SpacecowboyfromNJ

@BaronDestructo Starfury

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@DanFriedman81 @lugliettog Yes, advocating for the system that entirely benefits the company and is anti consumer makes you a corpo bootlicker, retard.

@lugliettog You’re the one who is planning to preserve your personal archive of Insomniac’s Wolverine and God of War: Laufey after the PSN servers are shut off until you hand down your precious discs to your children, and I am the corpo bootlicker?

A few things I have learned from arguing with physical media bros: 1. They're unaware that the standard of completeness and perfection at which a game was considered ready to ship was much higher when it was not possible to patch the software over the Internet. Today, they send a game to the disk printer three months before launch, continue working on it up until launch day, and then patch whatever they have added, changed or fixed in the interim with a big day 1 patch. I do not care that a PS5 can technically work without the internet. A PS5 without internet is so grotesquely inferior to the experience of the console with access to those features that as far as I am concerned, if the PSN servers go down, a PS5 is a brick. And I don't care if the game is technically "playable" without its patches and updates. That is an unacceptable way to play games. 2. They don't trust or like Sony, but if Sony shuts down and turns off the servers, they will care for their aging Playstations for the rest of their lives like the knight in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," maintaining the aging PS5 hardware and the disk-based games they can play on it so that "Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart" will be preserved for future generations to enjoy. 3. They don't understand the concept of depreciation. They think if someone turns off a server and bricks their "Kane and Lynch" game that they paid $60 for in 2007, that they have been robbed of $60 or, worse, some irreplaceable artifact of an irretrievable past when they were younger and hotter and better than they will ever be again. But actually, they have lost nothing, because "Kane and Lynch" sucks and nobody in their right mind would ever play it again. 4. They don't understand how much easier it is to have your games on digital. You don't have to worry about scratching a disk or losing a disk. You don't have to worry about where to store it. If you get a new console, you boot it up, log into your account and there are your games. The tradeoff to this is that if all your games are on the Playstation Network server and if one day the Playstation Network ceases to exist, you could lose your collection. But the alternative scenario for disk-based players is that Playstation ceases to exist, and then they're left maintaining unsupported, obsolete hardware and playing old games without access to the various patches and DLC updates for those games. The reality is that fewer than 10% of games I thought were worth playing 10 years ago are games I would ever consider playing again. Those games are all considered classics and the best solution would be to buy them again on a supported platform. Every gamer should be aware of the possibility that Playstation and XBox could cease to exist in the medium-long term horizon; that the PS6 may be the last Playstation. The hedge against this is not to plan to maintain your Playstation hardware and software when Playstation is gone; the hedge is to start gaming on Steam.

@DJSnM @NASAAdmin Yes!

@NASAAdmin You *HAVE* to get some shots of this flying through 'Star Wars Canyon'

@KeepDopeAlive @ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive In the original premise of the guy selling to his buddy, the lender is the guy selling his car to his buddy, with the value of the loan being in the form of a car rather than cash and he is made whole when his buddy pays him back.

@JSF0011 @ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive In your scenario the lender lends money. The lender is made whole when that money is repaid. THAT IS NOT THE PREMISE OF THE GUY SELLING TO HIS BUDDY. Changing the scenario is just that CHANGING the scenario. You're adding things that don't exist in the scenario I responded to

Judge Judy: so you got a loan on the car? Lady: no Judge Judy: so you paid $1700 cash for the car? Lady: no that was the down payment Judge Judy: so there was a loan? Lady: no, I didn’t get a loan Judge Judy: you put a down payment on the car and the finance company gave you a loan for the rest of the money Lady: I don’t think so. I paid $1700 down. Judge Judy: OK I’m going to do this one more time you put $1700 as a down payment and the finance company gave you a loan for the remaining balance so you could take the car home with you Lady: I didn’t get no loan, that was the down payment Judge Judy: 🤦‍♀️ (There are millions of these people walking among us and they vote and their vote counts just as much as yours)

@KeepDopeAlive @ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive Except what's going on with the seller/thief is irrelevant to the lender and the borrower. But we can tweak the scenario more if it helps you understand, instead of a thief steeling the car instead the seller just doesn't like you and won't sell you the car

@JSF0011 @ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive Jibberish. These are 2 separate events. There are 2 seperate debts owed to the seller by 2 seperate parties. "Made whole" is with respect to what is due by the specific party. The borrower is not responsible for the lost value due to the theft. The thief is

@KeepDopeAlive @ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive the car and so the deal falls through. By your standard suddenly that unquestionably a loan has retroactively magically become not a loan in your eyes. That's nonsense, no one wound up being "made whole" here because the deal didn't happen, but that was still a loan you received.

@KeepDopeAlive @ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive you want to buy for $5k you only have $1.7K, so being short your buddy loans you the remaining $3.3k and you can then use to buy the car. That's unquestionably loan by your standard. Now same scenario but just before you make the transacting with the car seller, a thief steals

@KeepDopeAlive @ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive You can take the car out of the equation, and just do it all in dollars and it's the exact same thing. His buddy wanted $5000 to buy something but only had 1700, so the buddy gave him the $1700 in exchange for $5000 expecting to be repaid the remaining $3300

@KeepDopeAlive @ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive exchange with the expectation that excess value received will be repaid. That's a loan. It's irrelevant that in this case that value given was in the form of a car rather than money because money is just another way representing value anyway.

@KeepDopeAlive @ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive And that's what the verbal agreement is doing even when it's not directly stated in the verbal agreement that's what's happening.

@JSF0011 @ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive The funds need to change hands and they do not. Even in dealer/owner financing your signature confirms you agree to RECEIVE and repay the funds doesn't matter if it happens physically

@Outis273 @ApexSeeker_ Yes they did, though they pretty much only had matchlocks till maybe the very end, where cowboys would be using percussion or cartridge firearms. That said Samuri were military, while cowboys are essentially just ranch hands albeit more wiling/capable of defending themselves

@ApexSeeker_ Samurai do not use firearms, do they? If they don't, cowboys at range. Letting a samurai get close enough to use his katana, well, they would have the advantage.

🇯🇵 I am Japanese. Americans, Who wins? ⚔️ Samurai 🤠 Cowboy No explanations. Just one.

@KeepDopeAlive @ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive Except he technically did "provide his buddy funds", it's an only on paper type of transaction that doesn't physically happen, but it's there

@ThinkAppraiser @wallydollarlive Absolutely not. A loan is an area gement where someone provides funds for immediate use to be paid back at a later date. Nobody give his buddy any funds.

@Scow21 @DonaldLSweitzer @illitaret @grizzledgrunt2k @ApexSeeker_ It's very obviously AI. In both pictures these 4 outlets are the same relative distance from the window, but in the second there's a bunch more space after the 4th outlet and then a 5th outlet. Also the whole M.C. Escher architecture around the door

@DonaldLSweitzer @illitaret @grizzledgrunt2k @ApexSeeker_ No it doesn't. It's just a different camera angle, going from 60* to the wall to closer to 45*.

🇯🇵 I am Japanese. Question for American men. Why do you collect so many tools? Do you actually use them all… or does just looking at them make you feel powerful? 😂🔧🇺🇸

@VindiceLiber @planefag Also that window in the before picture is about 1 window from the wall while in the 2nd picture it's about 2 windows away, and it's not just perspective thing as 4 outlets in the 1st picture align in the same relative spots to the window in the 2nd

@planefag At least part of the image was generated with AI.

So you confess your sin. The executioners are on their way as we speak. Make your peace with God while you still can, monster!

@brew56200 @RebelToker @theobjectivist Because once socialists get in power the one thing they hate more than capitalists is rival socialist groups, so surprise, surprise, it's extremely common for when socialists gain complete control, they purge their socialist political rivals

@RebelToker @theobjectivist Why were German Communists and Union leaders among the first gentile victims of the Holocaust?

That slogan is a fantasy, and the definition is simply false. Communism is a form of socialism, not its opposite. So is Nazism (National Socialism). The genus is socialism: the collective, through the state, controls the means of production. Communism is the version that abolishes private property outright. Fascism leaves the title in private hands while the state dictates its use. Same root, different methods. Now the slogan. "Anybody can be rich but nobody should be poor." Sounds lovely. But "nobody should be poor" means someone is forced to provide for those who don't. That force is the whole of socialism. Wealth doesn't appear because you decree that poverty shouldn't exist. It's produced, and when you seize it to guarantee no one is poor, you destroy the incentive to produce it. Then everyone is poor. Ask Venezuela, which had the largest oil reserves on earth. Under capitalism, anybody can rise because they keep what they create. That's not a slogan. It's the only system that has ever actually lifted the poor.

@BaronDestructo @venturepictures Puddle Jumper all the way

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@HotMilkWithIce @uncle_deluge What? Racism had 0 to do with it. People mispronouncing/misspelling your name isn't a safety issue, it's no more than a minor annoyance. He did because the old name held no value since he was no longer of that old country, he was an American now, and wanted to fully embrace that

@JSF0011 @uncle_deluge Oh that makes a lot of sense actually! I can see how with racism being so prevalent at the time it would’ve been easier to have a more “American sounding” name for your safety and your family’s safety. I’m sorry your great grandfather had to experience such harshness 🫂

I don't understand the stories that go "our family name was xyz but the immigration clerk misheard it and wrote something else at Ellis Island" and what they just went with that? "Oh I guess we're called this now, and we'll also call our children that" complete and utter nonsense

@HotMilkWithIce @uncle_deluge Maybe a few, but the vast majority went with it because they saw it as a way to help them fit in better. My great-grandfather came over with his last name intact and even got married, but people kept messing up their last name, so he changed it to fit in better.

@uncle_deluge I feel like a lot of this could’ve been fear? I could be wrong (please correct me if I am) but to me it would make sense to see the misspelling but have a little bit of anxiety on “if I say something they might retract everything” ik at the time it was still very new and scary