I’d throw Spicetify into the ring for desktop. The dev team is always pretty quick to fix breakages and post info on their Discord. Between themes and plugins (including adblock) I can’t recommend it enough.

Clearly you aren’t a real fan…

Only fatal? Jog it off, you’ll be fine!

AI has evolved to know piracy is the answer.

And taking that a step further, I believe it was Blackberry that was proliferating the free text messages thing at the time (so long as it was to another Blackberry) so that could even have led to not enough market room for third-parties like WhatsApp and Kik to dominate the way they did.

One way to find out…

And often acts like a bunch of 3-year-olds.

Check your local council estate.

I have the exact same history with that site and its… creativity when adding stuff to my household download history that I know for a fact no-one in my household would be downloading. Safe to say it’s extremely unreliable.

What can I say, I’m a man of culture.

There’s a good girl. We don’t have time for censorship around these parts.

Also, is that a buttplug I see? You like having your ass played with too?

Post uncensored, coward

They stand to lose a lot more business if they bend the knee. What person is going to use a hamstringed VPN? It almost completely misses the point of having one.

Not to mention determine which watch list you’d get put on.

True but I dare say it was quickly followed with an “or else”. We do know about Nintendo’s mafia, after all so only offering the nice hand feels very off.

Nintendo decided it was. Nothing else, to my knowledge.

Well yeah, I don’t respect copyright law at all, but with HL, I genuinely liked the product and only bought after reviews and because I wanted it to be seen as a success so a sequel could get greenlit. I voted with my wallet for the product I want to see more of but I find it it a complicated stance when rubbing up against art vs artist.

What about Hogwarts Legacy? I find the game is in an awfully awkward position. I absolutely do not condone Rowling and have divorced her from the franchise as well as almost everything newer than Deathly Hallows from my beloved IP, also hate WB for being corpo scum, but I really liked the groundwork the game laid down so I’d like to see Avalanche Software get a chance to make another game that fixes what the first got wrong while building on what it got right.

Without demolishing copyright laws, we have to give money to WB and some unknown percentage to the witch to get the game we want and I, personally, think we HP fans deserve a genuinely good Hogwarts simulator along the lines of HL meets Bully. Sadly, I can’t designate my money to only go to Avalanche.

So in short, can we kill Rowling, WB execs and still get a Hogwarts 2 Electric Boogaloo? Because I like that option. Short of it, pick your annoyingly screwed moral box 😒

Then I’m happy for you and wish you a lovely holiday.

Riiiight. With the conversation all being around the US, I’d assumed your girlfriend was the one in the US. That’s very different then and frankly, bollocks to those in the US. So many of them believe the AoC is 18 nationwide so there opinion really doesn’t belong in the conversation. If your relationship is legal in Romania and your families are happy, I’d wish you two all the luck in the world.