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  • Gamers: the removal of 32 bit physX means that these mid-2000s games perform really poorly on a card I paid $2000 to get.

    Nvidia(while swimming in their Scrooge McDuck vault): Fine! if you think it's so easy, compile it yourself then!

  • That whole album is full of bangers.

    From the somber Father of Death, to the jazzy sounds of The Hounds, to the very 80s rock of Breaking out and Light up the Night. Every track on that album is good.

    It's far more polished than the noisy, almost punk vibe the first album has.

  • Man's unlocked the secret code to infinite money.

    If I pay for everything with a debit card it doesn't count as real money because it's just a number on a screen and therefore doesn't exist.

  • It depends on what you think the purpose of keeping creative works outside of the public domain is. Generally, the idea is so that the original creator can make a living off of their art without someone immediately copying their work and undercutting them. The idea of keeping a character true to the original interpretation is not usually considered in this discussion.

    Personally, I believe that IP should enter the public domain way sooner than it actually does. I'm generally in favor the original definition of 14 years, with a 14 year extension before the work enters public domain. That gives someone 28 years to make a living off of a character before the ideas become free game for others to use and adapt in any way they see fit.

    Having Spongebob as IP keeps him on rails for who he is as a character. Change that, Spongebob as a character is changed by the public that could make the original unrecognizable

    I fundamentally disagree with this premise. The vast majority of characters that are in the public domain are not significantly different from their source work, outside of a handful of modern exceptions. Dracula is still mostly Dracula, even in the modern day. Same for Sherlock Holmes, or anyone in a Shakespeare play. The idea of completely twisting a character once they enter the public domain happens, like with Blood and Honey, or that Popeye horror movie coming out, but I think you'd struggle to find anyone that only knows Winnie the Pooh or Popeye from their modern, cheesy slasher adaptations rather than the original stories.

  • The problem is that a lot of the people that believe this, were told by almost everyone in their life that the reason they're miserable is because of immigration or those uppity black folk, not because of poverty.

    They're cheering right now because from their perspective, they're finally seeing something being done about the root of their problems.

    They think that after this business is done, they're going to live in 1950s post-war America rather than 1950s post-war Germany.

  • It depends what you want to see from the US. The US is massive and there is a huge difference in visiting NYC vs visiting Omaha.

    It also depends where you are. For example if you're in the EU then visiting places like Paris or Amsterdam are probably out as they are accessible as a day trip.

  • That's not the only reason. Canada is now in an election cycle and the current Conservative party leader aligns well with Trump. Up until these tariffs and the 51st state business, his party had a sizable lead. His main opponent is the leader of the currently in-power Liberal party and is ready to fight a trade war with the US. The opposition from the south gave them a massive boost in the polls.

    You guys backing off of the tarriffs makes the Conservative party more attractive again, assuming people's memories are short enough.

  • I mean, he absolutely has a plan. It's just that the plan is to reduce corporate taxes, remove any safety nets and de-regulate as much as possible.

    All things that are bad for the average citizen, but also still a plan.