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Places that buy other companies to dismantle or lay off large chunks of staff and take over IP with minimal or absent quality to show from it. Just maximize that investor dollar.

Microsoft, Disney etc.

The harm performed far outweighs any investment from a “toward the artists” I see come back.

or even a group that funded it

I noted I’m ok with investors.

I’m against parasitic groups that feed on properties and prevent money getting to the actual dev folks.

Hey man, you can’t park that here

Ditto on Spotify. I have big love for piracy of FLAC for my personal music server, but I also have a decent rack filled with physical offerings from my favorite bands.

My Bandcamp collection is also getting up there, since a few of my favs say they are treated well there, and it’s FLAC friendly as well.

Physical media or merch directly from the band is absolutely the way to go every time if possible.

Cool argument, except a huge quantity of pirated works aren’t “owned” by the creator or even a group that funded it, but instead by parasitic companies that abuse capitalistic tools to actually steal value from those creators.

I have thousands of purchased games. 3 categories here:

1: obtained as part of a pack (humble gog etc)

2: purchased AFTER trying out via pirate copy to know if it is my kind of thing

3: picked up early access due to demo or general interest from being a known smaller dev/studio (hare brained for example)

With less and less access to shareware and viable demos, piracy is often the only conduit to prevent me getting ripped off of $80 for something that looks like a shiny sports car but end up being another “buy $800 in dlc for the full story!” Ford pinto.

Additionally, I now flat refuse to fund the likes of Denuvo, and wish that piracy actively hurt the bottom line of companies deploying that kind of anti-user shit.

How long until he’s pardoned and made a white house official?

Agreed. Several of his books have suffered the same fate unfortunately.

That said, the ideas do still ring very true… Albeit, many of them are the ideas I wish were more fantasy.

Time enough for love - Heinlein

Nor crystal tears - Foster

A world out of time - Niven

Ringworld - Niven

Sassinak - McCaffrey

The Martian - Weir

He doesn’t deserve you.

It’s tricky to get an abusive narcissist out of your head. They have a way of living there.

No joke! That’s been the worst!

I’m glad you still have her around, and the chance to share time without the negatives.

I am. My 21 year old daughter has been evidence that I’m doing something ok despite, and it’s amazing.

One of the most healing things so far has been the fact that I can look back and feel confident that I was right every time I thought “this feels like it is wrong and should be different”. My daughter still finds me regularly for spontaneous hugs and any time something needs fixing that she hadn’t figured out yet.

I hope you find a similar chance. It’s deserved.

Solidarity. I can say that from the other side of that coin, it’s not always better… Divorced when I was 12, I told my mother “about fucking time” and got slapped.

My single mother later destroyed my teenage years and 20s. She died and it took 10 years for the financial fraud to fall away. I’m still working to escape damage from her extorting and manipulating me by threatening to accuse me of molesting my daughter with several of her friends willing to lie to police.

I hope you at least came away with positives to build with.

I flat celebrated my father’s death. The upside was he instilled equality of gender well, and considering the 80s that wasn’t common around middle USA.

Father’s Day is complex for me. Balancing my adult daughter bringing it for me vs memories of mine takes effort.

It hurt itself in the confusion!

Please don’t fuck this up… Please don’t fuck this up… Please don’t fuck this up… Please don’t fuck this up… Please don’t fuck this up… Please don’t fuck this up… Please don’t fuck this up…

Why should 40 assholes hiding from someone who is already in custody gave any bearing on his case?

My gf dyed her hair last week, must be a criminal in chains somewhere!

Does this include media I grabbed but literally never opened or looked at?

Totally just interest in the well being of an innocent hungry wood chipper… Can’t let that poor thing starve.

Remember to help it chew slowly, it can choke if you feed it too fast. Should take quite some time but absolutely worth it for the overall good.

Not saying represent by any stretch.

If I need X thing to survive, I’d rather get it from a pure and innocent source… If that’s not possible, I’d rather it from the dude with too many boats who charges too much money than the one actively gloating about destroying lives literally and on a much higher scale.

Yes I know lesser evil etc… This isn’t a philosophy course and I don’t need what they’re selling. But many do potentially and I’d rather minimize damage than just let the absolute worst be the default.

No. “Don’t immediately assume he’s doing the same exact evil” is not the same as “be nicer”.

At the least, it’s “assume other bad motives perhaps”.

My thought is this is just another way to milk money from others. That simple. Not “let’s bribe govts”.

If it’s assumed he’s doing the exact same as Musk, then we either prepare to undo the damage incorrectly, or waste time looking at the wrong stooge.

Absolutely agree at every part.

My desire would be strong regulation via a real agency (not current US), or alternatively ONLY work via non-intrusive means on the scalp.