“I used to be FAT12, but i ex-ercised.”

The authoritarian left and the liberal left have so little in common that it’s frustrating the term “left” encompasses both.

Yeah good ones allegedly last 200 years if stored correctly. Cheap ones are 5-10. 20 can be expected for quality CDs stored correctly.

But no matter the claimed quality, it’s a gamble. Our local library had a lot of 10-20 year old CDs that had developed microbubbles.

5 years is low range for CDs, but common enough that you should be taking backups for anything you keep longer.

True, with some modifications:

Some games had online activation built in. Some games would simply not install on a second or third machine without getting permission from the publisher.

Regular CDs have a lifespan of 5-10 years, shorter if not stored ideally. Almost all games had sophisticated mechanisms to prevent backups being taken.

Even if you could take a backup, record associations and publishers lobbied to make it illegal and punishable by severe fines in many countries.

Sony shipped fucking root kits on their CD that would hijack your PC and screw with backup software. EA shipped CDs with autoexexuting software that would actually delete CloneCD and other CD copying software and prevent new installes from working. My copy of Sims 2 came with that bullshit and OH MAN I was not happy about it.

I am legal representation for RIAA. You are whistling copyrighted work without permission in a public space. We are demanding 34M USD in damages.

There are other, more introspective, ways to react to widespread and ongoing negative reception.

Norwegian here. Blame entirely justified. Our greenwashing is gross and dishonest.

Yessss, that was an embarrassing omission in my list.

My bank: “We have a new valuation on your home! Open your app to see it!”

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“It’s down 2%!”

Fair! But why “Pirates!” but not Civilization? Formally, they are all named with the prefix.

• Satisfactory
• Starcraft / 2
• Slay the Spire
• Saints Row
• Sam & Max (tons)
• Serious Sam
• Scribblenauts
• Shadowrun
• Shadow Warrior
• Shapez / 2
• Shovel Knight
• Skyrim
• Soma
• Slay the Princess
• Space Engineers
• Spelunky
• Sid Meyer’s Everything
• Stanley Parable, the
• Stardew Valley
• Stronghold Crusaders
• Subnautica
• Sunless Sea
• Sonic (all)
• Super Mario (everything)
• Superhot
• Super Meatboy
• Surviving Mars

Windows 11, got a crash to desktop right when the pod landed.

Updated graphics driver and tried a second time, and it went fine.

Not sure if the crash was pure random, or whether the driver update helped.

DragonBox have been excellent. Been a few years and ownership changes since I looked at their games, so hopefully they haven’t enshittened.

Thanks for answering! I was afraid it would be taken as sarcasm but I genuinely wanted to know.

If you were to give an estimate: How many of the people fundamentally disagreeing with you online are rational and honest people, and how many are US federal agents or in their employ? Percentage-wise.

Skyrim is ported to RealityV3. It is still buggy. Hackers have successfully run Doom on a hydrogen atom. Gamers are shitting and yelling that someone put a Martian as a playable character in Red Dead Redemption MCMVII.

It’s like a strawman made from artificial grass.

It’s a shit voting system. But the election is happening. How to effect a mass general strike large enough to change the voting system and introduce a new candidate with a chance of winning within two months?

Because that is needed in order to safely tell people not to vote.

In real, actionable, practical terms: What is the alternative you propose people choose, that will reduce the likelyhood of a fascist government right now at this election?

That is a valid question in isolation, but bringing it up in discussions on where to vote is not leading to discussions or actionable improvements. It only functions to push voter disenfrachisement.

Not saying it’s your intention, but it is your effect.

Voting least bad is important. Don’t discourage it.

Working for better voting options is also important. Do push for that too, but find a constructive setting for it.