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The Brits didn't even join until Germany violated Belgian neutrality. Germany literally brought it on themselves.

While there was certainly debate about what course of action to take, more than likely the UK would not have joined as there were more pressing concerns in Ireland at the time. As well, Britain put feelers out about the violation of Belgian neutrality before it all went balls up. France agreed that they would not violate Belgian neutrality, while Germany never responded.

Big boobs are unattractive. -- It's really not that clear-cut, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziGow3CLalo

And like Germany soon became as a result of the shit imposed on them and complete obliteration of their economy. The winners of WWI being assholes lead to Hitler being able to come to power, so tbh we were probably worse off.

i posted that as a thread like a week ago my dude. you're lucky I've seen it because I know what section you're talking about, I'm assuming when he brings up the older historiographic views of people like David Lloyd George, A.J.P. Taylor, Barbera Tuchman, and Fritz Fischer. While I don't agree with Fischer that the Germans had it planned in December of 1912, like most historians, I do agree with the view that Germany waged an aggressive war in 1914. Like, it is that clear cut. Germany was looking to make itself look innocent during the July Crisis when they were anything but. Quoting Dr. Badsey here The present evidence shows the first of those propositions was reasonably correct [That Germany had sought an aggressive war in 1914], some people prefer the term "preemptive war". Aggressive is essentially correct.

The NSFW board was a bad idea and it's as if we learned nothing from the previous NSFW threads. Even with clear rules in place it just seems unnecessary and tasteless. Yes I know I'm not forced to go there but it's still pretty moronic to have it in the first place.

Hell no big titties aint unattractive.

Since when has this forum ever been tasteful?

Regarding the portrayal of miniguns in fiction, I think we could do more of this instead of the modern chainsaw grip

I've grown to despise Fornite Battle Royale as one of the many signs of the rotten nature of today's gaming industry, which apparently took an hold not only on major videogames companies but indie developers as well. Basically you got these indie developers making an original cartoony game which can be best described as a hybrid between Left 4 Dead and Minecraft, suddendly stopping in their track, deciding that it'd be more profitable to plagiarize wholesale the multiplayer indie game flavor of the year (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) and doing just that, apparently making said plagiarism one of the most popular multiplayer game for YouTube and streamers in the process. In the meantime, PUB's developers are basically crucifixed everywhere on the Internet for even daring to suggest they'll take legal action against FBR's creators

Because it's a fucking ludicrous thing to suggest. PUBG didn't invent the concept of a battle royal and it isn't the first battle royal game. Fucking Minecraft had battle royal in the form of its Hunger Games servers. Videogames, like most media, are largely derivative. It's how genres are created. If id had sued all the Doom-clones because they 'invented' the first person shooter with Wolf3D we wouldn't have one of the most popular genres in games, and PUGB and its clones wouldn't exist.

Speaking on my capacity as a law graduate, while yes, Fornite's developers didn't exactly break any copyright laws in this case, it doesn't change the fact the whole Battle Royale mod is plagiarized wholesale from PUB. Like, it's the same exact game, only with their own building mechanic added in, which no doubts enrich the gameplay to some degree but the plagiarism is still there. Therefore, while PUB's developers claims may be over the top and won't be accepted into a court of law, throwing shit at them for a completely understandable reaction, given you accept the theory that there's alwats a modicum of difference between what's legal/illegal and what's right/wrong, to the point, in this particular case, that something which is legal could be downright wrong. Also, if we really want to bring concrete law into this, Fornite's developers could be accused of performing an illegal form of competition towards PUB's developers, in the measure that they are basically offering costumers a free version of said game by plagiarizing it and therefore diverting buying players from PUB by illegal means. In many countries, especially the ones based in the European Union, illegal competition on an alleged free market is a serious metter, even if it's about videogames

Reporters without Borders are glorified press release agencies which pander to one particular subset of donors and supporters. They have no interest in defending their stance in front of what they'd consider a hostile hearing, and particularly because they won't be interviewed by tinpot third world dictators, but highly trained former lawyers, and the risk of them looking like idiots is very high.

I can't stand April Fools Day honestly.

Epic Games is not a young studio. They've been around since 1991 and have been making the Unreal Engine since 1998.

I always have a lot of fun with April Fools, I don't get why people get so bent out of shape about being slightly inconvenienced for a day.

Corporations fucked it up with extremely clean/family-friendly "joke product reveals" that are almost never actually funny anymore.

community-based april fools jokes are still pretty fun though. some of the subreddits I follow gave me a good laugh this year.

Yeah, they can be fine. The only one that gave me a chuckle today was /r/Games on reddit having a stickied Cyberpunk 2077 review megathread in the same exact format as most AAA releases. Actually made me do a double-take. Google has gotten pathetic, though. Google's older April Fools' product announcements were sometimes quite funny. This year they just fucking hid Waldos in Google Maps. That's not even a fooling, or even a joke!

r/DDLC changed their ENTIRE CSS so that they looked like a katawa shoujo subreddit. r/DotA2 mods introduced a bot that tracked how well your shitposts were doing, in the vein of Dota Plus. they named it r/DotA2 Minus.

Subreddits have had good ones. I can't remember specific examples but several subreddits have switched places for a day. /r/PrequelMemes and /r/SequelMemes have switched places today, for example.

What part of "PUBG did not invent Battle Royale" do you not understand? Minecraft had Battle Royale in the form of Hunger Games servers long before PUBG was a thing. There have been films and books about the subject, such as The Hunger Games, Running Man, and even Death Race if you count "forced to fight to the death" as the generic theme. Nothing in PUBG is original. Every mechanic has been done in existing games. Fight to the last man, every Deathmatch game in existence. Finding weapons around the play area, every arena shooter such as Quake, Unreal Tournament, Halo, and Gears of War. Air dropping into the play area was a key feature of Medal of Honour Airbourne and has been featured in other games. The equipment screen is ripped straight out of ARMA. There's literally nothing in PUBG which is a new creation, it's not even the first game to combine these elements into a free for all deathmatch. It just popularised the idea. PUBG's developer's reaction was not completely understandable. He threatened a lawsuit over a concept he didn't create because his buggy, half finished game was facing competition from a technically superior product (as in, Fortnite isn't a broken fucking mess). Making a similar product is not illegal competition. No one would fucking win a court case by saying "We made Jaffa cakes and now they're also making Jaffa cakes, they should be shut down!" Illegal competition is shit where your product would either mislead or obscure your product. If Fortnite looked like PUBG, and had similar logos to PUBG it would be illegal competition, if they specifically placed ads of PUBG web pages to trick people into buying a similar but slightly different game it would be illegal competition. Making a similar product is not illegal competition. What you're arguing for here is a monopoly. Once again, PUBG is not a unique game, it is incredibly derivative. Fortnite is not a free version of PUBG, they play drastically differently. Fortnite is a third person shooter with inaccurate weapons and high health values, PUBG allows you to switch between first and third person, has very accurate weapons and has very low health values. The moment to moment gameplay and the combat are worlds apart in those games. Also, you keep saying Fortnite is using illegal means to promote itself when it isn't at all. Fortnite hasn't done anything illegal in competition with PUBG. You repeatedly saying it does doesn't make it any more true. Claiming to be a law graduate doesn't mean you have any idea what you're on about. A real lawyer would probably cite a law and point out how Fortnite is actually breaking the law, rather than repeating "They illegally did the thing." Fuck man, what you're doing could be seen as slander if the Fortnite devs had the same stick up their ass that the PUBG devs seem to have.

I think the wildest thing I've ever done for April Fools is add two extra spoons of sugar to my dad's cup of tea. I'm not a huge fan of it, especially due to the amount of cringe-worthy YouTube content that comes from it gives me a migraine. Oh hahahahaha you're announcing you're now gonna make beauty videos hahahaha it's funny because you're not a beauty youtuber hahahahaha you got me, except wait no because I too have the ability to look at a calendar.

Your main counter-argument to my second post is about PUBG being just a derivate of a much bigger genre, and therefore the developers don't have any ownership or right on any similar product (a fact I can of course get behind), and that the Fortnite Battle Royale Mode can be considered a different experience entirely from PUBG. Since the latter statement can be fully questioned, and after all this thread is still called "Unpopular opinions", and I did also mention I wasn't examinaning the situation solely on the legal side, I'd ask you if we could just agree to disagree and, more specifically, to drop the attitude, thank you

yeah, i don't think the battle royale concept is unique enough to be claimed by PUBG. it's in the same general area as something like gun game getting a little wackier here but i could imagine a world where the two gamemodes were flipped, and battle royale was popularized through a source mod, while PUBG centered around a glorified gun game gimmick (PUBGGGGG) counter strike already has no respawning rounds in the base game, and weapon/gear pickups that you could scatter around a (smaller, but still PUBG-esque) map. and it wouldn't have been hard for people to make the first 30 seconds of a match into a "pick your spawn" segment, with noclip or gravity or something. the way i see it, playerunknown wouldn't have been able to lay claim to anything if it wasn't for a mix of luck (that a gamemode as simple as BR didn't get popularized before his time), timing (in that computers that can handle it are more common than ever), and aggressive business tactics that make sense from a cynical perspective, but i'm really, really not a fan of.

PUBG is probably only really viable now because engines that can handle large amounts of online players in an open world are readily available and easy to use (UE4). This wasn't the case even a few years ago.

I mean really though I'm pretty sure you'd have to have never played both games for any extended amount of time to honestly believe they're similar enough to continuously call it "plagiarized." If Fortnite is just PUBG, then we shouldn't have games like: Vermintide or Killing Floor because they're L4D Prey or BioShock because they're System Shock PUBG because it's The Culling and H1Z1 Dying Light because it's Dead Island Lords of the Fallen, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, or Code Vein, because they're Demon's Souls Every arena shooter since Quake Fallout because it's Wasteland Call of Duty because it's Medal of Honor Tomb Raider 2013 because it's Uncharted Sleeping Dogs because it's True Crime True Crime because it's GTA Etc. And none of these are even wild stretches like "Serious Sam is Duke Nukem 3D which is Doom" or "Minecraft is Infiniminer which is Dig Dug." It's a very similar derivative work, but it's only "the same experience" if you're an outsider looking in.

I dislike twitch, youtubers and streamer "Personalities". The ones that make low quality clickbait that exploits how videos are organized. The last thing I need to see is a Game Theory video on Luigi's penis size or whatever content was stolen from reddit. I also heavily dislike game theory but that's not unpopular.

1984 is still a very valuable read but its message has a lot more to do with its subtext than its literal content. But that is some VERY, VERY IMPORTANT subtext.

I think the problem is the joke has run its course and now people just use it as an excuse to do annoying stupid shit. Like forcing 4-color textures in Minecraft. Or @someone in discord. Hey remember how fun pinging everyone is? Last year was probably a highlight of april fool's just because a few things happened that weren't jokes. Like Freeman's Mind 2.