It’s because parasites like this jackass are paying them to.

Also known as Cinco De Mayo! Perhaps some anejo is in order, señor Yoda.

Yeah, I get it and I share much of the sentiment, but I bet this guy uses Facebook. Everybody should have some level of paranoia, but it’s the rare individual that can beat them all. Me, I’m not on Facebook or any other non-anonymous social media, but I use Gmail. Almost everybody trades off a little somewhere.

“that boner” or “that ‘boner’”?

Not a cent of it was my money.

Do you exit it with escape colon q bang?

I mean, this all sounds like shit, yes. But sometimes things are only a little bit shit and yet the answer is still “redesign the approach” (ie: start over).

Hexbear is… I’m just old I guess, I don’t understand. My instance is not defederated from them. Whenever I’m reading a post that originates from hexbear, I can always tell. Like it will just hit me and I will look at the source and yep, it’s hexbear.

But I don’t exactly understand why. I can’t see that they have any particular worldview, they just have a unique (and contrarian) way of expressing… all worldviews, seemingly. It feels like an inside joke that I don’t have enough information about to understand.

Doesn’t seem like bots, Russian or otherwise. Too vague. Not enough of a directed agenda. Is it just trolls? They seem to earnest to be trolls.

Nobody:

Russia: Imma turn every government in the world fascist!

What could go wrong?

No matter how much we loved XP we always knew that shit was ugly.

“The answer was The Downward Spiral… Nine Inch Nails’ second album”

I like how Broken, despite having 7 tracks to PHM’s 8 tracks, is referred to as an “EP” and not their second album. Not to mention Fixed exists. TDS is their third album, fite me.

Edit: since I’m on the subject, here are some little kids performing Wish.

C’mon guys. Escape, colon q bang. It practically exits itself.

Every Bethesda game since Skyrim (and arguably Skyrim, depending on who you talk to) has followed the exact same script: exponentially longer development time to shart out marginal graphics improvements, dumbed-down mechanics and vastly less engaging storytelling.

Up until Starfield I had managed to enjoy all of them for what they were (with modders’ help of course). But Starfield is so aggressively dull I had a free 30-day trial of Microsoft GPU and could only manage maybe a week of playing it on the cloud before I was literally too bored to bother.

Given Bethesda’s trajectory, I have to agree with you. ES6 is going to be pure shit.

Wow, you even corrected the fonts. Splendid work!

Now they just need a Factory to create more Factories and they…

I apologize, this is Factorio, not Java.

I have one of each. I guess I’m Chaotic Evil.

which I explained in the part of my comment you left out.

Pardon me. Here is the part you left out:

It cheapens the endeavor

You’ll forgive me if I can’t seem to scrape enough detail about your argument out of that.

Piracy fully supports the endeavor of archiving. The motivations of pirates has nothing at all to do with it. Archiving springs from piracy, it is a consequence of piracy. And the corporations you are de-facto acting as defense counsel for here have proven over and over again it means less than nothing to them.

But I’m making assumptions about your argument, because apparently you think “cheapens the endeavor” is a real mic drop.

If you’re downloading stuff because you want to play for free - which can be because of a lack of access (financial or otherwise) or a myriad of other reasons (perhaps it’s a milestone work but you don’t want to support a piece of shit dev) - then just be honest.

Why?

Can you put tobacco in it? Then you will be lying!

I feel attacked.