It's very specifically about what an individual does and does not wish to watch, because it only applies in certain circumstances. If it wasn't about that, everyone would have to pay it regardless of usage.

Much like car tax is about whether or not a person drives a car.

If multiple people are continuing to miss a point you think you've made, perhaps consider if you've properly communicated your point before moving directly to pretentiousness.

The best orientation for capturing sound the ear canal is to keep the ear straight from lobe to tip. (across the pitch axis at least, that's the rotation that enables nodding).

As you pitch forward or backward you start to capture less and less of the sound across the plane the brain expects sound to be coming from.

If you have your head pitched backwards by~ 70-90 degrees (as if you were looking directly down your nose at someone in front of you) you will struggle to hear/understand what is being said, especially from directly in front of you.

Perhaps there's a metaphor in there somewhere, maybe even tree related, as that seems to be the theme.

Good luck with your imaginary forest.

That's a particularly pretentious response to a reply that was subjectively factually correct.

Though expect it's difficult to hear what's actually being said with your head tilted so far back.

edit : I'm not the person to which you were responding, in case that wasn't clear

I mostly agree, but there is a tradeoff here between effort and resource usage

Do you spend the extra x months dev time to go from 800Mb to 200Mb?

how about another x months to go from 200MB to 100MB?

100MB -> 80Mb? 80Mb -> 67Mb ?

and that's only memory footprint, not performance, test coverage, infrastructure etc.

We've swung way in to the "800Mb binary ?, meh, they all have RAM to spare" (looking at you specifically fucking electron shells) and i fully agree we should be way more on the side of resource usage optimisation.

Optimising for deadlines and effort costs is also a consideration, if we don't acknowledge and address that as part of the conversation, it'll be seen as gold-plating or "perfect is the enemy of good".

The actual answer is "because we've calculated the minimum amount we can get away with paying our workers and we don't want to pay them any more than that"

You could fairly easily build a single working gun analogue, it just wouldn't be even close to the guns of today.

Though the difficulty, would vary greatly depending on the components you have to hand in the time-period you landed

The mechanism of a shotgun or musket is relatively simple.

Granted , the black powder chemistry is a bit tricky and requires intermediate chemistry steps AFAIK.

If you needed to do metallurgy from scratch that would increase the estimation by a lot.

Yes but you wouldn’t actually need to make your clone very different for the copyright to be entirely different and then surely you wouldn’t get sued?

Are you confident enough to bet 6-12 months of dev time and resources(possibly lawyer consultation fees) on that assumption ? because up until recently that's what someone would need to do to find out.

It might be fine, but the threat of litigation is a part of the deterrent.

But also you can’t really copyright UI beyond the design itself, the functionality is free game as far as I understand.

As with all of these things, it's region specific.

However, game mechanic patents and copyrights exists and are litigated regularly.

In broad terms this is already covered.

If you made an exact clone of Photoshop by hand you'd get sued into oblivion, and that would be effective because of the barrier to entry ( in time and resources ) you'd need to get to that point.

Meaning you'd be betting all that upfront effort/resource on the/a major corporation either not caring, or not being able to mount a reasonable litigation strategy.

Not many actors would be willing to risk that.

The difference here is that the barrier is now much lower and it tangles up a whole bunch of other potential issues around the legality of vibe code.

Regardless of how it shakes out it will almost certainly be a set of rules that only really apply to the peasants.

"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”

No

oh yeah, it's full shenanigans from the get go.

I would definitely put it on a "should watch" list, i just don't think it's a good introduction to most people coming in to anime from a cold start.

FLCL.

And if movies also count "Grave Of the Fireflies".