Oh, and don't expect fansubbing to save you. If you're watching pirated anime today, chances are you're just watching ripped Crunchyroll subtitles. Maybe a few big shows will get (delayed relative to broadcast) retranslation efforts, but if you're into more niche stuff, it's boycott or bust, really.

Boycott Crunchyroll. Cancel your subscription. Make sure to let them know you're doing it over the worsening quality of subtitles and closed captions.

If you don't subscribe to Crunchyroll already, instead pay someone who cares about anime distribution. They could probably use a dollar.

Their "monopoly" hinges on your money. If they don't have any to spend on licenses, their competitors will eventually be able to outbid them. You can starve them out of this market, or at least put enough fear into them to not add sub quality to the altar of things they sacrifice for profit.

And if they have more money to spend, they will have more anime. The only way to stop this from coming to pass is to take away their money - in the end, it's YOUR wallet which enables them to keep buying exclusive licenses.

Anime licensing is ruled mostly by exclusivity. If Crunchyroll can get away with cutting costs on typesetting and handing even transcription jobs to AI, they will always have more money to spend on licenses than any competitor who tries to provide a better user experience.

Nationwide investment in leaves!

they're nostalgic for the days of NT 4 Service Pack 3

And if you're a pirate: where do you think the subtitles come from for most shows these days? Beggars can't be choosers, and if you're into more niche releases of a season, you might be stuck with this as well.

It's a lot of effort to make something like that, and the audience seems very small still...

not on cartridge most likely, but I know of at least two sold on floppy/CD

I'm still wondering if this or the WWGP2003 Dicing Knight release had a lower print run. both being the only cartridges I'm aware of made using the VAR program

i'm glad i could have helped save many more laptops like mine

i wrote it to save my own laptop! the origin story of FoamFix is that my poor ThinkPad X220 with 6GB of RAM was swapping so much trying to join a friend's server that it would time out the network connection before it finished initializing the game state on connection.

oh yeah! I forgot about DUMB. github.com/kode54/dumb/...

"If you modify or redistribute this software, you must add a silly term or condition to this license."

And watch it get worse and worse as people keep forking it

MystCraft had a license where you had to receive explicit permission to use the mod in your modpack. the mod author would deny usage rights for reasons such as "i already gave them to another modpack similar to yours".