Just admit that you could pay for the content if you wanted to, you just choose not to, because you are a pirate. You are depriving someone somewhere from a sale or some other form of revenue.

I usually can’t, actually. Not immediately anyway. But that doesn’t stop me from paying for it when I can. Done it with plenty of games. And if I didn’t have that option, which I primarily use for games I’m not entirely sure I’ll stick with, well… I just wouldn’t buy it. Full stop. Wouldn’t be a consideration at all. There is no lost sale here, only the potential to fall in love with it enough to buy it when I eventually can.

Not saying this is some moral high ground. It’s not. But plenty of folks just can’t afford to gamble on whether or not they like something and end up paying it forward when they can.

By trying to minimize the amount of ethnic cleansing happening and slow it the fuck down so we have a better chance at stopping it rather than let it go unchallenged electorally and via direct action.

You are literally victim blaming more than half of the US. That’s wild.

Kegels are key. If you clench hard enough you can chip the tail off your XX chromosomes and make them XY.

Are they in the room with us right now?

We can do both? What’s a rocket scientist going to do about systemic oppression and the rise of fascism that excludes them from working on rockets still?

Just existing is getting a lot of us killed. It ain’t even just the poor anymore, we’ve got real assassinations happening.

Yes please, maybe they’ll fix the shit they’ve been getting paid for decades to fix finally.

Oh I’m not even just talking about TVs. I’m talking about headphones too. I’ve had perfectly good headphones of decent quality that have experienced this issue with movies in particular. Everything else is fine. Games, videos, music all sound great, but some movies are just balanced so poorly. It’s a shared computer space so it’s not really the place for one person to have a whole sound system just to watch poorly balanced movies.

I shouldn’t have to invest hundreds of dollars into a whole separate sound system just because the sound designers of a movie can’t properly balance to audio for stereo sound, the single most common audio set up in the entire world.

Sometimes you gotta look at the context. It’s like the US civil war. A good chunk of the country will swear up and down it was fought over states’ rights and leave it at that.

States’ rights to do what?

Slavery.

Yes, women’s “rights” to be transphobic essentially. The J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund, the organization she is founding, uses TERF dogwishtles in their mission statement right on their page. “Overly inclusive policies”. Come on.

Makes it harder to spot the homeless people living in their cars that might want to park there for the night.

While nice in theory, that’s not how partisan politics works in practice. What’s going to happen is that the absurdly large proportion of judges from conservative states will simply shout over opposition like they currently do in all other branches of government and stonewall any attempt to compromise. Gods forbid you try to push progressive ideas.

How does that apply to cameras used as deterrents? They’re present the whole time.

Giving each state equal representation without a population distribution that is exactly equal across every state inherently devalues the representation of those in population centers, giving disproportionate power to a party that is outnumbered but is spread out over the much emptier land. Equal rep must be based proportionally off of population to avoid devaluing individual voter influence.

Nearly free? I’d tell you to tell that to my dad, but he passed away after getting thoroughly drained of most of his savings thanks to his “nearly free” health care while dying of cancer.

But also the vibes are totally different. In the original there’s a palpable eldritch terror despite the absurdity, helped along by the difference in scale and the unknowable malice in Ribbonthulhu’s expression. In the ai generated version it just looks like a phoned in political cartoon with a shocked Pikachu MAGA looking mildly alarmed at a rather underwhelming baby Cthulhu with ribbons attached.

At a certain point, a wrong note is just a new scale being born c:

Are those things only illegal if you snort coke?