Yeah it is this. If it goes to court, they will very likely lose in the end. But the way the US system works, anyone who does try is going to be bled dry through a humiliating process and have bills and expenses higher than any monetary amount they do win in the end.
It’s less to avoid being sued and a direct threat that “if you try we will make your life a living hell”.
or affluent enough to take the sadly likely loss. as i remember it said before “Its easy to have principles when you can afford them.” and while i cling tightly to mine, not being very well off, i can see where the sentiment comes from in todays society. absolute scum that it is.
The list of unfortunate consequences of unfettered capitalism continues to grow. I’ve seen some incidents straight out of cyberpunk dystopia which is interesting in that the genre is fundamentally pessimistically critical of ongoing systems. Like most dystopian fiction.
In the US, it can be as simple as your contract saying you have days off work if sick as an incentive for employment, but when you get sick the clause kicks in where your illness is losing the company money by your absence as grounds for being fired with no notice.
Disney saying that the Disney+ user agreement means the user cannot sue them is sadly very much on point and staggeringly likely to survive scrutiny.
The devilry of “free and voluntary contracts” has been exploited for as long as people could write them. The outcome is then largely decided by courts bought and instituted by the political mill of lies that enables this same exploitation.
Just found out there is an Alien popcorn bucket coming out for Romulus and I want one badly.
6 more keys… but the ghost for the buff hasn’t spawned once the entire time I’ve farmed this stuff.
Gonna take a break until 16:30, maybe I get lucky then.
Had a nap, had a dream, it was about WoW so I’m sharing it here.
A big fashion show event had somehow pulled major attendance from both factions in a staggeringly utopian way. What was supposed to be a player-led trial of style became huge and shortly after that some person uploaded a video recording of the event.
This person, whoever they were, remained anonymous but had by some circumstance, deep pockets and far reaching connections, uploaded a live action recreation with perfectly cast actors in elaborate costumes who acted out the characters. Movie set makeup magic made it easy for these people to look like orcs, gnomes, even draenei. The ingame footage of the characters on stage was consigned to the right corner for reference.
A later, brief nap produced The Most Kul Tiran Man grumpily wandering about before being caught up in Azeroth’s latest disaster and subsequent wave of refugees, fleeing alongside and bonding with an orcish family.
This is so insane it’s almost dystopian.
I am now a Cryptkeeper
according to the title I just farmed
tfw no necrodancer title 
That, or you take the Asmongold path
Inquisitor being Alliance-only was a slight against me, specifically
“You’re not Sanguinus, but I guess you’ll have to do.”
My Red Hand of Doom game probably has another 4 months left in it assuming post rates don’t die, which means ideally it’ll be done before Christmas/New Years.
I want to do Skull and Shackles as the next campaign but also I’m kinda tired of tier 1/2 gameplay and would like to do more tier 3/4 (level 11+) stuff, and that doesn’t really work with the initial story conceit of low power slaves throwing off their shackles to eventually become pirate lords.
I might just double exp gains to speedrun the way to fun stuff. It wouldn’t surprise me if this was the key to having fun most of the other time tbh.
This is my contribution to the warhammer discussion (I know basically nothing except toaster robots and mushroom orcs. And cool battle ladies).
You got the basics
(everyone involved in the Mechanicus opening deserves a medal)
I did also play some vermintide so I know what skaven are! I’ve primarily played the elf and a bit of the pyromancer lady.
Let me just prepare my powerpoint presentation.
Those times when you want to write something down and you wonder “Is this not actually too weird?” only to then look at the outside world, and you realise your idea was rather tame in comparison, and not unrealistic at all.
Even got the rhetoric down to a casual flow; wallow in filth, stagnation is comfort, this feels great actually, I grow in power.
Helping snakes become lizards by prosthetics is philosophically correct.