I just live in Texas. That’s all it takes.

Let’s say you design a revolutionary widget of some kind, but don’t have the means to to produce it at scale. How do you get it to market? You parter with a larger company. For a share of the proceeds, you have them produce the item. Without a patent, when you go to the manufacturer and show them the design, they can just start making it themselves and tell you to beat sand.

Also, patents require competitive companies to alter a product design in order to sell it. If everyone could just copy the same product, there would be further incentive to monopolize the means of production to produce the single product at a larger scale, since the only differentiation between products would be the price. Patents allow competition through limited-term protection of their innovations.

Is the patent system abused by large companies? Absolutely. But removing patents won’t make them.good actors. It’ll just remove any limitations on their theft.

I haven’t, and I really should. Like, REALLY should. I was college roommates with and took part in the wedding of someone high enough at Gearbox that I can’t say their role without doxxing myself, and we’ve stayed really close.

Yes. The out of left field had more to do with what was expected going in. We all expected silly D&D and fart jokes. We didn’t expect a legitimately touching examination of grief and denial to bring depth to a silly character.

BL2 was great. Some of its DLC was even better. Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the best looter shooters ever made. The gameplay was a blast. The jokes were funny…And out of left field it broke your fucking heart by secretly being about a young, traumatized girl’s grief.

They even admitted they could’ve interdicted the boat, but chose to kill them instead.

It was 100% absolutely, unquestionably a war crime.

And even if Trump is immune, the rest of those involved are NOT. Some of them are lawyering up, because war crimes can carry a death penalty.

But she didn’t suddenly lose it.

She wiped out cities full of people before. But it took her doing it in Westeros for people to see that it was because she was insane.

Yeah. Modern medicine is amazing, but that looks pretty much un-surviveable.

That was last year.

Now it’s… Tylenol?

I wonder if it has something to do with how they count users with ad blockers.

Actually, Harris was the tail-end of boomers.

They’ll he defined as a generation thay never got to be in charge.

The youngest X-ers need colonoscopies, and the Boomers still fucking refuse to step back.

The language prohibiting the ownership of guns for the mentally ill is someone who has been adjudication as mentally defective (as in: by a court declaration), or who has been committed to a mental institution.

As for gender identity: the ATF added the option of non-binary gender to the 4473 5 years ago, so it clearly didn’t have an issue then.

MRAPs for police departments are usually scraps thrown away by the military. They tend to he in terrible shape when the military ditches them, so the “free” armored vehicles end up costing a fuckton on money to repair and maintain.

The commute. Make employers pay an extra 2 hours a day and they’ll be a lot more willing to let us work from home.

Of course, not all jobs can be done remotely, but this would free up traffic and improve the commute of those that have to work in-person.

The Castlevania date is a little misleading, however.

Castlevania changed from a simple linear level-based side-scroller to the open world exploration, progression, and backtracking formula of the Metroidvania genre with Symphony of the Night in 1997.

They have other sources for organs.

https://www.youtube.com/live/iKwQaT2rNM4

Starts around 18:30

You also can’t opt out of other people sharing your shit.

If your kindness is transactional, you’re not a nice person.