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The original or the 2022 reboot?

I've never heard of that before so I looked it up. That's messed up, that's like something out of the movie Footloose, or possibly Saudi Arabia. Sadly, the kinds of busybodies that lobbied for its creation seem to be gathering power once more.

Exactly. And that more than cancels out whatever benefits they may have All it does is prop up a bunch of useless and obsolete middlemen at the expense of the consumer. The very same moddlemen it was meant to protect people from EDIT Hopefully AI will put down the record labels and send them...

edit: nvm

Unfortunately it's has not rested. It's rotted unhallowed corpse has returned to plague the living as the manosphere EDIT: As an aside, I've long been of the opinion that the unused true horror potential of stories about the undead lies not in the return of the dead but in the past they're...

That's - ironically but predictavly -the censors' fault

Like I said before that's why the Cthulhu Mythos is the best fandom; Most of H.P. Lovecraft's and C.A. Smith's stuff is public domain

The appropriation part is how the IP is being handled. They're shohorning what are basically a bunch of [expletive deleted] comittee-written fanfics into the continuity while at the same time better fanworks by non-associated people who actually care about the setting remain marginalized and...

Athleticism has never been something that I've associated with businessmen. However I get what you're trying to say; they often have the same "alpha male"‡ mentality as the stereotypical athlete. However I think that's more commonly the case only at the upper levels of management and that the...

This is basically the same thing that I said about how when you buy brand name you're paying for a meaningless logo. What you've described sounds a little bit like hammering one nail from the ship of Theseus into a random dinghy and calling it the Ship of Theseus

Plus it makes intuitive sense to be paid more for multipke performances on tour than for one performance in a studio

"...Illusions Mister Anderson. Vagaries of perception..."

The issue isn't and wasn't jocks per se, it's anyone with an "alpha male"‡ type personality, and that can be nearly anyone, it is just that this character flaw is traditionally overrepresented in popular sports ‡ie. meathead-douchebag

I agree, Big Bang Theory sucked

Geek media was watered down to make it palatable to the masses. Also, meatheads and bullies are making a big comeback

Have you seen Mel Brooks' version of Dracula?

I'm pretty sure most creators live more than 5 years after publishing a work on average

They shouldn't. No other profession works that way. They should be paid once for each job like a mechanic or an electrician. And certainly not for 70 years after they're dead unless their ghost is haunting the Earth still doing the job for those 70 years. Why should I care about Henry Ford's...

Yes it is, hence the qualifier "functionally"

The IP protections for gizmos only last 21 years IIRC. The IP protections for film, music, and written works last functionally forever