I recall watching a singer saying something like the following during an interview “If art and culture are so worthless, return all the time you spent watching movies and series, return all the time you spent listening to music, all the poems and lyrics you sang with friends or to loved ones. I won’t ask you to return the stories you read because it’s clear you don’t read.”

There’s also not a word from muskrat denouncing her being censored and fired, which is hipocritical, to say the least, from a “free speech absolutist”

Another important part of alt right bullshit is that they blame people that viewers can easily identify on the streets. Crime? It’s the immigrants and blacks! Shit economy? Jews and the deep state!

So, I guess the only way to fight climate change is by accusing every petrol CEO of being a deep state Jew gay communist

Anticheat became a necessity because too many games decided to remove the ability for players to host their own servers. This sucks a lot when people get some games that have SP/MP but never really bother with the MP part

There’s also the problem that most anticheat software will only stop the laziest cheaters, usually the ones that aren’t willing to pay for the cheating software. There are a bunch of cheat-focused forums and creating the software can be profitable.

start interactions by saying “We’re tourists from Germany…”

Right now, I guess 1/4 the people they interact with in USA might give the fash salute in joy or something

Heavy exercise will increase your breathing speed, so that’s still the better option.

Even with the taxman trailing you, it sounds pretty easy to get enough money to become part of the tax-immune caste

Lap mutt

That’s a huge violin. Or a very tiny micro gnome

Ah, the Amiga, the best computer you could get in '86, but didn’t know about because their marketing was shit

Nazi - “You’re being intolerant to my free speech”

You don’t deserve it. You don’t respect fairness, expect none back.

CRT? What’s wrong with cathode ray tubes?

I can watch two of those per workday, on my bus commute to/from work. Usually end up watching history documentaries instead (currently going through a 6 hours one detailing the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, gonna be an interesting week)

Probably for the better, though the general spacesuits as armor theme doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense either.

I really wish one of the devs would come out and talk why they a-ok’d the RNG to be a single pass with nothing between POIs - also generated without a single thought about anything since, to me, that’s the third biggest letdown of the game (the first is the universe/setting, the second is the main story, )

it’s just factually incorrect that “The PC is dead”

I think the author’s point on this wasn’t so much that “nobody uses PC anymore”, but rather the concept of a Personal Computer, which you fully owned. There’s also the irony of the first Apple computers being personal computers you could open, fix and modify. Software is where few people feel like they own their computers. Free software being sold to shady companies isn’t new, even FOSS projects have been bought. That’s the main problem the author wants to point out, which is essentially the same as Cory Doctorow’s piece on enshitification.

The author also left this:

I’ve shown this editorial to friends, and some people felt that I did not emphasize the benefits of current technology enough. But I argue that my criticism is less about the actual technology and more about how we use it—and how companies make money from it.

To me, mostly convenience. I do that with anime and, if the show doesn’t grab my attention by halfway of the first episode, I won’t feel like I wasted extra time waiting for the full episode to be downloaded only to decide that nah, not worth it.

The very first thing that would die is truth. There is no way to solve that without “censoring” or limiting speech.

Here are some problems that would just rocket their way into everyone’s lives

• Impersonation, made much easier online
• Scams and frauds would no longer be crimes
• Unregulated advertising, effectively the same problem as above (this health supplement will cure cancer and make your dick grow!!!)
• Defamation and general reputation killing would happen every 5 seconds
• Some assholes leaving porn playing on public streets and in front of schools, 24/7, because lulz
• Same as above, but with disgusting shit like 2girls1cup, goatse and similars

Only on PVP focused games

Pretty sure youtube still runs on deficit. Storage costs alone would probably bankrupt some small countries.

Same applies to coffin companies. Not a single user came back to complain.

That’s the neat part, you don’t

If not for clocks and all that industrial-corporate time management shit, people in the hotter parts of the world would probably be starting work ~5am, stopping around 12-15 (hottest time of the day) for lunch + a nap, then returning to their stuff and probably going to sleep at 23