Just a warning, the episodes you’re really looking for will be episodes 5 and 6 and soon enough the focus on Bud’s buds will make more sense in context to the larger story and the connections to existing Fallout lore. So you’ve got two more episodes that might be kind of a slog for you (based on what you’re looking for) before it really picks up in terms of what you’re seeking.

Watch out I’m speeding up to pass you so it doesn’t look real!

Seriously though, I don’t entirely disagree, the season is too short for any storyline to really cook with only two episodes left.

Interesting, I find this season more intriguing as I think it overall has better character development, just not specifically as much for the main characters from season one. The strains between Barb Howard and Cooper Howard in their pre-nuclear war lives. This season spends much more time with Howard pre-war than post-war. More background on Hank MacLean and his philosophy and drives. While there is less focus on Lucy, she still is getting some growth as the wasteland begins to change her, from addiction to drugs to theft to murderous violence. I would say I am most disappointed with Maximus’ storyline this season just because it seems like he has less time for growth as much as events keep happening outside of his control, but perhaps that’s intentional, as he has a line that references that idea in a recent episode. Frankly, I also wish the seasons weren’t so short because I think Norm’s path is intriguing but hasn’t been given enough screen time to really develop, and the things he learns are important to the future of his origin vault.

Well deserved, it’s a well written and executed show even for those unfamiliar with the games.

Heroic Launcher on Linux is pretty good as an Epic storefront and installer, honestly.

I’m trying not to waste my time getting all worked up

Too late, you’ve done nothing but rant in this thread. Get over yourself.

He’s a doctor of economics, he has a PhD. He’s not exactly a tech bro by any stretch.

The paper I linked is literally an example of him making something. Unless you somehow erroneously think that research papers aren’t entitled to copyright protection, which, surprise, you’re wrong.

This isn’t even worth replying to. Get your head out of your ass, man. Plenty of people who make things that are copyrightable promote shortening and amending copyright, including author Cory Doctorow, the man who coined the term “enshittification.”

I’ll quote Mark Hosler of the band Negativland, who made a shitload of art. Negativland was also instrumental in designing early Creative Commons licenses.

“If you really want to keep control of your art, keep it in your house, don’t share it with anyone, don’t share it with the world.”

Something going back twenty years between a friend and I relating to something dumb I said while I was high.

“I never wipe my ass because I only eat cake.”

Yeah, go ahead and DM me in the morning, that would be nice.

I know the feeling. I spend every day alone, every night alone, and often can’t sleep and just end up doing nothing at all feeling lame that I don’t even have anyone to talk to. All my friends live far away in other cities and are far busier than me.

I have always struggled with loneliness and it has lead me into some unhealthy relationships just because I didn’t want to be alone.

I don’t know, these days it’s worse with cancer and feeling like I’ve become worthless to the world.

gay is so passé, pan is what’s in, man.

Alfred E. Neuman is the original vintage meme.

See, I think copyright has value, I think it has just lost sight of its original goals and intentions because corporations (which never die) have vested interest in copyright being as long as possible.

According to the research of Rufus Pollock, optimal copyright term is between 15 and 38 years. This provides a range that the majority of copyright holders will make the majority of their income from copyright on, while also promoting the originals goals of copyright which was to allow artists to support themselves while also promoting creation of new media. The majority of copyrighted works only have a real shelf-life of 15 to 38 years before people aren’t really looking to pay for them, so why should we have copyright that exists beyond that when most will have already made all the profit they will ever make from their works within that timeframe.

I personally think UBI is a pretty weak replacement for copyright. UBI shouldn’t wholesale replace markets but rather be a safety net for people who are struggling and need a basic amount of support to reasonably survive.

https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf

The research has been done, and speaks for itself.

Copyright needs to be shorter for a lot of reasons, but one of the main ones would be that if copyright was a reasonable length (15 to 30 years), this would all be a moot point and everyone could use books from within a recent timeframe for any kind of use, including AI training.

Further, this would make it feel a lot less hypocritical like piracy is okay for giant corporations and their products as long as they make oodles of money but piracy for regular people is still bad. I mean for fucks sake they put the guys from The Pirate Bay in prison for less, under the same argument: that they were profiting off of pirated works, just like AI companies are. Yet somehow it’s totes okay for OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Meta, and Twitter, and they’re not being sent to prison over it. It really re-enforces the feeling that there’s two justice systems, one for the obscenely rich where as long as they make crazy profit they can do whatever the fuck they want, and one for the poor where they get fucked six ways to Sunday for doing on a small, individual level what giant corporations do at industrial scale.

The solution is to fix copyright and make more works public domain and then nobody is going to prison and nobody is getting a free pass over what’s considered illegal for others.

The Norwegian leader said Trump’s message was a reply to an earlier missive sent on behalf of himself and Finnish President Alexander Stubb, in which they conveyed their opposition to the tariff announcement, pointed to a need to de-escalate, and proposed a telephone conversation among the three leaders.

“Norway’s position on Greenland is clear. Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Norway fully supports the Kingdom of Denmark on this matter,” the Norwegian leader said in a statement. “As regards the Nobel Peace Prize, I have clearly explained, including to President Trump what is well known, the prize is awarded by an independent Nobel Committee and not the Norwegian Government.”

So this wasn’t even just a random letter. This was written as a reply to having already had his dumbshittery explained to him clearly. He just flat out doesn’t listen to people at all and/or has a five year olds understanding of government where he thinks “leader” means “unilateral control of every choice made by every individual or group in the country.” It’s one thing to have this out of nowhere, it’s another for the Prime Minister to have already fucking explained to him that he has no control over who the Nobel committee chooses to award their prize to and have this dumb motherfucker write back a letter showing his fucking ass about how fucking stupid and averse to reality he is. He just thinks if he keeps repeating it his own words make it true.

Trump is absolutely the dumbest fucking asshole alive.

I mean, I don’t disagree, but Reagan and Ford didn’t necessarily make Europe especially distrustful of the USA. Reagan made South America distrustful of the USA, but the USA weren’t specifically allied with many South American nations other than through imperial dominance anyway.

The USA was mostly considered stable and relatively trustworthy, even with Reagan in charge. Dubya was when Europe really started questioning US long-term stability and trustworthiness as an economic partner and NATO partner.

I dunno, I was pretty embarrassed by Dubya, as well, so it feels like its been almost a solid two and a half decades of embarrassment.

Dubya and his middle east clusterfuck is when other nations started questioning US stability and relations but was considered an anomaly.

Trump turned the anomaly into a certainty.