Sorry to say, I don’t believe a word of it.

Punitive damages can be awarded for bad-faith bargaining, which definitely seems to be the case here.

It’s a stretch perhaps, but that’s what I think would be reasonable.

Probably not really feasible - it will require constant connection to a back-end server to play or some bullshit like that.

But even if you can, that’s not the answer. The proper action is to deny them entirely. Don’t play the game, don’t play PUBG, don’t do anything that expands their reach, money or not.

They need to suffer with NOBODY playing this game. They need to suffer by people deleting their Battlegrounds accounts. Software piracy is what makes games legendary.

Oooh, there’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.

$250M PLUS legal costs PLUS $250M in punitive fees. That should hurt them a bit.

We have a plan to deal with this.

Step #1 is to let one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gasses destroy itself in a civil war.

Gen X weighing in. That’ll only last you so long, then your body starts to rebel no matter what.

It depends on who “we” are.

If you’re in the US, then bad news buttercup - you’re already under the thumb of a ruthless insane dictator, and the economy is the last of your worries.

Oh, also the NBC coverage still has Bob Roll. UGH!!! That’s just a personal thing, but GOOD GOD I HATE LISTENING TO HIM BUTCHER NAMES!!! If I hear “Jonas Vingegoo” one more time, I may have to blow up my computer.

I miss Paul Sherwin so much. He and Liggett had a charm together that Roll could never hope for.

I know, not your problem. Just…ugh. Why did NBC choose him?

I guess I’ve just given up and assume everyone would just cut us off. I’ve really only seen negativity twords the US, so that colors my view. There’s also my buddy from Japan who advised me to say I was Canadian when traveling internationally due to the negativity he’s seen directed at the US when he’s traveling Asia and Europe.

Speaking as a Canadian, your friend from Japan can fuck right off.

Even the good people from the US (and there absolutely are some - some of my dearest friends are from SoCal) are not Canadian, and either (a) can’t pull it off, or (b) skew the rest of the world’s view of Canadians.

So please don’t.

Oh, there are two simple answers to this:

1. He will NEVER accept accountability for his actions. If he feels like it, he’ll eat a live baby on TV and walk away untroubled.
2. He will be held accountable when (and ONLY when) the people hold him accountable.

He will never stop until he is in jail or dead. And the same is true for most of his sycophant followers.

Not viewable outside the US.

Even republicans don’t want fascism.

Um, sorry but have you been paying attention for the last eight years?

The people left in the GOP are driving at full speed towards a fascist dictatorship. It’s not Trump, it’s the entire cadre of sycophants and Nazis he’s set up to protect him.

Laura Loomer’s “Alligator lives matter” didn’t suggest that? Nor the fact that she was celebrating the creation of a new concentration camp to round up and possibly murder ALL Latinos in the US? (And selling merch to go with it!)

What about Kristi Noem filming propaganda in front of cages full of prisoners in El Salvador?

The six SCOTUS judges who are eagerly giving Trump every immunity and power he wants?

Ron DeSantis creating a second one-stop deportation centre?

The US Republican Party ARE fascists, and are ecstatic over how things are turning out.

If you call yourself a Republican and are against this, you’re either a hypocrite, or a liar.

That’s true, but some of your dystopian ideas require the entire planet to fall into collapse and ruin. Eventually the odds are pretty good that the rest of the world (assuming we’re in decent shape ourselves) will start to provide humanitarian aide to the US.

And stating that “most of the world hates the U.S.” is definitely a sign that you don’t quite understand how we feel about the US.

Strikes me that you’ve forgotten about the rest of the world.

…southern US…

I’d say that fundamentally it’s because it’s culturally accepted in those areas.

“Everyone does it” is a frighteningly strong impetus to do something.

I didn’t consider hard drives (spinning rust or SSD) because they’re generally internal/permanent devices. (although I do have a SATA dock sitting on my desk.)

Hmm. It gets more complicated the more I think about it.

Absolutely not.

We all have to make personal decisions about safety and risk, for our own unique situation.

While not in the US, I’m a straight, white, middle-aged dude. My risk in loudly speaking out is probably still orders of magnitude lower than yours is by staying quiet. If there are any moral decisions to be made, I’d say that it’s my moral duty to use my overly-consequential and protected voice to stand up for the vulnerable and suffering.

There is no moral flaw in trying to survive within your means - and if that means keeping your head down, then hopefully I and many others will have your back.

Just a brain fart. I’ve edited my post to reflect them.

I’ve got a full-height 5 1/4" 1GB hard drive around here. Thing is massive.

I’ve also got most of the storage devices I’ve ever used over the decades:

• 5 1/4" floppy
• 3 1/2" floppy
• 4mm DAT tape
• 8mm DAT tape
• 1/4" QIC tape
• Zip disk
• Cassette tape
• Punched tape

I’m missing the following:

• DLT tape
• LTO tape
• 8" floppy
• IBM 2315 disk pack

Never used 9-track tapes, punch cards, or removable disk multipacks.

EDIT Don’t know how I forgot about cartridges (Atari 400 and 2600 - still got em!) and CDROM/DVD/WORM. I have CDROM, DVDROM (in various formats), but no WORM media (i.e. IBM 3363 - a CDROM in a rigid case, before the official CD standard was created).

I’m just here to say my god, that article was horribly written!

If this is what humans are cranking out, maybe I should reconsider my opinion of LLMs.