The Musings Of The Consensus

For those not aware, the Dynasty Warriors series is when someone takes the classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms story mixed with real Chinese history and turns it into a hack and slash game. Dynasty Warriors 9 then changed it up to being an open world game. DW9, however, released in an ugly, incomplete state and has been critically panned for the longest time for having a huge world that was quite empty, bad balance, broken AI, and other flaws, and I'll be the last one to say it doesn't have flaws, it sure does, and they are severe, though since release it has been patched quite a bit and many of it's worst aspects have gotten fixed, though if you really want things fixed, you'll have to buy the DLC that declones characters. Not exactly great on the last item, a step back from DW8XL which did this by default, but at least they toss in other cool things like interesting what if stories, some of which have some amazing story writing. But before I get into that, l...

Recently, I posted on the Kiwi Farms about how there is a difference between the legal and moral and when you cross lines from opinion and facts you can prove, which are protected speech, and when you cross the line into libel. I'd like to elaborate further because I feel the distinctions are those many, on that site and elsewhere, need further elaboration because the finer details are often lost and thus many foolish assumptions are made. For example, let's say I call someone a scammer. Under US law, if I can point to evidence for my claims and/or assert this is an opinion (and I make clear I do not assert it as legally provable fact), then I have not committed an act of slander (if spoken) or libel (if written). However, things get hazier when we add morals to the picture, how the law sees things, and how fact and opinion on a topic can be one or the other without necessarily being both, For instance, someone is accused of being a pedophile for looking at drawn imag...