I believe the school took the best route they could given the shite laws and lack of funding in public education.
No, they took the easiest and ass-coveringly safest route. Your refusal to concede that “easiest” and “best” are not the same thing is why you’re seeing so much resistance to your bullshit.
After all, letting you say your bullshit without pushback would be the easier route to take.
Still, can we be surprised that after years of being told they are the problem, that their manhood is the problem, more and more men are withdrawing into the enclave of idleness, and pornography, and video games?
Men aren’t the problem, Josh. Men being assholes by abusing their societal privilege—by acting as if they own the world and are thus entitled to do things like control women’s bodies without consequence—is the problem. Toxic masculinity, of the kind best associated with incels and MRAs and other such pissants¹, is the problem.
¹ — I’d say Republicans belong on that list, but doesn’t it go without saying~?
Just the school. And the fact that the police came when called.
The fact that you’d defend the actions of the school—and the police choosing to respond, regardless of their actual response—says volumes about you; given the context, none of it is good.
Even if the school was afraid of being sued by an entitled Karen, it could’ve handled the situation without calling the police. Even if the police were necessary for handling the situation (and I don’t concede that they were), they could’ve handled the situation without handcuffing a child. Even if the victim of the bullying had every legitimate intent of getting back at their bully through violence (and there’s no evidence that says they were), they didn’t need to be treated worse than the bully will ever be.
The victim didn’t need to be treated like a bully, and defending the school for doing exactly that—regardless of the reasoning for its response—is little better than victimizing the child all over again. The school had other ways of handling this situation. That it defaulted to the comfort and (ass-covering) safety of the “call the police” option is nigh indefensible.
Oh, and don’t try to use your personal anecdote about bullying with me, Lozenge. I went through a shitty school life, too—likely worse than yours, I’d wager—and the sympathy you’ll get from me for your experiences will be minimal at best when you use your life as part of your defense of the school in this situation.
The child will notice it immediately when you try to offer a tool that was meant to be "simple" and "easy-to-use-so-that-child-can-use-it-too"... And once they notice that you underestimated their skills, the tool will go to trashcan immediately. I simply didn't want that outcome.
How do you expect the pre-teens you want using your program to keep track of those “600 functions”? If they can do it for your program, for what reason can’t they do the same for Blender? And even if they can keep track of those functions, what use would your program be to them if they can’t actually save their output thanks to ridiculously strict copyright restrictions you yourself have bragged at length about installing into your program?
If you forbid copying, it does not prevent creation of new cultural works.
If you made Meshpage without having first programmed both the operating system for your computer and the programming language under which Meshpage would run, you would technically be guilty of infringement under your “all copying is infringement and must be stopped” logic, since you failed to make a wholly unique product that doesn’t build on works that came before yours. Yes or no: Are you guilty of infringement under the logic you’ve presented?
Everything we make is built on the works of those who came before us. To forbid all copying is to bring culture to a standstill. Do you really want to prevent the creation of any new cultural works?
Saying “quotation marks are an anti-piracy technology” doesn’t make it true. Anti-piracy technology can’t bring any good to the world when such technology can’t tell on its own whether someone used a copyrighted work under Fair Use principles. Your desire to snuff out the public domain, Fair Use, and humanity in general has been noted.
A real game mash up would be mechanics and ip from two games merged into one game. What you're talking about is the user switching between two games and carrying data between them.
That’s almost literally how the SMZ3 Combo Randomizer works.
What evidence do you have for your assumption that lethal force wasn't the only viable option?
My assumption is that cops have access to non-lethal weaponry and can use it to subdue individuals both violent and not. My assumption is that lethal violence is an absolute last resort because no one can undo the taking of a life. My assumption is that unless the cops can prove that lethal violence was the only viable option for dealing with this man, they could’ve (and should’ve) used non-lethal weaponry first until lethal violence became the only viable option.
What evidence do you have for your assumption that lethal force was the only viable option for dealing with the man who was killed?
Tear gas, tasers, beanbag rounds, concussion grenades/“flashbangs”, that “sonic cannon” shit used on protestors—unless the police lacked access to those (or any other) non-lethal weapons, they could’ve used them to at least try to subdue the man. Lethal force should’ve been the absolute last resort; until I see evidence that proves it was, I’m inclined to believe it wasn’t.
if someone who has already fired multiple times at cops come out with his guns drawn there is really no less than lethal force that can be used.
For what reason couldn’t they have tased him or fired a beanbag round at one of his limbs (or even his head)? For what reason was lethal force the one and only method of dealing with him?
Lethal force should be an absolute last resort because no one can bring back the dead. I want to know—with as much certainty as we mere mortals can have—whether it was absolutely necessary in this situation.
The Link to the Past and Super Metroid randomizers have been around for several years now, complete with online speedrunning leagues and tournaments. (The SpeedGaming channels on Twitch host many of these competitions.) If Nintendo was going to clamp down on those randomizers or the crossover randomizer, it likely would’ve done so by now.
It's not like they exercized itchy trigger fingers at some unarmed innocent this time.
They aren’t supposed to gun down the guilty, either. Barring a situation where lethal force was the one and only viable option available for taking him down, non-lethal force could’ve and should’ve been used to subdue him.
My question still stands: For what reason was less-than-lethal force taken off the table when it likely could’ve at least prevented him from further firing his weapons?
Funny thing is, this was done with two old-school Nintendo games, too. Someone figured out that the ROM layouts for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Metroid don’t actually overlap with one another—meaning the two games could be combined into one mega-game, so long as someone knows what they’re doing. And as it turns out, combined with the work of people who made randomizers for those two games separately, someone did know what they were doing. The SMZ3 Combo Randomizer was even demonstrated at a Games Done Quick event two years ago. So yeah, that right there is some good precedent for videogame mashups.
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No, they took the easiest and ass-coveringly safest route. Your refusal to concede that “easiest” and “best” are not the same thing is why you’re seeing so much resistance to your bullshit.
After all, letting you say your bullshit without pushback would be the easier route to take.
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Men aren’t the problem, Josh. Men being assholes by abusing their societal privilege—by acting as if they own the world and are thus entitled to do things like control women’s bodies without consequence—is the problem. Toxic masculinity, of the kind best associated with incels and MRAs and other such pissants¹, is the problem.
¹ — I’d say Republicans belong on that list, but doesn’t it go without saying~?
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The fact that you’d defend the actions of the school—and the police choosing to respond, regardless of their actual response—says volumes about you; given the context, none of it is good.
Even if the school was afraid of being sued by an entitled Karen, it could’ve handled the situation without calling the police. Even if the police were necessary for handling the situation (and I don’t concede that they were), they could’ve handled the situation without handcuffing a child. Even if the victim of the bullying had every legitimate intent of getting back at their bully through violence (and there’s no evidence that says they were), they didn’t need to be treated worse than the bully will ever be.
The victim didn’t need to be treated like a bully, and defending the school for doing exactly that—regardless of the reasoning for its response—is little better than victimizing the child all over again. The school had other ways of handling this situation. That it defaulted to the comfort and (ass-covering) safety of the “call the police” option is nigh indefensible.
Oh, and don’t try to use your personal anecdote about bullying with me, Lozenge. I went through a shitty school life, too—likely worse than yours, I’d wager—and the sympathy you’ll get from me for your experiences will be minimal at best when you use your life as part of your defense of the school in this situation.
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How do you expect the pre-teens you want using your program to keep track of those “600 functions”? If they can do it for your program, for what reason can’t they do the same for Blender? And even if they can keep track of those functions, what use would your program be to them if they can’t actually save their output thanks to ridiculously strict copyright restrictions you yourself have bragged at length about installing into your program?
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That would be literally impossible.
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They’re still works that came before yours. The question still stands.
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If you made Meshpage without having first programmed both the operating system for your computer and the programming language under which Meshpage would run, you would technically be guilty of infringement under your “all copying is infringement and must be stopped” logic, since you failed to make a wholly unique product that doesn’t build on works that came before yours. Yes or no: Are you guilty of infringement under the logic you’ve presented?
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Everything we make is built on the works of those who came before us. To forbid all copying is to bring culture to a standstill. Do you really want to prevent the creation of any new cultural works?
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Saying “quotation marks are an anti-piracy technology” doesn’t make it true. Anti-piracy technology can’t bring any good to the world when such technology can’t tell on its own whether someone used a copyrighted work under Fair Use principles. Your desire to snuff out the public domain, Fair Use, and humanity in general has been noted.
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Quotation marks are not an anti-piracy tool, no matter how much you want to delude yourself into thinking otherwise.
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That’s almost literally how the SMZ3 Combo Randomizer works.
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My assumption is that cops have access to non-lethal weaponry and can use it to subdue individuals both violent and not. My assumption is that lethal violence is an absolute last resort because no one can undo the taking of a life. My assumption is that unless the cops can prove that lethal violence was the only viable option for dealing with this man, they could’ve (and should’ve) used non-lethal weaponry first until lethal violence became the only viable option.
What evidence do you have for your assumption that lethal force was the only viable option for dealing with the man who was killed?
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Tear gas, tasers, beanbag rounds, concussion grenades/“flashbangs”, that “sonic cannon” shit used on protestors—unless the police lacked access to those (or any other) non-lethal weapons, they could’ve used them to at least try to subdue the man. Lethal force should’ve been the absolute last resort; until I see evidence that proves it was, I’m inclined to believe it wasn’t.
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For what reason couldn’t they have tased him or fired a beanbag round at one of his limbs (or even his head)? For what reason was lethal force the one and only method of dealing with him?
Lethal force should be an absolute last resort because no one can bring back the dead. I want to know—with as much certainty as we mere mortals can have—whether it was absolutely necessary in this situation.
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The Link to the Past and Super Metroid randomizers have been around for several years now, complete with online speedrunning leagues and tournaments. (The SpeedGaming channels on Twitch host many of these competitions.) If Nintendo was going to clamp down on those randomizers or the crossover randomizer, it likely would’ve done so by now.
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They aren’t supposed to gun down the guilty, either. Barring a situation where lethal force was the one and only viable option available for taking him down, non-lethal force could’ve and should’ve been used to subdue him.
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My question still stands: For what reason was less-than-lethal force taken off the table when it likely could’ve at least prevented him from further firing his weapons?
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Funny thing is, this was done with two old-school Nintendo games, too. Someone figured out that the ROM layouts for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Metroid don’t actually overlap with one another—meaning the two games could be combined into one mega-game, so long as someone knows what they’re doing. And as it turns out, combined with the work of people who made randomizers for those two games separately, someone did know what they were doing. The SMZ3 Combo Randomizer was even demonstrated at a Games Done Quick event two years ago. So yeah, that right there is some good precedent for videogame mashups.
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What was stopping the police from using less lethal weaponry to subdue the man? For what reason was shooting him dead the only option on the table?
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Ain’t that a shame~.
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