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Piracy exists because it's easier than the alternative. Textbooks are expensive as hell and publishers are working to demolish the used book market - first by changing the version every year, and now with one-time-use mandatory software keys. Sites like Libgen wouldn't have to exist if textbooks were $20 a pop, or if the used book market was allowed to exist. These problems are created by greed.

$1/day is pretty cheap. I've been alive around 12k days. For less than the price of a car, I can erase my own existence. Sounds like a bargain to me!

That feeling's just gonna intensify over time, friend. The people who have time to post on the Internet are overwhelmingly 1) literal children and 2) college aged adults. It's not just here, it's the whole dang web.

This whole thing is absurd and overcomplicated - they could have just copied Unreal and slightly undercut them.

It isn't too complicated, but for example, a game which made $2 million in gross revenue would owe Epic Games $50,000, because it would pay 5 percent of $1 million, keeping the first million entirely—minus whatever other fees are owed, such as Steam's cut.

There should also absolutely have been a grandfather clause for games already released.

I get Unity needs to make money. They've never been profitable. But they've seriously overcomplicated the whole thing and gotten people angry at them.

Back at my old job (I haven't really worked in an office since, remote and all that) the newer building across the street had restrooms with stalls that closed all the way and went down to the floor, no gaps. And there were an absolute ton of stalls. (One of the issues I've had since gender transition is the continued need to use a stall but there are usually way less in the men's room, but the restrooms in that building had so many stalls, it was incredible.)

🤯 I frankly never thought of just asking. I figured they were under the gun to deliver so quickly that they wouldn't do that. This changes things. I may have to visit In-N-Out again.

Beat Saber, currently. Get me in that music zone and let me wave my arms around like an idiot.

I do appreciate the taste, but I wish they weren't so soggy. I would love them to be fried and crisped up a bit more.

I was really hoping for the Duo to succeed and be iterated upon. It fascinated me and seemed like it would be useful for taking notes at work, provided I ever RTO. Oh, well.

Two lost media from my childhood.

1. the lost "Saban Moon" pilot. Something talked about on Geocities pages back in my preteen years which was almost guaranteed never to be recovered, until someone dropped it on YouTube last year.

2. Pokemon Live. I desperately wanted to go to this, it was even playing in the next city over, and my parents said no, we'd buy the VHS advertised on the Pokemon website whenever it came out... Guess what never came out? I spent years scouring old websites for script fragments, saving screenshots and camcorder bootlegs, audio recordings... I would wager that, until six years ago, I had the most complete version of Pokemon Live out of anybody on the internet. And then someone dropped the full version, one of those saved for posterity full stage recordings, onto YouTube.

Both of these are abysmal, but it's not really about the destination so much as it is about the proof of having taken the journey.

Oh, if that's the case then it makes perfect sense why Wordpad is being deprecated, and I'm glad Microsoft is keeping things simple and sensible for average basic users. I've only ever used a corporate image for W11 so it didn't have those shortcuts.

Hey, it also has tabs on Windows 11, which is a very useful feature! It's the only thing I find myself missing when I move from my W11 work laptop back to my W10 home desktop.