Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris.
She did not love him back.
We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read:
"Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye."
Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it.
Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath:
"Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly."
Severus came back one more time to end it:
"I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you."
Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it.
We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived.
Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments.
The technology changes. We do not.
@Dovydas44444 I think we should be more nuanced about this sorta thing. We can draw upon the realm of philosophy to determine if such a thing is morally just.
Take Kant's paradigm of the concept of "universal good" for example.
There is no short, straight and definitive yes or no answer, imo
*it referring to ports to any given titles, and re3-powered TCs. A whole new era of modding was about to begin, no lawsuit means T2 has to play a constant game of DMCA whack-a-mole.
Tweet limits prevented me from explaining this properly.
As much as I hate to admit it, the re3 takedown makes perfect sense from the corporate point of view. If T2 didn't take legal action, they would've lost the ability to monetize the classic 3d era titles as the community would've done it already.
It's really as simple as that.
Bethesda once took issue with Mojang using the name Scrolls for a game.
Instead of only handling it through lawyers, Minecraft creator Notch suggested a Quake 3 deathmatch.
Three Mojang players vs three Bethesda players.
Winner gets the name.
Max Verstappen claps back at Juan Pablo Montoya
"I don’t know what his problem is. I also have very little patience with someone who talks so much nonsense. I just don’t understand why types like that get paid by F1 management, simply because he sometimes works for them."
"Surely you don’t want someone like that in the paddock who spouts so much rubbish? I think it’s a case of: ‘I say something different from everyone else, so I’m relevant.’ It doesn’t bother me that much; it’s his problem. I live my life and won’t let it influence me."
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@CinematicEye_ Must be a TV screen. Mirrors are usually slightly green in colour despite being highly effective. When you face two mirrors towards eachother, this effect generally becomes visible. I'm not seeing that here.