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Nostalgia.

It has tried to return in the early 2010s and again in the 2020s. It has not aged well and didn’t really feel like it belonged anywhere within any culture of what was going on for shows around those points in time.

So a while ago I was on a platform where the community valued art that was made by actual artists. AI Art was strictly forbidden and anyone who showcased said AI art in their gallery or used it as a profile picture, had it removed and could face penalty.

AI has been trained to generate art styles from many artists by crawling through the web. Anyone can go to any AI generating source, punch in a few descriptive keywords, tell AI to mimic a style as closely as possible and now you have a copy of said material.

The difference is, is that IPTV is just an internet-based streaming station similar to how networks operate to broadcast television shows. There’s nothing to really pirate.

This is the kind of shit that makes me want to campaign on harassing marketers and advertisers personally.

“I’ve a question for you, Mr.Advertiser”

“Yes! Is it about how we can shovel more commercials to you?”

“No, it’s about what do you value in life and how would you feel if I took it from you, you parasite?”

I wonder what the quarterly earning reports are from stores that have exited the physical media market by now. Like Best Buy has now gone a whole year without selling physical media.

Yeah that was the content I was vaguely referring to.

And kind of agree, a lot of the show’s actual episodic structure outside of the music video part, is shoddy at best. It was car crash television from the 90s, what did anyone expect?

I’ll shamefully admit that I would’ve bought Diablo IV at launch. But the dealbreaker for me was when they made it online-only, like Diablo III. Good preventative measure.

Of course. When people need to save money and have to consider what expense to cut away. People need something to tend to.

I don’t pirate for moral purposes. I pirate because:

I do not have all of the money in the world to simply just spend luxuriously on anything I set my sights on.

I care about having food, a place to stay I can call my own, and a vehicle I need to get to places.

There were stretches in time in my life where I had been broke and too poor while many things have passed me by that I have pirated since.

I find that some services or media just aren’t worth the asking price or the value of what’s there that’s offered, because it does not pique my interest that would make me want to subscribe.

I live a finite lifespan, I do not have all of the time in the world until legal alternatives are available or for some things to be affordable when I know it is likely that they won’t be.

It’s really that simple.

Okay, child. Let us know when you’ve grown up.

Or don’t since you don’t have the thought process to make a coherent thought for anybody to read.

This is the kind of shit that makes my eyes feel cross-eyed some times.

You had the power to like edit the post and add your commentary into it. No excuse. Then again, you didn’t even offer anything insightful as to the reason. Wow, just a one-liner that offered up absolutely no thought put into it.

“According to Matthew Ball’s The State of Video Gaming in 2025 presentation, first spotted by VGC, some developers “hope” the next installment in the GTA franchise will be priced at $80–$100, fully capitalizing on its status as the most anticipated game on the market. This increase, the report suggests, would allow studios to raise the price of their own new games by at least $10 to offset declining player numbers and inflation while justifying the change by pointing to GTA VI’s example.”

Who the hell are the developers clamoring for this?

No, what’s going to happen is that, with so many game sales happening every week, people are largely going to wait for the sales axe to come down on GTA VI until it’s affordable. The only people who’d happily buy GTA VI at that price point, are gullible FOMO-pearl-clutching “gamurs”, gaming “journalists”, benchmark nerds and egotistical Day-1 flaunters. That’s about it.

The moment GTA VI hits a single sale, then most will jump on it.

Yeah I’ve read about that collection. Because the officially released versions were either missing content or were inferior.

Borrow movie, rip it, return it. I’m sure people who rent from RedBox did the same thing or those who rented movies in the past.

He ran in 2000. He mulled over doing it in 2004. He ran in 2016, won. He ran in 2020, lost. He ran in 2024, won. And he campaigned in 2012.

So that’s like, five times he’s tried.