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A broken McDonald's McFlurry machine, arguably one of life's greatest nuisances, has finally been solved thanks to a court ruling.

McDonald's franchises haven't been able to fix the soft serve ice cream machines on their own because manufacturing company Taylor owns the copyright and exclusive rights to fix the machines — until now.

The United States Copyright Office granted a copyright exemption last week that gives restaurants the "right to repair" the machines by bypassing the digital locks that prevented them from being fixed. The inability to make timely fixes has been a bane of the customers' existence, so much so, that there's a third-party website called McBroken.com that tracks their availability.

The exemption, which goes into effect Monday, was requested by advocacy group Public Knowledge and repairs website iFixIt to allow third parties to circumvent digital locks on the machines for repairs. Although the full request wasn't granted, commercial restaurant equipment received a narrow exemption.

Public Knowledge and iFixIt teamed together on the issue after the latter group broke apart an ice cream machine and found "lots of easily replaceable parts."

The decision will lead to an "overdue shake-up of the commercial food prep industry," according to Meredith Rose, senior policy counsel at Public Knowledge.

"There's nothing vanilla about this victory; an exemption for retail-level commercial food preparation equipment will spark a flurry of third-party repair activity and enable businesses to better serve their customers," Rose said in a statement.

McDonald's and Taylor didn't immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.

Broken ice cream machines have been such a blemish on McDonald's reputation that even competitors mock them for it. And perhaps a fix can't come quick enough: Nearly 15% of ice cream machines are broken as of Monday, according to McBroken.

!goyslopenjoyers

Today's topic Halloween: What are your plans, what are you gonna go as? Rotting in your room ain't healthy Chuddy! !incels

In new documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, a Norwegian couple talks about the rich experiences their disabled son had online in the World of Warcraft game – without their knowledge.

When Mats Steen died at the age of 25 in 2014 from a degenerative muscular disease, his parents, Robert and Trude Steen, were surprised to be contacted at their home in Norway by people from all over Europe, mourning his loss. The Steens knew that their son was an avid g*mer, but they'd not grasped that for nearly a decade, he had had another virtual life in the game World of Warcraft. The story of Mats, and his avatar Ibelin, is now being told in a documentary, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin.

"I leave this world, and I spend most of my time in a distant world called Azeroth," begins Mats Steen in the film, his words spoken by an actor, introducing the audience to the virtual landscape familiar to players of World of Warcraft. "In there," he continues, "my chains are broken, and I can be whoever I want to be."

To discover that their son, who had Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and used a wheelchair for much of his life, experienced much of what other young people his age did – socialising, friendship, love – was a revelation to his parents. "He was born more than 35 years ago now, we lived under the same roof as him for 25 years, four months and 15 days," Robert Steen tells the BBC. "Then he died having suffered quite severely from the disease that he was born with. And we believed that he lived a lonely and isolated life, without experiencing love or being important or making a difference in the lives of other people, because that is all we saw. The day after his passing, we inserted a small post into his blog saying he'd passed away, as we thought we ought to, since he spent so much time in the gaming world. That's when emails started to come in telling of [people's] strong relationships with Mats. And that was the turning point of our own life. His death was also the beginning of the story, because in the 10 years since he's passed, we've learned so much about his life."

Mats Steen's double life was first explored in 2019 by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK and then in a BBC News article, which inspired Norwegian film-maker Benjamin Ree to tell the story as a documentary. "I think his story asks some questions that are really relevant today," he says. "Is it possible to become friends with someone you've never met? Is it possible to experience love with somebody you've never met? And how close a friendship can you have with someone you've never spoken to, just written to? And at the same time, I think it says something about the generational gap, about my generation's fascination for gaming – I'm 35 years old – and being in a virtual world. Mats really came of age within that game. Also, both Mats's friends and family have told me that towards the end of his life, he really wanted to have mattered. He seemed to have lived such a short life, but he wanted to be remembered."

Ree crafted the documentary using VHS footage of the Steen family, as well as using an actor to recite parts of Steen's blog, titled Musings of Life, which was published shortly before his death in 2014. While some of his friends from World of Warcraft are interviewed, Ibelin and other avatars from the game are animated. Steen had also interacted in the game by text, not by voice, and all his communication had been stored while he was gaming. His online community (known as a "guild" within World of Warcraft), called Starlight, helped make around 42,000 pages of discussion and directions available to Ree, so that he could piece together Steen's inner life as Ibelin. Ree describes it as "like a film script that's 42,000 pages long, which really tells the story of an actual lived avatar life during those eight years".

"All of Ibelin's feelings and actions were in that archive," he says. "So, if Mats wrote, 'Ibelin seems sincere yet saddened,' we knew exactly where and when that happened, and in the film, we try to interpret the complexity of the writing and the emotion into actual animation."

Just how possible is it for an online avatar to represent a real person? Mats Steen named his alter ego after Orlando Bloom's character Balian of Ibelin in Ridley Scott's 2005 historical epic Kingdom of Heaven. In the game, Ibelin is tall, muscular and blond, and runs through Azeroth for 30 minutes each day. He introduces himself in the documentary as "Ibelin Redmoore, famed detective and nobleman, who finds friends and fights evil wherever he goes", and Steen describes the character as "an expansion of myself, of different parts of me".

A generational divide

Ibelin Redmoore may sound like an idealised superhero, perhaps because he was created by a 17-year-old, but Steen's parents received messages from other players saying that he "would always lighten the mood" in the game. Another tribute read, "He was there for me, and I could also talk to him about the stupid things." The film meets Xenia from Denmark and her son Mikkel, who play online as their avatars Reike and Nikmik, and she says that Steen's mature advice was essential in helping them improve their mother-son relationship.

Another friend, Lisette from the Netherlands, recounts how the teenage Steen wrote a letter to her parents when they took her computer away from her as her grades were suffering, asking them to find a different solution, because she was depressed. "I think she's a great person and I consider her one of my closest friends," he had written.

"He was an incurable romantic and always had success with women," another friend of Ibelin's wrote to the Steens. And it was Lisette, in the form of her avatar Rumour, who seems to have been the great love of Steen's life: the two met in the game when they were around the same age as teenagers. In the documentary, Ibelin encounters a "dark-haired, mysterious beauty" who steals his hat. Later, they exchange a kiss on the cheek. "It was just a virtual kiss, but boy could I feel it," Steen says about the meeting.

DMD teens mogging rdramacels, depicted.

"It's a good thing I'm in this wheelchair or I'd be out giving my mother a heart attack," Mats Steen writes.

Indeed, what makes the story so compelling and well-received (it won both the directing and the audience awards at the Sundance Film Festival, often a harbinger of an Oscar nomination) is the character of Mats Steen that Ibelin helps reveal – his strength, his humour, and occasionally his melancholy. "In this other world, a girl wouldn't see my wheelchair or anything different, they would get my heart, soul and mind conveniently placed in a handsome strong body," Steen says about life in Azeroth. "At high school there were parties, attractive girls, so many things a boy of 17 years old desired, but they were all just dreams, things beyond my reach. Dreams are nice, though, in this way. You can always visit again."

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin is streaming on Netflix

A man was arrested after his mother was found dead in her home in Reykjavík yesterday. The incident is being investigated as a murder, which would mark Iceland's eighth homicide this year. A criminologist has noted that this spike in homicides is unprecedented.

"It is unique in Icelandic history to have eight people murdered in the same year,"

"But what we are seeing this year, and in recent years overall, is more than just population growth. It suggests something is happening in Icelandic society that is fueling such severe violence."

According to Margrét, research shows that social inequality, for example, often fuels increased violence.

Ah yes. Social inequality!

An influential global advocacy group for LGBTQ rights has suspended an Israeli member organization as part of a larger move to boycott Israel, angering queer Jews and their allies around the world.

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, known as ILGA World, announced Wednesday that it was no longer considering Tel Aviv as a potential site for an upcoming conference to be held in 2026 or 2027. The 46-year-old organization, which has a presence in more than 150 countries, added that it was suspending membership for The Aguda, the umbrella organization for Israel's LGBTQ community, which had proposed the site.

Happy #Halloween pic.twitter.com/uBGsEQDYOx

— Stonetoss Comics (@stone_toss) October 31, 2024

President Trump expertly TROLLS Democrats after getting picked up by a Garbage Truck in Green Bay:

"How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden."

DJT is a national treasure. 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/V2se9eOT7u

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 30, 2024

0-10 on trumps normal guy saga?

What do people think? Generic slop? Well-crafted gorefest? I've seen the first one and am half way through the second.

@KatserKitty1987 (RIP) said in an old thread:

The first one was overly long and exceedingly tiring. The sets were all lit like a play and the gore is a level or extreme to where it wraps around to not being distributing. It's a shame as the killer is actually pretty cool and interesting it's just that nothing else is.

I think the clown is cool, I like his mischievous smile. The women he kills are always pretty 1D and I'm sad when I see their boobs because I want to see them but not covered in blood while they're screaming.

Police arrested an 18-year-old wielding a machete with an 18-inch blade outside a polling station in Florida on Tuesday, who was part of a group of teenagers accused of intimidating Democratic supporters.

There can be only one!

"Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight."

https://9gag.com/gag/a0eRO3X#comment

https://www.pcmrace.com/2024/10/28/dragon-age-the-veilguard-review-pc/

This is why he was banned. He made it a CON that they focused so hard gender on identiy (You can make your character non-binary or trans THIS IS TRUE ONG ) ResetEra stans devolve into seething about 'nazi' game reviewers.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-review-thread.1020987/page-9#post-130774476

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-review-thread.1676719/post-269735487

This CHUD starts gloating in Neogaf ( ) for being banned.

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/dragon-age-the-veilguard-review-thread.1676719/post-269735777

!chuds banned the transphobia

A woman pepper sprayed her muslim uber driver for praying pic.twitter.com/3zE3Ta9DMr

— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) October 30, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Wednesday allowed Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting.

The high court, over the dissents of the three liberal justices, granted an emergency appeal from Virginia's Republican administration led by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. The court provided no rationale for its action, which is typical in emergency appeals.

The justices acted on Virginia's appeal after a federal judge found that the state illegally purged more than 1,600 voter registrations in the past two months. A federal appeals court had previously allowed the judge's order to remain in effect.