Interesting piece on that. He might not be “protected,” but he was definitely given special treatment. Most prisoners hate the ruling class even more than the average person for obvious reasons, and even average people are cheering him on.

“wealth = virtue”

Incubators are used for newborns that need extra support at birth. He’s not necessarily premature, although it’s a common reason to use one.

It’s funny now that one of the lyrics in Weird Al’s “I Can’t Watch This” parody from 1990 is

I hooked up 80 channels, and each one stunk!

and 80 channels was supposed to be a ridiculously huge number.

The only time I see broadcast TV is if I’m in a hotel. I honestly can’t remember the last time I watched it in my own home, but it’s probably been around 15 years.

Metaphor for life.

First time I ever saw this pun, the comic book adaptation of The Muppets Take Manhattan.

The rise of the middle class in the 50s has definitely been proven to be an anomaly in our history.

Ending climate protections

And so are you. This will eventually affect everyone on a global scale.

Or they might just make all disc drives extra attachments you have to get separately in the future.

Scoop Forever will be released any day now!

Wonder if the PS5 will be the last mass-produced Blu-ray player?

The sticking point is the boss fights. I learned from loving Rogue Legacy and not liking Hades that I really hate having to do long, drawn out boss fights over and over again even after beating them.

Wish I’d pirated it first. I bought it on Switch after the glowing reviews and played a while before deciding it wasn’t for me.

If you object to people objecting to people expressing their displeasure, you don’t need to throw a fuss about it.

I asked about that a while ago and apparently it has to do with a VPN or something.

Nice to see some discussion about it besides “lemmy.world sucks!” Pirates should be used to having to make a bit of effort to help avoid the corpo Eye of Sauron. The bigger a community you are, the bigger a target.