My Personal Hell

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
potter-inthe-tardis
prokopetz

Which thing that's entering the US public domain on January 1st, 2024 are you most excited about?

Steamboat Willie (Disney; first appearance of Mickey Mouse)

The House at Pooh Corner (A A Milne; first appearance of Tigger)

The Call of Cthulhu (H P Lovecraft; first appearance of the titular elder god)

Other (specify)

I don't know anything about the US public domain, I just want to see the results

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prokopetz

@snickerway replied:

I am almost 100% sure Cthulhu is already public domain. If he’s not, whoever owns the copyright has never tried to enforce it.

Whether or not Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu" is presently in the US public domain is a big hairy mess that depends on whether or not certain registrations and renewals were filed in a timely fashion, and by whom, all of which is heavily disputed by multiple competing claimants, and has been for decades; the idea that nobody's ever tried to litigate or enforce it is... remarkable.

January 1st, 2024, however, is a hard cutoff beyond which all works published in 1928 and earlier that weren't already in the US public domain become so, so all that will very suddenly go away.

prokopetz

26 days and counting!

elfwreck

Also entering public domain on Jan 1, 2024:

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And also:

  • Lady Chatterley's Lover
  • Peter Pan; or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (the play that predates the novel - but publication of it didn't happen until 1928)
  • Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (11th book in the series - the first 10 are in the public domain, but the Burroughs estate is nastier than Disney and Tolkein combined in going after Tarzan-ish works; they're the ones pushing hardest for "it's covered by trademark so there's no such thing as fair use.")
  • "I Wanna Be Loved By You" (song)
  • "Mack the Knife" (song, original German version only)

Also: Mickey will be in the public domain, but only the earliest version of him.

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Mickey's what I'm most interested in; it'll be interesting to see what Disney does about people making 1st ed Mickey merchandise. Or movies. Or video games.

...1st Ed. Mickey, unaltered, could wind up in Cuphead.

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fatsexybitch

Just watched a woman slather a whole jar of diced garlic on three huge salmon steaks and put on in each microwave at work

It’s going to smell hellacious later

fatsexybitch

It was so awful I had to work in another building for the rest if the day

Word is she left the fish and went back to her desk to pack up and quit

The stench was so awful they had to open all the doors which required bringing security from two other sites

Most of my department went home for the day

Holy SHIT

voidbat

what a fucking power move, oh my god.

i am so sorry you had to deal with the olfactory fallout, but my GOD.

saint-batrick

i am still so in awe of this woman.

hashtagloveloses
prokopetz

Sometimes I feel like I'm missing out because my kinks aren't weirdly specific enough. The folks who get off on the most narrowly contrived scenarios always seem to be having the most fun.

prokopetz

People are out there like "I'm a naughty little cube and I need you to tell me my axes of symmetry are cute and multifarious" and having a fantastic time with it, and I'm just over here sucking dick like an idiot.

toy-sitting-anon

skill issue

safestpear
gumioe

new fe players who started with 3h be like "HOW am I supposed to care about characters without 5000+ lines of dialogue about how mentally ill they are and a year by year breakdown of their entire life from birth till the story starts and 38hrs of seeing them age and go through formative experiences this is OUTRAGEOUS" meanwhile fe boomers be like "this is my scrimblo McRedKnight from the japan-exclusive 1998 game Tales of the Honky Tonky War he has three (3) lines one of which you'll only see with his literal last breath and he's my favorite character ever because one time he dodge-tanked 12 enemies in a row on enemy phase and procced a 17% crit chance on the chapter boss and gained str spd and def on level up"