I think this depends how you perceive your pre-transition self. That advice is a good default though.

Personally I find myself switching between both perceptions of my past self, which is even more fucky since I’m closeted.

Gender is a fuck.

Imagine being able to shoot cookies out your nips. That’d be fuckin’ useful.

Yeah but there’s none that do that and run graphene so I’m SOL :p

Turns out that’s worse than murder. That’s what I get fer being picky I spose.

The $80 off-contract phone I owned in highschool had:

• expandable storage
• a 3.5mm jack
• a user replaceable battery
• ip57 water resistance

I used to shower with this phone regularly. I dropped it in a glass of water the day I bought it. If kyocera can do it for $80 10 years ago, modern manufacturers can do it now for $1000. Turns out coating your sockets, and putting gromets on your battery covers costs literal fucking pennies.

Stop simping for corporations who are looking for an excuse to squeeze out glued together shit.

Yeah well the 0.01% seem to be the people who actually know how to use a computer, or at least a portion of them, so maybe design for them since the rest don’t seem to give a fuck.

Especially considering the people who actually work on hardware design are more likely than average to be a part of that 0.01%, if we really are that rare. Which I don’t believe.

Storing music and ROMs on your phone is a pretty common usecase I have to imagine. It sucks I can’t keep all my stuff on me like I used to.

While we’re at it I want my LG V20 style inbuilt DAC back. I shouldn’t have to choose between unlocking my phone every time USB disconnects, or in-line compression mixed with the vulnerabilities that come with Bluetooth. Onboard 3.5mm jacks let you reconnect headphones that disconnect in your pocket securely without an unlock.

Also ir blasters so I can make restaurants think their TV’s are broken again.

I’d fucking murder for expandable storage back. Wtf am I supposed to do with a 300gb music folder and no SD card?

I have to set up a VPN w/ jellyfin just to listen to everything lmao.

K

I don’t argue with people to justify my actions, silly goose, I do it to satisfy my neurotic compulsion to tell dipshits why they’re wrong. Because unlike you, I know my faults. <3

Look if you’re just going to take single lines from a multi-paragraph reply out of context to fuel your bad faith arguments, you can go bite one.

The fact that you repeatedly call me a leech is very telling. It says to us that you’re interested in finding excuses to put strangers in a box so you can feel better about yourself.

Maybe go out and find something about yourself to actually like, instead of this upstanding citizen bullshit, because its a very thin veneer.

Just say you’re ok with stifling creative people because you don’t believe the deserve to live off of their hard work.

Just admit you’re too dense to see the difference between pirating a piece of media owned by a corporation who’s no longer giving money to the artists for said creation, and a smaller artist/group of artists who survive directly off of their work.

But yeah tell me more about how the indie dev who spends hundreds a month on tiny band camp artists doesn’t give a shit about creative because I refuse to pay $40 for flacs of a classic rock album when indie artists can do the same thing for $8. Despite the $8 purchase actually going to artists and not record label execs/shareholders.

Furthermore, you growing fruit takes resources and time. I can make thousands of copies of a file in a single keystroke. Again, the more apt metaphor would be me buying fruit, using that to grow my own, and giving that away. Even then its not exact.

Its not a minute detail lmao, it throws the entire argument. In one instance you’re stealing a physical good. In another you’re making a one-to-one copy of a piece of information. Information that exists on MY physical storage medium, using MY bits that I physically own.

You specifically chose that metaphor knowing this. Don’t try and gaslight me with that shit.

Just because you’re wrong doesn’t mean you have to argue in bad faith, sweety. <3

This hypothetical is a false equivalence as fruit is a physical good. Digital media can be copied ad nauseum without the owner losing access to their copy.

When someone steals your fruit, its not just that they have fruit and you didn’t get money, its that you no longer have any of your fruit.

A better metaphor is if someone bought your fruit, buried the seeds, grew their own plum tree, and started giving away the fruit that they grew.

Also call it being afraid, but I don’t have shame in being security conscious. Not that I run games outside of a controlled VM, but anyone who would run a cracked exe that uses a closed source implementation is fucking asking for it. Only software crack I’ve ever trusted was massgrave for activating windows/office.

So long as everyone who wants to play a game can purchase it used, its functionally no different than piracy. Except someone who did no work makes money off of it.

If a game can’t be easily legally obtained, if at all, its a pretty common belief that piracy is justified in the name of preservation.

The only exceptions to this are new releases which haven’t reached critical mass, and smaller releases which will never reach any sort of mass following.

The former is especially important when you realize that two months post-launch of a new piece of media, the company has made back the artist saleries, and everything after that is just bonus for the useless vultures upstairs.

I say this as someone who buys their games because they don’t trust cracked executables.

Granted I have a collection of complete romsets, but I also have three bookshelves of physical games from the Nintendo Switch all the way back to the 2600 (even have a coupla pong consoles.)

Between all that, the hundreds/thousands I’ve spent on band camp, and the monthly donations to patron creators, free software projects, and the internet archive? Yeah I must be a freeloader lmao. There’s a million reasons piracy is ethically correct. Copyright needs to fucking die.

You want bottom tier leeches? Go look to the capitalist owning class that tried to redefine sharing as piracy in the first place.

So was the install I made a copy of and gave to a friend. Either way the publisher makes the same amount.

Sure there might be a limited number of used copies, but when you’re talking about a mass manufactured product with limited demand like a random used game, then yeah, might as well be unlimited. How many used copies of GTA V or Skyrim out there do you think there are? Answer: far more than there are people looking to buy them, and each one of those copies can be sold an infinite amount of times.

The only games that are so rare that this matters are either so expensive or so hard to come by that everyone is okay with pirating them anyways because there’s no reasonable way to obtain them, and they’re all usually out of print any who.

Unless “piracy” is your alternative to buying a brand new copy at launch, I don’t wanna hear it.

If GameStop can make bank re-selling used games without giving back a cent to the developer, how is doing the same for free, without taking up competitive retail space any worse?

I know I did this for damn near every game i got as a kid, but I distinctly remember in middle school doing this in the back of my step-fathers pickup truck with a copy of Skyrim on PC. It had just come out the night before and I was shocked Walmart still had any copies.

Datacenters aren’t the issue, like it or not they’re required for modern society. The issue is data centers powered by unclean power sources.

Fucking C-x M-c M-butterfly

Fuck off, all religions are fucking stupid and need to die. They have no place in human civilization anymore. It is time to move on.

Isreal is a religious ethnostate, in the same way most of the middle east is, in the same way large swaths of the bible belt try (and many times succeed) to be.

The only difference between these three is the amount of money and leeway they’re given to enact their stupid bullshit. Its time the adults in the room stopped putting up with it.

You can throw around “edgy reddit atheist” all you want, but were not the group of people enabling and engaging in some of humanities most heinous acts over the fact that you where too stupid to question your parents. I’m so tired of wearing kid gloves around religious folk.