Thanks! Currently I don’t have time at all, but maybe I will remember this one day and come back to it.

I started my PC gaming experience with LEGO Universe, an MMO with a free to play section but most of the content was behind monthly passes. I could never convince my parents to buy me the passes, and they shut down the servers relatively soon after I started playing. But I have great memories of it and still yearn to explore those worlds behind the pay wall to this day.

Well yeah it may just be my perspective, I don’t know how easy it was in ye olde days, since I’m fairly new to pirating and never used a VPN for it (because it isn’t really needed in my country, not because I’m stupid)

The access hasn’t changed much, but I feel like the knowledge got easier to access for a non-pirates.

That’s how it is in Switzerland: you pay a small piracy tax on every storage medium, in return downloading films and series is legal (but not uploading, though I never got a problem with torrenting)

But this one is very likely really one of the reasons.

No, monocultures are bad, an environment always needs different plants to survive.

Because it is oriented between two rivers that are fairly parallel to the not-exactly-north-south roads

I don’t think the font size matters too much in this, it’s just the printing the whole source code, including a lot of not directly relevant things, and sending all of that over in a few boxes instead of sharing the project files with them that is very malicious.

wow