Endymion_Mallorn

They better not have.

You’re describing AliExpress.

Honestly, it’s even better for the USA.

I’m not exactly set on “brighter”, but at least it will be “different”. Right now, I feel like something has to give. Voting alone won’t get us out of the hole we’ve been buried in. Trusting the same people who lied and brought us to this point won’t get us to a better place. I’m really not against a different path that makes push come to shove anymore, is all.

The thing is, what’s your preference? Disappointment on a regular basis, or transparent hate and naked greed? Destruction can only last so long, but a slow slide into depression can last forever. Voting Red often ends up being the accelerationist choice as much as support for their vile beliefs.

The problem is that many people see the system ending up with “vote blue AND the fascists get their way”. It ends up being totally discouraging.

This needs to be the standard. I don’t understand how we ever allowed it in the first place, really.

Can we instead get all the salvation with none of the guilt?

Seems more like an Easter basket stuffer.

Yup, with the pits and the passwords that are the TOS crew.

Yup, it’s very clearly science-fantasy. Not just a buried space ship (there’s another one in either 6 or 7 on Enroth). Xeen is a flat world with two sides - The Clouds and the Darkside. It was launched by the Ancients and there are two AIs / robots who are the real power players in the plot, even though they aren’t as prominent.

I’m happy with playing the Game Boy Color versions of the games (and King’s Bounty on Gen/MD). Though I have to admit that Enroth is my least favorite M&M world. I still love Xeen.

Okay, so it’s a win-win. I’m not against the option of profit when it increases freedom.

No, I just don’t trust Valve. They poached the better Cassali off Doomworld, and they’ve monopolized gaming without physical media.

TBH, if Tim, Romero, or Carmack relaunched the Big Blue Disk, I would get in, in a heartbeat.

That’s exactly what I believe about it. If Valve sold it without their monopolized software on it, I would be interested.

Well, yeah. The worst of the 2600 is more playable than the new crud.

I mean, I live here in the USA. Laughter is the only response I have left. I’m too tired to be scared, and there’s no point in getting angry since there’s nothing I can do about it that wouldn’t leave me hurt worse.

So the only answer left is to laugh about it.

For #18, here’s how my sneakernet software sharing goes: Windows: I copy the installer exe, or a zipped version of the software as installed to a flash drive. The person can then run the software from the drive, or copy it to their own PC. No Internet required, no outside connection called for.

Linux: after determining that they have the right distro type for the software, I have to walk them through either getting it from a GUI repository client, apt, pacman, flatpak, snap, or whatever other cockamamie thing it’s on. They have to install it from the central authority - which is not sharing the software. It’s suggesting that someone else connect to the Internet and download a thing.

If it requires the Internet to for a typical user to share software on media, your operating system is hostile to freedom.

Never stop your enemy when he makes an error in your favor.

The Ten Commandments are the clearest example of “rules for thee, not for me”.