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If you do this, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

Fun fact: you can just pirate stuff.

You don't have to make semantic arguments to justify to yourself why it's actually moral or not technically stealing or whatever. You can just pirate stuff.

That's pretty funny to me. I read the start of a King novel when I was probably too young for it (pretty sure it was It?), and just got bored with it. Never tried reading another for years. A decade or two later I tried the Dark Tower series and ended up binge-reading the first 5 books.

I really love those books, although I absolutely see their flaws and understand why people wouldn't like them.

Either way, I definitely don't think you need to be a Stephen King fan to enjoy them. I mean, I'm certainly not and I certainly did. Still haven't read any of his other works...

I think I understand your points. And I mostly agree.

I genuinely don’t care about symbolic actions. I worry that corporations will heel turn the moment it is no longer safe or profitable to pander to the queers.

Yes, 100%. I'm terrified that public opinion will turn, and I am certain that corporations will desert us LONG before then. I'm happy that it is, currently, safe and profitable to pander to queers. It makes me feel safe, in a way it maybe shouldn't. I know that the other shoe could drop at any time.

I'm really sorry that was your pride parade experience. Yeah, things along those lines are all too common. Most pride parades are..... still..... in 2024..... very, very bad. And, yes, I don't think corporations are helping in any way.

I agree that I want solidarity. it's the only way forward.......

Unpopular opinion, I know, but I fucking love corporate pride.

Do you remember being gay a decade ago? Corporations were just starting to touch us with a ten foot pole. And it felt amazing to be acknowledged as existing, without any negative connotations.

Two decades ago? No one would touch us, unless we were the butt of a joke. That we'd hear a million times everyday.

I see corporate pride as a sign of change: sure, those billionaires are just trying to get more money out of us. They couldn't give a shit about you, or me, personally. But they're now willing to openly market to us.

That means public opinion is changing. Support for the queer community is growing. We've even become a market to be advertised to.

No, those rainbow ads don't mean anything more than the green and red ones in December, or the red hearts in February. But the fact that corporations are openly showing support, without fear of death threats, or "more importantly" losing money, means something to me.

LMAO I bought Factorio a few years ago, fully intending to play it, after multiple people said "it is right up your alley"

Your comment, and the replies are to it, have made me very happy I never got around to it. I probably would have loved/hated it. For like 5 years of my life.

OMG. I remember that fucking treadmill. That must've been the game. Brb, gonna do something I could never do as a kid (or be humiliated trying)

You've just unlocked a core memory for me. Idk if it was Digimon World 2 specifically, but one of the World games had your Digimon pooping as a core mechanic, and I thought that was about the funniest thing that had ever been conceived. And, obviously, I also never got remotely close to beating it.

I might have to download it and see if: A) my humor has evolved at all beyond "lol poop" (probably not) and B) I can maybe beat it now (probably not)

No, those are my DMs.

Do they still get a lot of radio play in the USA?

I think it's safe to say that anyone in the USA who still listens to the radio knows the Beach Boys.

Cool, so in a few years we'll have a screen which isn't better in any noticeable way?