P03 Locke

Rule #4: Don’t submit low-quality posts.

Also, this user is a bot. Look at the post history. No normal user posts 40 entries in a 24 hour period. And no, I don’t mean they post a bunch of posts in one period, and bunch the rest in another period. I mean they are consistently posting 2-3 entries an hour without sleep, without a break.

EDIT: Holy shit… 1.69K posts in two months.

Yep, there it is. There’s the hook. This bot moderates exactly one forum as the only moderator, to sell a bunch of PC parts. There’s the scam. This is just like those YouTuber bots that link to a personal profile for a porn website.

They should bring Hope to anybody.

Asshole is still president, still defrauding millions of people with rug pull scams, still making billions of dollars with insanely shady means.

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Meanwhile, pirates are still doing the public good, in the name of digital preservation, a lack of physical media be damned.

We’ve tried to educate, but the general public is just so fucking stupid and won’t learn any lessons at all. How many pre-orders does it take before they realize it’s a scam? Fuck, there are still idiots that buy the latest FIFA game at full price every single year.

It’s not even victim blaming when they repeatedly don’t learn they are being shafted over and over again.

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I taste no appreciable difference between the brands,

Either you don’t have any taste buds, or you don’t order pizza that often. A statement like this is like saying “I taste no appreciable difference between Coke and Pepsi”.

• Papa Johns’ has an almost-sugary pizza sauce that I don’t like that much. I also prefer pan pizza, but their default is that floppy NY pizza style. I consider them one of my least favorite option. Fucking Yum can’t manage any of their brands.
• Domino’s used to suck about 15-20 years ago, but they have improved in every way now. Typically my go-to delivery, for a major chain brand.
• Pizza Hut is still pretty good for pan pizza, but some think is greaser than others. They tend to use a lot of cheese, which is fine by me.
• Little Caesars, absolute fucking garbage. I’d rather heat up a cheap pizza at home.
• Cicis, barely above Little Caesars, about the same quality as Chuck E. Cheese or Mr. Gattis
• Jet’s Pizza, really really good pan pizza, a bit more expensive, but better than old standards like Domino’s or Pizza Hut.
• Mellow Mushroom, Old Chicago, Blaze Pizza, all S-tier pizza restaurants, though they don’t deliver. Making your own pizza with Blaze just makes it the top pick out of all of these.

You post this on a piracy forum?

Sorry, I don’t get any ads on my downloads.

You mean the people who were trying to decide whether they should vote for Harris based on her and Biden’s views on Israel? Pretty sure that would have turned out 100x better than what we got now.

Yo, stop fucking using Plex and switch to Jellyfin. I switched over months ago, and it just works.

Plex became the enemy when they forced their users into a subscription model. Support bullshit-free open-source software instead.

We can’t even say “blue checks only” since Musk fucked all THAT up.

The problem is that you’re looking for an easy system when none exists. You filter down to simple, easily by-passable rules, instead of curating your own system, and as a result, you’ve limited your community to news sources that new generations (and many older gens like myself) no longer pay attention to. It’s like polls that rely on cold calls, when only the boomers bother to actually answer the phone and waste their time on them.

Hell, I don’t even want Twitter because it’s just a bunch a two-sentence short-form nonsense from a known Nazi lover that has already forced any good elements of their community to Bluesky and Mastodon. But, outlawing video out of politics, when a major chunk of the population is getting their politics from video, is fucking wild!

Face it… YouTube is the new media, while old media has been enshitifying itself for the last few decades. Even previously trusted sources like Washington Post and NYT have really gone downhill over the past 5 years.

Shows like Last Night Tonight and some of the other late night TV shows, broadcast important political issues to the general public, those are now in jeopardy because old media doesn’t fucking like it when they are called out, or they call out their Dear Leader Trump. And you know what? The best place where those ideas get broadcasted is not on TV… it’s YouTube!

Here’s a video link I removed yesterday:

Good for you. You did some research and discovered it’s has ties to a batshit crazy website.

FORTUNATELY, the rule forbidding video content means that I, as a moderator, don’t have to do a deep dive in conspiracy bullshit to remove a post. Videos are not allowed. Full stop. They do not pass the bar.

Booo! Fuck your rule. It’s a shit rule. Political discourse has shifted to new mediums, and your fucking rules are stuck in the past.

If we allowed video, moderators would have to review each and every one picking winners and losers and the result would be some mods removing videos they didn’t like and keeping the videos they did like…

You mean you have to review and moderate posts? Just like you read and moderate comments? Wow! Holy shit! You’re already picking winners and losers. You’re just spouting off excuses.

Create a goddamn blacklist or something. You obviously don’t accept every single news source in your posts. You already have a blacklist of some sort. Surely you’re not allowing news posts from conservativegrandpa.americaneagle.ru or any of the other tinfoil hat nutjobs.

Oh yeah, you just said: “they would be removed for being a bunch of tinfoil hat nutjobs and not actual news.” So, you’re already filtering. You’re already picking winners and losers.

Your rule and reasoning is hypocritical. Embrace new media and take out the shitty rule.

Holy shit… I finally found one of the screenshots for these loaders:

You could load up a disk full of games and tie it to a boot loader menu like this.

I mean, that’s how we ultimately got them. We must have had most of the popular ATARI XL games in two wooden floppy boxes.

But, you gotta respect the networked distribution even back then. Pirates would create their disk packs, upload it to some national BBS. It gets picked up by more local BBSs, and tech-saavy modem users would download it to floppies. All the while sneakernet would carry it down the last mile to fill in the gaps. Some of this shit even went international, as long as somebody dealt with the long-distance fees (or phreaked their way out of them).

EDIT: Just to give you an idea of the network we were dealing with.

There was a pirate scene even in the 80s, during the 8-bit computer era. Transferring games to floppy from a 300 baud modem.

Parents had a good friend of theirs that gave us a ton of games every time he visited. Most of them were game selection startup menus, because the uploaders wanted to use up all of the space on the floppy, so they crammed it up with 6-8 games each. You can still find these disk copies on certain C64/ATARI XL game torrents.

All the while SPA was still pushing anti-piracy commercials on PBS channels. “Don’t copy that floppy” was always their silly tagline.

And yea, once Napster turned into a household name, piracy was mainstream.

Why use a Reddit alien as an icon?

Anna’s Archive should hire this same lawyer.

Well, I can wait for those games’ developers to stop losing their mind and remove the cancer from their game. They aren’t getting one cent from me, otherwise.

More like “AAA games are a big pile of shit, and only AAA games bother trying to fuck over the customer with Denuvo”.