You going to personally fund these guys before they’re able to sell something like?

You don’t have to be signed into Instagram at least to view things someone has shared with you. It’ll nag every now and then but it doesn’t stop you.

I’m not arguing about the games that have phone home mechanics, through personal experience there don’t seem to be too many of them out there, they’re mostly multiplayer ones (I’m not saying there are no single player games that do that though - but they very much seen few and far between, i can’t even think of one off of the top of my head). And there is a difference between having the disc over the download because if i was to uninstall it for space, there is always a chance that during that time my license gets revoked, my account closed, hacked, or just forgotten the password for whatever reason. With a disc, it’s always there as long as i always know where it is and i don’t break it. Sony aren’t ever going to kick down my door and demand the disc back

Sadly this is what I think eventually broke up my last relationship. My ex was very much that, I wanted to show I could do things on my own accord but I never got the chance to actually do so and my brain in all of its fucked up ways refused to do all of that stuff less after being told to do so because it’s further perpetuating that i can’t do it without being told to first. And further down that spiral i went, deeper and deeper.

The ‘Yee’ dinosaurs and the ‘my longest yeeboi’ kid are my two favourites. I still say yee in the same way most times when I’m to say yeah haha

I’ve already conceded that there are outliers but cod and it’s example you used is not the norm. There are no servers needed for me to continue playing Astro Bot in 20 years time.

I had to stop with the pixels after the 3. The 3 was already my upper limit on size and i wanted a slightly smaller phone. Sadly at the time i upgraded their was only bigger phones and then the jelly star which is tiny. I got the jelly star and it lasted me a good few years before the battery fully crapped out on me, but i would still prefer a phone in-between those two sizes.

Oof a cutout on such a small phone is awful. Just give it a little forehead (and chin) then it can also fit in an even bigger battery

I’m sad they didn’t keep the retro razr design language from the second generation onwards and instead just copied samsungs design language and tweaked it. I really liked how the original had a chin that slid the display under slightly when folding so the fold didn’t have to be as drastic and crease inducing

I loved my jelly star (it’s battery died this year). I would still like something like 1.5x the size of the jelly star. The jelly max kinda disappointed me with somehow removing features from the smaller phone whilst somehow still being as chonky.

But this started with me saying that keeping physical media around is better for the here and now because the utopia of digital licenses you’re proposong is not fully here yet and physical media is still one of if not the best way to still actually own something.

Yes I understand that there are some exceptions with some games being online only etc. but even the physical discs (or carts) that only hold a licence are still a valid form of ownership because the physical license that the physical format itself provides can be transferred to another party, like borrowing or gifting it to a friend, or selling it.

At the moment there is no standard for such transfers with digital content unless the files are fully DRM-free which sadly is still not the norm yet and still in a legal grey area if giving such files to another party. And the current situation we live in right now physical media IS the only way for such a thing to exist for consoles due to the walled garden nature of their digital storefronts.

I agree that just having the files to keep, unencrypted and without DRM, is the best solution for an end goal for consumers, along with hopefully other laws that protect and allow the owner to transfer ownership to another. But perfect is the enemy of good, and right now that future doesn’t feel possible in the short term especially for consoles as they are currently. So it would be best for all if physical still stuck around until the future of digital that the consumer actually wants is a reality and is the industry standard and norm, whether by the corpos falling in line from consumer pressure or via regulation.

People use the term cuck as an insult to insinuate that they have no power in their relationship and their partner forces them to watch them fuck someone else.

It may not be the actual definition, but that’s the definition the masses have given it. Language changes and words and phrases can even have multiple valid definitions. A famous one would be cunt, in which the usage of the word greatly changes it’s definition.

I think actual Italians wouldn’t mind that much. Have you seen the original pizzas? They’re mostly fruit.

Both are valid. One might be more likely to feel more natural to say depending on where that person is from or how they were taught, that’s it.

How does the value of equipment nowadays make it not age well? They were still worth a lot during the time the film is set.

Stealing VCRs are a gateway drug to becoming an enemy to multiple countries and driving in space.

I did answer, the difference is GOG don’t sell games for consoles, so GOG alone are not the solution.

GOG don’t sell games on consoles?

Yeah i had started to move over, set up an email account, started to sign up to things through that instead of my existing account, but now I’ve mostly given up sadly. Better the devil i know for the time being when the cost of time to switch everything over is a lot, ideally I’d want to do it only once. What other alternatives do we have other than selfhosting? As I’d rather not selfhost my own mail server.

I never know where to look for such stuff outside of Airbnb so I’ll save this comment and keep in my back pocket for such a time in the future, thanks!