I view it like the “discomforting uncle versus outright hateful aunt”. I still really don’t want to support him, but equally, fuck her, she’s out here on the fucking daily with her shit.
Plus, at this point, telling someone to pirate anything Rowling is like telling someone to breathe. You’re either doing it, or okay with the outcome of your actions.
Eh, it’s kinda down to personal perspective. In mine, absolutely a reasonable way to handle things if you love the art, but don’t feel morally comfortable supporting the artist.
I recommend people pirate Enders Game, because fuck Orson Scott Card.
You got a real funny way of spelling Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.
2 movies.
Lower Decks earned it’s place in the One Good, One Bad cycle(at least a tongue-in-cheek poke at it).
Protip: To kill Death, shoot it until it dies.
I haven’t had any issues from anything I’ve gotten from them. Just the standard GOG offline install files.
I do kinda love the absolutely insane Jesus pictures they shit out, though.
We’ve went from blue-eyed white guy, to Christ the Mortal Kombat Kharacter. Standing in torn robes, 36-pack on display, sword forged from one of the nails from the cross, a field of demons ready to fight him.
Homeowner won’t be mad.
You found that cool doodad they put somewhere they wouldn’t forget months ago.
I’ve gotten to see it happen first hand. As of 2008, the last mines in operation in a certain part of Virginia closed up shop. It was the towns lifeblood, and the place was already on the poor side.
I saw families who lost their livelihoods. Was almost one of them, lucked out that my dad knew how to do other things. Wasn’t that way for the kids who went to college for electrical engineering, went into the mines, and suddenly had nowhere else.
In the middle of Bumfuck, Nowhere, lived some of the most ass backwards but intelligent people I’ve ever met. I can point out the graves of the ones who got hit the hardest, and decided there wasn’t an up. I can remember exactly how old they were. We went to school together.
I don’t agree with mining, it’s destructive, the effects of mining and burning coal are terrible, but it kills me to remember how it all went down. We did the right thing, but in the worst way possible.
You can find a heartbreaking amount of stories just like that across that entire stretch of the country. Towns that thrived off coal, but have since all but collapsed into poverty. People who struggle to find new lines of work, because they never knew anything different. People quietly dying, fighting to get help with the damage done to their lungs.
“Can’t expect me to train my replacement if I don’t remember how I did it!”
Not with Trek, but I’m a former stagehand and I’ve done amateur stagework. Spent a lotta time building and maintaining sets and props. I’ve been there.
You’re backstage, you’ve got how everything should look memorized, it’s all set up, and for a moment, while it’s just you and that dry run, you forget yourself. You’re a part of the show.
Eventually you step back, remember it’s all fake. You notice the little flaws, notice the floor isn’t just right under your feet. You were tired, trying to get something done. A lapse.
I genuinely believe in the magic of the stage. Not in the sense of a spell, but of the ritual. No matter if it’s on a screen, or in person, if you do it right, we let go. For a moment, we forget our world and step into another.
They update the graphics, make the monetization more aggressive, and I think crypto got involved at some point, but the gameplay stays the exact same.
Mobile market.
Think they’re up to like Farmville 4 at this point.
My first memories are traumatic!
Actually, a number of my childhood memories are the traumatic ones… Fuck.
He makes a good point, though. Sure, it works on the bunch and makes a level of sense when they’re all together, but just looking at an individual banana, sitting on its own? Weird as shit.
I think I might spend too much time handling bananas.
Is it considered regicide if you take down an empress?
Either way, time to take back the holy land.
It’s genuinely a lot. EMPRESS has an ego, and has started shit with anyone they can. This ranges from other crackers, to repackers, to the people requesting cracks. They see themselves as the hot shit because “I’m the only one who can crack Denuvo”.
I can’t wait until it’s revealed to be a worse version of Active Worlds filled to the brim with their insane ramblings.
“Though I may change, my heart does not, for I am but its reflection, and may that reflection be more true with every passing day”.
No clue where my brains pulling that one from, but it felt fitting. It feels like such a simple thing, the want to be accepted for who you really are, yet it brings a complex hurt when you realize how hard that can be to get.