And unfortunately, we are on a damn good way there...

I recently talked to a friend about Corpse Party, a game for the PS2 and PSP and we discussed that he could just pop an ISO off the internet and play it - no internet, no DLC, no bullshit - the fact it was an "old game" was genuely a positive factor. And I fear this is not the only place/situation where it'll matter.

Game Pass, Steam, Netflix, Amazon Prime, PlayStation and so many other services have trapped the mainstream in the "You will own nothing and enjoy it" mindset, it makes me sad.

Genuely, I could understand someone developing a depression over this. We can see, day by day, how the freedoms we have had when the internet was new, are slowly removed, stripped, reduced and buried. The internet of the early 00's and these 20's is so vastly different. I'd argue 2010 and around were possibly the best times; you still owned games, but they were slightly online. You could definitively still buy songs you owned online (buy on iTunes, convert to mp3 - it was a ntive feature!) and places like Reddit weren't censored/canceled/SJW'd into oblivion.

God am I glad Nostr exists.

Tribute to the pirates out there.