Yeah, but every game has an expiration date if you have to rely on a server still being live to download the full game, which is kinda my point.

If the disk cannot install and play the full game, then it holds little value as physical media for preservation. At that point the only value it has is for collectors.

I've been reading Finkelstein's book about Gaza, and it's really struck me pretty hard how the major difference between the situation 20 years ago and now is how the media landscape has changed. It's pretty clear to me that all the bluster about children on social media and ID verification is just an attempt to return to those days.

"Cory Doctorow predicts the sun will rise tomorrow."

You love to see it. These fucks are so used being world bully that they never bothered to consider that Iran would be able to meaningfully resist. I'm assuming that they started believing their own propaganda about the Middle East being "backwards" and other racist, orientalist drivel.

You're not as strange as you think, but I have a sneaking suspicion that you're still quite young (20s?). Your 20s are largely about trying to fit in and following social conventions - you do all the things you think you're "supposed to". As you hit your 30s, you stop caring so much about what other people think and what other people have told you that you're supposed to do and start figuring out what you want to do. A big part of growing up is learning that there are no "rules"; you can eat candy for breakfast if you want, sing in the shower, be an absolute cringe goblin - sky's the limit so long as you're not hurting anyone.

Finding a partner to avoid being alone is a terrible, terrible idea for all involved. Learn to enjoy your own company first and figure out what you actually want your life to look like, then you'll be much more likely to find someone going the same direction. Figure out who you want to be and take the steps to becoming that person. Be unapologetically yourself, and you'll find people who like you for you, which is absolutely preferable to trying to fit yourself into a tiny box of what you think you're supposed to be and earning the admiration of people you despise.

As some other commenters have mentioned, investigate whether you may be neurodivergent, because you'll be much more able to make sense of yourself and the world around you with that knowledge if you are.

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Will these people ever stop taking their product names from The Lord of The Rings? J.R.R. Tolkien's corpse could probably be set up to generate power from all the spinning he's presumably doing in his grave at this point.

100%. If it weren't them, it would be someone else. Plus, I'm fairly confident the whole "Track AIPAC" thing exists just to launder other Zionist bribes.

"Israel" needs to end. Pack up all the settlers and ship them back where they came from, and hand the land back to the Palestinians.

If this isn't an op, then that's even more pathetic, honestly. Imagine doing this shit for free.

I literally just bought some Hexclad pans...I guess I'll try to avoid using metal utensils on them regardless. I did use a Caraway pan before and I can confirm that those do not last long at all - absolutely avoid those.

I'm assuming you mean transition to socialism, as no one has achieved or claimed to achieve communism. Look at how much Cuba has accomplished in spite of the embargo. They have more doctors per capita than any other nation on earth and even developed their own COVID vaccine. That they are suffering so much now is due to the crimes of the US, not any internal reason.