That’s me with Hollow Knight. I want to finish, but it’s frustrating to the point that I give up after 30 minutes with no progress.

Is this a joke? Are you here as some pro reddit propaganda machine?

No

Only the people who use it as such.

Because you touch yourself at night.

Both are definitely bad.

I think of them all the time.

I think of how they should disappear from the earth.

Doesn’t need to be real answers. Can just use combo nonsense like correcthorsebatterystaple or whatever.

But yeah, lots of other people are fucked.

Sad thing is, it likely reinforced the already strong indoctrination of a handful of those kids

I was only 4 years and 4 months old, I can barely remember anything of that time.

But when Columbia was en route to enter the atmosphere, I was outside on the front lawn watching, since it was re-entering over my area of Texas at a pretty favorable viewing angle.

I was so fucking happy to see such a momentous occasion…until it started breaking up. I knew something was wrong, but my brain couldn’t piece it together, until the ship started breaking apart into visibly distinct fireballs. It passed over the horizon, and I was stunned. I ran back into my friend’s living room, and continued watching the coverage, now very sombre.

It was 17 years and 4 days after Challenger. I was 21. That shit is burned into my memory. Especially since 9/11 was less than 18 months prior, which I also watched live.

Because the question ignores reality. I’m not going to bathe in hypotheticals.

So I’m going to ignore your question, since it’s pointless.

Want to make it not legal? Understand that it’s currently legal, and go from there.

It is legal, therefore that’s the hurdle we need to get over. If you don’t want it to be legal, fight to make it illegal, or don’t use/buy the product.

But people pre-order video games at record numbers despite everyone with a brain saying that they shouldn’t, so they’re SOL either way.

Trying to side-step copyright isn’t going to get you what you want. You’re fighting an uphill battle with fewer resources.

1. You are buying a license. That’s the legal action you are taking. Even when you buy a physical copy, that’s not ownership of the game. You can’t duplicate and sell the copies. You can’t duplicate and give them away. Both are copyright infringement.

Sure you can sell an older physical copy second hand, because there’s no one there to stop you, which is why companies have moved to largely digital: the communications infrastructure makes it easier (like you said). But also it allowed companies to keep a tighter hold on their property.

I agree that if they wish to end support for a game, it should have a countdown timer to then be in the “public domain” so to speak.

But that’s the uphill battle I spoke of, because you’d need to rewrite a precedent that currently allows for 90+ years of copyright.

And thus is the issue.

No, you don’t own the software in your car. The companies who disabled your car do, and by acquiring that car, you are subject to their whims. Because by signing that contract when buying that car, I bet you didn’t amend it to make you owner of that software.

Instead of continuing to maintain a car-centric culture with software that we don’t own or control, we could incorporate more walking and biking infrastructure, and better more reliable public transit options.

Don’t settle for one thing just because that’s what you know and has been in existence most of your life. Find and build better options.

1: You’ve never owned a video game in your life, unless you were the owner of the copyright, you possessed a licensed copy (including physical copies). That has to change before any other real concrete changes can occur.

2: Online video games are a totally different beast over single player games. Besides direct competition with themselves, there has to be a sustained effort to maintain those servers, while also staying beholden to the copyright holders.

• Look at Project 1999 EverQuest (a “classic” server for a 26+ year game). It almost never reaches 2000 concurrent players, and that requires permission from Daybreak to run as intended. The Hero’s Journey is a different EQ project that is in litigation with Daybreak right now. Project Quarm has been reticent about keeping its servers running during the THJ legal proceedings.

As much as we might want to keep games alive for posterity, we have to figure out a process for online games, and that seems like it’s gonna be a massive uphill battle.

Oh but they are, she did do something wrong (in their twisted minds): gender traitor

They aren’t being the men they were "born to be’.

Note how most anti-trans people couldn’t give two shits about women transitioning to men, it’s virtually always an issue of men transitioning to women. They are either doing it to get a competitive advantage in sports (an unimaginable minority, and even still, not a great track record), or “abandoning” masculinity.

• “Why would you cut off your dick just to do X, Y, Z?”
• Almost all of the vitriol towards gay rights was towards men (because hey, watching 2 girls kiss is sexy).
• The men who cover their face when shocked? Too “feminine”.
• The current manosphere with direct ties to the president.
• General hate, disdain, or control over women: “Your body, by choice. Forever.”

They hate women, and if you change from man to woman, you aren’t human in their eyes.

Dunno man, he and Elon are having quite the “will they, won’t they ruin America” moment right now. He’ll be solo for a bit.

He needs a place to be buried.

Nah, he cares about that holiday, not ones that celebrate minorities. So I’m guessing some time again this month in opposition to Pride, or Indigenous Peoples’ Day will have some bullshit. Even though Google already got rid of that from their calendars and kept Columbus.

It’s the gish gallop of news: do as much bullshit as possible so nothing can be effectively blocked or countered.

Proud of you!