underhanded, lying, victim blaming actions from reddit were so much worse than the shutdown on its own. If reddit had been more honest about their intentions of shutting down 3PA from the beginning, 3PA users still wouldn't have been thrilled, but we wouldn't be seeing this reddit meltdown.

setsneedtofeed , 10 months ago

Back in my day we had to walk uphill both ways to sign up for BBS forums. Kids these days.