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I agree that random blocking sours the reputation.

The only thought I can conjure is perhaps a mod got pissed about a post and banned everyone from a thread, including commentators defending our even just neutrally discussing AI.

I think more detail, perhaps direct comment from the mod(s) involved, is warranted.

As to "vote manipulation", brigading or mass vote blasts are against the rules but harder to pass muster on a bit.

Again, the mod should have a chance to respond for sure.

Unlike Dump I actually would want to see Bama's wife naked.

Not really a strong conviction here, but she seems like she's not all plastic yet. A mind up there, too... Always good in my list

Also, she at least looks like someone who's actually had an orgasm in the past 40 years or so.

Apparently 2 of them managed to vote for fucking kids

Conglomerated with DarkStar Industries and featured through Pegged Productions

Wait, we kicking the shit out of conservatives?

Did I miss the fun AGAIN?! Damn...

His word spreads like fire as it's only the best, mostest truthiest truth.

Places that buy other companies to dismantle or lay off large chunks of staff and take over IP with minimal or absent quality to show from it. Just maximize that investor dollar.

Microsoft, Disney etc.

The harm performed far outweighs any investment from a "toward the artists" I see come back.

or even a group that funded it

I noted I'm ok with investors.

I'm against parasitic groups that feed on properties and prevent money getting to the actual dev folks.

I primarily do the torrent (private trackers) thing, is there any real benefit into using Usenet these days?

If I go down this dark path, is there any recommendations on services for the data?

Hey man, you can't park that here

Ditto on Spotify. I have big love for piracy of FLAC for my personal music server, but I also have a decent rack filled with physical offerings from my favorite bands.

My Bandcamp collection is also getting up there, since a few of my favs say they are treated well there, and it's FLAC friendly as well.

Physical media or merch directly from the band is absolutely the way to go every time if possible.

Cool argument, except a huge quantity of pirated works aren't "owned" by the creator or even a group that funded it, but instead by parasitic companies that abuse capitalistic tools to actually steal value from those creators.

I have thousands of purchased games. 3 categories here:

1: obtained as part of a pack (humble gog etc)

2: purchased AFTER trying out via pirate copy to know if it is my kind of thing

3: picked up early access due to demo or general interest from being a known smaller dev/studio (hare brained for example)

With less and less access to shareware and viable demos, piracy is often the only conduit to prevent me getting ripped off of $80 for something that looks like a shiny sports car but end up being another "buy $800 in dlc for the full story!" Ford pinto.

Additionally, I now flat refuse to fund the likes of Denuvo, and wish that piracy actively hurt the bottom line of companies deploying that kind of anti-user shit.