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I actually do know when my last disc was burned (it was a DVD though–)

One of my video prod professors demanded we turn in our group assignments in DVD format

… This was in 2018

I was the only person in the entire class that even had a DVD burner. Everyone pooled together to buy a spindle and a Disc Marker and I spent all afternoon burning everyone’s DVDs

Yeye

I found it in a telegram channel for “real science diagrams that look like shitposts”

See, nothing you said contradicts what I said. Yes, they created this world, and they did so to drain from us.

But. And this is important.

Their malice is the kind of sociopathic malice that leaves little space for personal enmities. They see all human beings outside their caste as a resource to be exploited, not complete living persons that can be liked or disliked (ever notice how every corp has a literal “Human Resources” department? Yeah.) – Just another datapoint in a dry and emotionless calculus of power.

In other words, most corporate boards don’t really give a shit about queer people, but will say they support queer people if that is popular at the moment, and similarly will say they hate queer people if that is what is popular at the moment. Consider Disney’s inserting of LGBTQ characters in their movies… That can be easily and effortlessly edited out for sale in countries where that isn’t mainstream-acceptable. So that in some countries they can generate buzz about it, but in others they can bury it easily.

It’s all about the money and never about anything else.

See, this assigns a level of human personality to corporations that I don’t think we should be doing. It implies there is a “true self” to be revealed, when in reality the “self” of any corporation is entirely plastic and follows what the Excel Sheet tells them will make Line Go Up. Most corporate suits aren’t Elon Musk (who is, in fact, a human being, just a terrible one). Most corporate suits are dead inside and haven’t had a soul or a human emotion since 1985.

No, they just do whatever they can to appease whoever is in charge, because that is how they make money. They only became “LGBTQ friendly” when that was mainstream-acceptable and government-endorsed. And now that the culture is swinging the other way (more than half of americans wanted this fascist descent, never forget that) and the US is going all in on white supremacy and puritanism, they switch tunes right away. Case in point dia da consciência negra, the Brazilian equivalent of a black-history thing is still labelled on my Brazil-facing Google Calendar, because it’s still a government-sponsored and mainstream commemorative date here.

Tech megacorps are wusses, in other news fire is hot.

I’m not as salty about EGS as a lot of PC gamers seem to be.

… But god damn is their default client trash.

Thank fuck for Heroic Launcher on Linux (I think it even got a Windows version?)

But honestly, people complain about exclusivity, and seem to not realise (or care?) that certain games would not exist without this kind of funding deal. They are only funded by the platform that pays for their exclusivity. If you want to be mad at something, don’t be mad at the devs, don’t even be mad at Epic, be mad at Capitalism as an institution, which rules that art needs money to exist.