Do you have any earthly idea how many of those “people” are bots now? Let yourself get worked-up by engagement-bait if you insist, but no-one-else is obligated to check-out places that are well-known for being places one goes to piss-off others or find something to get pissed-off about. Your “hobby” of engaging with and spreading it without substantiation vs reality doesn’t make you “more aware”, it just makes you part of the problem.

I’ve seen so many different versions of this in the last week. Blonde chick was the only one I’ve seen next to the original, like at least this one almost got the “credit where it’s due” part right, but generally, I prefer the thicker, older-looking versions I’ve seen, even though the whole premise just makes me think “yep, it’s hard to go wrong with skin and ink”.

Gamers? I didn’t even play this one. I never would have made the connection with the orignial without the side-by-side version, but I’m glad to get to see it again.

IME, rentals had shit quality, unless you were one of the first few people to rent that movie. Still watchable, mind you, but the software for ripping back then would hang on the mildest errors.

My guess was that most of the high quality torrents back then were ripped by people who bought or stole New-in-box discs, or employees at stores that rented or sold them, and don’t forget Screeners.

I always knew I would get uploaded in the singularity. “Mostly because the normies decided its un-ethical to let me die” was not on my Bingo card though. Oh lookie, a shortcut to the Torment Nexus!!

If it had 5G, I might bother, aftter toying with it as-is to see if I could just live with it.

Otoh, the way their description reads, it wouldn’t surprise me if it also filters client traffic in hot-spot mode, which would be a bridge too far to me.

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It’s actually not that hard to figure-out which file in the torrent they give you is the one book you want, by which I mean, I don’t recall exactly how, but my dumb-ass figured it out and did it a few times.

If you didn’t know, you don’t have to download and seed every file in a given torrent. In fact, a lot of torrents seem “broken” because .nfo’s, .txt’s, Extras and/or Samples aren’t being seeded.

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When Asahi started, the M1 chips were so good they might as well have been the only ARM-based-that-can-run-x86/x64-code-CPUs in-town. Last I checked, the M-series were still consistetly near the top of the stack of such chips, and look even better when you account for price.

Your argument works even better versus the Snapdragon X, but that’s Microsoft’s current fav, so … ?

Thanks for spelling-out the stupid for me. My brain was hung-up on the correct way to un-fuck logic I would rather not understand, for a moment. “Too stupid for words” came to mind, and the phrase just sorta … hung out, wasting time.

TF did I just read? Is that for real?

You had me until “out of office” … “from a great height” was right there!!

I don’t goon, I don’t like the gameplay for most of them, and I only play trash games on my phone, no-where else. Have you SEEN the install sizes of the mobile versions of these games? I don’t think I’ve seen ONE that didn’t leave me wondering why the developers bothered.

When I’ve got Human Resource Machine, Really Bad Chess, Wordle, Sudoku and more, do I really need 30gb for 2B’s enhanced jiggle physics?

You’ve seriously got the wrong idea about me and what I was trying to say to you. I’m not trying to elevate liars, just people, versus the worthlessness of lies and petty truths that aren’t helful.

You have suffered because you are too wrapped-up in one of the Three Sieves of Socrates . Most lies aren’t worth calling out because doing so is not kind or helpful - particularly the lies that good people tell themselves to get through the day.

I never said you should or had to lie to get by, be a good person, or have a full understanding. I won’t even pretend I’m too wrapped-up in the concept of trying to be a good person, BUT, the wicked man still knows what goodness looks like, and I personally dis-like watching good people suffer, almost as much as I dis-like watching “good” people disparage others over something that basically amounts to LOUDLY MIS-UNDERSTANDING THINGS.

right, everyone is a liar, because you lie. and if they don’t lie, they suck.

au contraire, I am merely a vaguely reasonable person who wastes time begging idiots like you to notice and acknowlege simple facts laid-out by studies throughout both of our lifespans and before. I happened to have learned about some of them before middle-school, and so I’ve been at this versus self-righteous cretins for a looong time.

How DARE I ask you to make life a little easier for everyone, starting with yourself?

this is exactly how all my exes told me too. everyone cheats! if you aren’t doing it, you’re a chump! and anyone who is better than me, is shitty.

notice how in this, you’re always right, and everyone else is wrong? funny how convenient that works out for you.

So wait, you mean EVERYONE who has been in a position to tell you anything about your own bullshit, over-the-top reactions to this topic has had the same response? Literally, everyone else is wrong, as you’ve put it - I’m not the one alone in my world-view here.

Look, if you can’t look in the mirror, could you at least pick a narrative? I was bored with your incoherent gibberish days and days-ago. If self-honesty and intro-spection are such hateful topics to you, maybe don’t interact with them, but calling people who are honest with you about the potential for dis-honesty out as pathological liars just makes you look stupid, ignorant, and even likely in-sincere.

If I lie, I’ve committed to doing the work to make it true(the optimist’s conceit), at least enough to let the other person pretend they don’t know better. When you lie, its because you can’t even be bothered to notice or admit that’s what’s happened. No wonder you’re alone.

Any company that sent me this far-into the weeds for them ghosted me or replied with un-reasonable terms when I came up with something appropriate. Usually they replied with a whole boiler-plate they had on-hand, but apparently wanted to pretend it was a negotiation, until they didn’t. A couple times, the legal department on the other end got shitty with everyone and tried to act like their company had never and would never interact with a contractor who hadn’t already signed terms I found exploitative and walked-away from when they wouldn’t budge.

There are plenty of licenses out there that would work, but when you’re two-companies removed from the legal offices of the company with the ultimate say, its never as simple as trusting your friend. That said, my limitted experiences with similar situations never involved an insider I was close with, so I mean it when I say I wish you the best of luck.

You’re always gonna need to be ready or at least able to stop and ask yourself, were the favors that big, or did they just tell you they were? It’s the middle of the weekend and you’re fretting over this instead of spending your own time how you see fit or coding for profit.

A company that’s asking you to figure this stuff out for them isn’t necessarilly going to sign-off on anything too reasonable, but I’ll agree my advice was more suited for after that happens.

Real serious reply right there. I don’t have time for your non-sense, let alone to engage with it by way of an alt. This Orange man method of confession-by-way-of-accussation is pathetic.

“My lawyer will need to talk to your legal department, he charges $xxx per hour…” If you think I’m being snarky, I’m really not. Your entitled client is hoping to force you to, or let you, do something stupid so they can hang you out to dry or wring you out for free or discount labor, maybe even a “small guy like you should be willing to pay us for the oportunity to do this work”.

I’m not saying to pretend you are a lawyer, I’m saying to get one, and if its all above-board, things will work-out. If it ends up a “missed opportunity”, then it was never really an opportunity in the first place.

Maybe I’m just cynical, but I’ve always made double or triple the $$-per-hour as a contractor than I have as a W2. Some “clients”, head-hunters, and would-be “lead-finding services” would try to interact with me as though being a contractor just meant I was jobless, which, maybe they would have been right, in a world where I had or made the time to interact with people set on wasting it like so…

Read that last sentence again; By entertaining their non-sense, their assumptions about how they can get-away with exploiting you become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Hire a lawyer or become one. You can be out some money paying the lawyer(which becomes overhead expense to factor-into what money the client should owe you, in beautiful black-and-white contract/invoice form that let’s you sleep at night), or you can be out time, near-infinite amounts of time, doing your client’s homework on-top-of the programming they ostensibly are paying you for. Everything you care about suffers in the second version, including your code quality.