Yes, yes. Go for the low hanging bait, that certainly makes you look more righter.

You are likely to get away with this if your website gets little traffic.

But to much and your ISP is likely to tell you to knock it off, or just close your subscription.

“There’s a monopoly” — proceeds to list 3 separate providers. Don’t forget there’s also Akami, now we’re up to 4. Oh, and Cloud Flare… so that’s 5.

Thats called a Cartel. and a cartel can fucking monopolize shit, dumbass.

hell most TOS shit isnt even legal in America.

But most people are stupid, and those that arent don’t have the money to engage a lawyer to fight it.

For instance, those heart-tugging ads for St Jude’s Children’s Hospital. It’s a great thing they do, taking in cancer kids, and covering all the expenses, even housing and food. They show grateful parents crying, because their kids have a chance because of the charity of St Jude and the viewers, and viewers shed a tear and donate.

What really gripes my ass more than anything else is how all these horror stories are twisted and presented as “feel good” stories that should make us all go “Awww, isnt that wonderful?!”

Like the stories about 6 year olds putting in hundreds of hour of labor to earn the money required to pay off their classmates student lunch debt (and don’t even get me fucking started on the abysmal fucking evil idea that that created the idea of student lunch debt to begin with)

Or those “feel good” stories about someone with a wheelchair thats in complete shambles and a hardware store or something cobbles it back together and fixes it, for free, so the owner isnt stuck sitting somewhere with no mobility.

Or someone coming down with cancer, and their coworkers donating vacation days to them so they don’t lose their fucking job and the insurance they need to pay for the actual fucking treatment.

Like…

How are these feel good stories?

These are fucking the most egregious failure of civilization horror stories.

and Americans, ever indoctrinated, see these stories and smile and feel emotionally uplifted because of the “good” that was done.

because morals are nice.

but being able to eat, and not be rained on and assaulted in your sleep is nicerer.

Paladins Quest for the SNES.

sorry for the delayed reply

I wouldnt call this nickle and diming.

I would call this a desperate life line in a world before the internet.

I spent a week smashing my head against a problem in a SNES game before giving up and calling the Nintendo Hotline. Which gave me the the solution to my problem, and did it relatively quickly and without much wasted time… Which I found amazing, and always wondered how they had that information in the era before Gamefaqs.

I know, its just SO HARD to not buy your latest shiny. You just cant resist, so it must be someone elses fault.

Its always someone elses fault.

🙄 covered here

Only person that thinks reading the packaging is a mountain of effort, is the kind of lazy person who buys stupid home automation devices to avoid walking five feet to turn off a lightbulb.

Very simple.

Does the product say requires an internet connection? Does it say on the packaging that it requires an app to use? Do you get home and find out it needs those things despite the packaging not saying it?

Then don’t buy it/Return it.

Its not that hard to avoid falling into this pit. But I guess if you are too lazy to walk the five feet to turn your living room lights off, maybe you’re too lazy to actually read anything… and if you’re that lazy, then I dont give a fuck about how you get screwed.

Only people that dont want to blame the consumers for buying the shit… are the idiots that buy the shit, which is why they get so incensed when you argue that landfill shovel shit wont stop being sold until they stop buying it.

Stop buying shit, and companies will stop dumping billions into its R&D and advertising. They’re not doing that shit to waste money, They’re doing that to sell products… and if you stop buying it, they’ll stop making it.

if consumers acted in their best interest, none of this shit would exist.

enjoy it. its a great platform to communicate with your friends in game on.

but its not a place for tech support, breaking announcements, etc etc etc

discord is a communication platform for friends to game on. nothing more, nothing less.

It should not be an information archive.

It should not be a source of tech support.

It shouldnt be a source of important news/announcements.

All that shit should be on your fucking website, where it can be indexed, archived, and searched for.

Cause discord isolates information in such a way that you will never be able to find out unless you actively use discord, actively hunt down the right discord channel, and properly luck into finding the information.

verses just going to a web browser and typing " [game name] [bug description]" and likely getting the solution, or at least relevant information, in the first 3 returns.

Discord holds information hostage, and kills it should a channel shut down/delete, losing it forever… and anyone that has played older games know that some of that information and community fixing is essential, even a decade+ later.

bring back fucking forums

if idiots stop buying this shit, they wont keep making it.

the problem is the idiots keep buying

real sad that she’d throw away all her family and love, for the expense of crazy online conspiracy theories and obsession.

how many times does logitech specifically, and these companies in general, have to do this before idiots stop buying this shit?

I’m convinced AI content generation was created with the sole intent of manufacturing outrage material for gullible idiots.

because the rate at which these technophobic illiterates have adopted AI, and expertly use it to generate bullshit, is too high to be otherwise plausible.

I wasnt joking at all. I’ve done both of those things, and i hate it. The long wirey pube up the nose and tickling the back of your eye is awful.