Meanwhile the pirates are happily playing.  Good job DRM!

Oh look it’s DRM punishing legit consumers again.

Is there a movie that has gone through a more dramatic reappraisal after it left theaters? Like Carpenter’s the Thing has gone from the “quintessential moron movie of the 80's” to “one of the greatest movies ever made” in the years since its release. I’m sure there were movies that were beloved in their time that just…

That stupid forum gave me a sense of community when I felt like an outcast for being a foster kid forced to move to rural Ohio. It also probably made me an insufferable douche from my late teens well into my 20s. I still visit from time to time but mostly stick to the pro wrestling subforum and the political cartoon…

Something Awful produced a wild amount of humor and culture for decades and had a massively outsized influence for a long time. It was a place where I learned a lot about writing, about politics and some other things.

Uh oh, Kotaku reporting that acknowledges the existence of piracy. Watch out for the squad of people who weirdly consider this endorsement and prophecy Kotaku’s downfall.

To people who are pro-modding: don’t worry about this.

“Imagine if something you invented was stolen from you and then marketed and sold to customers around the world.”

This is the ridiculous but logical endpoint of side hustle/rise and grind culture.

I grew tired of Oliver’s schtick a while ago. His bread is buttered with the horrors he uncovers for a certain demographic that wouldn’t know about these subjects any other way than from the safety of their expensive open-plan homes. He’s talking to the descendants of the white middle class who watched Mutual of…

how about we just shut down Fortnite worldwide? “games as a service” is easily one of the most exploitative things to come out of the video game industry. you could definitely call them a scam. this game exists solely to get people(particularly children) to buy micro-transactions and it uses every single trick to do it…

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Who you *arrest* says nothing about the drug trade. Who you *convict* might. You can, and frequently do, arrest all sorts of people. Many of them turn out to be innocent. Arrest =/= guilt, even in America.

Counterpoint: Shoplifting and stealing work supplies is very based and very sexy.

Counterpoint: Stealing from corporations is very cool and very moral

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This is obviously because a Kotaku article mentioned that Nintendo games can be emulated

Given that the SVP has a new job and the employees were upset, and we’re just hearing this now, my guess is it’s like every closure: the higher ups got warning to go find another job and the regular employees got fucked.

Oh yeah..go to Gizmodo and you’ll see a bunch of them in any article that is particularly negative towards Musk. A bunch of tech goobers and Roganoids who desperately want to buy into his mythos: That Musk is totes a real life Tony Stark who will, like, save the world...somehow.

By selling us expensive Teslas and…

dont they already have tax shelters by running their so called charities?