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  1. Darrenb209

    Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    The line between a language and a dialect is complete arbitrary nonsense. From a purely linguistics point of view any dialect which has been formalised enough to have a government backing it or an autonomous region using it in forms is a language and that is the sole distinction. However, from...
  2. Darrenb209

    Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Theoretically yes, in practice you'd never see anything beyond a cease and desist letter unless there was an existing official translation or you were profiting from it. The legal status of fanfics makes actually suing people over it quite difficult considering that many of them are only legal...
  3. Darrenb209

    General chat thread

    Are you high? Drunk? There's a point where an argument becomes fundamentally absurd... and there's a point past it where it becomes outright stupid. We have literally thousands of years of evidence proving it. It is readily available. Legal codes protecting the weak over the interests of the...
  4. Darrenb209

    XF2 transition feedback

    In this case, it's because the old forum software had been unsupported for a full half-decade at this point, swapping to XF2 was always going to have to happen and the current UI options are mostly default to XF2.
  5. Darrenb209

    General chat thread

    Nearly two weeks later and thus almost certainly well after you've made your decision, but some advice I do have is that the rewrite/reboot option will both utterly murder your fanfic and trap you in a cycle of being so tied to canon that you'll convince yourself in the future you need to do it...
  6. Darrenb209

    I wasn't going to leave a message but I'm genuinely angry about you creating a strawman about...

    I wasn't going to leave a message but I'm genuinely angry about you creating a strawman about might makes right when I never once brought it up. I never once said that the Imperium was justified, only that committing Imperialism against it is still committing *Imperialism* against it.
  7. Darrenb209

    "Imperialism, state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by...

    "Imperialism, state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas." Note the lack of the "We believe ourselves to be righteous" or "Our enemy is also doing it" exception.
  8. Darrenb209

    General chat thread

    My advice? Don't. Wikipedia doesn't need your money. It's revenues are consistently more than 10 mil it's expenses, and it gets an 100 million endowment on top of that and none of that counts the donations from big groups. It makes a big deal about needing money, but if literally every...
  9. Darrenb209

    General chat thread

    Specific rice issue or the standard "You use hot water for these things to prevent bacteria"?
  10. Darrenb209

    Video Games General

    It's usually reported as the whole document being classified when it's usually either just "restricted" or it includes pages that are redacted in the public version and thus is technically classified. The latter is actually the norm at this point... because it's been the most common this year...
  11. Darrenb209

    XF2 upgrade

    So I've got to ask, are we moving soon? Not that I want to put pressure on the staff but either there's background shit going on or the sites been trying to kill itself for a few weeks now. Usually it's fine and then other times you'll just get odd errors usually tied to trying to access a page...
  12. Darrenb209

    Rule 8 question

    You might as well ask if setting a house on fire will lead to that house burning down. Even if the thread wasn't inherently against rule 8, surely it would just be a bait thread.
  13. Darrenb209

    News and Headlines...

    Has World of Tanks ever had a leak? I'm only aware of the half-dozen Warthunder leaks.
  14. Darrenb209

    Video Games General

    I'm not sure why anybody would ever give crunchyroll money unless they were stuck with no real other options. They took a half-decade to finish rolling out an upgraded app for their anime streaming, they nearly SB'd they're website years back because of a complete unwillingness to actually...
  15. Darrenb209

    News and Headlines...

    Between that and another bank, crypto also lost 70 billion in the last 24 hours.
  16. Darrenb209

    Video Games General

    While there are articles focusing on trying to get people to boycott, outside of Ukraine I don't really see it viable on the basis they use. Personally, I'm far more concerned about the fact that they used to provide information directly to an internal spy agency than a less than 3 degrees of...
  17. Darrenb209

    XF2 upgrade

    It might actually, depending on what agreement they have with Xon and how often they communicate with them.
  18. Darrenb209

    XF2 upgrade

    My money is on Slightly Sooner™
  19. Darrenb209

    Video Games General

    That Nintendo Direct was genuinely hilarious. An Indie farming game surrounded on both sides by remakes of popular farming games in AWL and Rune Factory 3.
  20. Darrenb209

    Other Forum Sites?

    Sea Lion Press was started up by a bunch of long term AH users as a way to publish TL's and the forum spun out of that. The name itself is a reference to AH.com's endless over the years "Sea Lion could definitely have worked" threads and the memes tied to it. Skirting rule 8 for a second...
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