After skimming the GPLv2, found under section 3:

Seems like it includes building and installation to me.

That was my take on the characters being the point of contention. Sure they used the same names, but the actual characters themselves? It felt like they were different characters altogether.

I still have to criticize Nvidia. I don't know if this has been done before on previous cards or not (which doesn't make it ok), but when you advertise a certain amount of memory with no indication that part of that memory performs differently/worse, then that's just wrong.

Would it be okay if 0.5GB of the 4GB was the pool that actually ran at full speed? I mean technically you still get 4GB... no sane person would say yes. It's not much different than what is happening with the GTX 970 and I think Nvidia should totally be accountable for it.

Yes, me too. But not without interruptions.

If you want to use 1080p videos as the metric, look at YouTube. Most 1080p videos have a bitrate averaging 4+ mbps. Have fun playing two 1080p videos wanting 8 mbps in total. Hell, have fun trying to do anything else that uses a fair amount of bandwidth while watching a 1080p video.

There are over 7 billion humans on this planet. People are dying everyday. In our entire lives, most of us will not do anything worth noting and are primarily focused on self preservation. Without the crutch of something like religion, the harsh reality is easy to see: we are insignificant. Just another burial in a very long history.

I think the ubiquitous sanctity for human life is overrated too.

How about not? Each article has its own comment section for a reason.

I also have a problem with that as a metric. I'm not convinced that the amount of triggers used actually mean anything. It all depends on what a "role-playing game" meant to these kids and what goals were actually being attempted. If all you wanted, perhaps as a first step, was a character that talked to other characters, why would you use any other trigger?

Wrong. The definition says 'advocacy'. Just because someone does not advocate it, does not necessarily mean they disagree with it.

Also, there is feminism the word and then there is feminism the movement. That Henry James quote pretty much sums up the feminist movement. Even people who have considered themselves feminists before are dropping the label because of how ugly the feminist movement behaves.

It would be disingenuous to use the term primarily for women regardless of the distribution.

Yes, they would totally not make any money off of this... well except from the rich people who are actually willing to pay for this exact thing. Sounds to me like they have a valid business strategy already. If something else comes out of it, then that's a bonus.

Most games are created to make money. People see what is selling and they just cobble together some crap to try and make some easy money. There are people who do it out of love, but those are definitely few and far between.

All you need to do is pay some guy (maybe a kid from high school because this shit is not rocket science) ONCE and it would be substantially better than not configuring anything at all.

Yes, putting his projects under GPL was not legal in the first place because it linked to non-GPL code, but he knows this. What he's trying to do is get the server code to be GPL'd to validate his license and until then he wants to stop the use of his code.

What I want to know is what happens to code that uses an invalid license and then is distributed. Does it default to an implied copyright the same way works released without licenses do? Or is that nullified when a license is chosen? What the hell happens exactly and what does it mean for third-party software that rely on that code?

Curious. How is that a meme? Other than to refer to the actual Quinn controversy, I have never seen the term Quinnspiracy used in any noticeable capacity.

There are games that want to push the limits of PC hardware and have all the fancy bells and whistles and if that's what you want, then those are the games you should get, but why do you expect every game to be that way? Why is it wrong to optimize for the lowest common denominator to, say, reach a wider audience? Not everything needs to be at the cutting edge. Just making the game fun is a worthwhile goal in itself.