Ubisoft confirms that they will delete your account and purchased games if you are inactive for too long
How the hell is this legal ????
WHat the fuck!?
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Btw it’s legal because you’re not purchasing copies of the games you’re purchasing the license to play them and the licenses have terms & conditions and if you violate those terms & conditions by, say, not logging into your account for too long, they can revoke your license to play the games. So
Honestly though, the scene in Incredibles where Dash gets called into the office for putting a tack on his teacher’s chair gets 100x funnier when you consider that the teacher almost certainly knows what’s going on with Dash.
I mean, he probably doesn’t know that he has super speed specifically— “I don’t know how he does it!"— but this guy is fully aware of the existence of supers.
This isn’t a Harry Potter situation where the muggles don’t even know that magic exists— supers were lauded public figures and a key part of the criminal justice system until just fifteen years ago. This dude was definitely an adult and probably already teaching at the time. He may have been expected to include lessons on supers and their role in society in the curriculum.
And while we don’t know exactly how supers get their powers, Edna mentions in Incredibles 2 that "it’s not unknown for supers to have more than one power when young”, so Dash, Violet and Jack-Jack evidently weren’t the first people to develop them as children.
This guy lives in a setting in which he knows— with 100% certainty— that there are people out there who are born with special powers that enable them to do impossible things. And, from observing Dash, he knows that what this kid seems to be doing shouldn’t be possible for a normal kid.
He absolutely knows this boy has powers. It’s the most logical explanation, and it makes perfect sense within the laws of the universe he lives in. He may think that the kid is teleporting the tacks onto his chair, or turning invisible, or shifting reality or whatever, but he knows that some sort of super power is at work here.
The problem is… he can’t openly acknowledge it.
Now the supers are in hiding, normal civilians aren’t allowed to know of their existence. Even if there is no formal law against it (and there might be a formal law against it), everyone who figures out that their coworker or friend or whatever is a super, and doesn’t keep quiet about it, gets black-bagged by a government agency and has their memory erased. There’s no way people aren’t at least vaguely aware that it’s best not to talk about who you think might be a super, because bad things happen to people who do.
When the Principal ushers Helen and Dash out of the room and starts trying to calm the teacher down, he’s not doing it because he thinks he’s crazy. He’s doing it because he’s just seen video evidence that this kid is a super, and is trying to keep his friend from being taken away for Re-Education.
Dash is fully exploiting the fact that people like him legally don’t exist to pull pranks on his teacher, knowing that the guy can’t actually call him out without getting his mind wiped.
New year, new deathclaugust, continuing on at twenty three with Gemstone! A very rare process of living mineralization, and one that has few seen specimens as most never make it to hatching due to their organs being petrified. Lucky survivors only have it affect scale growth.
& that 1% regret rate is almost entirely “Yes I’m still trans but the surgery was bad, or the transphobia i encounter is so much worse than anticipated, or I was pushed towards a specific treatment by my binary-oriented doctor when I wanted a non-binary transition” etc.
Actual ‘whoops, I don’t identify as trans anymore” cases are closer to 0,02%.
people absolutely get to detransition and retransition and whatever (I personally know about six people who “detransitioned” from being binary trans people, and then transitioned again later as nonbinary people, for example) but the idea that a small number of people going “oops got this wrong” somehow justifies gatekeeping everyone else is criminal, and mostly a deliberate ploy to block us from getting what we need
I got 1 task done today. I emptied the big trash can in my bedroom. That’s one less fork to deal with.
I have severe executive dysfunction. I’ve been dealing with it by having myself do one small task a day. So far it’s helped a lot. By doing it this way my brain doesn’t freak out trying to tackle everything at once.
I got my inspiration for it from this Donald Duck comic:
Oh my God this is so fucking wholesome
“I saw the sunrise for the first time in years” moves me way more than it has any right to
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