kieron115

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry to necro this but I just saw in the latest LTT vid that apparently Microsoft did go through with this plan? They were talking about it in the context of the diskless xbox that just released. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/how-to-transfer-content-licenses/7ac76f4e-c7e4-4153-8824-1e424478b02d

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The green hand? That's the hand of Apollo. The actual Greek god Apollo. TOS got weird lol.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Having to fly under the radar or risk financial ruin doesn't sound like ownership to me.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I went in to this show expecting not to like it, that it was just going to make fun of something I loved for mass market appeal. I've never been so happy to be so wrong. This whole show is a love letter to Trek. I'm sad that it's leaving but also really glad that it ended up being worth watching.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah that's more comparable. I was mostly just trying to state the difference between ownership and a perpetual license but I'm thinking I oversimplified lol.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, I understand. I was just trying to describe the difference between ownership and a perpetual license in overly simplified terms. Also, can you think of any examples of digital goods that retain first sale doctrine? With physical disks at least a second hand market still exists for that very reason, but I can't think of any digital media that allow resale. I would love to be wrong!

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

It depends on your definition of ownership. If having perpetual access to a product is enough then yes. But we aren't allowed to, say, disassemble a game and use it's assets to make something of our own. As opposed to say a spoon. Nobody can tell me how I can and can't use my spoon.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

I wish I had something more to add to this. I saw this when you posted and thought surely someone more creatively minded than I would chime in. Just want to say thanks for taking the time to write this up, it makes you think about how many other one off deux ex machina type races that Star Trek likes to throw out there. The Organians, Talosians, whatever they decided Trelane is, the Douwd, the list goes on and on. It's quite fortunate for the rest of civilization that these omniscient beings seem to stick to themselves.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

This is almost the exact experience I had playing Elite Dangerous in VR one time. I had my HOTAS mounted to the arms of my office chair so the whole setup could swivel. One day I was sitting in orbit over a planet researching a route or something. Ship sounds going in the headphones, comms coming in every now and then, then out of nowhere for just a brief moment I was in space flying that ship. I wish so badly that I could extend that feeling.

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