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if you scold people poorer & more desperate than you in order to fit in with the people who write your checks, you have a rotten fucking soul
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
if you scold people poorer & more desperate than you in order to fit in with the people who write your checks, you have a rotten fucking soul
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piracy is a completely aspirational problem for any author in america to have and i think anyone trying to stake out an anti-piracy position is a demon full stop
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
piracy is a completely aspirational problem for any author in america to have and i think anyone trying to stake out an anti-piracy position is a demon full stop
There's a reason everyone dunked on wendig for his archive.org takes and it is because he is wrong and so are all the anti piracy people.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There's a reason everyone dunked on wendig for his archive.org takes and it is because he is wrong and so are all the anti piracy people.
Piracy is a massive net positive. It's one of few things the Internet has enabled that is absolutely without reservation a positive for the world at large.
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Piracy is a massive net positive. It's one of few things the Internet has enabled that is absolutely without reservation a positive for the world at large.
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frustrating that this piracy discourse is the same goddamn thing every time, has been for years, while discussion of exploitation of writers by publishers tends to remain very faint. it feels like this is a frequent steam valve for frustration, a group that can be yelled at without risking jobs.
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
frustrating that this piracy discourse is the same goddamn thing every time, has been for years, while discussion of exploitation of writers by publishers tends to remain very faint. it feels like this is a frequent steam valve for frustration, a group that can be yelled at without risking jobs.
A decade or so ago we had bloggers complaining about adblockers, now we have authors complaining about piracy. I realize precarity sucks but I feel like we should blame capitalism for that rather than people on the ground who can't afford to pay for media.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A decade or so ago we had bloggers complaining about adblockers, now we have authors complaining about piracy. I realize precarity sucks but I feel like we should blame capitalism for that rather than people on the ground who can't afford to pay for media.
Dunno if I'd go in there.
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Dunno if I'd go in there.
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Well, it's my birthday. I've officially become 26 on the 26th. What are the odds? 1/26.
a pixel art illustration of a skeleton wearing a party hat
ALT: a pixel art illustration of a skeleton wearing a party hat
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November 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Well, it's my birthday. I've officially become 26 on the 26th. What are the odds? 1/26.
I dunno what it is, but every time I try battletoads, it gets its hooks in me for a little while. The worst beat em up you've ever played meets the most bullshit series of obstacle courses but there is something about it.
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I dunno what it is, but every time I try battletoads, it gets its hooks in me for a little while. The worst beat em up you've ever played meets the most bullshit series of obstacle courses but there is something about it.
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Finished up a mock-up of an rpg concept, sort of like Redwall meets The Thing. Posted it on Reddit too: www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/c...
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Finished up a mock-up of an rpg concept, sort of like Redwall meets The Thing. Posted it on Reddit too: www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/c...
25 pirate downloads of your book is not 25 missed sales btw.
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
25 pirate downloads of your book is not 25 missed sales btw.
I am honor bound to support piracy in all its forms, and if I ever become a published author through some kind of bizarre twist of fate, I promise not to get mad if people who cannot afford the book are willing to pirate and enjoy it.
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I am honor bound to support piracy in all its forms, and if I ever become a published author through some kind of bizarre twist of fate, I promise not to get mad if people who cannot afford the book are willing to pirate and enjoy it.
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That is a mix I never knew I wanted. Like "The Colour Out of Space," but from an animal perspective. Love it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
That is a mix I never knew I wanted. Like "The Colour Out of Space," but from an animal perspective. Love it.
Finished up a mock-up of an rpg concept, sort of like Redwall meets The Thing. Posted it on Reddit too: www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/c...
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Finished up a mock-up of an rpg concept, sort of like Redwall meets The Thing. Posted it on Reddit too: www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/c...
I wonder if Ronald McDonald's bush is styled like his head hair
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I wonder if Ronald McDonald's bush is styled like his head hair
The line between life and unlife is about to get a whole lot fuzzier.
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The line between life and unlife is about to get a whole lot fuzzier.
Are they really going to make me defend mark Kelly?
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Are they really going to make me defend mark Kelly?
Every once in a while, a leftist will try to bring some "smokers' rights" thing into the tent and I'm sorry but no, if you want to smoke, go outside. I have to choke on cigarette smoke often enough where I live because I share ventilation with smokers that at this point I'm fully anti cigs anywhere.
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every once in a while, a leftist will try to bring some "smokers' rights" thing into the tent and I'm sorry but no, if you want to smoke, go outside. I have to choke on cigarette smoke often enough where I live because I share ventilation with smokers that at this point I'm fully anti cigs anywhere.
Few know this, but you don't have to watch an entire YouTube video in one viewing.
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Few know this, but you don't have to watch an entire YouTube video in one viewing.
The great filter is civilizations learning that you can deep fry a turkey
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The great filter is civilizations learning that you can deep fry a turkey
This whole thing was pretty funny though. Sometimes being lazy and slow to change works in my favor!
Turns out this was all much ado about nothing and Google isn’t using your Gmail to train AI and if wanna turn all that stuff back on you can get your spam filters back
Looks like the article has been updated to suggest maybe they misread the policy.
I see people complaining that this also disabled their spam filters, though I still see new messages showing up in spam so it's still working fine for me after disabling things.
I see people complaining that this also disabled their spam filters, though I still see new messages showing up in spam so it's still working fine for me after disabling things.
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This whole thing was pretty funny though. Sometimes being lazy and slow to change works in my favor!
I dunno why I love hexen so much but I do. Playing it on switch and loving it again
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I dunno why I love hexen so much but I do. Playing it on switch and loving it again
Whenever a new crop of dumbasses starts in on the "you should have to have a license to breed" or "you have to get licensed to drive, why not require a license to vote?" I just think, man, what a fundamentally eugenicist country we are.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Whenever a new crop of dumbasses starts in on the "you should have to have a license to breed" or "you have to get licensed to drive, why not require a license to vote?" I just think, man, what a fundamentally eugenicist country we are.
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you think you could resist RFK Jr.’s sex appeal? could you resist the sex appeal of a whale? a bear? a hawk? a python? a horse? a swarm of city rats? the man has consumed the spirit energy of so many powerful animals
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
you think you could resist RFK Jr.’s sex appeal? could you resist the sex appeal of a whale? a bear? a hawk? a python? a horse? a swarm of city rats? the man has consumed the spirit energy of so many powerful animals