Exactly, any other time that would be called consolidation … but that doesn’t drive engagement so we will say leaving. …

Ignoring also it’s Australia instead of America broadcast channel… Which most people would assume.

Such a non story.

Ten percent of people didn’t know and now feel bad they were tricked…

The other ninety percent don’t care because they just have hate boners for Twitter.

"But it was a cess pool in the way I like it … fuck it I’m going back to Tumblr … "

Wait… You built a computer. Installed an OS on it, one of the easiest OSes to install… And now are having an issue installing steam… And somehow it’s the OS’ fault?

This is either fake, trying to pirate windows, or your trying to avoid responsibility for not being able to assemble a simple computer. Wtf?

It costs penny on the dollar to archive the final code base of these games.

Saying it’s fine is like saying a artist shouldn’t keep copies of their work on the wall because there’s no money it’s it.

Companies should have pride in their accomplishments. These companies only care about profitability, and care nothing about what they have done in the past unless it makes them more money. It’s why modern gaming feels soulless.

Thanks for summarizing your point “It’s ok when it happens to people I don’t like.”

But how they present it to the interviewee is as a serious interview, not a comedy movie. Rudy Guiliani didn’t go into that interview thinking “This is a comedy show” He was fooled into thinking it was a “real interview with a republican news group” or something like that (I forget how they presented themselves, but it was as a “real” news organization)

I’d say that’s more of a problem then misrepresenting real interviews by using frankencuts (which has been done that way for decades, but still a scumbag movie when in a documentary)

Not that this is OK. But isn’t this how films like Borat works? They misrepresent what the movie is about, get sign off, do all the stuff.

Don’t know how legal that is, but I would imagine most of that shit would be shut down immediately and not get sign off once they realize it’s a comedy film/show.

Theres no used to be when it comes to these rants. It’s just a ticking clock to the next one

Downloading and watching is a crime. One night be able to say they didn’t know what they were downloading but likely the file name and site or torrent is a good clue that’s bullshit.

Your probably discussing chance of getting caught. You likely will see a DMCA complaint or something like that to your ISP at worse for downloading but enough of these might get your service terminated (some ISP don’t care.)

Sharing the files and usually sharing a lot of files publicly or semi publicly will get you more attention and that will get the media companies more likely to take you down as a distributor.

VPN and smart browsing habits will reduce a lot of this risk though.

Think of downloading is one star in GTA. They will chase you if they are you. Uploading is two stars when they start shooting at you. Profiting of it is like three stars and that’s when they get more aggressive. You can get busted at one star but it’s just very unlikely.

IT’s also lacking viewers. Odyssee is a great idea, but I converted all my videos over and get 0 views. Odysee’s biggest problem is they need to advertise for viewers, but anyone who goes “Watch me on Odysee” sounds like an idiot, or a scammer (I know Upper Echelon pushed it for a while, but he pushed all sorts of stillborn projects, so it just was yet another one…

It basising a lot of it’s reward structure on a crypto currency doesn’t help much either.

If you’re demanding I watch ads, it’s not “free”. you’re demanding my time and probably attention.

I really think we need to stop with this idea that “Something is free” because no money is exchanged. Some stuff ARE free, there are repos on git, where you can download software, there are websites that ask for nothing. However Gmail, Youtube, reddit, and the rest are not “Free” just because they aren’t directly asking for money.