Nostalgia.

It has tried to return in the early 2010s and again in the 2020s. It has not aged well and didn’t really feel like it belonged anywhere within any culture of what was going on for shows around those points in time.

So a while ago I was on a platform where the community valued art that was made by actual artists. AI Art was strictly forbidden and anyone who showcased said AI art in their gallery or used it as a profile picture, had it removed and could face penalty.

AI has been trained to generate art styles from many artists by crawling through the web. Anyone can go to any AI generating source, punch in a few descriptive keywords, tell AI to mimic a style as closely as possible and now you have a copy of said material.

The difference is, is that IPTV is just an internet-based streaming station similar to how networks operate to broadcast television shows. There’s nothing to really pirate.

This is the kind of shit that makes me want to campaign on harassing marketers and advertisers personally.

“I’ve a question for you, Mr.Advertiser”

“Yes! Is it about how we can shovel more commercials to you?”

“No, it’s about what do you value in life and how would you feel if I took it from you, you parasite?”

I wonder what the quarterly earning reports are from stores that have exited the physical media market by now. Like Best Buy has now gone a whole year without selling physical media.

Yeah that was the content I was vaguely referring to.

And kind of agree, a lot of the show’s actual episodic structure outside of the music video part, is shoddy at best. It was car crash television from the 90s, what did anyone expect?

Of course. When people need to save money and have to consider what expense to cut away. People need something to tend to.

I don’t pirate for moral purposes. I pirate because:

I do not have all of the money in the world to simply just spend luxuriously on anything I set my sights on.

I care about having food, a place to stay I can call my own, and a vehicle I need to get to places.

There were stretches in time in my life where I had been broke and too poor while many things have passed me by that I have pirated since.

I find that some services or media just aren’t worth the asking price or the value of what’s there that’s offered, because it does not pique my interest that would make me want to subscribe.

I live a finite lifespan, I do not have all of the time in the world until legal alternatives are available or for some things to be affordable when I know it is likely that they won’t be.

It’s really that simple.

I’ll be eager to know what the results will be about it’s resistance to bullets and sharpened objects.

Technically speaking, that is practiced. Try as the Government may, they can’t censor free speech directed towards them or about them. By default that any attempt should they keep trying, is a direct violation of the 1st Amendment, which something people horribly get wrong a lot of the time.

People will and have said a lot of shit around social media and to others freely. Because social media and the people they talk to, aren’t the government. But, which is another thing people are stupidly oblivious to, that what is said outside of that government scope, subjects them to be penalized. Such as being banned, being muted, being excommunicated, being brought to court and even be subjected to go to jail.

So for example, I have the free speech to tell X someone to go and kill themselves. They do so. So what does that do? Well, I just violated a cyberbullying law right there and I committed an act of murder remotely. And to addition to my would-be punishment, I’ve indirectly revoked my right to free speech.

Where I’m getting at or to just put it plainly, people need to be more moderate and regulated in how they practice their free speech and to whom. The part that nobody ever wants to confront or deal with, are the consequences about that free speech that it could bring to them. It’s a two way street, not one.

There’s really no realistic workaround to this.

You must be fun at parties.

I just find gamblers obnoxious, really. Like the ones who have to turn everything into a damn betting contest. I’ve been in YouTube chat rooms before when I used to have watched live stream dart events. And there was always at least 10 people there who just couldn’t shut the fuck up about “OH THIS PLAYER LOST AND MADE ME LOSE MY MONEY!” or “ANY BETS?!?” or whatever else.

It just annoyed the fuck out of me because it takes you out of the game. And I hate how sports now have openly adopted gambling to where they cater to these people. Gotta hear about draft kings, gotta hear about odds, percentages and whatever else. I fucking hate the idea of gambling itself.

Narrator: You will not have your mind changed.

These people just say their empty comments and go about their day.

And that’s a worrying reality. But that’s what Big Tech is banking heavily on. They’re no longer entitled to their files on their machines or devices. It’s in the cloud, handled by a biased service who more than likely could do anything and charge them anything as they so desire in order to have continued access to said ‘files’.

Now it looks like…every other generic laptop.

I’m not a huge fan of the nub, I personally have always found it in the middle of the way. I do understand it’s use, though.

Yeah I’ve read about that collection. Because the officially released versions were either missing content or were inferior.

Borrow movie, rip it, return it. I’m sure people who rent from RedBox did the same thing or those who rented movies in the past.

Not like they’re already out there.

My golden rule of thumb goes by this ruling, if I can barely take care of myself and barely get by. There’s absolutely no way or chance I’ve got in caring for someone else like a child.

If I can’t stand the sight, scent, hearing and other things of other people’s children. There’s not a guarantee that I’ll see my child any different.

Dumbasses, lol.

Man, I’ll never forget the amazement I’ve had when 2 decades ago about how I could replay nearly hundreds to a few thousand games at the time, from Atari through Game Boy Color. All through one computer, through emulation.

Arcade gaming is amongst the most disrespected of the games from video game companies. A lot of them are shoved to the side when they no longer are getting quarters and it’s a dime a dozen that some see digital re-releases, if the companies even get the performance right. Because they’ll just outsource to DotEmu who has a knack for slowing down Neo-Geo games for absolutely no reason.