Thát goes too far? Genocide is fine, but hurting European activists? Nah, crossed a line there. 🤦

Sudo apt get dikes.nl

Kinda is his own fault. Shouldn’t watch a single news channel like fox.

The Netherlands also built the sea wall at Venice.

We do not get hurricanes, but we did build a world wonder to ensure Zeeland doesn’t get flooded again. Source

Japan is able to build defenses against a tsunami. There are options.

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Pizza Hut, LLC is an American multinational pizza restaurant chain and international franchise founded in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, by brothers Dan and Frank Carney. The chain, headquartered in Plano, Texas, operates 19,974 restaurants worldwide as of 2025.

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I think you’re confusing “franchise” and “franchisee”.

Source about franchising

With GTA5 online they have continuesly been adding more content without asking money for it (or at least, it was that, way back in the day, don’t know for sure about now, but I don’t think it changed). They only have the purchase of ingame currency. So I don’t feel ripped off with an empty bug simulator which requires a shit load of extra payments to get what I expected in the base game. So yeah, I’m buying that as well. That studio has been consistent with proper story lines and well made games, they deserve my money. Same with Larian Studio. Same as many indie game devs. If I get value for money, I’m happy to pay for it. If I pirate a game and I spend enough time playing it, I’ll buy it. Unless it consists mostly of DLC’s. If a company tries to rip me off, I’ll pirate their shit without guilt.

With GTA5 online they have continuesly been adding more content without asking money for it (or at least, it was that, way back in the day, don’t know for sure about now, but I don’t think it changed). They only have the purchase of ingame currency. So I don’t feel ripped off with an empty bug simulator which requires a shit load of extra payments to get what I expected in the base game. So yeah, I’m buying that as well. That studio has been consistent with proper story lines and well made games, they deserve my money. Same with Larian Studio. Same as many indie game devs. If I get value for money, I’m happy to pay for it. If I pirate a game and I spend enough time playing it, I’ll buy it. Unless it consists mostly of DLC’s. If a company tries to rip me off, I’ll pirate their shit without guilt.

Pizza hut isn’t a franchise?

Also they want you to buy physical games then to activate them for your account, making them useless for resale (like with steam games, whether bought digital of physical). Sony and Nintendo are eyeballing it for a while now, it’s just something causing insane resistance from their player base when hinting the idea. Same with single-player games requiring your device being online.

All they want is taking away your rights. Like digital games, making them the same price as physical but you’re not actually buying the game, just the right to play their game for as long as they want to support it.

Back in the days you missed nice features when pirating software or movies (like the DVD extras) but these days the pirated version is better and with less restrictions than the purchased licence.

For example, I am leeching YouTube premium from a friend. But using the grayjay app gives me more rights and features than the premium version of YouTube, with sponsor block implemented, offline downloads don’t require a connection to watch and you’re not constantly fed with shorts slop. And you can categorize channel subscriptions and video recommendations are better.

Same with games. Want to play hitman? Sure, 60 bucks for a few missions, plus 140 for all DLC content so you actually have some decent amount of content and playtime. Or pirate it with all DLC content included. I’m fine with paying full price for a proper game, but if most content is locked behind a paywall, I’ll just pirate it instead. Fuck them.

Uh, hard pill to swallow. So all my favorite Playstation games require a Playstation in the future? Like… Eeeeehm, let me check my steam account with almost 700 games… Eeeeehm… Never mind, I found none.

“We’re a franchise and we want to cheap out on a working system by implementing a new technology which is a sycophant AI full of bugs and problems, which has a high risk of causing us a shit load of money. But then we get angry and sue if it doesn’t work.”

Well, you get what you paid for.

It’s like the early days of the internet. Companies like airlines going online with their ticket system with little to no cyber-security, and then complain when loads of people fly for free by just giving themselves a free ticket or lose loads of money by a simple bug charging people $0.

Maybe wait for a proper and safe working system instead?

So the economical strain causes an identity crisis for France. When will they surrender?

He already owns me $10.000.000 worth of gold

I never said that. I’m just annoyed that when a rich person dies, it’s world news and “a tragedy” while when a poor kid or a non-white kid dies no one gives a shit. A school shooting and too man doors are being blamed and it is written off as “collateral damage” to preserve the second amendment but when a rich guy is killed the murderer is being labeled a terrorist and the death penalty is being sought. Steal 3 times something small from the store and get 25 years but scam thousands of people including the government for millions/billions and get 2 months if any at all. Why would I care about a rich kid when the rich only care about themselves. Sure, it’s sad for the kid he got pushed into something completely stupid and dangerous and had to pay for it with his life. At the same time we as the west are still supporting genocide and other horrible war crimes, costing the lives of thousands of children while people protesting this are treated as terrorists and criminals. It’s just a matter of perspective. Most rich kids end up not paying taxes like their parents and getting richer at the cost of others. So when a rich kid dies, I’m not going to care more than when anyone else dies. Especially when it happens by something so dumb as the Titan “tragedy”.

Still a super rich kid who got everything he ever wanted, except for this instance.

Tragic? What was tragic about it? It were just some insanely rich doing something insanely stupid: dive in an untested home made tube built from rejected discarded build materials to dive to insane depths to disrupt a protected monument of something which killed thousands.