Only thing I’ll disagree with is they’re not ripping off the rich, because it doesn’t matter to the rich. They’re killing the middle class though, but that is the way it’s been and the way it will continue to be. You will either be rich (haha, jk) or poor, and that’s the end game.

I think they’re downvoting the Squid, not the content of the post. I imagine a poster like Flying Squid has made some enemies along the way, the kind of people who literally go and downvote all their posts.

I’ll take what I said on Reddit and bring it here: Don’t comment on downvotes, they don’t matter.

I pirate first, and when I’ve really enjoyed a book I add a physical copy to the collection. I just can’t get behind paying for digital shit, for the reasons enumerated in this thread here. I just wish there was more direct-to-creator payments. Music and literature are perfect mediums to give directly to the artists who create it. I don’t give a fuck about whoever paid fir the digital ink. Maybe the record people get a little money.

My wife is big on library, and I need to, but I grew up just pirating stuff, so here we are. But she has a book club, and she’ll place a request for the book, and in the event it’s not yet available, she maintains the request but I get it for her. And for me personally, when I like a book or a series, I go and snag them later. I just prefer reading in Kindle anymore.

We get this butter substitute (green lid, can’t remember the name, I’d make a terrible shill) and it is phenomenal and 100% replaced spread butter. Cooking, I still use the regular most of the time though.

Glad to hear t-pose is the way to go. I’m beginning to think it’s the solution to the world’s problems.

Wait, you can secure SSDs and not just kinda push em in there?!

Yeah, I remember when they started rolling out data plans and they were hefty and the Internet on phones was useless. Then GPS on your phone was an add-on, also hefty. So it’s definitely improved.

This was certainly in the US at one point. I remember having 500 per month, which was an absolute joke for 16 year old me with a girlfriend the next town over, and paying 25 send and 5 receive afterwards. Old cell plans were absolute trash.

I am American. I’ll watch subbed movies, but sometimes I prefer dubbed. Miyazaki movies, for example, I don’t want to look away from the art to read, so we do subs. I generally prefer subs though, one reason being I can’t stand when mouths don’t match up. And dubs always seem bored, or something.

And Europeans make fun of Americans for plenty more than subtitled movies.

I went to sleep away lacrosse camp when I was 11-12, and one night they had boogie nights on, but you needed to be 14 or up before they’d let you watch. I regarded it at the time as less movie and more pornographic spectacle. Obviously ended up watching it as I got older, and while yes, it’s a bit pornographic spectacle, it’s also a very well made film. Great story, great pacing, well directed.

Yes, that’s all I have to offer.

Playing with my six year old daughter on switch. We just finished the community center. I’d played several times before but always fizzled out, as I tend to do with games, but the couch coop is great, although part of it is the company for sure. If this was me in my youth playing with my brother, the game would be much more hostile, as they all were.

I tell people I will work til I die, partly as a tongue in cheek jab at how bleak the future looks, but also because I find my job to be a good way to occupy my time.

Thank you, that’s what gargoyles are or something right? I knew it was somewhere up there. The old mind does not work how it used to.

For some reason I read grotesque not once but twice, and even went to Google to look up and see if perhaps grotesque had some literal meaning, either related to the architecture or the way the land is.

After my exhaustive research, I think I can safely conclude there is nothing grotesque about this picture. In fact, I’d even say it’s picturesque.

Oh yeah I don’t sit on them. Had an S4 at one point and broke the digitizer sitting on the phone, so now it’s very habitual, remove phone and wallet, place phone on table, place wallet on phone. Obviously it’s situationally dependent. If I ride a rollercoaster they go in front pockets.

I’m 36, so thanks for calling me a young adult. Wallet left, phone right. Keys front right cash front left.

Be more proactive: light yourself on fire in a Walmart.

Democrats have consistently dropped the ball. Almost like no one gives a fuck. The Republicans at least act when they get the three branches. Democrats fuck around and leave the door open for Republicans to do it again. Almost like no one gives a fuck.

I think the point is you can’t put a search term into a search engine and get results from some random Discord. No body is going to go trawling through Discords to then use the search function to potentially find information from it. Now, if chats were somehow archived and could then be searchable, different story, but I don’t think that’s what people using Discord want from Discord.