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This is a real picture released by his own press team

Just sell the body to some other rube and move into a new one that still has both legs. It’s easy. What are you, poor?

Should be. Welcome to America. Where everything is too goddamn big, costs too much, and doesn’t work for shit

No, you are a mechanical engineer that uses AI.

“Prompt Engineer” is a “real” job title

I’m pretty sure this doesn’t account for any floor that isn’t a flat plane.

400 psi? Damn you could piss the paint off your house with that thing

That assumption is exactly why tons of techbros jumped on it. But no, it’s for the British Indian Ocean Territory. Roughly 23 square miles of islands all within pissing distance of each other south of India.

Look, the point here isn’t that piracy is some magical guilt-free action that gets everyone free stuff for no downside. I’m not arguing that it should be legal. I’m not arguing that it’s moral. But it is a fundamentally different crime than theft. We’ve been talking in circles about this for two days and it’s pretty clear that neither of us is going to move off our opinions on the matter. Agree to disagree, then?

Well, then you’d be incorrect. Have you been paying attention at all? Even your own argument illustrates why this is. Think about why theft is illegal and it should be immediately apparent why they are different.

You have a cow, I take the cow from you, you starve and die and I make money. That’s theft.

You have a cow, I create a perfect copy of that cow and take it home, we both get milk and beef, we both survive in our post-scarcity Star Trek like utopia. The fundamental definition of theft, the taking away of something that belongs to someone else, is impossible here.

I don’t see why not I suppose.

Don’t worry your TV will just hijack the HDMI signal to inject its own ads

Well, not exactly; you’re comparing apples and oranges because the original Mona Lisa has value inherent to it being the original, which the copy does not retain. But say you show up and exact copy the Mona Lisa and then take your copy home, that’s not only not theft, it’s perfectly legal. People take photographs of it all the time.

In software there’s no difference between a master copy and the one you’ve downloaded, there is no additional value inherent to being the “original file” so this comparison doesn’t really work.

Everyone knows you’re supposed to wear a gambeson beneath your chainmail. Leather or padded cloth is best.

Ergo, full body gimp suit before bed

Jumping the gun a little there, aren’t you? Nobody said anything about selling the pirated content. With art that’s considered forgery, and that’s a different crime.

If you steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, the Mona Lisa is then gone. Nobody else gets to have it or see it. That’s theft. If I pirate your software, you won’t even know I’ve done it, and any person with a copy of that software keeps it, including you. That’s piracy. You see the difference?

It doesn’t mean that at all. What it means is that it isn’t theft. It’s software piracy. When you’re finished downloading your software, everyone who had a copy of that software still has it. So you haven’t stolen anything. You haven’t taken resources from anyone. You aren’t depriving someone else of this object and using it yourself instead. You’ve simply made a copy of an infinitely copiable medium. Sure you did so without paying for it, that’s why piracy is a crime. But it isn’t theft. You haven’t taken anything away from anyone. In fact you’ve done the opposite, and increased the total amount of ordered data in the world, but I won’t try to spin that as something chivalrous for this argument, that’s a different discussion.

Point is, say what you want about piracy and its dubious legality, it factually is not theft.

I agree with you here, piracy isn’t theft for reasons unrelated to buying and owning. The reason lies with the infinite reproducibility of the product. While I may agree with the sentiment behind the post, it’s not technically a sound argument.

Didn’t you hear? Global warming is real now, the Democrats are using weather magic to stir up Jewish hurricanes into conservative-voting areas.

Put the baby in the oven

Just trust me on this bro

You’ll know when the time is right

Roboquest actually kind of kicks ass. It’s a way better game than I expected it to be when I picked it up. I think those guys deserve more attention than they’ve been getting.

Also, shout out to Gunfire Reborn as well, I’ve been a big fan of that one for a couple years. Similar style to Roboquest. It’s a Chinese game and some parts of it are a little poorly translated but the gameplay is very fun and solid.

It can be charitably described as above, and uncharitably described as “Hold down S and LMB for an hour at a time”. I kind of bounced off these. They aren’t bad games, in fact they were pretty popular but most of your gameplay loop is going to revolve around getting the attention of a horde of goons and then backpedaling while you whittle the group down from 80 dudes to none.