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Exactly.

The only time I ever look at the store tab in Steam is when there's a sale on.

Otherwise, all I ever see and use is my library.

Yes and no.

It's not like Epic had to start where Steam started.

Yeah, I remember the last time there was no chance in hell he'd be elected.

I won't hold my breath.

For now.

Tech companies repeatedly float shit people don't want to see if the reaction is mild enough to actually go through with it.

Then they either wait until it is, or mull over ways to sell this as a good idea to consumers.

It was only 5 years ago TotalBiscuit / John Bain was still railing against the initial spread of microtransactions and DLC fragmentation of games.

And now they are utterly and completely ubiquitous.

Was and might actually be again.

Worst shits I've ever had wasn't from Mexican food. Gas, yes, I don't do beans all that well.

Worst shits, that would be Indian food, at some street stall in India.

And it's not like it gave me food poisoning either, I was feeling perfectly fine.

But the poop an hour later was like an explosion of liquid poop.

And the smell. Still the worst thing I've ever smelled and I've been up close to a corpse flower and eaten Surströmming.

Meanwhile, IRC just keeps trucking on.

Quite a few systems use torrent style distribution.

Heck, even Windows uses a distributed bandwidth system where you can set it to download chunks of updates from local networked systems.

All technologies, like bittorrent, nonSQL databases, blockchain, AI and the like become used as an invisible part of systems once the idiotic hype about the technology wanes.

"Piracy is a service problem." - Gabe Newell

Yeah, like I said earlier on a YouTube adblock post, they are the same problem as piracy.

It's a service problem, not an adblock/piracy problem. Gabe Newell hit that nail on the head so perfectly.

I used to watch and listen everything pirated, because:

• Most content I wanted to consume took years if not decades to be shown on TV or be available on VHS or DVD in my country.
• Most music I wanted to consume was on CDs that had 1 or 2 good songs with the rest being filler.
• When video media was broadcast, it was at times I wouldn't be able to watch.
• When music was broadcast, it was all radio edits and constantly interrupted by annoying radio hosts.
• All this cost 100+ a month for TV, 25-30€ for every movie I wanted to watch, 20-30€ for every CD I wanted to buy totaling several hundred Euro a month.

Then Netflix and Spotify came along and changed all that. All of a sudden, 99% of what I wanted to watch and listen to was available for 25-30€ a month combined.

Now, if I want to watch everything I want to watch, I'd have to pay multiples of what it cost before streaming services came along.

So, yeah, I'm almost completely back to sailing the high seas and while I have no affinity for collecting anything, supplemented my viewing and listening habits buying Merch where I know the merch is handled by the artists and go to conventions where shows I like are represented and buying merch and signatures directly from actors and crew of those shows.

Spencer Weiss, a Pennsylvania voter quoted by The Times who backed Biden in 2020 but now supports Trump, said: “The world is falling apart under Biden.” He added: “I would much rather see somebody that I feel can be a positive role-model leader for the country. But at least I think Trump has his wits about him.”

Press X to doubt.

Because pirated versions will be running a VLK license while there is no VLK subscription on file or run a KMS software to fake the authentication of licenses.

Or in some cases, just run pure unlicensed and Windows will tell you on the desktop itself that the copy is unlicensed.

If inspected, you have to prove you have the correct licenses.

In some cases you'll be allowed to just buy the licenses there and then, but if you've been running dozens of unlicensed copies or dozens of straight up illegal copies (with faked/cracked/stolen licenses), they'll put the hammer down and you'll be audited in detail to the point they'll end up billing AND fining you for every piece of software you've used in your entire history.

I was once hired at a company to get them ISO compliant (8001, 27001 and various other certifications specific for data storage and handling for banks and healthcare).

First thing I did was run inventory on all hard and software and it was quickly clear they ran 50 something unlicensed Windows and Office copies, 3 unlicensed Windows Server copies, 2 unlicensed Exchange copies, a whole bunch of unlicensed Winzip copies and on and on and on.

The typical with small to mid sized businesses.

You absolutely need to get your licensing in order if you want to get those certifications, especially the banking and healthcare data ones.

I made them a list of everything we'd have to acquire to be in order with that part.

They refused. They refused to the point of telling me "it's not working out and we're letting you go".

So, yeah, that's how you get Microsoft to hear about a company running a couple hundred unlicensed products :)

They never got their ISO certs and downsized considerably a year or two later.

If I recall correctly, that douche that was almost expelled from the House this week has been pretending his mother died on 9/11 in the towers.

She actually died in hospice care in 2016.

I hope this trend of people faking entire histories, going as far as creating fake companies, churches and charities, by politicians, never breaks out of the US.

There's a handful of national level politicians now that are known to have straight up fake resumes and they are just the tip of the iceberg.

I don't recall ever seeing this anywhere outside the US.

Plenty of lies and hiding history, sure, but this wholesale fabrication of histories? That's a first.

It's a worldwide phenomenon unfortunately.

A bunch of populist shite riling up the masses against people that have it even worse than them, to take away any and all focus from the people that are actually causing all these issues.

Its value has kept increasing over time.

And it will likely keep doing so, as while in the past gold reserves only dropped when gold was lost (like ye old Spanish ship going down in the Ocean) against its natural increase of continued mining, these days, gold is also used in quite a lot of applications where it becomes impractical to recover after being discarded.

And this removal of gold reserves will only keep increasing with the increase of its uses in technology.

So, yeah, its value is almost assured to stay very solid and monopolizing the worlds gold also gives you a degree of control over technology markets.

Markets where the west has typically kept China behind the curve.

It gives them leverage, economical and technological.

Because it'll be used by questionable sources to farm accounts with history and of well known people to enroll in astroturfing, propaganda and straight up scams.

Am I the only one who's surprised how out and in the open corruption has become in states like Alabama?

I don't need to hear her to know exactly what she's about. People like her aren't complicated.