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JustHereForTheSalmon 4 points ago +4 / -0

Pirat_Nation (like him or not) raised a point recently about how the casual piracy culture of the Napster/Limewire eras have turned into feverish corporate dick-sucking.

If anything, modern concepts of "you don't own it software as a service" already make the case that piracy IS the moral and ethical option.

I don't think anti-piracy messaging has been that effective (certainly not more than anti-drug messaging), so I do think there's a connection between the modern day virtues of obedience and boot-licking, particularly by NPCs, and slop like you describe.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 14 points ago +17 / -3

The game carts are empty, except for a game key. All games are now download only, with a fancy DRM version of code-on-card.

It wouldn't be surprising to me if the codes then get locked to the console and used games will now be a thing of the past.

Nintendo was the one to break the download-only cease-fire in the console space. Never let the fanboys forget this one.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 1 point ago +4 / -3

Same happened to me when they stole Bayonetta

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JustHereForTheSalmon 4 points ago +4 / -0

Kid sounds pretty successful. Don't know why he wants to fuck it up by going to Harvard.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 7 points ago +7 / -0

Since games are now not even feature complete on release, you can't buy anything from anyone you don't actually trust because they can troon out on a dime.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 6 points ago +6 / -0

It just took so freaking long.

Menu -> flip -> flip -> boots -> WAIT -> move -> menu -> flip -> flip -> boots -> WAIT -> move -> menu -> flip -> flip -> boots -> WAIT -> move -> hit water level gem -> WAIT

The challenge was actually sitting through playing it instead of figuring something difficult out

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JustHereForTheSalmon 16 points ago +16 / -0

Supreme Court has been a joke since Wickard v Filburn. Maybe even longer than that but I'm already angry enough.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 8 points ago +8 / -0

I've unfortunately worked in enough places to know you gotta hire like 3 or 4 jeets to replace someone who actually knows their shit. It's truly pathetic.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 1 point ago +1 / -0

I never ran into a Gauntlet cabinet in the wild that wasn't cranked to truly unfair maximum difficulty.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 8 points ago +8 / -0

The surplus was 100% smoke and mirrors. Plastic banana stuff, as Rush Limbaugh (rest in peace) would have said.

It was created on paper by categorizing a bunch of our debt obligations as "unfunded liabilities". Suddenly, when you don't account for ever having to pay stuff off, yowza, you're rich!

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JustHereForTheSalmon 9 points ago +9 / -0

Boomers have been taught that the best thing would be to die at the moment they've spent and enjoyed every dime on their own hedonistic pursuits with nothing left over for their progeny.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 2 points ago +2 / -0

We talk about the left eating their own, but they take breaks in their purity test spirals to unify on voting and exercising power.

Only the right is so gung-ho about suicide-pact principles that we split and fracture when it counts.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 6 points ago +6 / -0

"Look guys, I'm very much not gay! You gotta believe me!"

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JustHereForTheSalmon 5 points ago +5 / -0

What are you saying? That I can look up their Early Life?

No, Neo. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 29 points ago +29 / -0

Yes, you can ask for a speedy trial. But then you have practically no time to work on your defense.

Government has unlimited resources and literally everything ready for use in prosecution from the word go. Defense might have to do discovery, collect depositions, and file motions to try to unfuck you.

So, yes, they "opted" to sit in jail in the same way that handing over your wallet in the face of a gun pointed at your face is "opting" to give a friendly gift to your assailant.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 12 points ago +12 / -0

The number they put on their taxes to avoid paying that fair share they instead claim the rich don't pay. Not actually people being taken care of.

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JustHereForTheSalmon 32 points ago +32 / -0

War brides and rape slaves are a kind of coordination, I guess.

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