The Nazi Americans are literally fucking children, and actual children are more well behaved! The deliberate rejection of expertise by fascists manifests in how they behave in so far as acting more in emotions. That's why fascism eventually do collapse but they hurt everybody before they are brought down.
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Isn't Tetris effectively public domain except for things that are made for consoles specifically?
Tetromino's as a design implementation is not trademarked, but the concept and names are. The Tetris Company owns the rights to any use of Tetromono's and Tetris in the gaming sector. Being said, the patents to such concepts have already expired, so unless they were using trademarks naming I think they are fully allowed to use it. I don't know if the Tetris company has any legal standing here.
They’ve been repeatedly using SpongeBob characters, the Pokemon theme, pretty much any song they like…
Can we just say copyright law doesn’t exist any more for a certain class of people?
I think a big issue with it is that theres no real way to properly sue a project if the president ok's it. It's a lot of money to go after a case, and then since it's a federal case the president has pardon power on it. An IP violation is almost always federal... which falls under that pardoning ability. It would need to either stay at a state level (which is unlikely given who is involved) or keep it in civil court, which I don't think IP violations of this magnitude would stay contained.
Honestly with how the law currently is, I think the president could publicly execute someone(or order someone else to) for any declared reason, as long as said reason could be remotely tied to it's position of power, and then for the crime they could just pardon it. There's nothing blocking it.
They cut programs and waste tax dollars on this drivel
I still can't believe a world potency as big as the fucking United States is publishing fucking deportation minigames to their official fucking website!
And they use Sega and Microsoft logos to peddle it on Twitter!! And of course they won't do anything about it legally because lmao why would they?!
To hell with this clown republic 🤡
Apparently, it's the one entity that can make Nintendo furious without actually getting destroyed by them or even sued by them necessarily. And this is more offensive than pretty much anything Nintendo's gone after before. Yet they repeatedly crossed that line.
My fucking government is acting like a bunch of teenage trolls. It is unbelievable. I never imagined I'd see a people so devoid of shame, class or morals.
Right? They at least used to hide it in the past!
Empire has always entertained itself with trivialities while murdering people abroad. It's a major foundation of "technology" in USA, although not nearly as important as the MIC.
Why bother with banality when you've got technology?
One of the games, Build the Wall, borrows heavily from Tetris. Players stack falling blocks to defend the southern border during a “zombie border siege” and “protect the border from the coming horde.”
Allowing the blocks to reach the top of the screen triggers a “border breached” message.
Ahhh, this administration's usual level of not thinking things through rears its idiotic head again. This basically says building the wall is counterproductive, and you win by keeping it down.
The people in charge are, to put it in terms trump would understand, completely retarded. What I don't understand is where the checks and balances they swore kept the government running are. I haven't seen a single check or balance that has any effect yet, where the fuck are they? Was it always a lie?
I haven't seen a single check or balance that has any effect yet, where the fuck are they?
Republicans have a trifecta, and a 6-3 scotus majority.
And now is when we find out that the checks and balances were always more of an honor-system than your government teacher would have you believe.
the checks and balances
Once the checks clear, their balances reflect it.
Oh, you meant different checks and different balances. Never mind.
They were gonna send every dumbass a 1776 check... so... but yeah they didn't do that either
to put it in terms trump would understand, completely retarded
Honestly, I'd completely phased this word out of my vocabulary, but describing MAGA admins are the one time I will use it. It's the only thing that accurately describes them. Elon wanted to bring it back so badly, why not use it to tell him what friendless retard he actually is.
I use dumbass.
You don’t need to use slurs.
You're not wrong. But for some reason any MAGA I talk to gets more riled up about being called that than a loser, a fascist, a Nazi, or anything else.
Maybe it's petty of me, but I'm also pretty done with them calling me a sand n-word for having slightly tanned skin in the summer.
Also, I like brown skin myself. Very attractive. White people roasting like a turkey on a tanning bed getting wrinkled as hell as they smoke endless cigs? 🤮 Yet the tanners are often racists too. Its like... Really? You wanna look more brown but you're racist!? Wtf lol
I generally agree. And I never use the word anymore, but I get where they're coming from. Personally I wouldn't say it cause it gives them permission to say it as well, and they'll abuse it til it's lexicon again. So personally I'd rather use loser, stupid or any of the other words that also describe them.
However I'm sure in person, arguing with a MAGAt would piss me off to the point of saying it. That's why I just openly disregard these people off the cuff. Roll my eyes and move on. Like what they're saying isn't even worth reacting to because it's so beneath me.
The other question I have is, who leverages that word against anyone who has a medical disability or something? Like, I've never heard anyone call someone with Down Syndrome or autism, etc. a retard. Unless they were doing something retarded and they didn't know, but, I've never seen it leveled against a person with a disability. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Also though, I feel like language policing when we literally have fascists throwing people into concentration camps that maybe that's not top priority.
Ehhh it did used to happen. And it didn't have to be someone with debilitating issues as strong as down syndrome or autism. Back in the 90's everyone from dyslexics to down syndrome, to people with social anxiety were called retarded. Even a simple idea got called retarded if it wasn't the norm.
That being said, people who throw people in concentration camps shouldn't be called retarded. They should be curb-stomped.
Agreed. Lol
Slurs suck
Calling someone with down syndrome a retard is a slur. Calling someone who's acting like a retard, aka just being stupid, slow, limited, whatever, who's not medically handicapped in any way, not disabled. They can be a retard. It's not nice to call disabled people names. People who are theoretically not disabled. Being extremely stupid, short-sighted, sometimes evil. I think that's a fair word to use. It's a slur, but it really depends who you're slurring as to whether it is meaningfully a slur that we should avoid using.
I'd bet real money that those """games""" were all slop coded.
100%
The score is how much the tax payer has put in to maintain something that will always end with Game Over. Well, unless the builder starts transcending end-game via loopholes, which is likely. At which point the score's rolling K economy harder than ever.
who the hell approved this yeah we need more young people on our side lets make knockoff 1980 games on a shitty website like cmon bruhh
They think this will win people over come November.
I can't afford groceries but thanks for a racist knockoff of a game that came out decades before I was born, sweet.
They do gaming now? But the meteo service wasn't allowed to compete with the private sector?
Maaaaaaaaan.......this sucks. At one point in the 90s I had played every version of tetris released.
I haven't kept up, but my inner 8 year old is sad. My inner 8 year old wants to play all the tetris, but my outer 42 year old self is keeping my inner 8 year old away from anything trump related.
My inner 8 year old is sad, but I'll understand when I grow up.......wait, how does this work again?
Here is a recommendation for Tetris Effect
Wait until your innie grows up into an outtie.
Tetris is famously litigious, but it's hard to see how this wouldn't be a protected parody.
The subject matter isn't the parodied thing. It's not making fun of Tetris. It's using Tetris in a pretty unrelated way to its actual purposes.
I'm not sure Tetris has a case here though. Do they have a patent on colored blocks falling down? You're not even making rows clear
They don't own the mechanic of falling blocks. I play many tetris fan games and they just have to avoid tetrimino (a misspelling of tetromino) and the word tetris. They also have to avoid steam and other stores just in case the tetris company fights them.
Almost a whole day and still not hacked. Hm.
Because why bother? It’s perfectly awful all by itself.
As much as I like this move, I think Tetris cannot claim to own the concept of 4 block stacker games, a positive legal outcome could be disasterous for all Tetris fangames.