Best orators?! Yo he got made fun of all the time for that!

Can Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that even he can’t eat it?

We could call the mayor of Springfield and ask

But at least the formulas and constants appear to be correct

I believe the internet archive is under threat as well, some kind of copyright protection thing.

I suppose I worry about the fiction too because sometimes it’s a commentary on real life concerns, and the pearl clutchers will want to erase perceived insults. Anyway, to each their own. I need to be selective about what I keep because there just isn’t enough space to save them all. Digital certainly has the advantage there.

I suppose those exclusives and freebies were the reason. I think they needed to do all the things and blew the opportunity. If it was a company with shit for funding I might have more pity but Epic definitely had the budget to do more.

All Epic had to do was build a good store front with similar features as Steam provides. They didn’t. Their store sucked from the beginning and it also blows now. Relying purely on exclusives and freebies was a losing game - they needed to back it up by making the service worthwhile beyond that, and they utterly failed to do so.

The value in the printed word is that it can’t be easily modified. The knowledge and ideas are preserved in a sense, as long as it remains intact. On the internet things can be changed after the fact easily, and it’s much harder to verify what was changed later. Living in the age of misinformation has given me new reason to hang on to my books and even old dvds and cds etc. I recognize what you’re saying too - if you’re just reading for entertainment and moving on it makes sense to pay a minimum and move on when you’re done. I just also find myself clutching to 1984 where it describes making the changes I’m talking about, and holding on to Fahrenheit 451 as it begins to look like book banning and eventually burning is on the rise.

Edit: Ive even changed this comment. It was just spelling.

Thats not an accent dude that’s just someone who cant string a sentence together without making meaningless interjections every several words. It’s the equivalent of saying uhhhh every uhhhh time you need to uhhhhh think because you uhhhhh didn’t figure out your uhhhhh thoughts before uhhhh spitting them out.

Like, she sounds like, so eloquently spoken and with like, well fucking thought out opinions, like fuuuuck! Im totally picking who she is sort of picking but not picking like wow. For real for real.

You must be new. This is America we are talking about.

Who could possibly be motivated to do such a thing??? Hmmmm

Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn people.

You can avoid most tinkering if you buy a prebuilt and mostly use Steam for games. I bought my last one from cyberpowerpc.com and other than some occasional cleaning I don’t really mess with the hardware. Steam detects all my different controllers, so the only time I mess with much else is if I want to play something that uses a different store front or launcher (last I checked Ubisoft, Rockstar, and EA dont know how to handle playstation controllers on windows so you need a 3rd party app for that called DS4Windows). I would like to jump to linux, and I will admit that I’ve been too busy for the amount of tinkering and adjustment I expect that to involve.

Sometimes, every once in a while I fiddle with graphics settings to get a smoother frame rate. Admittedly that can be daunting initially. Many modern games will autodetect. Nvidia has a wonky program that I use to auto-optimize when I’m feeling lazy, I will run that and then adjust from there. Games generally look good enough now that it doesn’t bother me if I’m not running everything at max settings, I just lock in 120 or 144 FPS and away I go.

Get a PC. Don’t pay to play online, get games for actual decent discounts.

Humblebundle.com

Isthereanydeal.com

Gog.com

PC hardware typically comes at a premium, but the savings on games makes up for it, and you will get a lot of other functionality out of it too. Upgrade when you need and your library stays with you.

Had a recent discussion on here about exactly this because someone said this is the worst time to be alive. There’s no way I’m going back to the past, and I’m not even a minority or one of the oppressed sexual orientations/ genders. Ill take my vaccines, frustrating technology, and unfortunately corporate overlords and oligarchs thank you very much. At least when they ram a spear up my ass they do it in the form of a digitalized bill.

Who was ever turning to Keanu for scientific knowledge? Lost him? We never had him! Chill dude, entertaining actor, but absolutely wrong person for science.

Thats a pretty miserable take on modern life, and I’m amused that your golden era is during World War 1. Enjoy your mustard gas and spanish flu!