Same. I dont know where I heard the word from, but it became my playful insult as a kid.

Got a very rude awakening when I called someones kid a silly dildo and had a red faced dad scream spitting in my little childhood face about it.

But now Steam is the last man standing between us and corporate greed.

Man how quickly people forget what things were like before the lawsuits forced valve to make steam more consumer friendly and regulatory abiding…

HALF. LIFE. FUCKING. THREE.

I give exactly zero fucks about any of this until they show prices.

because most people got exposed to steam’s launch on HL2’s launch. Where they bought the physical game, came home, installed it off like 5 CDs… then had to run steam to decrypt it and download more files because the fucking install was encrypted, and the goddamn fucking decryption took like 8 hours if you didnt have the worlds greatest computer.

Nope, I’m still totally not salty about not being able to play the game I fucking bought until the day after cause bullshit encryption fuckery, why would you ever think that.

I still have that goddamn box somewhere… i need to dig it up and see what release retail HL2 is like compared to HL2 you’d downlaod today from steam…

Windows 7 was the only OS I ever had that didnt make me want to rip my hair out for one reason or another.

The two great linux migrations.

The end of Windows 7

The end of Windows 10.

What? The man who rivals the spying ability of many nations isnt totally on the up and up? Whuda thunkit!

Breaking News.

Man with vested interest in selling his services, insists buying his services is the only way to save us from the evil foreign menace

There are plenty of wrist slaps given in America for horrible crimes, too, rest assured.

And his shittery isnt a new thing.

He was shilling “alternative medicine” back in the 80s.

Yep. Dogs have been used to manufacture probably cause for decades.

Only once have they ever been scientifically tested, and they failed… and shockingly, cops refused to participate in any future testings.

AI also recently decided a bag of chips that a black kid had was a gun, and summoned a horde of cops on him.

an accident I doubt AI would make with a white kid, because AI gets all sorts of inherit biases from the data its fed… and whats more biased in law inforcement than how black people are treated vs white people.

Yes, yes. Go for the low hanging bait, that certainly makes you look more righter.

You are likely to get away with this if your website gets little traffic.

But to much and your ISP is likely to tell you to knock it off, or just close your subscription.

“There’s a monopoly” — proceeds to list 3 separate providers. Don’t forget there’s also Akami, now we’re up to 4. Oh, and Cloud Flare… so that’s 5.

Thats called a Cartel. and a cartel can fucking monopolize shit, dumbass.

hell most TOS shit isnt even legal in America.

But most people are stupid, and those that arent don’t have the money to engage a lawyer to fight it.

For instance, those heart-tugging ads for St Jude’s Children’s Hospital. It’s a great thing they do, taking in cancer kids, and covering all the expenses, even housing and food. They show grateful parents crying, because their kids have a chance because of the charity of St Jude and the viewers, and viewers shed a tear and donate.

What really gripes my ass more than anything else is how all these horror stories are twisted and presented as “feel good” stories that should make us all go “Awww, isnt that wonderful?!”

Like the stories about 6 year olds putting in hundreds of hour of labor to earn the money required to pay off their classmates student lunch debt (and don’t even get me fucking started on the abysmal fucking evil idea that that created the idea of student lunch debt to begin with)

Or those “feel good” stories about someone with a wheelchair thats in complete shambles and a hardware store or something cobbles it back together and fixes it, for free, so the owner isnt stuck sitting somewhere with no mobility.

Or someone coming down with cancer, and their coworkers donating vacation days to them so they don’t lose their fucking job and the insurance they need to pay for the actual fucking treatment.

Like…

How are these feel good stories?

These are fucking the most egregious failure of civilization horror stories.

and Americans, ever indoctrinated, see these stories and smile and feel emotionally uplifted because of the “good” that was done.

because morals are nice.

but being able to eat, and not be rained on and assaulted in your sleep is nicerer.

Thomas Riker is the result of someone basically sending down a second transporter beam, overlapped over the first one… Which resulted in Riker basically being put into two matter buffers… which resulted in essentially a clone when one of the transporters reflected off the atmospheric conditions back to the ground.

proper use of a transporter doesnt cause issues… that was not a proper use of a transporter iirc.