It is exactly how when companies make the most cutting edge software or develop a platform that gets white-hot. It’s about building portfolio and padding it.

They pour into the hard work to make whatever they make the best of its kind. Then when so many people are using it and the value grows, once a company sees its peak value, then it is time to sell.

We’ve seen this happen many times. Skype to Microsoft. Twitter to Musk. Deals that are worth billions and are making the original creators set for life.

Firefox Fanboys; “LEST IT NOT CHROME!!” they’ll cry.

Yes I will always take any and all jabs at Firefox fanboys over issues with Firefox because they’ve drank the kool-aid.

LibreWolf and Floorp is better.

ProtonVPN. It gives you a killswitch and it’s cheap to get.

Problem, you’re using Mullvad

And by ‘Decently slim’ they mean, looks no different than any phone designed similarly.

We really should have and we have had a good track record in doing so.

SOPA, PIPA targeting online piracy have not passed in the US because of the fighting efforts.

We shouldn’t be content just because we use a VPN. Companies are getting smarter about handling VPNs by putting pressure on the companies themselves.

Personally I find it boring to watch streamers talk and play games. Plus they go on like two or three movie lengths of time per stream. It’s never been my form of entertainment. I only have watched Let’s Plays on YouTube, mainly because the time is more constrained per video where it doesn’t make me feel like I have to watch some 7 hour stream that makes me have to make all the time for it.

I remember once of trying to view a video that was 6 hours long, it took me over a month to finish it from beginning to end. Simply because there’s other things I’d like to see and do during that entire timeframe. I’m not going to make a schedule just to watch some uninspiring dude attempt to be entertaining. Plus the whole game streaming scene has brought about its own level of controversies and drama.

I believe the downvotes are coming from the fact that you just do not curate your content. Don’t expect yourself to try and watch everything and play everything with the end result of enjoyment. I find it hard to be convinced that there isn’t anything out there for you to enjoy that can be provided from top-level companies of any kind.

It’s what always bothered me anyways whenever I hear that people say “oh there’s nothing to listen to anymore, all music sucks” only to find out that the only thing they listen to is the radio. Of course FM radio is not going to play music you’d like to hear, that’s not what they’re designed to do. Get yourself Sirius XM or something to explore music, whatever it takes, just stop relying on FM Radio.

So no, I’m not gonna buy it that there is absolutely and truly nothing out there for you to enjoy that is provided from levels of entertainment. People just have a curating issue and are expectant of certain companies to spoon-feed them what they want. It takes effort.

Still holds the record of the most games that have been physically produced for it.

With the music industry, it’s two-ways.

The first is getting the artist recognition. Indie bands had took up BitTorrent by torrenting their material for people to download, check out and possibly support.

Othertimes, it was a way to sample other music sources so people can then decide to support and even go to concerts of said band.

You’re right, that was my understanding too.

Why pay $15 a ticket just for that shit?

Does it, really?

When I last knew, people pirated movies because the shit being shoveled out wasn’t worth paying the expensive ticket prices for. It was also a way to see something first before anyone else did before release time.

I mean, it won’t convince the MPAA any either case, but that was my belief since the 2000s of online piracy. The try-before-buy method was more true for games, books and software. But usually when it came to music and movies, people pirated for keepsies.

Yeah and that’s a jointly created protag too, because Square Enix helped make him.

Prefacing with: Yes yes yes, we know, you hate AI

“URH SO WE DU IT ANYWAYHS! HURHURHURHURUURHURUHRH”

Fuck you, iFixit.

OP, if people have to do the work for you in posting sources, consider this a learning lesson as to what not to do.

Firefox Fanboys still: LEST IT NOT CHROME!

Best Buy is trying to make it a trend for retailers to stop selling physical media, with Target only selling them online. A lot of tech companies now have basically exited from optical media, with fewer weighing their options.

Physical media still has a place but it’s on slow-burn right now, where we’re seeing major players dropping out from bothering with them, so in the oncoming years, we’re going to have to rely on grabbing them out in the wild or hope third party manufacturers keep it alive.

You’re having a conversation in ChatGPT and all of a sudden you’re being bombarded with questions like how swell it’d be to buy something from Amazon or play this shitty-ass app game with MTX.

What a timeline…

The attention has gravitated away from torrenting to streaming. Where, the anti-piracy outfits are more concerned sniping down streaming services. It was almost like they completely forgot torrenting was a thing. But, they have also taken down some big names too during the heydays of torrenting.

What a megalomaniac.

Yeah he’s inspired by a system which country banned it and yet he still wants it?

New account Neg Rep Senseless Post Argumentative/Downplaying responses.

Yep this guy has a bone to pick here. It all adds up.