It’s so infuriating to me that there isn’t a way to just encrypt traffic without verifying it’s part of a chain. By all means, give a nag warning in browsers, but ugh, I think that ship has long since sailed. Plus, realistically, you’d need just as many scary warnings to deter the average user that they might be getting MITMed.

Can you not issue your own certificate? I guess it depends on how many devices and what types of devices need to connect. It’s be a one time effort per device (importing your own self signed cert) versus one time effort per service per X days.

If the community moderator acts in it before instance admins see it then they don’t see it, right?

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

Don’t forget the child labor aspect. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/jan/09/the-trouble-with-roblox-the-video-game-empire-built-on-child-labour

It wasn’t pointless of me to try and help you and others know the difference between copyrights and patents. It’s a very common misconception. It wasn’t detracting from your point, either. At no point did I argue that the game companies doing this are actually morally correct and that it shouldn’t bother you that the Nemesis System is patented or that Nintendo is patenting things like capturing monsters.

Last time I checked it out there was a lot of racist spam. It seems better now. Maybe it was one bad actor or the spam filter is better.

I’m not a man

Yeah that makes sense.

The Treachery of Memes

This is not a Dodge Challenger.

As an American, I sort of understand that argument for Europe more, because everything I’ve read says manual is more common, but still, how often are you going to be in some scenario where you’re forced to drive a manual? Like if you’re bad at driving a bigger truck, you just shouldn’t do that on busy roads until your comfortable. I don’t view these types of things as necessary knowledge for driving.

They keep saying that but those Bitcoins are still in the dump. (I’m aware it’s not comparable since having the drive in hand versus missing is a huge difference. Just a little joke.)

It’s a common misconception. It’s not a big deal. Why are you being so defensive about me correcting it?

The difference does matter. Two copyrighted games can have similar mechanics. Just look at literally any pair of games in the same genre. First person shooting isn’t patented, so anybody can make an FPS game. They patented the nemesis system. Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War are copyrighted.

It’s not really a problem, it’s just funny that so many forms of power generation we have are just boiling water to make steam that spins turbines.

Copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and patent infringement are all very different.

Patented, not copyrighted, but I think you double posted.

You mean patent. You don’t choose to copyright things or not, all media is inherently copyrighted. This comment is technically copyrighted once I hit send. It sounds like your referring to Shadow of Mordor’s/War’s Nemesis system being patented.

They won’t shut up about me getting them a ring, ugh, and it’s the first date. Way too interested in commitment. Pass.