Explaining how a system works ≠ ‘stanning’. And yes, obviously there are restrictions to what you can do with a physical product, because of copyright and licensing laws. They can’t come and take a bluray off your shelf though, can they?

Oh, go on then. One last time...

To be honest I wasn’t going to reply again, there’s only so many times you can hear someone shout ‘corporate propaganda’ before it begins to pall. Plus, this is an argument that has no relevance to me - I never have to worry about losing access to anything, because I never buy digital video. Because I understand that…

If you’ve spent money on digital video on Playstation, XBox, iTunes, Amazon, Google etc, then you have quite literally ‘bought into’ the system. Call it ‘corporate propaganda’ as many times as you like, it won’t change the wording in the terms and conditions. You could have that content taken away, and beyond possibly…

It’s great if Steam’s system allows you to properly own your games, I didn’t realise that. I tend to stick with GoG for the most part because I like being able to download the launchers and have a backup library on a drive rather than going through Steam. I do vaguely remember hearing something years ago from Valve…

Ah, so you do understand, you just don’t like it. Which is fine, I don’t like it either, which is why I buy physical whenever I can. If you want to actually, permanently own the products you pay for in the way that you want to, then buying physical is the way to do it. Or hunt around for a place like GoG that gives…

What I am saying is that you don’t ‘own’ the things you think you own when they’re digital. So yes, in certain situations the companies absolutely can take them away.

You don’t have to sign a contract. By paying money you are entering into a transaction and by so doing, agree to abide by the terms and conditions laid…

When you make a digital purchase you agree to abide by the terms and conditions of the transaction. With a physical product you end up actually owning it, because you have a tangible item you can hold in your hands. With digital this frequently isn’t the case. There are exceptions - GoG makes a big deal about being…

You don’t own it. You’re making a one-time payment for a rental of the license. If you’re lucky, that rental might last for as long as you’re able to make use of it, if you’re not the company can remove the license.  Companies may not have loudly advertised this fact, but it’s certainly been the case as long as I’ve…

Someone doesn’t know how to read the terms and conditions, and will end up surprised when it turns out they never owned the thing they thought they owned.

The myth of digital media is that it can last forever, pristine and undisturbed.

Actually behind Richard. Bloody. Ayoade. But I hear Ray Purchase was up for the role too.

Try Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace. It’s the first place I saw him, and I think he might only be the second best character in it.

I hadn’t considered the novelty of it for the younger generation. I don’t know anyone of the right age to talk to about that kind of thing, but it would be fascinating to hear their thoughts about analogue media. Whether there’s a kind of retro-cool to it or not. Although to be honest it’s hard to imagine many people…

The Babysitter was pretty good. Fear Street however, had no right turning out as good as it did. I loved the structure of it, and I’m a bit surprised we haven’t seen anything else try something similar yet. In the era of streaming, having everything fit into the traditional ‘film’ or ‘series’ box really isn’t…

I remember being really excited for this when I first saw the trailer, but also being distinctly whelmed by the final film. Supposedly though there were some background shenanigans involving the head of the distributor not being happy and having the film re-cut behind the director’s back. There’ll be a dusty hard…

Ha, I remember seeing an article last year about cassette sales reaching a 20-year high! I genuinely wasn’t sure what drove that, but I quite like when older formats find a new lease of life. Especially when the tech has improved too, so you’re getting something much better than could have been imagined first time…

Remember this time last year when they barely mentioned Sandman until there was one, grudging article about two weeks after it was released because literally every article had someone in the comments saying “sooooo...what about Sandman, huh?”

Or, in the 2027 remake - “They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think whether or not they f***ing should.”

I’ve thought for a long time that the ideal template for a DCU already exists - the DCAU. It started with just Batman, then we started to flesh out the rest of the Bat-Family, then Superman comes along, we get World’s Finest and then the world expands to the core Justice League and finally the entirety of that world…