You can also buy drm free music from sites like Bandcamp. I don’t feel bad buying from smaller groups. Joyride! might actually notice the $10 from me buying their new album.

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They really think we’re stupid. Unfortunately, they may be mostly right.

Every conservative accusation is a confession.

One could write a paper about how profit motive and art are at odds, and as the portion of agents seeking profit goes up the quality of the art goes down. Probably many people have written quite a bit about that.

I think it’s also worse when the people keeping the profits are removed from making the art. Someone who sets out to make a game and make some money on it will probably make better art than a pack of accountants and shareholders calling the shots.

Aardwolf is still up and pretty good. Has a special client with some QoL features like mapping.

It’s not as good as Project Bob, but sadly that one shut down years ago.

Platforms could moderate their content. They choose not to.

I mean it’s horrible but the only way people change their mind is from social pressure.

I had a coworker that was very right wing and months of talking I got him to accept queer people can be filed under “live and let live”. That was a big improvement from where he started.

Most developers I’ve looked at would happily just paste the curl|bash thing into the terminal.

I often would skim the script in the browser, but a. This post shows that’s not fool proof and b. a sufficiently sophisticated malicious script would fool a casual read

I’m pretty sure conservatives axiomatically have a problem with women. That’s part of conservatism.