Brandon 🚷

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another win for physical media which nobody "reasonable" can deny looks and feels like buying the thing, not that I agree with the argument in the first place and it goes without saying you could never steal from corporations more than they've stolen from you

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 3w ago

Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy. It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-sa...

The Dink is the new Hot Rod and people are going to be calling it a (cult?) classic in 10 years. Sean Clements' voice is so strong, you got Ed Harris Ed Harrising, a bond built on country and TCM, open arms, and a heroism of just showing up. I was weeping to the music BEFORE JJ. That's truth.

The shows were worse in ways that often dissolve, e.g. gay rep is less explicit but no less rich, tech standards were no less make-do, formulas showed but god I miss writers. I remember the sense that we could do better, and we did (Sopranos), but TV is further from that now than in 1993

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Rowling is the ultimate proof that we cannot have billionaires. She technically made her fortune without fucking over the working class. A borderline miracle. And yet, she remains a monster that wants to make the world worse. We can either have billionaires or freedom, not both.

Aidan Comerford@aidancomerford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is Rowling's pinned tweet, and yet, just this week, she is funding legal cases against Féile Belfast and Amnesty International for exercising their free speech and fair opinion. She is using her massive wealth to terrorise these orgs into compilance, because she doesn't believe in free speech.

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.