47 Alpha Tango

This is one way to finally get rid of Twitter. I wonder if Spez is considering charging for Reddit?

I haven’t used another browser outside of Safari for almost a decade and I’d never dream of using anything made by Google.

I gave it around 8 hours before I decided I was done being bored.

It really is a Marmite game isn’t it?

There’s so many but the I think the biggest disappointment award has to go to Death Stranding.

A brand new by the creator of Metal Gear without the shackles of a publisher looking over his shoulder, it had the makings of an epic game.

What did we get? Amazon Prime simulator with such a convoluted and nonsensical story it barely makes sense.

Seems a bit short sighted. There are some games, movies and TV shows that simply don’t exist to buy legally or even second hand.

Torrenting is the only way in some instances to preserve content.

Mine only gets charged on the dock overnight. I’ve never needed to charge it during the day so it doesn’t get used while charging.

I’m genuinely surprised Apple didn’t opt for the portless option. With wireless charging, wireless iCloud backup and wireless connections to macOS you don’t actually need a port on the phone.

I’ve had a 12 Pro Max for almost 3 years and I’ve have never plugged anything into it.

For games if there is no way of buying it new and supporting the developers I’ll just download a ROM. It makes absolutely no difference to the developer or publisher whether I buy it used or pirate it. They aren’t getting any of the money either way.

Or if it’s a PC game and I’m not sure it will run on my system I’ll pirate it and if it runs they get my money.

As for movies and TV if it’s available to buy on physical on DVD, Blu Ray, 4K Blu Ray I’ll buy it. But if it’s only streaming or on VOD I’ll pirate it. There’s been too many cases of purchased content being removed from peoples accounts.

Basically if they want my money it needs to be available to buy brand new in a way that won’t just disappear one day.

Good on Apple.

It is theft when they refuse to give the phone back to me and try and keep it until the end of the week.

Yeah we tried that. It went so well she now takes her own phone.

At least in the UK, enforce it how.

The only way a school can enforce it is by committing theft.

My oldest daughter is disabled so my youngest daughter must have her phone so she can be told about changes to pick up if something unexpected happens which it often does. The school isn’t within walking distance of home so she needs to know what’s happening.

As soon as you threaten to call the police for theft they cave.

Until the strike I was subscribed to Apple TV, Paramount+, Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime so I don’t pirate unless what I want isn’t available on physical disc or streaming.

If a streaming service removes original content because they don’t want to pay residuals I’ll torrent it.

Likewise anything new that comes out during the strike I’ll torrent. Once they start paying the writers fairly and guarantee protections agains AI for writers and actors I’ll be more than happy to start giving them my money again. But as things stand the studios pocket 99% of the money hence the strikes.

“4.5 million residents are living in hell”

I thought the population of the United States was much more than 4.5 million. Oh well, live and learn.

My first “smart device” was a cheap ass tablet running ICS. The tablet was absolute horse shit but it sold me on Android so my next phone ended up being a Galaxy S4.

I’ve been buying Apple devices for a while now but there’s always a place in my heart for these old Android versions.

I don’t have tons of digital media so it’s stored on 2 4TB portable HDD’s.

I only regularly download and keep things that either aren’t available on streaming or are removed from streaming services.

But since the writers strikes I download most things I want to watch as the streamers aren’t getting any more of my money until they pay writers what they’re worth.

That’s the problem with digital games.

If you buy it legally the publisher might decide one day to take it away from you and you have absolutely no rights to stop them because you don’t own shit.

If you pirate the game then it’s yours to keep for as long as you want. Plus you get the added benefit of none of the draconian DRM that serves no purpose other than to punish people that buy the games legitimately.

Just to clarify that I only support pirating games when they have been removed from store fronts and there is no possible way to support the developer even if you wanted to.