First time?

Someone do a version of the comic with this guy’s comment as the text of the first panel, please.

I know what open source means.

A group that wants to host that game server is eventually going to need to fix it, or adapt it to new software / hardware if we expect it to be able to run in perpetuity. They will need to be able to modify that source code to do so.

So the game publisher can’t just publish one final compiled package “for people to use.” The software has to be able to be maintained, not just used. And if we expect the software to survive over time, it will need a community not just one group. Open source is the only thing that would allow the game publisher to walk away from it, but allow the software to live on.

This is meant as a joke but it’s very much a real thing and has been for a long time. Visit an unincorporated area that doesn’t have a permit office and you’ll see some crazy shit. Visit the third world and it’ll blow your mind.

It sounds like she asked them to do it for her - doesn’t that involve her?

Among other things, you are there to ensure the heterosexuality of the event for them, so they can explore each other a little bit without fear of commiting. They sound like trad guys and trad guys are raised to think that sexual identity is all or nothing and that if they let in even a little bit of gay their entire identity will shatter. It’s sad that the culture does this to them - they do it to each other, really. Have patience. Let them go at their own pace. Exactly as you would with any partner, with any sexual experience.

There are definitely some drugs I’ve tried that I would not want to do while staring death in the face. But I agree it should be a personal choice. Basically I think it should be at any point in life.

And when date night progresses to the right point, you’ve got 99.8% the hardest hard you’ve ever had. A cat couldn’t scratch it.

This tweet does not understand the difference between libido and erection. I’m happy for him that he’s so ignorant. I wish the same for all of you, truly.

Because erectile dysfunction is when you’re plenty horny but the flag keeps going up and down anyway. ED pills do not make you horny, they help your vascular system direct the blood where it needs to go to keep the flag raised. They only work when you are already aroused.

When you take one before date night, you might feel a little flushed but that’s it. You don’t immediately get hard out of nowhere. Your nutsack tyrant doesn’t materialize next to you with a hammer and whip like a demon ready to slave drive you into machismo.

But then how could anyone use it? If it’s to download and run at home, you can get away with it. But in many of these cases they’re saying open source it so volunteer group XYZ can host a server and keep the game alive. Wouldn’t group XYZ be vulnerable to copyright action?

Pourquoi pas les deux?

Yeah I think there’s some promise in “open the source” as a remedy here. Because that doesn’t really put any onus on the game maker. They can keep making games exactly as they do now, but if they want to utterly walk away from a title, they have to open the source.

I think the complications with this would come from IP and copyright law, licensing, etc. for example, if the developer licensed any other software (or music or whatever) in order to make the game, do they actually have the rights to open source all of that? Perhaps not.

It’s kind of like accelerating the public domain thing. Very interesting remedy for this situation, but extremely complex legally, I would guess.

Well unfortunately most of these are.

If they’d made it “pedophiles and racists” it would be more complete description of the US and Europe and then Canada would also fit.

Interesting… I never thought about this but the Middle East are insane about drugs. Cut off your hand type penalties. And maybe this is because they are religious. Or maybe it’s because the oil trafficking cartels (aka their governments) don’t want the competition of drug trafficking cartels. It’s the same reason that some dictators have banned religion: they don’t want any other institutions with power around that they don’t control.

Just don’t go at 8am because you’ll be stuck in all the slow moving wolf packs of elderly.

I used to think that old people went grocery shopping at 8am to avoid the crowds but now that I’ve seen my dad struggle to sleep past 4am, I think I understand that for a lot of them, 8am is like high noon - their day has been underway for hours and they’re just waiting for the world to wake up.

Yes it’s video games and people want what they want and always think it’s simpler to deliver than it is.

Take Among Us. It is not some huge bullshit live service game, but it makes use of the internet. It was created by a small developer.

The game includes local network play which is a good thing because I assume it would have to under this law, so it can play “offline.”

Do we think that local network play was zero effort to include? Would it really have no effect on small developers if they all had to include this always?

I know what you mean about small indie games being simple but the reality is a little more complex than that image. Small developers do also create online games. They aren’t big shit shows like Fortnite but that doesn’t mean they don’t use the internet.

No one ever wants to hear that it’s more complicated than they think it is, but that’s the truth virtually all the time.

I understand the core case that this man wants to stop. But laws have to be written for all, with precise language, and can’t just say “you know the kind of game we’re talking about.”

And that’s where this gets difficult.

Spoken like someone who’s never had to implement regulatory measures in software.

This is a masterclass in “pick your one thing in life and focus on that.”

I’m highly pessimistic that the spirit of this legislation, which I wholly support, can ever be enshrined in law with enough specificity that it works the way we want it to in the cases where we need it to, without becoming a truly undue burden on small developers or forcing all publishers to just work around it in some way: like taking everything to a subscription model going forward.