MossyFeathers

Yeah, yanno I think that's a fair interpretation. I don't fully agree with it, but I can see your logic. I will say that, now that you mention the orc thing, I think I seeing something like that once and I think I remember the OP getting a warning for it being too real (I have a vague memory of seeing something like that and thinking, "okay, that's too far, that's not funny anymore" and then seeing a mod warning in the comments). It seemed like most of the users knew where the line was and tried to avoid stepping over it, but again, it's been a while since I last bothered to look at Reddit (at least a year I think, maybe two), so I could be misremembering or things could have changed, etc.

I mean, this is a pretty normal distinction afaik (human vs non-human creations; afaik non-human creations almost always have any human copyright claims voided when challenged).

Imo what makes this special is how precise he's being. If I understand correctly, he's basically saying that the code for the health bar is a human creation and protected by copyright, but while the code to change the health value might be human-made, the actual values are machine-made and not under copyright (there's probably a lot of nuance I'm skipping over, but my understanding is that's the gist of it).

I had the robot version of OP as a kid (I still have most, if not all of it in a closet). The one I really wanted though, was Rokenbok stuff. I loved seeing the displays in ZanyBrainy and Toys-r-Us (though I remember the Toys-R-Us displays were basic-bitch shit compared to ZanyBrainy, which tended to have all the kits put together into a single interactive display).

It looks like you can get Rokenbok pieces pretty cheaply now on eBay (though the RC vehicles are more expensive), so I might get some soon. I love factorio, and Rokenbok was a lot like IRL factorio. It was even compatible with Legos!

Fantasy is almost alway low-tech, Sci-fi is almost always high-tech. As such, fantasy tech levels could be compared to starting low and going high, while sci-fi starts high and then goes low as it tries to explain the concepts it's introducing.

I remember there being jokes that seemed like they were drawing parallels between TES racism and IRL racism (like how the Dunmer like calling non-dunmer "N'wah", which sounds suspiciously like "n-word" if you slur the words as you say them) or making fun of racism in the series. I don't remember TrueSTL using jokes to actually make fun of IRL minorities though.

I could be wrong, it's been a while, but I don't remember seeing anything that came off as being intentionally malicious. I will also concede, however, that there were definitely things that might come off that way to a passerby with no TES lore knowledge.

Yeah, pretty much

People who evalulate and grade pop-culture collectables like baseball cards, video games, etc.

Imagine having a career based on turning people's collection hobbies into investment opportunities for rich people; making said hobbies unaffordable for the people who actually enjoy the subject matter in the process. You'd have to be a real fucking scumbag to do something like that.

Some livestreamers (even big ones) are legitimately fun to watch, but I agree that there are a lot of livestreamers that just do "reaction content" which, while it can be fun (in the same way as Rifftrax/MST3K), isn't something most streamers put enough effort into to be considered good. Instead it ends up being a low-effort way of generating views.

If you want some good streamers, some of the big streamers I like are people like,

• Vinesauce Vinny: Unhinged but chill New York Italian streamer who likes corrupting games (fucking with the ROM/RAM while the game is running) and laughing at unhinged 80's and 90's video game commercials; in a band with Jabroni Mike and he's also known as "binyot".
• Jabroni Mike: Unhinged and not chill New York Italian streamer who loves dredging up YouTube content slop to laugh at; in a band with Vinny and he's also known as "Cumchugger".
• Vargskelethor: Absolutely unhinged swedish metalhead who lives in a public toilet where he points and laughs at people while they take a shit (very childish sense of humor, but a lot of fun to watch because you never know what to expect); in a metal band called Scythelord along with a self-titled solo project. Also known as Joel, Yo-ell, Jobel, fecalfunny.com, etc.
• Jerma985: a fucking psycho in semi-retirement; best known for his irl streams like the Dollhouse (IRL Sims with chat controlling Jerma), baseball stream (~~shoved an entire baseball up his ass, live on twitch~~ put together two fictional baseball teams for a livestreamed baseball game), carnival stream (he had chat-controlled robots to let chat play the games), ~~archeology~~ geology stream, Who Will Replace Me?, and so on.
• Laimu/Limealicious: vtuber affiliated with Vinesauce, """wholesome""" streamer.
• Fredrik Knudsen: Yes, the "Down the Rabbit Hole guy" also has a twitch channel.
• WhiskeyDing0: another vtuber, this time furry as fuck, but he plays a lot of indie horror games and sometimes organizes VRChat game shows with other furry streamers; also probably the biggest furry streamer right now. Great way to find new indie horror games.
• Jall: furry "fleshtuber" with an absolutely insane setup designed to try and recreate the feeling of watching a YouTube poop, except it's live. Warning: consume in small doses; his streams are a sensory overload like nothing else.

Even if it's not your thing, I'd highly recommend looking up the stream vods for Jerma's IRL stuff, it's brilliant and extremely high-effort.

Edit: I was just trying to make some suggestions, jeez.

Yeah, Indians and pilgrams were more acceptable; and, tbh, I still think it could possibly be considered acceptable if handled correctly, however neither kids nor their parents would likely put the effort in to do it right, so maybe it's for the better that "pilgrams and Indians" is dying out (I could also just be starting to get old and out-of-touch though, but I'm not that old; I'm trying to stay up-to-date I swear ;~;).

However, I also remember that painting your face to change your skin color for the purpose of imitating another race, regardless of your original color, was considered wrong (at least it was in my family) because it was a form of discrimination (this actually caused me a lot of confusion when I became aware of the idea that not all discrimination is equal, and that some discrimination is considered culturally acceptable if it's "punching up" or meant to even the playing field between races, cultures, sexes, etc).

I was talking more generally about the "younger generation" heh. I was happy to hear that she actually listens to them!

Like, I try not to judge people for their tastes in music; I'm kinda at the point where I'll listen to anything I find enjoyable. There are genres, themes, etc that'll increase the chances of me enjoying it, but I just kinda listen to whatever sounds good.

Hell, I unironically think that Super Ghostbusters, a shitty parody album made by a swedish twitch streamer that contains something like 25 variations (plus 10ish remixes that were recently added) of the same terrible Ghostbusters midi with Joel (aka Vargskelethor) babbling about a bunch of different reasons to call the Ghostbusters, is one of the best albums I've ever heard. The joke isn't even that funny, except he drives it into the ground until it comes out the other side and becomes funny again. It's garbage music, but if you have the same shitty sense of humor as Joel, then it's hilarious; especially considering it's backstory (Joel's internet went out for a week, and being a musician and twitch streamer who relies on the Internet for both, slowly went insane from boredom and made the album to try and keep himself busy).

(I do like good music too though, imo Devin Townsend's Ziltoid the Omniscient is one of the best albums of all time).

I just feel kinda strongly about not wearing band shirts if you don't know who the band is heh.

Maybe all modern pop music, but there's still a lot of good stuff out there. King Gizzard and Shpongle immediately jump to mind as being pretty unique.

I'm looking forward to the day when pop music becomes so heavily manufactured that the music industry ends up killing itself by boring it's consumers to tears. I'd be willing to bet that if the music industry collapsed then we'd have a year or two without any major releases, and then we'd suddenly have a tidal wave of some of the most unique music anyone's heard in a long time.

As long as they aren't doing the thing a lot of millennials did, aka wear popular band shirts without any clue who the band was.

Before someone gets mad, I am a millennial. I saw this happen a lot growing up, and it was especially common with Nirvana shirts for some reason (I'm guessing hot topic stocked a lot of Nirvana shirts or something). It absolutely drove me up the wall.

Hell, in general, don't wear a shirt, badge, wristband or whatever if you don't know what it's saying; for all you know it could be secretly heiling Hitler and now you're an unwitting Nazi magnet.