An incredible Steam summer sale for the GOTY edition with all the DLCs. When fallout 4 first came out, it was pretty buggy, so regular updates for both the main game and all the DLC‘s was pretty crucial in the early years. I got sick of having to deal without them.
I miss shareware demos
I spent a good 8000 hours playing Fallout 4 before I bought it. Might have been the 5th Anniversary sale?
Also, it’s one of the few games I’ve ever actually paid for.
Finally, some good news
The end result of any fascist state is them turning on themselves.
Not a very “fun” fact, but a very good reason why I always keep my cats indoors.
Me on any given Saturday night
My kitty is 14 years old. This is not this time for new experiences beyond a little peekaboo in the backyard.
Perhaps when I get a new kitty…
Oh, he’s extremely brilliant. I don’t fault him for that.
I did pick him up and take him on a little walk around the yard, but no leash. I was just holding him
Not ready to get that weird yet…
His name is Finley. And he is my dearest baby.
I’ll never have kids, but I have him ❤️
Unless it’s an ad, of course
They could probably just drape the whole bus with a bunch of chicken wire (or wrap it) for a makeshift Faraday cage. I doubt that would take more than an hour or so.
Certainly cheaper and easier than building up a bus-sized Ferriday cage.
By this logic, Windows is also a piracy tool. Ban that please.
I heard this comment in the south London accent
I didn’t say it could. In fact, I really hope it can’t, lol.
I don’t see the difference between the two things you just described, no… except for the circuitousness of the path of the profit/value generation. The end result is the same.
But the argument you’re making also makes a huge amount of assumptions about the individual versus about engagement in piracy by society in general. On the micro scale versus the macro scale. Is piracy of a particular piece of media ethical as an individual versus is piracy of a particular piece of media ethical at scale. The crux of your argument seems to be the value generation of “word-of-mouth“. So now you’re just arguing a matter of degrees and pedagogy.
So you’re not really arguing about capitalism or piracy at all, now you’re arguing about passing undeserved value, and the methods by which that is done and how piracy is being co-opted via capitalism.
And what this whole argument really is about is whether or not you can separate the art from the artist and still appreciate a piece of work, even though you find the artist repulsive. And none of this has to do with piracy at all, but whether you can find a way to consume an artist work without endorsing the artist. where piracy comes into the conversation is whether or not that is an acceptable means to that end, and people will always disagree on that.
The whole “capitalism” chestnut isn’t a means to untangle that because piracy is, as I’ve said, mostly anti-capitalism, and isn’t self reliant on capitalism, so the logic of that argument doesn’t really work out. It’s mostly down to personal opinion, and there really isn’t any logic to that at all.
Boo. Nothing pisses me off more than wasting perfectly good food.