If anyone does miss it, they’re a lost cause anyway IMO

Welll, the orange man made everyone’s 401Ks drop, now every company needs to enshittify even harder so the American people can get their retirement funds back on track lmao

The whole system can get fucked.

In seriousness, I think gaming has LESS pressure from past titles because while classics still get played decades later, many games don’t even work on a modern operating system and many are so janky that you can instantly tell they’re old. Games often don’t age well. You could argue that the same happens for other media but IMO games depreciate more because of the technical aspect.

No, books written before April 2025 are already trash and who’s gonna rewatch an old movie or listen to 80’s music nostalgically?

The likes of RIAA and MPAA are probably still lobbying as always. Also don’t forget the Internet Archive is being sued by record labels over copyright.

More than anything, people might be too distracted to defend IP related freedoms right now with all the other issues.

China also subsidises a lot of things. The even subsidise things produced for export, which could be considered dumping.

I think he’s saying things other than tariffs that affect how many dollars the US could make selling shit to your country.

Thing is, the list doesn’t make sense. Yeah most countries have VAT. 1) So does the US, it’s called sales tax. 2) I pay VAT equally on American, Estonian or German goods. What’s the problem?

I swear some game had high res textures optional on Steam. Maybe Witcher 3?

I haven’t seen the attack helicopter and the joke is pretty damn old tbh, but drag at least is/was kinda funny. Drag’s profile specified that drag’s pronoun is “drag” in not just third, but also first and second person, which is an interesting concept. Drag also stayed in character in drag’s posts. Drag didn’t ever really bother people with the whole thing IMO.

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Steam, because they started with non-horrible DRM (compared to other options)

Au contraire, Steam was LOATHED back in the day, they were the first to force you to install a store just to play a single game.

For other games, you needed to enter a CD key on install (which keygens helped with) and then you needed the CD itself in the drive (which cracks helped with). Steam started the trend of online DRM in games, which was then adopted by others who made even more draconian offerings (I think for Spore you could only get 3 hardware IDs registered?)

Yes, because a third party vote is going to do so much in a FPTP system.

I believe you mean Johnson & Johnson, which is a different company.

No idea about the morals of SC Johnson, I hadn’t heard of them till now, but have used a product or 2.

In this instance Cloudflare is being targeted by the anti piracy people so they’re a temporary ally.