My counter-proposal is that my time is valuable, and I charge the low low price of 30.00US for 30 seconds of my precious irreplacable lifetime.  Until then, the adblockers stay installed.  And Google can suck shit out of a dead dog’s ass. 

I think within this context we have generally moved past the real world.

tbf, ads have a way of completely ruining the usability of once good websites.

Because I already have to watch the ads the content creator puts in (which are the ads I’m fine with) and Youtube is making a lot of money off of all the data from every time I click. I fully accept that they’re scraping every tiny bit of data about my viewing habits, shopping habits, etc, and in return I expect to…

Their ads wouldn’t bother me so much if the content creators also didn’t have ads as well. I watched a twelve minute video the other day and five and a half minutes was nothing but ads and sponsor promotions. The YouTube ad had nothing to do with the channel I was watching either. I don’t want to see an ad for tampons…

YouTube is just as unusable with ads as… well, this site, or Fandom wikis.

With all the information Google knows about me, you would think that at least one ad shown would be relevant to me, but nope hasn’t happened yet

Bye, Felicia. App deleted, account closed.

That’s not a good thing, man.
If emulation is bad, please tell me the “good” way for me to play something like Kid Icarus Uprising.

A reasonable person can question whether some young children should receive permanent, life-altering gender treatments based on extremely limited science.

Earlier this year, I did my first over sea trip and went to London. My hotel ended up being right next to theater hosting The Cursed Child. I could see the big wicker ball logo thing from my room’s window. And right next to tjat theater, there is a huge store full of Harry Potter merch (and some other stuff too, but…

Heaven forbid I manage to write a coherent comment here, even though I somehow manage almost everywhere else.

Rowling has done a lot more than “ask questions.” She has completly drunk the “gender-critical” Kool-Aid and has allied herself with a ton of self-proclaimed “feminists” who have made their hatred of trans people pretty clear. She even said she would pay Kellie-Jay Keane legal fees if needed. Keane is a single-issue…

Yes, there was a lot of antisemitism back then, but the Fettmilch Uprising, which seems to be the real world event referenced, was different even back in the day. Wikipedia describes it as:

You can feel free to consider yourself a fascist then, if it’s what you really want.

The first Fantastic Beasts movie was entirely likeable, but I’m never giving my time or money to anything connected with Ms. Rowling ever again.

If you’re embarrassed by anti-fascists criticizing someone with the same opinion of trans people as the OG Nazis, you’re probably a fascist.

She, or they (we’ll never really know if these ideas were JKR’s or one of the Devs) could have used almost any other year, but they didn’t.

Even IF Hogwarts Legacy managed to “distance” itself from JKR and her “comments,” how could they distance their game from the plot, which was largely about stopping Goblins from getting equal rights in the Wizard World, or the references to a historical pogrom?