And the Stör memes!
That's chicken change, when one person can destroy a $44 billion tech company.
2pt... Had an important point: piracy = copyright infringement.
Blocking ads is a ToS violation, not piracy.
HL2 is one of my all time favorites, I enjoy going on a tour of City 17 while mowing down enemies, and solving puzzles.
For me the most interesting part of HL1 or HL2 is the journey when you enter The Citadel or Xen it's a bit sad because the journey is over.
I understand your reasoning for calling ad-blocking for piracy, but I'm not sure I agree, or else we have to split "piracy" into degrees.
I think puritans will say unprocessed is live unseasoned.
I have tried raw oysters once and found that they are only palatable when cooked, as swallowing a ball of slime was not easy, and lemon did not help at all.
The list of unprocessed meat we eat is fairly short, I can only think of oysters.
Rational Rose etc. could generate code from UML diagrams, then you "only" needed architects.
In reality it only gave a little help during the design phase, as soon as someone touches the generated code, you have to manually merge changes to UML.
I would say a large contributor to America's stupid yokle image are the people with the red caps.
Can't wait for the showdown of Facebook/Twitter LLM vs Lemmy LLM
Lemmy with a politics blocklist must be very different. Is there a channel that shares lists?