My mind skipped over the “more boot” part and I thought you were having a stroke.

Great, so we should take advantage of the fact that we have major and minor leagues and separate by ability into those. If it happens to separate by gender, so be it, but if someone is higher or lower than the average for their gender then they can compete among other people on their level.

The fact that we separate by gender in spite of how, as this thread points out, there is a large amount of variability within that category that goes against the idea that this addresses the ability gap, just shows that we’re not separating for that reason, we’re separating for sexual discrimination.

I’ve always thought it was strange that we separated some sports by gender, and I still do. Especially because plenty of sports don’t separate by gender, and there’s no issue.

Pretty sure the point is fun and entertainment. Some people care about finding the “best,” but as the saying goes, it’s not about whether you win or lose…

If someone has ADHD and takes medication - as directed - to help them focus on their training regiment, would that make you as upset? It’s certainly a drug to “alter,” as you say.

F95Zone has most games available for download, at least out of the ones I’ve seen on itch.io. It’s technically a place to get them illegitimately, but a lot of small-time developers still make accounts there just to chat with players and encourage them to buy the games and/or support them on subscribestar for real if they like their content, which seems to work well.

Yeah, pretty much. You take someone who has what they see as a perfect life, but one without sex or with unfulfilling sex, and you introduce some reason for them to have sex with someone who’s good at it. Maybe they’re being blackmailed or persuaded - anything that makes them feel like they need to have sex in order to return to their previously idyllic life. Then, as they have more sex, they find that they enjoy it, and slowly start to prefer sexual side of their double-life to the one they used to think was idyllic. Time passes, and they end up fully engulfed in a life of wanton sex, abandoning the life they were trying to save in the first place.

I’m not super familiar with patents themselves, but I used to work in genetics back when human genes were able to be patented, and Myriad Genetics used their patent of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes to lock genetic testing for these common factors in breast cancer predisposition behind a massive paywall. Even after gene patents were no longer allowed, they refused to share their previous test results with researchers trying to develop a more comprehensive, accurate, and cost-effective test, slowing down medical research.

Research eventually progressed without Myriad Genetics’ help, and within a few years after the genes stopped being patented, genetic testing for the BRCA genes and many more was down to an affordable price, even for people without insurance coverage. We now learn more and more about these genes quicker than ever, and can offer tests that cover many genes at once for a low price and with high accuracy, due to the sharing of test results between labs that never would have happened while genes were patented.

This may be an outlier in patent usage - though I doubt it - but it still shows that big companies can use patent laws more to bully fair competition than to offer a better product. Patents are a good idea for helping small businesses and individuals protect their right to make a new product without a big company swooping in, but there are still massive issues with the process that need to be fixed to keep those same big companies from using the process in reverse to keep small businesses from growing into the competition necessary for a healthy economy.