I don’t think there is a distinction. But companies look the other way because they are only distributed physically in very limited quantities, so there is no perceived threat to their IP.

Fatalities and serious injuries sound like a far more important statistic to optimize for in terms of public safety.

Religion is different from community. Community fills a social need for interaction and survival and is present in many intelligent animals. Religion fills an existential need to answer questions we can’t answer. Most humans are inherently uncomfortable with nihilism because it undermines our natural instincts. We think the world must have some inherent fundamental meaning and order to it that we can follow and which can rationalize calamity. That is where religion comes in, it provides answers and structure where nothing else can. That religion could be to a deity, to a great leader, or some philosophical framework, it doesn’t matter. It just needs to fill the role of a higher authority that a person can wrap themselves around for support.

Religion is a fundamental component in the psyche of many. They will find a substitute for traditional religions, be it through politics, organizational culture, or some other collection of superstitions.

Virtual Game Key Cards are actually better than digital in most ways. Rather than the game code being tied to your account, it’s tied to the card. So you can still easily sell or lend it. It also does not require a Nintendo account to use (if that matters), just an internet connection.

Why am I intentionally missing the point? I don’t think platforming harassment is ever justified or constructive. Your assumption that I am acting in bad faith with no evidence is the same kind of ignorance that a lot of the right wing wackos have.

The way I see it, the only high ground is to not engage in this kind of targeted harassment. Once you go down that path, you are legitimizing the same actions being taken against you.

I want to avoid being dragged into the insane American culture war. It’s mind numbing. Please keep it to your own platforms.

No? How is a nuclear family discount inherently offensive enough to be worth getting out pitchforks out over? I don’t agree that being bigots is enough either. They are backwards, lots of people are backwards, and harassing them probably won’t yield any constructive outcomes. So if they aren’t actively harming others, then what are you going to achieve here.

As a broader question, who gets to be the arbiter of acceptable harassment?

There is a difference between calling someone out and using an online platform to organize against them.

As a counterpoint, would you be alright if people started calling out businesses for having discounts for LGBTQ+, or women, or new immigrants?

Tip jars have been a thing in small stores for a long time. Its usually where people drop their pennies and nickles.

That sounds like fundamentalism tbh. It’s very much adjacent to the thinking of religious fanatics framing everything in relation to the divine, when most people are just trying to get along with their lives.

I’d draw the line at creating topics specifically about grievances with the person vs it being mentioned incidentally. I’d also say that an independent small business is often much closer to a person than an organization.

In Apple’s case it helps that there aren’t any competitors for them. There are very few laptops with the same fit and finish as a laptop with good specs at a comparable price point.

To my understanding, some games just don’t work with SD cards because they need the faster loading off of the SSD. Also games over 64gb don’t fit on the cards.

No one with responsibilities has time to worry about where the pulp in their toilet paper came from, I’d be surprised if the factory could even tell you that.

There is no way you are practicing what you preach here. You are telling me you spend all day vetting every product and service you use to be aware of every little injustice involved? Or are you just following whatever someone else told you in a feed and assuming they are correct? That would functionally be religion.

No I don’t feel attacked. I just don’t think it is useful to construe everything as political. Are the actions of animals also political? I think people would say no; but then can we be so sure that everything a human does is political? Something only becomes political when it is done with a political intent, knowingly making a choice because of some secondary association when equivalent alternatives are available.

When everything is framed as political you end up in the same place as dogmatists in all religions, trying to enforce some universal moral framework on every detail of a persons life. Many people will check out from that type of argument. Worse, many will think you and the causes that are import to you are jokes, and you become part of another's political fodder.

Waah waah

The vast majority of indie games make nothing. The price locking you out isn’t really a valid argument. If the developer lives in an expensive place and needs to charge X to break even, then that’s what they need to do to have a commercially viable product.

New games on GOG often have DRM, because it’s the only way they can compete with Steam.

I hardly see DRM as authoritarianism. No one compels you to play a game, its a luxury. Games are products and need to turn a profit so their creators can eat and create new games.

Yeah, but many modern games only work after a day 1 patch anyway, so what’s on the disc won’t count for much. Not to mention you still need a working console, and those stop being sold long before digital storefronts are closed.

I don’t think DRM free is realistic either, piracy is just too big of a problem on the release of a new game. Eventually the cracks will arrive, but that window before is important for making a profit. Most consumers are as amoral as corporations. They don’t care about who makes what they are using, nor do they care about the ethics behind where they got it from.

From a comparison I saw, you can buy two complete laptops with the same specs as one framework. Its hard to justify an upgradable laptop at that point.