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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yes, I want an unencumbered physical representation of the artists work, just like you'd expect from an art print or book. I thought I was pretty clear about that. I don't want merch. I want the art. It's my money to spend to support the artists the way I choose, not an argument you can "win".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

CD is dead and should be dead. Rip it and stream it, full stop. No need or reason to keep a degrading digital format when you can just rip it (full quality and store as FLAC) and stream it. That's the whole point.

This sentiment is somehow hostile to both artists and listeners. That's not the whole point. The whole point is that when I buy a thing (book, music, video), I own the thing and can store, backup, and transfer ownership as I see fit, not according to the whims of future licensing deals. I don't want to buy what is basically an NFT of the music. I want to buy the physical object. I want to be able to physically transfer that object.

You'll own nothing and like it I guess. Not me though. I've lived through too many failing companies, disappearing websites and services, hostile licensing deals that alienate and disenfranchise artists and fans, and general corporate greed. Let me buy the CD as directly from the band as possible. Let me take it from there and use whatever I choose for equipment, format, or software to enjoy it.

For the last few decades, very few people that have declared a popular media format dead have turned out to be correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That makes sense, but it's going to confuse anyone that grew up with the many varieties of magnetic tape available. Look on YouTube for Techmoan if you want to go on a charming deep dive into archaic and niche media formats.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What are MCs? Do you mean cassettes? No body ever really called them micro-cassettes, (those were the thing you used to record messages on an answering machine or dictation) so that doesn't really fit. Certainly not mini discs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Sounds like an interesting premise for a musical.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This "clarification" is just even more confusing. Like do you mean, "What would be the effect on history if we could all see into the future, but only through song?" I guess I'd hope that we'd try better to stop 9/11, COVID, and Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Wait, what's wrong with loud loose fitting floral print shirts? It's fucking hot out and only getting hotter. Better than some t-shirt and not totally giving up like a polo shirt. I've been wearing them unironically ever since dial-up internet and ska were still super popular. Never noticed any relative weight difference in other people wearing them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Ok, but like half the time I say "Ow!" because I hurt myself, it didn't really hurt that much and I was just surprised. Same reaction, reacting to the event and not the actual pain. If I really did actually hurt myself, it's usually followed by either silence, obscenities, or a short silence followed by a very loud obscenity.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Likely more than just removed. I'm pretty sure that I left one too many scathing reviews of products that were defective by design or outright frauds, now I can't leave any reviews.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pay attention this time. Nobody said they weren't different. I just said you seem to only like one aspect of the many varied aspects of the many varied Zelda games. Your reading comprehension skills are trash or you're just burning straw men to make yourself feel better. Stop being a troll.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Since you haven't played them,

So wrong there. I've played nearly every title. My favorite has been A Link to the Past. But, there will always be a place in my heart for the original. The N64 games were okay, but don't hold the same childhood nostalgia. There's a good chance I've been playing Zelda longer than you've been alive. You don't know what you're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hot take: Deep fakes may be much closer to rape (and maybe should be adjudicated similarly) than they are to identity theft or fraud because of the harm they cause and because that social assault is more closely related to power and consent than a simple fraud.

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