Need to repost this in LeopardsEatingFaces

I mean, “car crashes into a stationary car” often gets the same response.

The idiot behind the wheel is somehow never at fault.

The Lich system was pretty close to the mark. Possible that developers gave the underlying features of SoM a wide berth out of caution, but so much of this seems to boil down to “we don’t want to risk the possibility of a lawsuit” rather than “we can’t just do our thing and see if WB’s lawyers care enough”.

So long as you’re not directly ripping off the code from another system, patent courts have been pretty generous in interpreting overlapping abstract concepts.

But any kind of suit is scary, particularly for studios that aren’t geared up to fight them.

Any time you put electrical tape on a cat and use it as a prop, I reserve the right to describe the film as low budget

Millions of fake IDs have been leaked.

Yeah, some of these criticisms are bad just on their face. Godfather is too slow for you? Come on. Is Rambo to slow for you as well? What about Speed?

Some of this just feels like kids who just graduated from watching Paw Patrol deciding they should veto what anyone else puts on the TV.

If you want to throw a fit because everything isn’t Marvel, I guess that’s fine for you. But don’t be shocked when you’re not invited back to College Movie Night.

I mean, which version?

I almost think the early low budget adaptations are better because of how zany they get with the art and effects.

The Timothee Chalamet version is just another action movie. But Lynch gets wild with it.

But it’s just vanilla combats with predictable outcomes.

So they invented… the first dozen seasons of the Pokemon cartoon?

They patented a very specific algorithm for a very specific kind of game. You can still do knock-offs of the system in the same way you can make RTS games without asking Blizzard’s permission or platformers without asking Nintendo’s.

I would suspect that SoM’s system is complex enough that nobody’s been eager to try and replicate it. But they high level concept of randomized enemy generation isn’t something you can patent. Neither is randomizing story elements between NPCs.

he is at the bottom of the barrel right now

I’ll believe it when I see it. He seems to be as dominant as ever, especially right after black bagging a world leader.

There is a reason he doesn’t want the epstein files out

Sure. Its embarrassing. But it isnt fatal by any stretch.

What if his base is just pedophiles and similarly minded creeps, pests, and jerks?

But a picture of the prez with half naked little girls on his lap would maybe get him out of the white house.

How? Who is going to push him out?

Why did the Romans fail?

I remember learning that the Romans fell because they were too gay and debauched and woke, so they lost their manly vigors.

Nevermind, history doesn’t like copypasta

I suppose its worth noting that the Roman Empire lasted centuries (millennia, if you see the Byzantine/Ottoman Empire as a continuation of Roman history). The UK is more comparable than the US, which flourished after WW1 and made it barely a century before fumbling.

But also, the book is hardly closed on the US as an empire. China, India, Persia, Rome, France… they all had their ups and downs.

The US writes the history books, runs the universities, and manages the international media networks.

A bunch of the documents released recently weren’t properly censored. All the information is out now.

Meanwhile, the US is stacking war crimes on war crimes across the Southern Hemisphere. The knee-jerk liberal response is “But the Epstein Files”, like killing 80 people to snatch a President of a foreign country on behalf of a hedge fund isn’t its own kind of evil.

How much TrumpCoin did the host country buy in advance?

Forming an agreement to protect Poland at all costs and calling it the Warsaw Pact.

What? No? Is that one taken?

Like tankie never really meant anything before

I mean, its historically described Soviet policy in Eastern Europe and Chinese domestic policing (Khrushchev putting down the Hungarian fascist revolt with armored infantry and Deng sending tanks into Tienanmen Square).

Now it just means whatever the opposite of neoconservative policy is, updated daily.

Being against tanks makes you a tankie at this point.

Everyone knows that if you’re against US tanks, you must be in favor of non-US tanks. You’re either with US or you’re with the Tankie-rists

Jesus this is a bad take

80 people were killed, cities were bombed, and we’ve got shits on here doing “it was an inside job, aktuly”

Fucking vile.