Aidinthel @ Aidinthel @reddthat.com

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"Our company is like a professional sports team, except we are definitely not going to pay you like actual professional sports players." - a guy who makes way too much money

In concept, sure, it's possible. In practice, as we see here, the sorts of people who have hardline anti-immigration opinions tend to do so because they see those migrants as being less than fully human.

Clean the filter in your dishwasher once every month or two, depending on how often you use it.

I doubt it, if only because publicly failing like this must hurt his ego pretty badly.

I'm so glad the country doesn't have any actual problems that need to be addressed so the Senate can afford to spend time on nonsense like this.

It's important to note that DC have denied that Willingham can do this, so the first person who tries to take advantage is going to get sued. That alone is probably enough to scare off most people, regardless of who is technically in the right. We'll see how this goes.

The point of putting a property in the public domain is precisely so anyone can do whatever they want with it. The basic idea is that all creators draw on their wider culture for ideas, and therefore all creative works belong, in part, to the wider culture, and need to be turned over eventually. The fact that Willingham uses so many public domain characters in his comics is itself a good illustration of how this works. Two of his main characters are Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf (among many other fairy tale characters). They eventually get married. Are you concerned about preserving the "spirit" of those original stories, which Willingham freely reinterprets? I doubt it, and you shouldn't be. We all, as a culture, own those characters and can use them however we want. What this decision means is that the same now applies to Willingham's specific versions. I have immense respect for the man for making a principled decision.

As for how it damages DC, it doesn't do anything directly. They can still make and sell whatever they want, same as before. It's just that now they have competition, because other people can also make and sell Fables books. Assuming DC loses the inevitable legal battle, at any rate.

Except Trump has been a disaster for the GOP. They have consistently underperformed compared to expectations since he was elected.

Oh, thanks for the tip. That would have been frustrating to run into

Dead Space 1, the original. I recently realized I own it on the EA account I forgot having made and figured I'd take a look. I'm partway through chapter 3 now. The game really shows its age graphically, the ragdoll physics on the many corpses lying around keeps glitching out, and if the game is actually trying to be horrifying I feel a touch more subtlety would have been called for. It often feels more like a haunted house than something that's supposed to seem like a real place.

That being said, the combat is satisfyingly visceral (the gimmick of focusing on cutting off limbs was a very good idea), and tech limitations aside both the art direction and sound design are very solid. The times the game actually manages to be unnerving is almost always due to the tension of hearing the monsters in the walls but not being able to pinpoint its location.

Overall, I'm not exactly in love with it but I'll probably play it all the way through.

Except in the sense that they have weapons and are rarely punished for using them. There's what the law says and then there's the reality that if some cop gives you an order you have to choose between obeying and betting your life he's not going to escalate.

I can't get over the fact that this is the guy who was supposed to be some kind of tech genius.

To me, a perfect score doesn't (or shouldn't) mean a game is literally perfect. It means "I recommend this game without reservation. Everyone with the slightest interest in the genre should play it."

Granted, even by that standard a lot of these perfect scores are pretty questionable

Sorry, Jann, you aren't orange enough to get away with being that terrible.

Anyone else getting deja vu? It feels like this is exactly the same thing we've been through before, but with cars instead of houses.

You can ask them to do that when you order.

The hype backlash was a serious issue for that game. People expected it to be something it never could have been.

The fries at In-N-Out Burger. I really like them. They actually taste like potatoes, which are delicious.

The US legislatures give a lot of power based on seniority. There's a lot of incentive for a party to keep members in office as long as possible.

I don't think that would do anything. The problem isn't that they don't know it's wrong, it's that they know they won't face any consequences for their actions.