Dieterlan

If I'm following the logic from the other guy, I think that it would be "Microsoft ecosystem", not "XBox ecosystem", since they're removing the specific platform, and adding the company. Which I think works.

I thought he was autosexual/romantic, if anything. This is the "stare into the water admiring his own face until he dies" guy, right?

This might be heresy, but I feel like saying that "science isn't truth, it's the search for truth", and "if you disagree it's not a disagreement, you're just wrong" is internally inconsistent.

It sounds to me like you are talking about what Steam is doing, with the geolocking and refunds (not fraud), while the other person is talking about what Sony is doing, with adding PSN requirements after the fact (maybe fraud?).

I just checked. The comment section of that video really is nothing but anti-Semitic comments, with a Kirby coat of paint. Enjoy, I guess? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEZQ00OOxY

Couple things.

1. I don't think that the whites-in-blacks worked as servants when there wasn't an active target on premises. They just wanted to stay around (since they live there, and want to be around family), but needed a reason to be there. The other white-in-black was just a regular dude, right? Until he got flashed?
2. I don't think they were racist in the sense of "black people are inferior", but more "black people are exotic". Post full-on-racism there has been a rising objectification of black people, in the vein of "once you go black, you never go back" that is dehumanizing of black people in a subtler way than southern belle racism.

We'd probably end up with a situation where wild deer don't have the gene and city deer do, excepting any cross-breeding.

Ah, missed that. Yeah, I see where you're coming from.

I feel a little bad for such a short response, but fair enough. Good points all around.

Sorry, American here. Did WW3 start and I missed it? Is it Ukraine/Russia? Israel/Palestine? Horrible though they are, they seem pretty contained this far, unless something new happened I haven't seen anything about.

I think that only applies if you can make an argument that the two characters are distinct. Your Mickey/Steamboat Willie example is good because they are distinct (slightly different looks, and different names). Another good example is Sherlock Holmes. There was a big lawsuit where the current rights holders tried to argue that the later works are still under copyright just because Sherlock has emotions, and he didn't in the earlier stories. I don't remember how the suit turned out though.

In the context of the article, they're talking about the fact that news outlets aren't getting enough ad revenue to sustain themselves, and people don't really buy classifieds in papers anymore.