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It’s truth. Not a gotcha moment. Keep pretending you know everything.

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It lasted for like…a day. Fucking boo-hoo.

I’m in a discord server where a couple people I know were freaking out about “OMG TIKTOK DOWN! I WAS GONNA MAKE SOMETHING!” and shit. Then a few hours later, they were cheery it was back on.

Just in time for people to make even more forgettable brain rot.

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?

Oxfam can keep calling whatever they like. So long as wealthy people exist, they’ve got control of lobbying to prevent such things from happening.

A single million could really change someone’s life. Just one million.

With all of my expenses tallied up, for 15 years, I’m covered worry-free and all I’d need is at least $500k. That’s it. Another half of that, make it 30 years.

These rich people, having billions at their command, are set for like twenty lifetimes over.

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.