Replying to @⁨stumu415@lemmy.zip⁩

One of the games, Build the Wall, borrows heavily from Tetris. Players stack falling blocks to defend the southern border during a “zombie border siege” and “protect the border from the coming horde.”

Allowing the blocks to reach the top of the screen triggers a “border breached” message.

 

Ahhh, this administration’s usual level of not thinking things through rears its idiotic head again. This basically says building the wall is counterproductive, and you win by keeping it down.

Replying to @⁨athatet@lemmy.zip⁩

I generally agree. And I never use the word anymore, but I get where they’re coming from. Personally I wouldn’t say it cause it gives them permission to say it as well, and they’ll abuse it til it’s lexicon again. So personally I’d rather use loser, stupid or any of the other words that also describe them.

However I’m sure in person, arguing with a MAGAt would piss me off to the point of saying it. That’s why I just openly disregard these people off the cuff. Roll my eyes and move on. Like what they’re saying isn’t even worth reacting to because it’s so beneath me.

Replying to @⁨shartgargle@lemmy.zip⁩

The other question I have is, who leverages that word against anyone who has a medical disability or something? Like, I’ve never heard anyone call someone with Down Syndrome or autism, etc. a retard. Unless they were doing something retarded and they didn’t know, but, I’ve never seen it leveled against a person with a disability. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Also though, I feel like language policing when we literally have fascists throwing people into concentration camps that maybe that’s not top priority.

Replying to @⁨markon@lemmy.world⁩

Ehhh it did used to happen. And it didn’t have to be someone with debilitating issues as strong as down syndrome or autism. Back in the 90’s everyone from dyslexics to down syndrome, to people with social anxiety were called retarded. Even a simple idea got called retarded if it wasn’t the norm.

That being said, people who throw people in concentration camps shouldn’t be called retarded. They should be curb-stomped.

Replying to @⁨athatet@lemmy.zip⁩

Calling someone with down syndrome a retard is a slur. Calling someone who’s acting like a retard, aka just being stupid, slow, limited, whatever, who’s not medically handicapped in any way, not disabled. They can be a retard. It’s not nice to call disabled people names. People who are theoretically not disabled. Being extremely stupid, short-sighted, sometimes evil. I think that’s a fair word to use. It’s a slur, but it really depends who you’re slurring as to whether it is meaningfully a slur that we should avoid using.

Replying to @⁨stumu415@lemmy.zip⁩

Maaaaaaaaan…this sucks. At one point in the 90s I had played every version of tetris released.

I haven’t kept up, but my inner 8 year old is sad. My inner 8 year old wants to play all the tetris, but my outer 42 year old self is keeping my inner 8 year old away from anything trump related.

My inner 8 year old is sad, but I’ll understand when I grow up…wait, how does this work again?

Replying to @⁨andros_rex@lemmy.world⁩

I think a big issue with it is that theres no real way to properly sue a project if the president ok’s it. It’s a lot of money to go after a case, and then since it’s a federal case the president has pardon power on it. An IP violation is almost always federal… which falls under that pardoning ability. It would need to either stay at a state level (which is unlikely given who is involved) or keep it in civil court, which I don’t think IP violations of this magnitude would stay contained.

Honestly with how the law currently is, I think the president could publicly execute someone(or order someone else to) for any declared reason, as long as said reason could be remotely tied to it’s position of power, and then for the crime they could just pardon it. There’s nothing blocking it.

Replying to @⁨LodeMike@lemmy.today⁩

Tetromino’s as a design implementation is not trademarked, but the concept and names are. The Tetris Company owns the rights to any use of Tetromono’s and Tetris in the gaming sector. Being said, the patents to such concepts have already expired, so unless they were using trademarks naming I think they are fully allowed to use it. I don’t know if the Tetris company has any legal standing here.