boy I wish I was rich enough to throw away thousands of dollars with a shrug and "To much effort to deal with it"

thats when you take a fraction of the money you would have paid him, and buy security cameras for your house. High quality security cameras, with night vision.

Then contact a lawyer for damages to undo what he did.

It was never about kids.

Anyone that knew their history knew that the whole "PROTECT THE CHILDREEENS" rhetoric was nothing more than a ploy to get a foot in the door for all this shit.

I'm seeing several posts that are startling evidence for the essential nature of proper sex education, lol.

Nope.

Some people in my family tried to teach me when I was young, but I didnt immediately and perfectly absorb the knowledge of how to master it from the atmosphere, so obviously I was just a piece of shit that was trying to ruin their transmission/car/life and cant appreciate a single fucking thing anyone does for me and that i’m an ungrateful piece of shit and to just get the fuck out of the car and never ask them for anything again (not that I asked them to teach me stick in the first place… They insisted, i suspected then, and continue to do so to this day, that it was just a trap.)

Which really helped my desire to drive, much less drive stick.

no, couldnt they do the thing where one team analyzes the leaked code and documents functions.

and a nother, clean room team, creates independent fresh code to achieve the same results as the original?

I mean, clean room activity like that has a strong precedent, going back to EA vs Sega at least. where EA stole a sega genesis dev kit, had one team document the functions, had another team independently create code to execute those functions,and made their own dev kid and put out non-approved sega carts (which is why the EA sega carts were taller and had the yellow plastic tag)

Sega sued and EA won due the clean room engineering and sega and EA came to some kind of sweetheart deal/comrpromise/settlement.

its a dumb copypaste bullshit

Lutris can let you log into your GOG account and install games no issue.

I dont know how it handles updates, but thats only an issue if you’re playing a new game, if you’re just playing old games like Arcanum, its no issue.

didnt Weaton get that so much in real life that he had a social media fit or something?

For all of its existence, Religion has never been anything more than a tool of oppression and control. and to give righteous justification when they executed violence in their favor.

I’d rather just not give the jackasses the attention, than go out of my way to use an app to hide their jackassery

I can not tell you how many videos and channels I avoid because of that shit.

also ones that have dumb ass thumbnails that do nothing to hint about the content.

3d printing.

Started out with a cheap printer, mostly to supply my friends with miniatures and terrain. They loved the stuff I printed for them, so gave me money for my effort, which went into upgrading my printer and buying more supplies and buying a new printer so I could print better, bigger things for them.

Then, so enamored by what 3d printing could do, they bought their own 3d printers.

and now no one talks to me cause I no longer have any use and i’m stuck with a printer I havent even removed from the box and assembled for 3 years, and another printer that only stays around because every 2-3 months something comes up where I can design and print a part to fix something around the house.

Probably a The Producers scenario where they expected to make money off its failure, and then it was successful and cost them more than they wanted since they betted against it.

Only reason I can think of. Only reason that makes any logical sense.

You do realize there are a LOT Wifi standards, right?

I mean, compared to WiFi, its genuinely amazing there are only two standards for electric car chargers. and the only reason 2 exists is because Tesla didnt want to share.

Blade Runner PC game by westwood was also amazing, but didnt seem to get any traction.

Fucking fantastic game, though. Everyone should play it… theres an enhanced now, so you don’t have to do the weirdo workaround shit with the 16bit installer.

A lot of great shows were ruined because executives saw dollar signs and demanded more seasons, ruining great story telling and pacing.

There was a string of time between 2006 and 2009 where there were AMAZING new long format TV shows coming on… and promptly dying on the vine after a year due to bad advertising or ratings chasing.

Kings was a great TV show that deserved 4 more seasons.

Jericho Was an amazing show, that got dumped by Network after the first season… and the fans were so infuriated that they crowdsourced funding to send over twenty tons of nuts to CBS in protest, Which forced them to greenlight a second season for like…5 or 6 episodes (first season was 22 episodes, as comparison) and left it hanging on a painfully huge cliffhanger. before cancelling it again… Netflix even came forward and offered to buy the series and continue it on Netflix (Which all the actors were 100% on board with), and as a final FUCK YOU to the fans, CBS refused. They hated the show, tried to fuck over its second season hard, and hated the fans… and still refused to sell the rights to someone who would let it flourish.

God, typing this out has made me realize how irrationally angry I still am at CBS over the absolute fuckery they pulled with that show that I cant even think of the other shows at the moment.

Go watch Jericho. Its still a fucking awesome show, despite how much the c-suite hated it.

Wayne Pygram should be a household name with his portral as Scorpius and Harvey.

Theres pretty much just 2 car plugs, though… Yes some tried to do their own plug, but eventually abandoned it in favor of an open standard that everyone uses… and then theres tesla, who keeps promising to open its super charger network and provide adapters/new plugs for the open standard.

its not like the late 90s of cellphones where everyone used proprietary voltages and connectors because fuck you thats why.

Technology Connections has several excellent videos on this subject.