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I mean, if the whole situation surrounding him weren't so awful, it would be kinda funny to see a dude flailing around trying to legally mandate an internet hit squad.
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Bottom Liner posted:https://warhammeradventures.com/ To my mind, it's the Marines which are 90% of the problem. GW has never had a problem getting across the idea that the Imperial Guard is a terrible shitshow, but the Imperial Guard are not the iconic faction of the setting, the Marines are, and they are terrified of the Marines ever looking less than super cool.
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Pretty sure America has a well documented surplus of underemployed lawyers at the best of times.Warthur posted:Having read those books they do get across a lot of "the Imperium is very very bad actually" points, but equally they chicken out of saying "the Space Marines are bad". Yeah, doesn't help that they drank so much of their own Kool-Aid on those to the point where even people who like Space Marines are getting sick of it. Reminds me of how Sega is apparently hell to work with around Sonic the Hedgehog because they demand he be front and centre in everything and also that he basically not have any personality beyond 'fast' and 'cool'.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Pretty sure America has a well documented surplus of underemployed lawyers at the best of times. That's not strictly speaking the case as much as they're *very* paranoid about licensing sonic out without ironclad contracts after archie comics hosed up a contract and they somehow lost the rights to "Literally sonic but evil." Amongst a pantheon of other characters.
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They definitely don't put Marine baggage as front and center as they do Guard, AdMech, or Sister baggage. Even in the model line itself, you can get modeled representations of those factions' sins, but there's no "Brother-Captain Jebediah eating someone's frontal lobe to gain their memories" unit you can whip out.
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They should bring back regularly massacring entire armies of space marines because they fought a chaos army. The guard can just be retired to a farming world with big guns in orbit in case they go heretic. Sisters are of course fine.
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If I were put in charge of Games Workshop tomorrow I would make the following plot updates to handle the "Marines are too perfect" issue: - It turns out that the Marine geneseed is unstable and after 10,000 years or so can no longer be used to make new Marines. Worse, existing Marines all weaken and die as their geneseed goes cancerous on them. (Chaos Marines are saved only by the will of the Chaos Gods, prompting a bunch of Marine chapters to betray the Imperium.) - OK, all loyalist Marines are dead now and it's 100% because the Emperor personally hosed up their design, and the Imperium as an institution failed to spot that and correct for it. You can use your legacy models in home games if you like, but the only rules we will put out for them will be like those old Age of Sigmar rules where you had to pretend to ride a horse or something to use some of the old WFB models so that playing Marines in any sanctioned context is an exercise in public humiliation. In one fell swoop I will have made significant progress on purging the fascism from 40K, wiped out by far the most boring factions in the game, and inspire a lot of Internet anger which will be very funny and good. Games Workshop are not likely to put me in charge but I still stand by this plan and encourage you to write in about it.
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When they initially moved the clock forward from 40000 to whatever year it is supposed to be I thought they were setting up for some sort of civil war. They split the Imperium in two with the Cicatrix Maledictum and introduced a new flavor of Marines that don't entirely fit into existing Chapters. It would be a reasonable step to bring back another loyal Primarch who really doesn't like what Guilliman is doing - maybe Russ, maybe Johnson? - and have them go to war. This could shake up the status quo in ways that (a) introduce more conflict, thus more reasons for games and (b) gives a lot of opportunities to keep the Marines as important protagonists but make them more obviously flawed and problematic.
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We have hit the fun point of learning the Marines and, indeed, the entirety of the Imperium has no idea what flanking is. This dark secret is the sole domain of the Genestealers.
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Make female space marines and have them finally kill off the emperor. GW could sustain themselves on the tears for decades with some basic hydroelectric generation.
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Bottom Liner posted:Make female space marines and have them finally kill off the emperor. GW could sustain themselves on the tears for decades with some basic hydroelectric generation. Finger curls on the monkeys paw Female space marines have ludicrously massive tits that shoot acid milk.
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An affidavit need not be written by a lawyer. Sometimes you are simply asserting things that you can amply document in other ways if challenged, and the affidavit is a shortcut way of including that all stuff in a legal record. Somebody else can write it for you; it's your signature and oath that make it "your" words. If somebody's handing you an affidavit you didn't help write and/or you're unsure about the implications of its contents, consider not signing right then and/or paying a lawyer who is not also representing somebody else in the matter to advise you.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:As a goon I would be totally owned and forced to apologise profusely for my vile lies slander and libel if zak hired ty beard.
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I'm reminded of the time Zak tried to "get" people by saying he'd donate to a charity if they argued in his very precise way, then then tried to claim that anyone who just donated to the charity anyways, bypassing him completely, was still ethically awful because, by not arguing with him in the way he wanted to be argued with, they were "withholding" money from the charity? It makes me think of that scene from Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, where The Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair tries to rope Mrs. Strange into a bargain to save Lady Pole. Arabella replies that, were he a true gentleman, he would simply help her friend because it is the right thing to do, and that if he seeks to make profit in exchange for doing the right thing, he is a bad person.
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Honestly, the lack of female Space Marines is kind of inexcusable in TYOOL 2021. It's a dumb 30-year-old lore decision that should be reversed. The Imperium already has invented a brand new way to make Space Marines that isn't millenia-old. Have it work on women, cowards.
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It's hard not to draw a line from Zak discovering that people take him more seriously when he posts complete sentences and paragraphs, to nowadays where he seems to think the arrangement and formality of words associated with law stuff give them magical power. It's approaching "AM I BEING DETAINED" sovcit levels in that comments section.
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Toph Bei Fong posted:I'm reminded of the time Zak tried to "get" people by saying he'd donate to a charity if they argued in his very precise way, then then tried to claim that anyone who just donated to the charity anyways, bypassing him completely, was still ethically awful because, by not arguing with him in the way he wanted to be argued with, they were "withholding" money from the charity? In addition to a good point, fuckin’ A+ reference to my favorite book.
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Froghammer posted:Honestly, the lack of female Space Marines is kind of inexcusable in TYOOL 2021. It's a dumb 30-year-old lore decision that should be reversed. They missed an obvious opportunity to introduce women Marines when they brought out Primaris.
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Dec 17, 2021 18:58
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Froghammer posted:"You're not allowed to get this Kickstarter product that you backed unless you sign this contract where you promise to defend my honor every time someone calls me a rapist. Forever. Until you physically can't" It's even stupider than that. The Chik-Fil-A pantshitter is saying "I will show you documents that prove this extremely late Kickstarter project is not late because I didn't do the work but you have to legally-binding pinkie swear that I'm not a lying liar who lies and also tell that to anyone who says that I am in perpetuity on any platform forever." He's not even trying to withhold the product, he's basically playing "my uncle at Nintendo" but trying to make you sign an affidavit for the privilege. Also, keep ending your posts with "stop lying in the comments," zak, you pants making GBS threads rapist, it's definitely working.
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With time I am more and more sympathetic to the position that associating Zak with pants-making GBS threads is insulting to the legitimately incontinent.
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That Old Tree posted:It's hard not to draw a line from Zak discovering that people take him more seriously when he posts complete sentences and paragraphs, to nowadays where he seems to think the arrangement and formality of words associated with law stuff give them magical power. It's approaching "AM I BEING DETAINED" sovcit levels in that comments section. Hey now Asking a cop if you're being detained actually does some good in some cases. Zak's legal incantations are never good.
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Kurieg posted:Finger curls on the monkeys paw You think the lady GW fans wouldn't find that loving awesome? (Edit: The acid shooting part, not the ludicrously massive part.)
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So, I wanted to ask something, even if it will make me look like an idiot. It's about the Kickstarter thing. I know why NFTs are bad. It's because in constantly change and record the changes in the code that guarantees that yes, you are indeed the owner of this ugly picture of a monkey wearing a cowboy hat, you need a video card working at full force and that consumes the video card rather quickly over time and this results in a lot of pollution and dead video cards. Like, the speculation on art of ugly monkeys (because no decent artist wants anything to do with this poo poo) is comparatively nothing and just capitalism being capitalism, from what I understand (which might be wrong). But why is the blockchain bad? I'm honestly not entirely sure I even understand what that is.
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paradoxGentleman posted:So, I wanted to ask something, even if it will make me look like an idiot. It's about the Kickstarter thing. The blockchain is what you described what NFTs are... a database maintained by ludicrous computational power multiplying together twenty digit prime numbers instead of just tossing them into an excel file and calling it a day. You can have NFTs without the Blockchain... for example, Roblox has NFTs. A sparkly blue hat costs about fifteen thousand dollars because it's rare, and that's not maintained by burning a pile of video cards in the carcass of a whale. They just have a database that says Mitch owns one of the only blue fedoras, and if he sells it to Marcus, the Roblox company takes fifteen thousand dollars in fun token from Marcus, gives about eleven thousand dollars of funbux to Mitch, and changes their database so now it says Marcus owns the rare hat. You don't need to destroy the earth to speculate on monkey gifs.
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paradoxGentleman posted:So, I wanted to ask something, even if it will make me look like an idiot. It's about the Kickstarter thing. Okay, someone please correct me if and where I'm wrong. I don't have the deepest understanding but I have enough to realize I don't want to touch crypto. So... The short version is that it's a live, decentralized record of activity in the blockchain's network. And everyone keeps a copy, to keep it decentralized, as it regularly checks against other copies of the blockchain to verify that its information is legit and not being edited. This means every transaction in the chain - like say I send you a Bitcoin - gets recorded and then propagates to everyone else so the whole network knows that Bitcoin #314159 is now owned by you and not me. This bloats the blockchain massively very quickly. The current size of the Bitcoin blockchain is 380 GB, according to a quick Google search. It grew 20 GB since early October. It's going to keep getting bigger with every transaction. And bear in mind that Bitcoin's number of transactions are still a small fraction of what you'd see in regular financial transactions for almost any bank or other institution - actual wide adoption of a crypto coin would end up with blockchains so big that only a handful of players could even host it, progressively recentralizing everything.
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Blockchain as a technology is not INHERENTLY bad, yeah, it just…is a distributed database best used for relatively small file sizes you want to be very hard to delete. Cryptocurrency ledgers are not small and are literally the worst possible use case for blockchain. So they all use it. Naturally.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Asmodee bought Miniature Market, apparently Yes. https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/126073/online-us-retailer-miniature-market-purchased-asmo
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sportsgenius86 posted:Asmodee bought Miniature Market, apparently aww man. I had an easier time finding stuff there than Cool Stuff Inc. before. We'll see how long that lasts.
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paradoxGentleman posted:But why is the blockchain bad? I'm honestly not entirely sure I even understand what that is. Right, so, as I understand it: 'Blockchain' is just a form of database. It's flat less good than literally every other database you could run, except for a small handful of niche applications (none of which are what KS is doing with it). Cryptocurrencies are built on blockchains. Proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are the planet-burning bullshit that everybody hates. Proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies are less bad environmentally but still not actually useful for anything -- you're burning fewer trees but you're doing it to achieve exactly nothing. NFTs are built on cryptocurrencies -- specifically Ether, which is a proof-of-work cryptocurrency. They are also entirely without value or redeeming characteristics, and are basically just a planet-burning scam meant to pull more money into the overall crypto market so the people who run it can cash out. There's nothing inherently wrong with Kickstarter moving to blockchain, but there is literally nothing they need blockchain for. They can do everything they need to do (and everything they claim to want to do) using non-blockchain options -- which are superior to blockchain options because blockchain kind of sucks. At best, KS are replacing their current functional system with a worse one in order to include a tech buzzword in their platform. Much more likely, they're moving to blockchain because they're planning to mint tokens (cryptocurrency) and incorporate them into their product offering somehow, either holding value in those tokens or allowing people to pay in crypto. This is a loving terrible idea because the value of cryptocurrencies is highly volatile and easily manipulated by anyone who holds enough of them. Imagine you're running a project and someone pledges 100 Coinstarters while each one equals $10, but by the time it comes to collect payment each Coinstarter is worth $2. It's impossible to calculate how many crypto tokens you'll need because their value is so unstable. Also, tech companies need firm discipline or they will piss all over absolutely everything. Even if there's nothing untoward about Kickstarter's plan to implement blockchain -- and I'm confident that there's plenty untoward about it -- if they don't meet an immediate, overwhelming negative response, they'll assume everything's fine and move on to the next boneheaded idea they have.
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paradoxGentleman posted:I know why NFTs are bad. It's because in constantly change and record the changes in the code that guarantees that yes, you are indeed the owner of this ugly picture of a monkey wearing a cowboy hat, (I believe Bored Ape Yacht Club fostered their "community" by giving people limited rights to use their images and make new art based on them, but they have no obligation to do so.)
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Halloween Jack posted:The thing is, you don't even own the picture. You don't get the copyright, usage rights, etc. You're essentially paying for a "certificate of authenticity," which has no legal backing, matched to the picture. There's nothing to stop the artist (or whoever paid for the rights) from selling you a NFT, then minting a thousand more NFTs for the exact same image. And, similarly, we can already achieve proof of ownership over digital assets through a wide variety of non-blockchain-based methods: That's basically what intellectual property rights and copyrights already do (and do better than NFTs).
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Mors Rattus posted:Blockchain as a technology is not INHERENTLY bad, yeah, it just…is a distributed database best used for relatively small file sizes you want to be very hard to delete.
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KingKalamari posted:And, similarly, we can already achieve proof of ownership over digital assets through a wide variety of non-blockchain-based methods: That's basically what intellectual property rights and copyrights already do (and do better than NFTs).
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HERE IS THE ARTICLE YOU CAN SEND TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY SAY “BUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WITH CRYPTOART WILL BE SOLVED SOON, RIGHT?”
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potatocubed posted:Right, so, as I understand it: There are some minor tweaks but I want to zero in on this because it's incorrect. The underlying idea behind blockchain has many good applications and is quite useful. It's better known as Git and is the foundation of things like Github. The use of blockchain for everything and the rise of crypto are incredibly dumb*, and backlash against every tech company being basically forced to somehow jam it in is more than merited, but the idea that it's totally useless is also silly. It's a perfectly decent way of logging data that somehow is being jammed into all sorts of bizarre situations it's not good for. Analogous example : It's not the concept of knives' fault that they don't make good pillows, and that doesn't make them lovely knives. If everyone started trying to sleep on knives, the problem wouldn't be the knives, it would be the crazy people trying to do that. *Although this is exacerbated because the backbone of everything was pretty much just one dude loving around in his free-time for a bit. Of loving course he wasn't optimizing it for use on a global scale. Halloween Jack posted:The thing is, you don't even own the picture. You don't get the copyright, usage rights, etc. You're essentially paying for a "certificate of authenticity," which has no legal backing, matched to the picture. There's nothing to stop the artist (or whoever paid for the rights) from selling you a NFT, then minting a thousand more NFTs for the exact same image. NFT's are actually a spot on the blockchain that can contain any data you want. It's like a blockchain "storage slot" or a really weird way of saving something in a very specific cloud. It just so happens that the space is currently being occupied a dumb picture. It's not a "certificate of authenticity", it's more like a spot that you could hang a picture in. So it's a blank wall with a stock photo taped to it in this metaphor.
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it's not even occupied by the picture, it's occupied by a note saying you own the picture at x location. It's incredibly stupid.
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Everyone who is into NFTs is a moron or a grifter or (usually) both
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https://twitter.com/CoinersTakingLs this would be hilarious if these idiots weren't accelerating the climate crisis
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Any way you cut it, there's no practical or beneficial to creators reason for Kickstarter to be doing blockchain anything, and it's insultingly transparent that they're doing the "we soooo want to hear from you, send us your thoughts" small talk when everyone knows they're just doing this to make investors hard and juice their stock value. Creators have been asking Kickstarter for concrete, actionable improvements for years now, like better ways to manage comments sections. Instead KS does this and wants to act like they're doing it for the creators' benefit.
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