Looked it up and yes, dreamstime is now hosting AI. It’s crazy, why would you pay for an AI image when you can generate them elsewhere for free? Also afaik you can’t copyright an AI image anyway.

It looks like a dreamstime stock image, at least there’s a watermark. Or does dreamstime now expect people to pay for slop stock too now?

That was a different game, the original by Liz Magie. Darrow pretended he never heard of it, plagiarised it, but made it worse, then claimed it was his own idea. It all got settled later on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord's_Game

Ya like jazz?

Isn’t there a metal band that has an album of 1 second tracks?

Oh yeah, that’s it, Oxford. I learnt about rugger and brekker from The Treasure Seekers books. I’ve never heard anyone else say brekkers, at least in my area, brekkie is more common.

Now I’m surprised that “starkers” has posh roots.

Yeah, it’s like saying we should call rugby “rugger”, because that’s what the old Etonians called it (I don’t know if they still do).

This picture makes me happy :)

My boss pointed out a few weeks ago that our birth years were closer to WW2 than now and I died a little inside :(

I take that personally :(

Actually most of my videos are just boring things that I find interesting, and I get just as many views on there as I did on YouTube. And the autocaptions are waaaaaay better.

What I like about peertube is it’s just people uploading for the love of it, not content farms and AI slop chasing a quick buck.

Edit: oh yeah and not having multiple ads on my videos.

On desktop I get the “Video running slow? Disable your ad blocker” popup in a corner. But videos loaded normally.

On mobile everything was fine until recently. In the last couple of weeks, videos do have a small lag before loading. Still preferable to ads. And I’m just using the browser’s in built blocker.

Is that a trebuchet or is that the inferior *shudder* catapult?

Yes, it’s annoying. I had to manually turn it off in LibreOffice and install an extension on WordPress to stop it autoconverting speech marks. I typed what I intended to type, dammit!

Alt+0151, baby!

This is the version I want :( Having Luke and Nellith working as a Jedi duo would have been so cool.

Invaluable means very valuable 😭😭

I think lifetime of original creator is fine. I wrote my first manga in 2010 (it’s crap but still), I don’t think that it should stop being mine in 4 years.

I heard that lifetime + 80 was to stop someone murdering a popular author and, assuming they got away with it, then publishing that work for their own profit. But I don’t know if that’s true.

My hot take is all abandonware media should legally become file-share friendly after a certain amount of time being out of print, say 15 or 20 years. The original rights holder still maintains copyright, but if they are no longer publishing that work, and therefore no longer making sales, anyone can fileshare it for free in its original form. If the owner then republishes it, it stops being file share friendly. But there have to be caveats, like Nintendo can’t publish 2 copies of an old game every 15 years for like $500 a copy and say it’s still published. It has to be sold at a reasonable price.

We have !microblogmemes@lemmy.world specifically for that kind of thing.

I’m not bothered too much by it, but since we have a dedicated space for that sort of thing, it makes sense to post them there rather than here.

A lot of Brits have anyway!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal