I thought you were supposed to shout “Monopoly!” when you win.

I’ll put Seirei no Moribito above them all, mostly because nobody ever seems to even know about it and it breaks my heart. The novel was good, and the anime ended up ten times better, somehow!

Planetes is a goddamn masterpiece!

Or exposure.

This has a Freddy vs Jason kinda vibe. Asshole fighting assholes, sorta thing. Love it.

If you found this on the front page like me, my dictionary says ： 内卷 (nei⁴juan³) : to turn more and more into a rat race 摆烂 (bai³lan⁴) : to let it all go to hell

I am still annoyed that we let the damn Argentinian beef get through, but I think it’s comparatively hilarious that we still won’t budge on US “food”.

Holy shit! That guy hacked the system!

I’m guessing that one is toward the EU?

That reminds me of SEO shite introduced into HTML invisibly for the readers.

Could probably use a Bible from the way things are. Doubt they actually ever open those.

Would be interesting to see how they distinguish “personal consumption” and “transformative” consumption.

The AI did quite literally what any human educating themselves would have done : reading entire libraries to improve themselves. Then make money from it. So if little Timmy pirates 3DS Max or Photoshop to get a job, it’s fine yeah? Or a student trying to read their course without paying hundreds of dollars?

But wait, when Timmy reads a single virtual book, it’s thievery? It’s the loss of a sale? So how many sales were lost through all those virtual books stolen from paying customers by the AI?

They gotta decide one way or another at some point and stop taking the piss.

Also I wonder if the AI can actually remember the entire content of each book they read though. Or any. And if they do, then can that actually be proof, for each individual book thus regurgitated, that the copyright has been unfairly used since a full reproduction (or close enough as to fool a reader?) would be now available.

That’s gonna be some interesting jurisprudence.

It’s Greek ;) Apo- is not very common, but you can spot it in “apocalypse”, meaning to uncover, to reveal (away + cover), for example. -logos (words) you have seen many times in all the -logy words, used to mean “study of…”

Sorry, my initial message sounded way too harsh but I think etymology is a super easy subject to teach kids and really helps when encountering new words and I think it’s a crying shame it’s not more popular, especially in English where you have so many foreign words!

Apo + logos = words in defense of something. Easy peasy. But of course that requires some sort of education…

Hopefully. Anyone with braincells would have realized that a long time ago…

It’s a service problem, though. Not a money problem. This is a perfect example of that very fact.

It’s one of the more memorable ones for some reason. And like all the best horror stories, there is no gore at all. Just that horrible DRR DRR DRR DRR sound…

There can certainly be beauty, but can there be art without an artist?

Mmmh yes, that’s clearly a Cerulean phalloid.

Sure, but I think Venerable Jorge would have 100% approved of copyright laws and violently enforcing them, somehow.