Fair enough. And your English is good. The difference is subtle and not something I would expect someone with English as a secondary language to think about much unless they were very focused on art.

Pedantic, I know, but this is a mural not graffiti. Graffiti, from Italian for scribble, is writing. A mural, from Latin murus for wall, painting is a painting done directly on a wall. Even colloquially, graffiti is usually used for unsanctioned, often illegal, painting. This looks like the city specifically asked for the painting.

That sounds like an ordeal. Stressing out older animals is stressful on the human too. Don’t know if you’ve tried, but we used the dirty plate trick (smear something on a plate/spoon/shoulder/forehead and let them lick) to distract our doofus. It worked far better than force ever did for us.

He’s adorable, but please get his claws trimmed if he’ll tolerate it. They look uncomfortably long.

What legit reasons? Seriously. What real world situations are there where allowing companies to own companies promotes a healthy society/economy/etc.? (Not just benefitting the shareholders, and not just the accountants. That’s not enough.)

How?

Good. So much of adjusting people’s behaviour is just making it more convenient to do the right thing and less convenient to do the wrong thing. It’s impossible to get people to behave perfectly all the time, but the more inconvenient you make it to do the wrong thing, the more the human tendency toward laziness will keep them passively on the right path. There are no desire paths in a hedge maze.

It would reduce it, at least. Part of what makes those deals appealing to devs is the idea that the umbrella corporation will handle the business so the devs can do the dev work they love. Many of them would be much more reluctant to sell off ownership of their concepts and work entirely, and the ubrella corps would find it harder to milk nostalgia when they’ve only bought the name and not any of the creative team that made it real. Not impossible, but harder.

Vote with your wallet is mostly a scam. You can’t buy what isn’t there. Devs are too reliant on the business freaks to turn their art into money. I don’t have a good solution. All I can think of is maybe something like a registered not-for-profit version of steam/GOG/itch. No investors expecting a return allowed. No for-profit company that owns the not-for-profit as a bypass. Just a system devs can use to turn art into money with no BS about ensuring profits for someone else. I don’t have the devops/software engineering knowledge to make that happen, but I hope someone does.

For Bioware, no. It’s too late for them. For the future, it’d prevent companies like EA buying up every half-successful dev company and feeding their IP into the machine to milk our nostalgia for profit.

Ban corporate ownership of other companies. It has no positive effects on the economy or the world.

It seems you don’t understand what they’re talking about. It’s not about the individual thumbnail and personal taste regarding the one individual image. It’s about the class of thumbnails that utilise/follow the ‘clickbait’ model, a system of manipulation developed and actively encouraged by the attention economy of ad-based media which has a broadly pleasant-feeling but long term negative effects on the users and society.

Not wanting to engage in or encourage the process of social harm is not a ‘personal issue.’

Ah, so you’ve met my cousin Nikola?

“Comparison” to slavery? You don’t understand analogy. Please, return to education until you do. Analogy is a very basic skill. You should not be without it.

Yes, it is deceitful. All advertising is deceitful. It is inherent to advertising to be deceitful. You liking the form the deceit takes does not change the deceit, only how successfully you are being deceived.

I’m calm. I’m not suggesting we go out in a mob and murder the mod makers and burn down their homes. But we should not ignore its harm simply because it isn’t the most awful thing ever. Whether you are being stabbed with a sewing needle or a zweihander, it’s not acceptable.

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And? The point is that it’s an ad, designed to manipulate people into thinking of ikea as being associated with fun and gaming, like it’s a fun person, and not a corporation. It’s a lie. Just because you aren’t forced to fully take part in something doesn’t make it somehow not malicious. You aren’t forced to buy a slave. Does that make it acceptable that someone sells them?

Gross. Keep trademark trashvertisements out of our games.

More effort than designing invasive software to work on all the different hardware and software configurations used by all the players? Still have to pay engineers to work on all of that or, worse, (shudder) contractors. That shit’s expensive.