Wake up, Neo

You should check out his correspondence with the Disney censors

Are you trying to imply doubling the available workforce is not good? Its usually a good thing.

Women not being forced to do the reproductive labour in the family? Good.

Families being coerced into having two incomes to make ends meet, meaning they don’t get as much time with their children as they like? Bad.

One could argue that the dynamic shadows of the day and night cycle in Sea of Stars were actually kind of breaking new ground in pixel art.

That’s the one that’s really easy to hack, isn’t it? Now what?

… for faceswapping? O.o

I’d rather not create something like this

Here’s the wikipedia definition

Plagiarism is the representation of another person’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one’s own original work.

So, I’m afraid that my definition is closer to consensus than yours.

If word gets out that you used a ghostwriter, you’re gonna get in trouble for plagiarism. That’s the thing they’ll accuse you of.

While consent is a part of why plagiarism is shitty, it’s not what makes something plagiarism. You can check it the other way around: if I’m legitimately quoting someone, do I need explicit consent, or is it implied (if it’s published work)?

About the BSD stuff: yeah, it might not be illegal and consential, but both of these things aren’t necessary for plagiarism.

What are you talking about? I’ve given you several examples of plagiarism outside of a legal concept, which means that there are non-legalistic definitions.

Here’s another one: copying someone’s homework is plagiarism. It’s not illegal, though.

I’d argue that most acts of plagiarism are actually legal, but can result in getting your title revoked. That’s not because of an IP law violation, since you don’t have ownership of an argument in an academic text.

Letting a ghostwriter write an academic paper is plagiarism, too, btw. How would that make sense in an IP law context, if the ghost writer not obtaining the IP is the whole point?

I think your legalistic view of the world is quite limiting.

It’s not illegal to rephrase what someone wrote in a book and pass it off as your own work. You can’t “own” a cultural analysis. It’s still plagiarism.

I never made a MS account, so I no longer own Minecraft since they stopped accepting Mojang accounts.

My sibling in christ: you never owned Minecraft, then.

If you’re only interested in singleplayer or can convince your friends to move: There’s a free, open source alternative called Luanti.

There’s more than a legal definition of plagiarism.

Plagiarism is when you sell the work of others as your own without attribution. There are bucketloads of examples of legal plagiarism.

I’m pretty sure that everything H. Bomberguy discussed in his plagiarism video was legal, for example.

Hey! I happen to be more productive afterwards when I spend 6 hours perfecting my neovim config at work, thank you very much!

Ok, then call it “plagiarising”.

I think that “obedience” is a concept incompatible with a cat. And those don’t tend to follow you around.

Strawman

all the faces in Dukes of Hazzard have been replaced by glans

This better not awaken anything in me.jpeg

Also if you’d want to upscale it anyway, why not provide source material and allow customers to use any upscaler they want?

Because Upscaling is incredibly resource hungry. You can’t do it on a 250€ “smart” TV with the calculation equivalent of a raspberry pi 2.

And then, sunk cost fallacy goes brrrrr.

Just ask Greece how non-imperialist Germany is. /j

Also: Economic warfare is a form of warfare, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model