We did too, but it was because my parents refused to pay full price for a game, so they bought pirate physical copies for dirt cheap and they worked great. Then of course I learned to torrent. Nowadays I only buy games when they’re from indie devs or from small companies.
My parents let me play whatever I wanted, even Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil, but first they taught me the difference between fiction and reality and said I could play for a limited amount of hours per day, and only after doing my homework or after studying. Except on weekends, on weekends they let me play for longer, but also made sure I was playing offline too and going outside. It was pretty good.
The funny thing to me is that my dad would sometimes say it frustrated him that I liked video games because he thought they were “for boys” and yet he was the one who bought my (jailbroken) console and (pirated physical copies of) games until I turned 18 lol
If not friend, why friend-shaped?
Lemmy is starting to feel like reddit after all
It makes no sense because Tolkien wouldn’t have agreed with most of them and would’ve despised how they use his legacy. I don’t think these people understood the message the books were trying to send.
I really wish they didn’t give this thing a LotR name (Palantir), Tolkien would’ve hated it.
He’s speedrunning his cartoonish villain arc
Not only that, but they use device bans as well, so even if you switch to an unbanned IP they can still detect if you’re on the same device you were first banned on, and ban you again for ban evasion.
This one time I got banned from world news for disagreeing with one of the more conservative posts there, and I wasn’t even impolite about it. Months later I accidentally commented on world news again using an alt account, as I had forgotten about the ban. So then I got permanently banned from reddit itself, and every time I tried to make a new account it got banned for ban evasion. I was only able to make a new account and keep it for more than 24 hours when some time later I changed my IP and bought a new phone.
Considering many countries are implementing this at the same time, I’m not sure there will be any countries left to run an instance from or set a VPN connection at.