The real crime should be not seeding after downloading, have some common courtesy

It’s May 2024 data from 2022 respondents, biased towards people willing to respond to pretty long consumer surveys. I have similar suspicions you’d see a higher % from a larger sample size or reporting from video game platform and store owners who can differentiate that better than your average consumer.

Something doesn’t have to exist forever to have meaning, that seems like a holdover from utopic afterlife religious indoctrination.

We can enjoy a movie or a lunch knowing it will end, I can pursue meaning and find multiple purposes throughout a lifetime.

Signatures as a form of authorization I think held up the facsimile tech way past it’s best by date

Yes, the survey summary below shows no exceptions for physical hardware vs emulation in the question

https://article.images.consumerreports.org/image/upload/v1718112414/prod/content/dam/surveys/Consumer_Reports_AES_May_2024.pdf

Diversity, equity, and inclusion get in the way of their nepotism and cronyism hiring. If they were hiring based on merit alone there would be no problem being transparent and publishing their hiring decisions.

I have a similar modest proposal to solving the wealth inequality hoarding problem of billionaires

Sublime text, vi, eclipse, emacs depending what I’m doing

Even if it passed making piracy super extra illegal+ it’s targeting google and cloud flare to block access to sites within 15 days that could still easily be reached outside their boundaries. It’s political theater for mpaa riaa etc industry association lobbyists to show they got something for their bribes.

I’ve already had more than one conversation where people quote AI as if it were a source, like quoting google as a source. When I showed them how it can sometimes lie and explain it’s not a primary source for anything I just get that blank stare like I have two heads.

Is common sense just an earlier, naive label for confirmation bias?

I’m not that excited by deep skill trees or crafting or inventory management, lately i enjoy good movement, music, exploration, and story.

The movement in destiny 2 felt really good, similar games have it where you get momentum, dives, floating with warlock, etc. I think Titanfall 2 and borderlands 3 zane had similar really good feeling movement.

The exploration in pre planes EverQuest was great, fast travel limited to certain classes and levels, risky but faster travel routes in kunark, groups in overworld and dungeon areas, dangerous places to get to with high reward for the risk. Elder scrolls, dark souls/elden ring, and Zelda breath of the wild had similar feelings for me.

Alt: dopefish

That big goopy mess at the end was mostly just lasagna

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

My favorite dinosaur is the flamingo

Alt: Winnie the Pooh in a treasure chest full of his favorite pirate booty

Crush for PSP, it’s a puzzle game where you switch between 2d and 3d. The style is cartoony, the music is amazing, and the puzzles are generally engaging without being too difficult. It’s really a shame it only came out for PSP and a slightly different version on 3ds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_(video_game)

It’s the Skinner box casino model of gaming, get em hooked young to the dopamine reward instead of building a skill based competition.