I’m actually surprised to see how many people want Samus in Fortnite. I just don’t understand, what does it matter? If you want to see your favorite character in something, you can go consume their media. What about shooting a gun and doing a dance makes it special?
People can use skins to show that they’re fans of a particular work. The Metroid fans want to socially signal their Metroid fandom in Fortnite, which is a social game home to many non Metroid fans they can posture to.
It’s like wearing a costume to Comicon.
The costume analogy makes sense, everything else sounds kinda weird to me but I’m not trying to judge.
I can’t kill you and teabag you as Samus in Metroid or as Kratos in God of War. Master Chief is the one that doesn’t make sense. You can kill and teabag each other as Master Chief in Halo.
So Epic games makes all that money because people want to teabag as their favorite characters?
Man we live in wild times 🙂
As someone who doesn’t play Fortnite, this is good. Let my emotionally destroyed girl be smashin‘ with dread.
Honestly, if i created anything and cared about it I’d want to keep it away from forknife too.
Copyright ruins everything.
This would be trademark, not copyright.
And trademark is way better imo than copyright. Trademark is all about protecting against fraud, copyright is about protecting against access to content.
I’m totally happy with the trademark law we have, but I’d like to see copyright and patent law severely modified and their durations dramatically shortened (like 15 years for copyright, 5-7 for patents).
Also no patents for covid vaccines. There are third world countries that have the local industry to make vaccines, but they have to pay Astrazeneca for shots instead of making their own because Bill Gates wanted to protect the value of his government funded pharmaceutical investments.
I’m honestly okay with patents for vaccines, but if they take government money, they should be obligated to license those patents very openly. The more money they accept, the less restrictive the patents ought to be.
Patents should be able protecting first mover advantage and nothing more. Once they’ve established themselves, third parties should be empowered to compete on price and availability.
Keep in mind the fact that the slow vaccine rollout gave the virus the chance to multiply in poor countries and develop vaccine resistance, which then fucked everyone else too. If everyone in the world had been vaccinated quickly, we could have wiped out covid and we wouldn’t be dealing with long covid brain damage and immune system compromise now. These patents have killed millions of people and will continue to ruin millions of lives. There is blood on the hands of these people on a scale greater than any terrorist attack, and they knew full well the consequences.
I don’t think we ever could’ve wiped out COVID once it left Wuhan, that’s just not the way these vaccines work. In most cases you’ll still get the disease and be a carrier (and thus spread it), but you’ll spread it more slowly because your symptoms are much less severe. It’s a harm reduction strategy, not an eradication strategy.
That said, they absolutely should’ve been made widely available because of the harm reduction nature of the vaccines.
Here’s an article about how COVID will likely never be eradicated from 2020. The issue isn’t our response (which was woefully insufficient), but the actual way the virus family works. It’s not like smallpox or polio, it’s more like the various viruses that make up the “common cold.” The more likely scenario is for it to mutate into something like the common cold that’s less deadly but quite infectious.
The reason that covid would benefit from evolving to be less deadly is that people don’t want a deadly disease and take steps to prevent it. But people don’t care about long covid, and that means there isn’t an evolutionary pressure for long covid to get less severe. I think covid is going to be our generation’s equivalent to lead poisoning until we take it seriously.
