The US is a founder. It would be hard to.

It’s just best to be the EU and extend membership.

I think that’s how sports should be digested. It’s impossible to keep track of every single game, much less, even attend those games. I think that’s a luxury for those who obviously can afford to do so.

The only time I’m involved with sports is when the playoffs happen, so I’m there for the World Series. But I’m not there for the full 162-game season. I’ll root for my team when they’re doing good in the standings, whether they’ve done some right moves and criticize them when they do something stupid or fail the season.

It’s more likely that before humanity got enough of its brain together to make it outlawed in majority of countries, we as a species, have probably fucked eachother in a family for years.

But just because that is plausible, doesn’t make it any more right to do.

I remembered being randomly gilded and you got to go into that special subreddit for gilded users. Same deal.

Not too far off from what actually happened to some people. Christ. The levels the authorities went to protect the pockets of all of those rich executives.

Fucking lightbulbs have wi-fi in them. Lightbulbs.

Light. Bulbs. What could one fucking need wi-fi for, in lightbulbs? I know because I stock this shit.

“If you put money in a vending machine and got two items instead of one, would you put additional money in for the second item?”

I’ve done this twice in a row. First off, it is not my problem how the person stocking the vending machine puts two pieces of product together to make it happen. I’m not in their shoes, it’s not my job, therefore not my problem. Anybody who pays twice is a fool in that situation.

I’m going to say - get over it.

This is not Reddit, where downvoting would actually prevent you from posting.

This is the Fediverse, where, you can keep going. Who gives a fuck?

The whinier you are about being downvoted, the more I think you deserve it. Just like anyone who I’ve come across who has amassed a lot of upvotes, turned out to be the biggest assholes I’ve come across.

Facebook is a data farmer. Unless you’ve made the request to have your account deleted in 30 days, it’s likely that your account is still there.

I had a moment of deja vu because I swear someone posted something very similar to this situation. Like some dude wanted to get back in touch with someone else because they were saved by them or something in early school. And they tried getting back in touch with them and when they did, that person deleted their account or seemingly blocked them.

Same thing applies here. Some people are just capable of walking away from things and they don’t think about it ever again. You need to be considerable with these types.

Also, you explained what they gone through and now have empty eyes? Well, what did you expect? That’s what happens when someone goes through a bunch of shitty situations.

We’re not in the 2000s where the RIAA/MPAA spent hour after hour, individually going after individuals whom they suspect is pirating.

They’ve changed up tactics all throughout the 2010s and into today. Where, they’re holding ISPs accountable and are targeting owners of services and pirating sites instead. They’ve actually got some victories under their belt through this, which is a damn shame, so it’s telling them that it is working. Not to mention we’ve had the misfortune of dealing with ACE, their little treehouse club and lots of copyright trolls that act as copycats who take it upon themselves to operate similarly as to how they did in the 2000s.

You have far greater risk being an owner, being the uploader and being the source of pirating than you are these days, just downloading it. Your ISP decides when they want to take action against whatever files you’ve downloaded.

As people have said, your best tools are with VPNs and figuring out which VPN has your back, most importantly. That’s what pirating has come down to and that is trust.

But blah blah, we get it, the feds will say copyright is a crime and blah blah. We got that decades ago, we just don’t care because consumer rights have been thoroughly fucked over which in turn, causes us to pirate. A lesson these idiots refuse to learn.

Because ever since 2016, the Great Societal Meltdown of the World (moreso America), everyone became armchair psychologists, scientists, researchers and therapists. Where, we just toss that bundle of word salad around, play label games and guesstimate who has what. There is no longer a thing such as ‘normal’ because everyone has to have something with them.

Quite frankly, we’ve gotten too fucking bored as a species.

And he was the last man too out of the three founders that helped make Sega.

Richard Stewart passed away in 2020 and Martin Bromley passed away in 2008.

Also very sad that he died on a holiday such as christmas.

I do shit on people who continue to buy this because it’s telling the companies that it is an acceptable practice for them to do.

…That you can do through emulation also.

What I’m not understanding, are the boot-lickers who’re praising the publishers for making these ROMs available on the market. Like, pirates are the ones who have been doing the archiving and preserving while video game companies kicked the can down the street for the longest time. And only recently are these compilations released, are some people going like “WOW! THEY ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT PRESERVING! IT MAKES MY DICK HARD NOW!”

Like dude? These ROMs have been available for a long ass time and they weren’t because of these video game companies you’re happily throwing money down to.

It can’t be helped. There are websites out there that function best on both platforms. I’ve tried Floorp and Librewolf when trying to use whatever the therapist tossed at me. Things just ended up not working out, because the sites simply can’t care about those browsers. Only Chrome works best. Firefox, they throw a fit about versions and stuff.

That’s out of my hands.

Windows 8 being released as it was, was the death knoll period for how things are treated based on what platform. It was obvious where the focus shifted. Since then, websites started being designed with mobile in mind, that barely worked. We’re having all of these dumb virtual services that work optimally - on phone. We have apps that would’ve been great to also have desktop only work on - you guessed it - phones.

Programs are now called Apps. I think troubleshooting on mobile is perhaps one of the most frustrating and hopeless experiences one can have. When something just breaks, it could very well be anything and your phone is faster to being obsolete than your desktop would.

Where the hell did we go wrong?

Why so you can embrace their level of surveillance? It’s why we didn’t want Huawei devices.

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