Hits differently knowing that masses of Anarchists and LGBTQI+ and Poly-women were executed in the purges of “走资派” people in the following years.

You’re welcome, and thank you too.

I agree with all that. The edge cases are tricky and there’s no easy answer.

A painter flicking or splashing paint on a canvas presumably makes something with copyright protection.

Does an accidentally statically impossible basically impossible to tell apart version accidentally made by someone flicking and splashing their own paint infringe it? I’d hope not but can’t really argue for a rule on it that doesn’t involve believing stated goals/mind reading.

Guess not a thing us mortals/non-legal professionals can ever answer.

First, we’re talking cross duristicion, since I was using the EU ruling above.

Second, I’m wondering if what that US page means is that a non-original work doesn’t get copyright protections, or that non-original work is itself in breach of copyright? Maybe I should go digging to find out.

I agree deliberately designed digital worlds are artistic creations. Just that randomly generated ones are not.

You’re probably right that legal examples on both sure probably already exist.

Yes, and you have copyright on the photo - not the layout of the plants and trees in it, nor even the angle of the subject. Someone else can go with a camera and take their own photo without touching your copyright.

Much like with digital files, the copyright is as it is a non-random transformation of a mostly replicable media product. People don’t have a copyright on numbers, even if their 5000 trillion billion digit number happened to turn into a 1960s Disney short if you run it through the right compiler.

A Minecraft World isn’t, not even if you draw on it with exploration as the world was generated from a random seed.

It is random, and unpredictable. You could maybe make an argument from reusing the random seed… But since the ability to turn the seed into the map isn’t something a human can replicate without Minecraft I think it also fails the test for copyright.

Nahh, there’s also a secret amendment that caps them out at 720° of motion in a single instance of movement.

Talky Toaster really didn’t cope well with everyone being dead.

Though wasn’t it the antagonist in one of the book versions?

Must be geographically limited as I don’t.

You’re not wrong in that if the Palestinian death toll hasn’t swayed someone already, they’re probably not going to be swayed.

I’d hope its to convince the government of Israel to get rid of corrupt leader Netanyahu, and to work towards an equitable two state peace agreement with an independent Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza.

Or failing that, to convince people that unconditional support of the current Israeli government is bad, actually. Something many Israeli themselves believe (not to mention non-Israeli Jews).

In no particular order (and yes some are more well known in film circles, maybe I should’ve ommited them, but you never know what the reader hasn’t seen):

Jojo Rabbit, 2019 - a comedic coming of age in Nazi Germany. Jojo and his imaginary friend, Hitler, face a complicated and rapidly changing world.

The Mitchells versus the Machines, 2021 - animated family adventure for fun with the whole family.

Rise of Leslie Vernon, 2006 - mocumentary following slasher killer Leslie Vernon.

Bunny and the Bull, 2009 - an, in my opinion, gorgeously set film about two friends on a road trip in Spain.

Parallel Mothers (Madras Paralelas), 2021 - not a hidden gem if you know anything about Spanish cinema, but maybe you don’t. Penolpe Cruz is a new mother whose life becomes intertwined with another women’s when they give birth in the same hospital.

Hero (英雄), 2002 - again, if you know Wuxia film then this isn’t a hidden gem. A pinnacle of the genre, a Chinese Rashomon with wire fights.

Blow Up, 1966 - British New Wave classic. A photographer used to a free and casual 60s life becomes certain he has accidentally photographed evidence of a murder.

Berberian Sound Studio, 2012 - exploration of sound and feeling. A mild mannered amateurish British sound technician gets a big job working on the sound effects for a giallo film in Italy.

Martyrs, 2008 - the pinnacle of French New Extreme movement. It made a big name for itself at the time for being the sort of torture porn film that really gave it a point beyond vouyerism. Not for the faint of heart.

Rye Lane, 2023 - a romcom love letter to London.

The Day Shall Come, 2019 - an eccentric black preacher gets caught up in a web of madness that runs deep.

Not enough (any) in client tracking of match results and what the match up was.

No way to really combo off. Let me demonstrate a loop and do it X times please.

I think that your last though is right on the money.

The client should show you match histories against what sorts of decks, so it’s more overall and long term than just the one match.

Bo3 works well for this too and I find I enjoy playing it more. But don’t always have the time during my commutes to bosh it out each time.

An acidic heat

I live in a town of 220,000 in the UK.

I’m a 5 minute walk from a small supermarket.

10 mins from a corner shop.

5 minute drive from a huge supermarket.

10 minute walk from a doctors’ surgery.

20 minute walk from a dentist’s.

20 minute walk from an opticians.

5 minute walk from a park.

15 minutes walk from primary and 10 minutes walk from a secondary school.

But we don’t really do suburbs in quite the same way, and they’re much more walkable than the pictures I’ve seen of US suburbia.

In the UK we have smaller “urban supermarkets” that sell everything you might need at home but there’s not much choice in it, and there’s a lot of ready to eat meal options. Kinda like a corner shop plus.

And then there are the fuck off huge supermarkets that are like THE Wallmart on the interstate on, usually, the edges of urban areas which have foreign food isles, clothes, toys, and more types of toothpaste than you could use in a lifetime of brushing three times a day.

3.3ft (and that’s a decimal .3, not an imperial .3).

Probably made by a promising young man.

Two for you:

《The Wild Girls》 - Ursula K Le Guin

《Piranesi》 - Susanna Clarke

And if you read fast I reckon you could do China Miévilles 《The City and the City》 or Tade Thompson’s 《Rosewater》 in a day.

Edit bonus: anything by Douglas Adams.