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I'm getting fed up with the current state of game preservation. It's practically non-existent.

This is exactly why I prefer GOG over Steam whenever I get the chance to. You actually OWN your games on GOG unlike on other platforms that just give you a temporary 'license' that can be revoked at any time. You can download offline backup install files for every game in your GOG library, and they will continue to work as long as you have those install files saved onto your computer, and you can play them entirely offline without needing a constant internet connection or third-party clients needed to even launch the game. I already have over 100 games in my GOG library, which includes Alpha Protocol, Kerbal Space Program, all of the mainline Deus Ex games, DREDGE, both Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, The Outer Worlds, MAFIA: Definitive Edition, all of the BioShock games, Metro 2033 Redux, The Talos Principle, Saints Row: The Third Remastered, Hypnospace Outlaw, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, GRIP, Sir Whoopass, Pumpkin Jack, A Plague Tale: Innocence, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, FlatOut, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Shadow Warrior: Classic Complete, Quake II, POSTAL: Classic and Uncut, the first two Elder Scrolls games, Betrayer, and even Talisman: Digital Classic Edition before it got delisted from all platforms not too long ago.

The GOG platform has the absolute most consumer-friendly policy of any online storefront, because it is technically real ownership. As long as you have those install files, you can do whatever you want with those files, as long as you're not harming others. This is exactly how physical game ownership used to be; we used to own those products outright. Sure, anti-piracy did exist even back then, but they weren't as intrusive and outright anti-consumer as the anti-piracy protections we have today like Denuvo, which requires you to re-authenticate your game using online servers. We are getting into an age where we flat-out don't own the games we buy, and in some cases are flat-out told so by companies like Ubisoft, so, we need things like GOG and Stop Killing Games, because those are the only ways we can ensure full, 100% ownership of the games we buy. That is real ownership. Not a stupid 'license' to said game or product. Real ownership is being able to re-download the game at your own will, say, 20 years from now. Stuff like Denuvo and SecuROM are not real ownership. Buying a digital game does not mean you own that product, it means you own a license to that product that you can use indefinitely until said license is revoked at any time for any reason whatsoever. You're not buying digital products, you're renting them. It's literally just like a digital, online version of Blockbuster Video - you're renting VHS tapes, you're not buying them. At least Blockbuster let you keep your VHS tapes if you just bought them outright.

I'm not going to sit and "own nothing and be happy", no, I'm not going to be happy. If one thing's for sure, telling me that is just gonna make me refuse to buy your products. The idiots at Ubisoft already proven they don't care about ownership - I mean, their EULA practically states that you must destroy all copies of the game in your possession, INCLUDING physical, if your Ubisoft account is terminated. Way to go, Ubisoft, you just lost a customer. And those Switch 2 Key Cards, yeah, that's literally just a digital game, it's not physical. But it comes in a physical box with a physical cartridge. So, not only are you now paying for a digital game, you're also now being tricked into buying a digital game through a deceiving physical purchase that just grants you a limited license. And Nintendo has already proven that they can make your digital products useless, they have been banning Switch 2 consoles left and right which basically bricks the Switch 2 completely, and even Nintendo can't reverse these bans - they are permanent, and this is getting them into serious trouble in Brazil. Steam, sure, they've been doing well, but even still, you are explicitly buying a license to the game, which they recently added to their storefront amidst a brand-new Californian law which makes it so companies have to explicitly say if customers are buying a product or a license. And you can't even share your account with your descendants, either. You're not allowed to transfer ownership of your Steam account to someone else, they have to make a Steam account themselves and buy games themselves, unlike GOG, which allows you to transfer your account to someone else. And Microsoft and Xbox is a whole other story, ownership is basically dead in the water, same with PlayStation/Sony who created a 'kill switch' that can remove digital products from your library at any time. Game ownership is dying a painful death, and we need to start fighting back.

We need stuff like GOG and Stop Killing Games to exist. We need to take back ownership, and we need to do it now. If we let game publishers get away with this, it is going to set a very bad precedent for video games in the future. It is exactly why indie developers are destroying AAA publishers; they actually care about their fanbase. We need that EU petition to win and succeed. If we win and the EU signs this into law, it is going to create a ripple effect throughout the entire video gaming industry, where publishers will add offline modes to games and give us full ownership of our games we rightfully bought, and made so they are legally forbidden from taking those games away from us. If they do at that point, they will be in violation of the law, and can be legally sued. I already get games on GOG whenever I can, because of their pro-consumer policy when it comes to the games that we buy on the platform, and CD PROJEKT RED is the only AAA publisher out there that actually understands the importance of video game preservation. Why do you think My Abandonware is so popular? They are an ever growing list of games that can't be legally purchased, and key resellers often sell remaining keys for outrageous and insane prices that are way too expensive - I mean, come on, the Deadpool game is not worth over 100 dollars. I've seen games like London 2012 being sold for over $150 on Kinguin. It's just not worth it. If we let companies get away with killing games, then these publishers will continue to make it so we need constant internet access to play single player games, will be allowed to legally take our games away from us or even outright make them unplayable like the situation with The Crew, and so many other things. We need that EU petition to succeed and GOG to become even more popular than it already is. Sure, it is already a popular storefront, but it needs way more attention than ever, especially as of right now. Video game preservation has never been more important than it has been as of right now. They cannot keep getting away with this. We need to stop them. Not later, but now. It's time we stand up for ourselves and demand full ownership of the games we buy. No questions.

Buy games from a real storefront where you ACTUALLY own the games you buy: https://gog.com/

Support the movement against video game destruction: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

I am officially done. From now on, ANYONE who reiterates any phrase like "Stop being poor", "Get a job", "Pull up your bootstraps", or any other type of phrase that solicits 'poverty shaming' earns a free block from me. As a poor person, I have put up with this mentality for far too long and I've had enough of it. I'm done listening to toxic assholes who think they can just say anything. They can look down on me, so I can look down on them, not for having money, but because of their toxic, douchebag attitude. I'm unworkable, have autism, and I am not gonna listen to people who tell me how to live my life and tell me that I should be doing "x instead of y". Anyone who says that is either just simply an asshole or is privileged and was babied by their rich parents and had everything handed to them. I am absolutely not sorry and I am not apologizing. I've listened to this mentality all my life and I am about ready to snap the next time someone tells me to 'not be poor'. I am so sick and tired of it and I don't wanna be around or interact with anyone who reiterates making fun of people for being stuck in poverty. Y'all don't know what it's like to live off of basically scraps and wonder if you're gonna be able to pay for food or electricity next week. Face it, you guys wouldn't last two days in my shoes and you would hate living like this. I'm done being nice to people who just want to blame poor people for being poor rather than blame the circumstances that got them into this mess. There are several factors as to why people are poor and stay poor: they can't work, everything eats up practically all of their savings pretty much all of the time, they got scammed out of money, they have to pay for a shit-ton of house expenses to even have the privilege to live in their home, literally hundreds of things, and yet, the very first thing you wanna do is blame the poor, unfortunate soul for their financial woes. Nah, I am done with it, and I am not sorry at all. You wanna repeat this and make fun of people struggling to survive, like me? Well, congrats, you've earned yourself a free block. You should take a hard look in the mirror and see just how much of an awful, horrible bully you are. Because I am fed up and done on so many levels. I have hit my breaking point and I will not be tolerating it any longer. Y'all have actually crossed a line with me this time.

You have a choice: either be nice and show actual empathy, or earn yourself that block. Choose wisely.

I played 3on3 Freestyle on Xbox, right after the game released on the platform and had its trailer. To start off with, it was actually fun and engaging. It was a fun, arcadey-like soccer/football game with a ton of replay value. But then, as I continued to do matches and continued to level up, I realized the true nature of this game and I started to absolutely hate it. Every match onwards, I was placed with basically starter-level players while I was around maybe level 11 - 15 and had already made progress in the game. And almost every single game, I was being faced off against a team that consisted of players above my level, I think they were around level 20 - 25. The matchmaking system completely sucked. But, the worst part is that I was always being placed with teammates who were literally between levels 1 - 5. My teammates were always the absolute worst at this game and I can't even count how many times I lost online matches due to having bad teammates. I was completely ignored every single time I asked for the ball, and even when I was wide open and able to take a shot. I literally was right there, ready to score, and my teammates still passed the ball between each other and completely ignored my existence. There was several times I could have been able to score my team a point, but alas, I was never able to because of my teammates disregarding the fact I even existed. And then, they never played defense properly, and we always kept getting scored on. Over. And over. And over again. We rarely got a single point while the other team got 5 - 8 points in a single game. Their coordination with blocking shots and passes was horrible and it always resulted in us getting schooled by the other team. Meanwhile, I was the only one actually trying my best to block the ball from getting passed or landing in the hoop, and the other team still managed to outmaneuver and outplay us, mainly because my teammates sucked at defense. And most importantly, they always ended up trying to take impossible half-court shots for 3 points, which always failed and always resulted in a turnover. They always attempted to shoot the ball into the hoop from impossible distances, which always caused the ball to bounce off the rim of the hoop. I was trying to be realistic and shoot the ball from closer distances that were close to the hoop, and I only went back to the 3-point line if I wanted to do a 3-point shot. But not my teammates. They just wanted to go all the to the half-court line, and in some cases, even attempted to shot the ball all the way from the opposite hoop, a full-court shot. And because of all of this, I lost. Constantly. I was always on a losing streak in every online match, and I've had multiple cases where I literally just lost 100% of the time, no matter what. I have rarely won a single online match due to this. After so many times of losing matches and hearing that "Don't feel too bad" crap over and over again, I quit playing the game outright and have never touched the game since. I was getting paired with awful teammates, losing pretty much all of the time, and literally getting smurfed, so I decided enough was enough and I wasn't gonna be putting up with it any longer. I have refused to play this game ever since, and I will continue to outright avoid it like the plague. This game is an unfun heap of trash that practically hands victories to higher-level players and might even be pay-to-win. Never playing it again. Ever.

I was a victim of this website.

I had to go through this website when I was in high school.

NoRedInk is a terrible way for students to learn basic ELA. The first thing is that instead of students' taking their time to look at each question thoroughly, it is instead much easier to just rush through each question instead to attempt to complete the assignment in the fastest time possible, which hinders their true learning experience while using this website. The second thing is that this site uses a very harsh system for penalizing mistakes. If a child gets a question wrong at any point during a NoRedInk assignment, the program automatically imposes three extra questions which the child must correctly answer in a row, in which don't even contribute to the final score, and the counter resets if another question is incorrectly answered. This 'penalty system' approach can be very demotivating and especially brutal to students since it makes them do extra questions just for simply making an incorrect answer or making a tiny mistake and accidentally placing a word, etc. in the wrong location. This hinders their learning process and it takes much needed time out of their days, with some assignments reportedly taking well into the late hours of the night when children are supposed to be sleeping instead of focusing on school or any kind of homework for that matter.

The next thing is that NoRedInk genuinely causes harm to the students - harm that can cause negative effects to them later on in their lives. Students are not motivated when they are forced to do these assignments because they take too long to complete and it makes them do even more questions for every single incorrect answer. Instead of providing a true, honest learning experience for the very students in question, it makes them stressed out and unmotivated. This causes them to want to rush through the assignments instead of paying attention to each question carefully, because it causes them severe stress. The stress that comes from this program is very, very harmful and can cause permanent damage to them later on as adults. This site can cause things such as multi-personality disorder, sleep deprivation, depression and anxiety, and a lot of other things. This site has even caused some students to have severe thoughts about offing themselves to get rid of the pain the site has caused them. The fact kids are wanting to commit should be a giant red flag in the first place and force severe change to the ecosystem of NoRedInk, most notably penalizing mistakes in a much more friendly manner. It ultimately ends up ruining the days of students, lowers their grades, and severely harms their mental and emotional health to the point of suicidal ideation. Yes, it's true. I've heard about attempts to do it over this site online.

Also, the site doesn't even give the students any useful tips when it comes to the hints the site provides. Whenever a kid gets stuck on a question, they can click on the hint to have NoRedInk tell them what they need to do for the assignment. However, the explanations the hints give are way too broad and are very hard to understand even for a teacher. It uses broad and vague wording that the kids cannot comprehend, and the hints don't go into detail and don't leave any lasting impact on the kids to the point they'll know what to do - they'll just be confused. It doesn't help the fact that every time a kid needs to rely on the hint, they're given a warning beforehand about using the hint during a question, and if they have to rely on the hints, they will have to do, again, three extra questions in a row and answer them all correctly. This makes students not even want to rely on these hints, because they know if they use a hint, they will be penalized by being forced to answer three questions in a row. So, not only are the hints not helpful for the students, but they also might as well not even bother to look at the hints to begin with, because it will always result in them getting punished with three extra questions, that again, they will have to answer correctly in a row.

On top of that, there's no true reward for completing a lesson, let alone an assignment. All you get is some stars on the lesson in question, and that is it. This does not make students determined to complete the NoRedInk assignment, since there is no reward on the other end that would make the several hours of work worth it, let alone a reward at all. It doesn't give you anything for completing a lesson - just stars saying you've completed the lesson at the end of the lesson, and then, back to your main home screen with an inspirational quote. Making students determined to complete these lessons would require a real reward on the other side, such as access to a fun activity, or even a fun video going over the topic of the lesson. Rewards like that would make students want to complete these assignments, and it would severely boost student productivity and it would result in better marks.

And speaking of activities, there are no activities on the site at all. It's just a boring, generic educational website that only has the bare necessities that qualify it as such. There are no fun games, activities, or anything at all that make NoRedInk a fun experience: just assignments that do nothing but stress out and push students to their limits for no reason in the name of 'homework'. An equally despised site is one under the name of Study Island, a website with a quiz-like system for assignments. The website had fun games that students' could play in their downtime while waiting for further Study Island assignments, or just to pass time when they're done with their work. There are no games on NoRedInk at all, which severely hinders the enjoyment of the site and makes Study Island feel like a far more reasonable investment over NoRedInk, since there's nothing 'fun' about it.

And also, this website makes teachers' jobs so much harder as well. Why? Well, since they assign so many NoRedInk assignments, it makes it much harder for teachers to do their jobs since they need to look over each and every assignment by each and every student in every hour they teach. It takes time away from a teacher that could be spent on doing far more important things, such as tutoring kids who are struggling with the assignments being assigned to them. It creates a heavier workload for teachers who now have to do twice as much work looking over each completed NoRedInk lesson, and it can cause teachers to become overwhelmed and exhausted with how much of the work they need to take a look at on top of the other assignments they have assigned for their class. Their job is already hard enough as it is, and NoRedInk just forces them to work 2 times as hard to the point it drives them to exhaustion. It makes their jobs harder and even more difficult, since they're having an extra layer of work to look over.

And speaking of such, the site also causes students to work 2 times as hard as well. NoRedInk assignments have reportedly been caused to take multiple hours to complete due to the harsh penalty for simple and honest mistakes. Some reports say it took students 3 hours, some 5 hours, and even some longer than that, sometimes to the point where it keeps them up late to the point they are well up past midnight, which affects their sleep schedule in a very negative way. The typical time that it should take to complete one of these assignments should be around 20 to 30 minutes max. It should not take longer than half an hour to complete a lesson on this site. But, some students have gotten especially unlucky when it comes to NoRedInk lessons, and that is because it is reported that some students are multiple days late on some of these and are still not done with the lesson. It wastes students' time and it takes much needed time out of their days that they could be spending on doing other, far more important things. But, the sheer volume of how many NoRedInk assignments are given, and how it all too often takes too long to complete one of them, diminishes their time value they could be spending on doing assignments for other classes, and it adds on to an already heavy homework load, of which they have enough of it already. They are already tight on homework as it is, and NoRedInk only gives them even more of it on top of the homework they've already been assigned (or are about to be assigned). Not to mention the fact that the amount of times that they are given these NoRedInk assignments takes much needed time away from a child's development that should be used on developing them and introducing them to the world, it's beauty, and lots of other things.

This site also causes bad student behavior - some students have experienced severe emotional outbursts in the middle of class due to NoRedInk's toxic learning structure. Some of them have ended up destroying school equipment (most notably school-issued laptops) or home devices they took with them to school. Students have expressed severe anger at this site sometimes, and emotional breakdowns in the middle of class due to it are all too common in personal stories about the site online. You will constantly hear stories about how NoRedInk caused them to break a personal device or caused them and/or their classmates to get very angry and frustrated. The emotional response students have to this site is nothing short of completely negative. If a learning tool is harming students enough to the point where they actually start showing anger, then the teachers need to re-evaluate what programs they are using to teach said kids. Some students have actually given up on some lessons at times, and just ultimately refused to do the work, and some students are genuinely frustrated. But, they are most notably scared. They are ultimately scared of failure. Why? Because failure means more NoRedInk, more copy and paste questions, and more anger and frustration. But, some students have even ended up dropping out of school due to NoRedInk, because they got sick and tired of the website and its constant, stressful environment.

And lastly, NoRedInk fails at leaving a meaningful mark on students and actually teaching them ELA. With all of the core factors contributing to students, teachers, and even parents not liking the website, it fails at leaving an impression in a ton of different ways. But, the most notable part of this is that it doesn't help them with retention of the material that is taught to them. Because students are being forced to rush through assignments instead of looking over them carefully, students will end up easily forgetting about the material taught to them, as NoRedInk did nothing to actually help them understand the material fully, and it will leave their brains quickly as a result, in a month at maximum. There is a video game called Timez Attack that teaches kids multiplication through video gaming, as the creators of the game, Big Brainz, actually did in fact consist of former game developers who made games for the PlayStation 2. The addition of Timez Attack being a full-on 3D computer game full of various worlds, like a Machine world and Lava world, made learning multiplication fun and engaging. The developers wanted to get away from traditional methods of learning like NoRedInk, and so, they wanted to create a fun way for students to learn their multiplication facts. And as a result, students (players) who came out of Timez Attack ended up getting extraordinary final marks on their post-credits scores - with the highest being an eye-popping 95% fluency. And guess what? Those students were able to hold on and continue to memorize and understand those multiplication facts, because it was a full 3D game. That game helped students retain those facts, and it is the reason why teachers recommended this game to everyone they could find: student grades improved exponentially. NoRedInk does not have anything that makes it engaging in any way, and combined with the need to rush through each lesson and the penalty system penalizing small and honest mistakes, makes it extremely hard for kids to retain basic ELA lessons. They did nothing to innovate or improve. It's just another generic website that has no staying power in kids' minds, since there is nothing about the site that helps these kids with retention of basic English. I'd give it a week max, and then poof, the material they learned would be gone.

In summary, this site is nothing short of ineffective, and it does a lot more harm than good to not only students, but also teachers. This is not a site that you should be using as a tool to teach kids English in school. There are far better ways to teach kids English and this site is absolutely not one of them. There are too many negatives that completely outweigh any of the positives about this site, and it doesn't leave any meaningful impact. This is mediocre at best and atrocious at its worst, and it's more usually atrocious than anything mediocre. If you are looking for a site to teach kids ELA, I'd recommend you steer clear away from this site and look for alternatives that will actually help kids understand the material. Throwing them onto NoRedInk is just setting them up for failure and it will end up with frustration, tears, and quite possibly holes in the wall. Avoid it at all costs.

You all should be angry, and quite frankly, pissed off at both Sony and the infamous UMG record label. They are trying to get a stupid-ass law passed that might end up killing the Internet entirely if it goes through. This new proposed law brought on by these companies will turn your Internet service into an expensive paperweight if you are found to be pirating anime content. You watch a clip of an anime on YouTube, by any chance if this law is passed? BOOM - you have just permanently lost access to your Internet service entirely. This law is a massive human rights violation and is a massive breach of privacy! What if you just watched an anime clip on a website such as Twitter and had no idea that it was a pirated clip? What if you didn't do anything wrong and are living with someone who was in fact pirating anime content? Nope, you still lose access to your Internet seemingly for the rest of your life and it applies to the whole household. That's right, your service will never be turned back on if you break this proposed law even ONCE. There is one side you should draw your pitchforks to and that is Sony and Universal Music. This is going to flat-out kill the Internet if this is passed. These companies need to know that what they're doing is a MASSIVE overreach and overstepping of their boundaries. If this gets passed then I am fully expecting UMG and Sony stocks to tank like crazy, the foundation of YouTube being entirely ruined, VPN sales increasing tenfold, and even hackers attempting data breaches on both companies. We need to stop this from moving forward! I am getting sick and tired of these stupid companies trying to bully us normal internet users into submission. We need to start fighting back and pushing back against the narratives these companies propagate! Enough is ENOUGH! We should REFUSE to stand by and have our basic human rights listed in the Constitution ripped away from us ANY LONGER! WE ALL SHOULD PROTEST AGAINST THIS LAW AND DEMAND THAT IT IS SHELVED FOR GOOD. AND ESPECIALLY BOYCOTT BOTH SONY AND UMG! There's already been severe backlash online regarding this proposed law and I can bet there's gonna be so much more later on should this law actually be taken into effect. And I bet this law is going to end up backfiring in both Sony and UMG's faces spectacularly. I can fully bet that this is probably just gonna end up causing the number of people pirating anime content to increase tenfold - a classic case of the Cobra Effect in action.

My final words? Fuck you Sony and UMG! Please do the world a favor and go kindly FUCK YOURSELVES! 🖕

Blacklisted from The Internet Over Anime Piracy if This Law Backed by Sony and UMG Passes

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(in the style of AVGN's YKWBS series)

You know what's BULLLLLLLSHIT? Those tiny-ass door locks that you have to push to lock the door. Who designed these? They are seriously the worst fucking door locking mechanism I have ever seen in my entire life. You know how on most doors, especially bathroom doors, where they have dials that you turn to lock and unlock the door? Super convenient and easy to use. But those fucking tiny lock buttons you have to push are the complete opposite. These things are so poorly and horribly designed. They malfunction so fucking easily! They are these tiny little buttons right next to the doorknob that you, you guessed it, push to lock the door, and you have to turn the doorknob for the lock to be disengaged. These things are so prone to issues, it's unreal! Sometimes, the goddamn lock refuses to deactivate after the doorknob is turned and actually gets jammed! So, you'll have to fight with getting the fucker freed so the door can be properly used from the outside. But wait, that's not all. Imagine if you lock the door with one of these things to go to the bathroom. I mean, no one wants to see you do your business! So, it would be logical to lock the door. And then, when you are done, you get out, and you shut the door behind you, thinking nothing of it, but behind your back, guess what? The fucking lock is still active! And you didn't even notice it. And then, when you try to open the door again, you can't! Congratulations, idiot! You just locked yourself out of the bathroom. And now, since you have no way of getting into the bathroom because of the shitty lock still being primed, your only hope? Pry open the door with elbow grease using random things from your home. No one wants to do this shit! It's much extra work! Especially when you gotta go really bad! You can't just afford to shit yourself, you gotta go take care of yourself! But the damn lock won't fucking budge, no matter how hard you try and get the door loose! You try everything; screwdrivers, your whole body, pens, pencils, scissors, and everything else. No. Dice. The door won't move a fucking inch. And then, you finally get in after like 30 or so minutes, and realize the goddamn lock was still turned on! How were you even supposed to know that? I've had this bullshit happen twice to me already with the bathroom door in my living room. Twice. Both times I had to pry the damn door open. The first time, I had to use a flyswatter, and the second? A god. Damn. Backscratcher. Yes! I am NOT kidding! I had to use a fucking BACKSCRATCHER to pry open a goddamn DOOR that wouldn't budge! And it's all because of this fucker. How are these things even allowed to be sold, let alone produced? They are so prone to getting stuck and jammed that there's gonna be a shit-ton of incidents like this one! Why can't all doors just have a goddamn dial lock like every other door out there? It's such a laughably bad excuse of a door locking mechanism. It works fine except when it doesn't want to. I can't even fathom how often people have locked themselves out of their bathrooms, their rooms, or even their entire fucking homes due to these bastards. This is such garbage-ass design! These fucking things should be OUTLAWED! And you know the little "clink" sound that the lock makes after its been deactivated? Well, when it gets jammed, it makes no such noise. But, you don't really think anything about it and shut the door when you're out, and you end up unintentionally locking yourself out because of shitty-ass architecture! It doesn't help that the doorknob on the outside can't be moved for shit when the lock is active. So, if you lock yourself out due to one of these, you gotta pry the damn thing open to get back in. Those tiny buttons just feel so fucking cheaply made. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised with how often they malfunction! It's just a simple-ass door lock and it ends up fucking people over and causing them undue stress and loss of time for no reason. These things piss me the fuck off. Why did anyone think these door locks were a good idea? They're not! Not even close! They all too often stop working correctly and require unjamming. I mean, what the fuck? These things need to be just flat-out banned across the entire goddamn country. Yeah, imagine if your fucking car had one of these! You'd be fucked! You wouldn't even be able to get in your vehicle to drive. You wouldn't be able to go to work, get gas, get groceries, anything! You'd be stuck with a fucking door that takes an eternity to get open if you have the strength and patience. But if not? Boom! Probably fired from your job. "Yeah, my car door is jammed!" "No excuses, fired".

These tiny-ass door lock buttons existing is proof that we've failed as a society. And THAT... is BULLSHIT.

Face it guys, Kerbal Space Program 2 is officially dead in the water.

This game was released to Early Access with a LOT of missing features, with a full $50 AAA game price tag. The price of the game along with the amount of content was absolutely not worth it at all. Not to mention they were planning to jack UP the price of the game after it left Early Access - wouldn't have been surprised if the game was $69.99 on full release. The progress of development was slow beyond belief and there was barely any major updates other than just patches to fix the numerous amount of bugs in the game. The amount of bugs and glitches during its EA launch was abysmal, especially for one priced at 50 goddamn dollars.

The only major update that was given to this game finally added new, promised content and was looking to be on the right track, but still, an abhorrent amount of bugs and a ton of missing content. This game had probably a rough estimate of around 90% of content missing from the original KSP. It looked to finally be going somewhere, and then, boom, Take-Two shuts down the studio working on it, Intercept Games, leaving the game entirely unfinished and in the same state that the game was in after its last update, with a whole host of bugs and glitches. The game was looking to finally start getting its footing in the right places, and then, all of a sudden, studio shuts down and there is now no longer any progress being made on it. And they still had the nerve to charge people 50 dollarydoos for the game in its now abandoned state. That is absolutely scummy and ought to be illegal.

This game has officially become 'dead and abandoned mall' status where all that you can see are rows of stores with those big metal gates blocking the entrances to them. But, in this case, the game is still available to be purchased in this absolutely atrocious state. This is BELOW any standard of quality I have ever seen. This is pretty much Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 all over again: game launches in a horrible state, content starts coming out to make the game better, Robomodo is then shut down by Activision, game left unfinished. But, it's in fact in a worse state than THPS 5 in my opinion since this game is still on sale in a now "permanent" Early Access state despite no progress being made, and still able to be bought.

And then, Take-Two puts the game on SALE? ALREADY? This game went on sale as quickly as Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League did! And that was a full $70 live service game! That is absolutely laughable.

But, that's not all. New company owns this game now, and if you're getting your hopes up for the future of Kerbal Space Program 2, just get rid of all of those hopes already, as this game is now being controlled by a private equity firm. I wouldn't say the game is "actually dead", but "content dead". The game is not actually 'dead', it's just under... 'new management'. Don't even think that this game is getting new content, either. It's not. Private equity firms are NOT publishers, they are instead an IP PRISON. Nothing is going to be done with it. It's going to be kept in the same unfinished state as it was in last time with no new fixes, patches, or improvements. Not even any new content. The only thing these firms truly care about is money.

The fact that this game is STILL being sold should be classified as a scam. Even when THPS 5's developer was closed down, Activision at least took the game offsale digitally. But this? The studio is now shut down and completely non-existent, and yet the game is still up for sale. Still available to be purchased digitally despite the fact the game is going to be left in a permanently unfinished state due to Intercept Games' closure. Selling an unfinished game in Early Access despite the developer being shut down should be illegal.

I literally got this game for COMPLETELY free and still feel ripped off.

All of my hope for this game is now lost. It's officially been cut loose. This game NEEDS to be delisted as it has been turned into a straight-up scam that is probably still conning and tricking people. If they won't take the game offsale themselves then Valve should step in and delist the game manually as it is no longer being maintained.

It's completely dead, guys, just move back to KSP 1. It's over and you know it.

I am literally sick and fucking tired of video editors locking features behind paywalls. It's like "Oh, you found a feature that you actually NEED to use? Well, fuck you, pay 20 dollars a month to use that one feature you need!". The free versions ALWAYS have less goddamn features then the paid versions to the point where they actually become borderline fucking unusable. A free plan is always a cop-out to get people to pay for overpriced bullshit with the excuse of "Feature addition!". It's fucking stupid. Every goddamn video editor out there is paid, every one of them. Basic free plans always have the basic and fucking barebones features that qualifies it as "video editing software", and the actual useful features that you might need access to are always locked behind fucking expensive subscription plans that are overpriced as shit. Come on, the original Movie Maker had a ton of more fucking features and was FREE as it came pre-installed with Windows. Guess what? WeVideo? Fucking useless for anyone on its free plan. A huge-ass watermark that takes up way too much of the screen, video length restrictions, low-ass quality with not even ANY of the HD Export options being available for free users (basic 720p and even FULL 1080p), and a ton of other restrictions. You'd have better luck finding a goddamn heads up penny than you are finding a truly free video editor without ANY of the bullshit paid tiers with features locked in it. It's gotten to the point where ANY fucking time I go on a website for a video editor and see a "Pricing" page on it, it's an instant and IMMEDIATE blacklist and I will fucking avoid it like the goddamn plague. I literally will go look for something else. Paywalling features doesn't 'attract' new customers. Quite the goddamn opposite. It instead DETERS them and instantly drives them away from your product or service. Over 10 years ago it was so easy to find a free video editor that suited your needs, all features were included in installation without any features being locked. And now, everything requires some form of goddamn payment to access them. Even the few things still labeled as "free". But I am sure people are gonna come in saying "Oh, but they need to pay for server costs and hosting", to which I will respond with "NO ONE is going to be paying for a service that makes certain features paid and TAKES AWAY features from users stuck on their free plan". It's like every goddamn open source video editor is SOMEHOW making more goddamn money than the paid shit... gee, I WONDER FUCKING WHY! People are literally donating to the people making these to keep the program running while with the premium shit you have to pay to "ACCESS CERTAIN FEATURES". There's a fine line between necessity to survive and greed, and it's FULLY clear to me which fucking side the premium crap uses. Guess what? Davinci Resolve has EVERY feature included on its free tier. No bullshit. No stupid paywalling. No excuses. Everything is accessible, and if you want extra features (keyword: EXTRA), you can pay for Studio which is a one-time payment of $295, and then the ENTIRE software is yours with no stupid subscription plans or extra payments required. Like, I just wanna be able to EDIT MY GODDAMN VIDEOS and yet EVERY GODDAMN VIDEO EDITOR OUT THERE IS FUCKING PAID WITH FEATURES LOCKED BEHIND PAYWALLS! I'm not giving any of my fucking time or money to video editors where you have to pay to access all of the features. And yet, somehow, the prices of EVERY single video editor out there are going up in price while wages don't keep up. STOP. RAISING. PRICES. We need the programs to cost LESS, not MORE! Oh, and yeah, since every goddamn video editor out there with a "free plan" that is missing basically 90% of the full program's features you can bet your fucking ASS that people are pirating them. Especially when they are THIS fucking outrageously expensive. This is the EXACT fucking reason why piracy is still running rampant, and instead of making things cheaper, they make things MORE expensive, which only drives up the number of pirates even more. And guess what? Pirates? They get everything for free yet the legitimate customer is fucked over because they have to PAY to use these features while pirates can enjoy them without paying a SINGLE fucking cent. Louis Rossman put it perfectly: "Any time you create a system where the pirate is rewarded yet the legitimate customer gets screwed, the legitimate customer decides they're gonna pirate and they will never give you money again", which ties directly into Gabe Newell's famous quote where he said that it's not a pricing issue, but rather a service issue. Why the fuck do you think Davinci Resolve is making more goddamn money than those "free" video editors with features locked behind paywalls? Nearly everything is free out of the box and you don't need a subscription plan to use them. And if you make the paid options better than the free options, then oh wow, you're ALL of a sudden making more money. Gee, I wonder why. I'm not giving video editors that lock basically everything behind paid plans ANY of my money. My time is fucking valuable and I have far better things to worry about. So, they will see NO revenue from me. At all. Yeah, I'm not paying $20 a fucking MONTH for Sony Vegas. That shit is WAY TOO overpriced. My only other option is a "Free Trial" that WILL expire, and so, I kindly will say "fuck off" to Vegas as I will never be using it. And guess what? I won't pay over $200 for Davinci Resolve, either. But guess what? Davinci is free with most features, Vegas is not, it's a fucking free trial for the full product that will expire after the free trial lapses. Resolve is EASILY the better deal! I can use EVERYTHING for free. Boom! Easy recommend. I'm fucking tired of the goddamn excuses these companies give. You can ABSOLUTELY make people pay for your product without stripping features away and making them exclusive to paid tiers. But, you choose greed over consumers and I have FINALLY hit my fucking breaking point with this bullshit. It's either you make more features free for the less fortunate, or you can watch as your fucking numbers go down to the point where NO ONE'S using your shitty-ass product.

I'm fucking tired of this shit and I want it to STOP!

I'm serious, I loathe and despise people who tell us to stop doing the one thing that we are having trouble doing - being poor. We do not "choose" to be poor, we are forced to live in this crappy financial state because something always seems to get in the way of everything to halt our progress. Yet, these people just love to bully us poor people and tell us "Y'know, you could just not be poor" or something among those lines. I would absolutely love to stop being this way, but I just can't. I can't even work because I have literally been deemed 'unworkable' by a doctor. And these people just pick on us and tell us that we need to stop living like this. How about you stop being toxic? Yeah, sure, let's victim-blame and poverty-shame poor people for being born into poverty or being pushed into poverty through circumstances that are out of their control. We pay for so much crap as it is: food, water, electricity, a place to live, and internet. Don't you think we've been through enough? That we have suffered enough crap as it is? We are over here struggling and suffering because of everything being ridiculously expensive. I mean, we had to previously afford $80 for horrible internet service from Spectrum before we were able to switch to Fastwyre Fiber. I mean, gas prices literally go up every year, make that every month, due to inflation. There's gonna be a time when we won't even be able to afford gas because of it costing too damn much. And yet, we get victim-blamed for having financial woes. But, guess who is still doing good? Greedy, heartless, exploitive rich people who want to gut social programs for the poor, disabled, and sick. They always are able to get out of everything, which includes taxes. And then, those very same people tell us to start getting more money and tell us "have you ever tried not being poor" if we say anything about living expensives or having a hard time buying anything essential. We need help, we get none, and we are laughed at as a result because we need to "stop being poor". Well, if you say it to me, then I have this to say to you: "Stop talking to me". Cut me out of your pathetic life if you don't like the fact I am financially struggling. I have actually ended up crying sometimes over this nonsense and people like you saying crap like this doesn't help me. I literally have bawled my eyes out over me worrying about ending up homeless due to the fact we have barely any money left after we pay all of our bills and taxes. The only thing that gives us hope at this point is our yearly Tax Return. I did not want to end up in this situation, and I don't need some toxic fiend bringing me down and making me hate myself for being poor. If all you can do is bring someone down, then I just don't want anything to do with you. The whole system is designed to keep people like us down and keep the heartless and exploitive rich people flowing with cash. I mean, they literally find legal loopholes to get out of doing taxes, whereas families like us aren't able to use those "loopholes". And guess what? They always waste their money on useless crap like multi-million dollar mansions and expensive supercars. And they sit on their butts doing nothing and the government pays them to do it. But no help for us poor people! No! We have to deal with the taxes. And we're getting made fun of and laughed at by people online whose parents probably failed them in their upbringing and didn't show them proper discipline as a child for acting like a smartass. There are hundreds of contributing factors as to why people are poor: they can’t work, they got scammed, they’re having to pay a shit-ton of house expenses, something always eating up their funds, literally hundreds of things. Do you think they wanted this to happen? Absolutely not! They're already struggling enough as it is. What we should be doing is taxing the overly-wealthy rich people who work against us and force them to pay mandatory wealth expenses and actively punish them if they refuse to pay the expenses, evade them, or both. But no, we're in this stupid system where the heartless rich people get money for doing nothing while we get nothing from it. And people online who tell us to "get a job" and "stop being poor" only make us feel like crap for being poor. It actually makes us hate ourselves. I am stuck in poverty and I don't feel like there is ever gonna be a way out of it, I do not need someone bullying me on top of it. It's bullying in real life, and online, it's cyberbullying. You say this to me, and it's a great way for you to end up on my blacklist; I will ultimately avoid talking to you and will never speak to you again. If anyone says it to me in real life, I will just drop my conversation with them and walk in the opposite direction, far away from them. And the digital equivalent is me blocking the account in question that said it. I do not have time to deal with toxicity from people who just want to poverty-shame poor people. You say it to me, and you will be on my ignore list for the rest of your life. I am done dealing with toxicity towards us poor people as a poor person myself. I'm done with toxic, heartless monsters who think they can just say anything and get away with it. I used to have a lot more patience, but life is too short. I'm serious, I am fed up. I hate everyone who uses the "stop being poor" sentence or any other form of it. Any form of the sentence is poverty-shaming and it will cause you to immediately get the boot should you even dare utter that sentence or any form of it to me. If you want to act toxic, do it somewhere else, because I am done listening to you and done playing your stupid games. It'll be one less asshole to deal with.

I'm sorry if I went on a tangent. I just hate seeing poor people mocked and made fun of.

TL:DR; If you tell me, or any other poor person to "stop being poor", I will consider you to be a toxic person you will be put on my blacklist, and you will be forbidden from speaking to or interacting with me.

My ex-wifes dog is dying. It's old. She emotionally can't handle the steps involved with that. She called me.

I grew up on a farm. I love animals but death was just part of life. I've had pets I loved get hit by cars, accidentally shot by hunters (on our land illegally), bitten by snakes... Plus there were lots of pets that stupid people dump in the country ("Fido will hunt rabbits or some nice farmer will take him" no he won't. Fido will slowly starve in the wild and get very mean/crazy, then get shot when he attacks me. Just have the dog put down, dumping the dog isn't better it just makes 10 year old me do what you couldn't).

Anyway my ex-wife calls me because she can't handle it and I can.

The problem is that I've slipped up a couple times and said "it" or "the dog" instead of "him" or "Toasty".

I understand that it is insensitive and hurtful, Ive absolutely been trying to avoid that since I first came over. However it's also insensitive and hurtful to call me bad for not getting emotionally attached to the dog at this point in its life. It's dying.

I'm taking care of it. I'm using all my farm skills and animal knowledge to be sure it's not dying from a disease, bacteria, or injury that I can fix or cure. I'm making food for it that is easier to eat so I can know for sure when the dog starts choosing not to eat vs having difficulty eating. When/if the time comes where the dog doesn't want to continue, I'll handle those steps and give it a burial.

If I was a monster I wouldn't help at all or just come over, shoot it, bag it, and trash it. I'm giving this animal every chance and looking for the moment when it gives up. I'm not cold. It's just a bad time to make friendship bracelets with the dog. It's a dying dog. I don't need to get more attached, I need to keep emotional distance to make good choices for the best interest of the animal.

That's exactly why I was called in the first place. That doesn't make me a monster.

Edit: before the "take it to the vet!" Comments. Our daughter is a vet. She said the same things I did. It's probably going to die. When it stops eating and gives up, put it down.

Hello. I am a former Spectrum customer as we ditched Spectrum a while back and switched to Fastwyre Fiber. So far, I have been loving Fastwyre, they have been a joy to work with. A breath of fresh air. But, before that, we were, sadly, a Spectrum customer. And my experience with Spectrum was nothing short of awful. I at some points had constant breakdowns due to Spectrum's horrible and downright dogwater internet service. They were always a pain to deal with and was always the most frustrating ISP we have ever dealt with. They really were a nightmare to deal with on certain days. They seriously pissed me off.

As a Charter Communications customer for over 10 years (including Spectrum years), we expected to be treated fairly and had decent if not good speeds. Nope! As soon as they completed the merger with Time Warner Cable and Bright House, it all went to crap. Speeds of our router slowed down gradually over time with no signs of ever stopping. At some point, we were getting less than a quarter of their actual speeds. It was the absolute worst during the pandemic when everyone was needing access to COVID-19 information like info as well as locations to where they could take their vaccines. It slowed down 10x as much.

One time, I was trying to watch a Twitch stream on my laptop at the time that since got scrapped. Oh my god, the buffering was atrocious. The stream kept buffering every few minutes or so and it literally made the entire stream unwatchable. It actually, honestly, pissed me off and it made me just leave the stream entirely. I wish I was able to just cancel Spectrum right then and there. That day will never be forgotten in my eyes. Spectrum was just yanking our chains at this point, treating us like complete arse. That day seriously made my blood boil because all I wanted to do is relax and watch a Twitch stream. Absolutely atrocious behavior from Spectrum.

In fact, I couldn't even simply browse the internet on certain days without Spectrum deliberately freezing or straight up throttling my traffic. Websites would load like a snail, and sometimes would refuse to load at all. Sometimes, it got so slow that I couldn't access about 99% of websites without being shown the infamous Chrome dino. The fact that I kept seeing that dino on my screen so constantly just proves how inconsistent and unstable their internet is. The internet, at a point, literally got so slow that it didn't even exceed a single megabyte in speeds. Yep, you heard me. Less than a megabyte both down and up at one point (it hit 0.16 mbps down and 0.02 mpbs up). It is the all-time record for slow Spectrum speeds for me personally. I truly couldn't enjoy my time on the internet with Spectrum due to their inconsistent and crappy speeds. It would get so bad to the point where I would have to use my mobile hotspot pretty much 100% of the time.

And oh boy, their Customer Service to us in particular was incredibly unhelpful and quite frankly assholes at times. All we were doing was just explain that our speeds were constantly going down the crapper and all the time the only response that we got was to restart the router/modem and try again. Sometimes, the reps were just assholes and hung up on us. Your customer is trying to get help, and you just hang up the phone on them purely out of spite? Shame on you! Imagine if I was working for an ISP and I just hung the phone up on you without even helping you! You'd be rightfully pissed off! Well, don't do that crap to us! Well, once they did finally get technicians out there, they only made things worse. First one installed a new router that made our internet go out twice as frequently within the first 5 minutes of it being installed, and the other one changed everything on the box outside of our house, and still made it worse. How do you send two tech guys out and have them manage to make our internet worse?

In fact, there was one time that our internet was out for a whole 3 hours with no word or ETA from Spectrum. It just went down and we did not get a single word or message from them. Everything went down, the phone, the internet, and the cable. We could not access anything, we could not make calls, we could not go online, and we couldn't even watch TV. Every bit of our Spectrum service was down. We just had to sit there and wait for the braindead employees to get it working again. It would have been nice if we were given a word on if there was an outage or if there was scheduled maintenance for our area. Nope! We couldn't even call them to find out what was going on. We just had to sit there for 3 hours waiting for our service to be restored. It took over 3 hours for them to fix our service, the longest outage we have ever faced. And I know others might not be so lucky. Some of you have outages going on for more than a day. A week. Possibly even a month. Some of you may be really unlucky with a year-long outage, but I don't know.

And despite all of that, Spectrum's prices were always outrageously expensive. At one point, the subscription we had to Spectrum Cable literally caused our price to go over $300 on the day our payment was due. Literally. We had to pay that much, and that was the time when we still had the cable portion of our service before we cut cord due to it making our bill insanely expensive. And even when we got rid of Spectrum Cable, our bill for the internet and phone combined still exceeded over $100 per month. We were still expected to pay this much for internet that never worked. And it was like this every month. In fact, it continued to rise every month that we continued to be on Spectrum. We barely had enough left by the end of it. Thanks to my autism check, it was just always barely enough to pay for most of the things we have in our house, like internet and water. So, thankfully, my check managed to keep us from going homeless due to Spectrum's insane prices for poor service. If it weren't for that check keeping us afloat, we'd have been on the streets by now, so I am thankful that check kept us from being evicted..

And speaking of Spectrum Cable, there was barely anything good on our subscription. Every time, there was always good channels getting replaced with channels we have never heard of. I was extremely upset when the good retro channel INSP was replaced with GRIT. INSP was a TV channel where we would watch a lot of classic shows that my uncle who passed away a while back grew up with. He was furious when GRIT replaced INSP, and I can't blame him. GRIT was just a TV channel with nothing but random Western shows that we truly didn't even care about. Spectrum replaced a channel we loved with a channel we couldn't care less about. Thank God that they never touched MeTV while we were still on cable, or there would've been a riot. Also, Spectrum had two contract disputes. One with Viacom, and one with Tribune Broadcasting. The Viacom one was set to bring all Nick channels offline, and thankfully, that never happened. But, the Tribune one happened, and it took our local news channel owned by Fox offline. So, now, there was no way for us to get weather on TV, and it pissed off Chiefs fans who were looking forward to seeing them in the Playoffs (this happened in 2019). And the only Spectrum Original I even cared for was Curfew because it had an interesting show concept.

And oh man, when we had cable, the commercial breaks were awful. Let me sum it up for you. Spectrum ad. Spectrum ad. Medicare ad. Medicare ad. Spectrum ad. Medicare ad. All day, non-stop. I truly was getting fed up with all of the Spectrum ads and Medicare ads! For one, we already have Spectrum, why are you showing us ads for a product we already have, and, quite frankly, don't like? And two, why are you showing us these stupid Medicare commercials 24/7? Oh my God, the ones starring Joe Namath and Jimmie Walker were the most rampant when we had cable. I hated that Joe Namath went from being a former NFL quarterback to a person lying about Medicare benefits, and I hate Jimmie Walker's stupid voice. Him saying "It's FREE!" in that stupid high pitch drove me to madness. The commercial breaks were truly the worst. The Kay Jeweller's ad with that stupid "You Are The Reason" song made me wish I was deaf on numerous occasions. Spectrum's ad breaks on cable were abysmal and I am so glad we cut the cord on them so we didn't have to listen to any more of Spectrum's stupid showboating, the cringe ads, or the blatant and downright scam ads.

And oh man, don't even get me started on that "Directory Assistance" nonsense. It was this stupid phone number that we used frequently if we needed to find a business. Whenever we called, their automated bot responds and asks for the name of a city and/or business. Every single time, the bot either gave us the wrong business or said the name of cities or businesses incorrectly. Their stupid bot made me wanna pull my hair out on numerous occasions. It always took so long before the bot gave up and connected us to an operator who actually would usually send us to the correct place. Sometimes, they also gave incorrect businesses or were complete assholes who just hung the phone up on us, but that was rare, the operators were usually really nice even though we could barely hear a word that they were saying. And every time we were in fact hung up on or given an incorrect business through an operator, we'd have to go through the stupid bot again, and every time we had to, it only made me wanna pull out my hair even more. We had to go through this stupid bot 3 times at one point before an operator gave us the correct business. That day was especially a nightmare.

But, the good news is that I am no longer a Spectrum customer. On the very first day of May this year, we were finally able to disconnect our Spectrum internet and welcome Fastwyre Broadband's fiber internet into our home. And let me tell you, switching was the best decision we have ever made. Our bill has never been increased as far as I am aware, and the internet has constantly and consistently been up every single day with no outages, that is, until the middle of the night when most of us are all sleeping. But, it usually takes them less than 10 minutes to get it back up, and then it's working again. And our speeds? Absolutely incredible. We have always hit over 800 megabits per second both download and upload. Every single time. Almost a gigabyte in speeds every time. We have only had our Fastwyre fiber for a little over 4 months at this point and they have truly been a breath of fresh air. A thousand times better than what Spectrum could ever muster. And as soon as we dumped Spectrum for Fastwyre, they have constantly sent us junk mail in a desperate attempt to get us back by offering huge price discounts and promotions for being a long-time customer. And every time, we just laugh and throw their envelopes into the bin. It's laughable they ever think that will get us back.

In short: Spectrum is an awful ISP, and if you can switch to a better ISP, definitely do so.

I DO NOT HAVE A FUCKING PHONE PLAN OR FUCKING PHONE FOR THAT MATTER. STOP ASKING ME FOR SHIT I DON'T FUCKING HAVE. EVERY FUCKING MAINSTREAM SERVICE OUT THERE JUST EXPECTS YOU TO HAVE A FUCKING PHONE AND PHONE PLAN THESE DAYS. WANT TO SIGN UP FOR A WEBSITE? VERIFY YOUR GODDAMN PHONE NUMBER. WANT TO TALK IN CERTAIN DISCORD SERVERS? NO SIREE. VERIFY YOUR PHONE NUMBER FIRST. LOCKED OUT OF ONE OF YOUR ACCOUNTS OVER SOME BULLSHIT REPORTS? VERIFY YOUR PHONE NUMBER TO UNLOCK IT. LITERALLY JUST FUCKING EXISTING? VERIFY, VERIFY, VERIFY! FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK, STOP PROMPTING ME TO VERIFY MY FUCKING HUMANITY WITH A PHONE NUMBER. I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO LOOK FOR FUCKING WORKAROUNDS AND BYPASSES TO GET AROUND THIS SHIT. EVEN IF I DID HAVE AN ACTIVE PHONE NUMBER, YOU AIN'T GETTING JACK SHIT FROM ME. THIS IS NOT MADE TO PROTECT YOU AND KEEP YOU SAFE, IT IS ONLY MADE SO THESE FUCKTARD COMPANIES CAN SELL YOUR DATA TO DATA BROKERS, WHO WILL THEN SELL THAT DATA TO ROBOCALLERS WHO WILL CALL YOU ALL THE FUCKING TIME! LOOK, YOU'RE NOT GETTING MY NUMBER. IF I HAVE TO FIND FUCKING FAKE PHONE NUMBERS OR SIGN UP TO TEMP NUMBER SERVICES, THEN SO FUCKING BE IT, BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO. I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO POTENTIALLY BREAK THE FUCKING LAW TO GET SOME FUCKING SENSE OF PRIVACY. I LITERALLY HAVE A NUMBER ON TEXTNOW THAT IS BASICALLY FUCKING USELESS AND IS ONLY USABLE FOR MAKING CALLS AND TEXTING. EVEN IF I WAS ABLE TO USE THAT NUMBER TO GET A VERIFICATION CODE IN THE FORM OF A SMS, IT WOULDN'T WORK, BECAUSE "OH, YOU NEED TO SIGN UP FOR ANOTHER FUCKING SUBSCRIPTION (LOCK-IN NUMBER) TO GET VERIFICATION CODES"! FUCK, I CAN'T EVEN PARTICIPATE IN SOME TWITCH CHATS DUE TO THIS BULLSHIT BECAUSE SOME FUCKING STREAMERS SET UP THIS STUPID-ASS 'VERIFIED ACCOUNTS ONLY CHAT' BULLSHIT THAT FORCES YOU TO VERIFY VIA PHONE NUMBER TO ACCESS THEM. AND GUESS WHAT? MY TEXTNOW NUMBER? FUCKING USELESS ON ABOUT 90% OF SERVICES ON THE FUCKING INTERNET! WHY? OH, WELL, BECAUSE SOME FUCKING 'GENIUS' DECIDED TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME BY BLOCKING VOIP NUMBERS COMPLETELY. AND TEXTNOW IS A VOIP SERVICE. IF I DO TOO MANY ATTEMPTS TO VERIFY, I GET 'RATE LIMITED'. FUCK. OFF. GIVE ME ANOTHER FUCKING WAY TO VERIFY BECAUSE YOU ARE SURE AS FUCKING HELL NOT GETTING ACCESS TO MORE OF MY DATA! I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO EVEN "START" THIS PROCEDURE, ANYWAY, BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A FUCKING PHONE TO BEGIN WITH! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH FUCKING PHONE PLANS COST THESE DAYS? WELL, HUNDREDS, MAYBE EVEN THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. DO YOU REALLY EXPECT ME TO GO BUY A FUCKING PHONE PLAN THAT IS OVERPRICED AS SHIT, GET A PHONE NUMBER, AND VERIFY WITH IT? OH, FUCK YOU. AND GUESS THE FUCK WHAT? GUESS WHO LOVES PHONE NUMBERS? FUCKING DATA LEAKERS. SHOULD I EVEN REMIND YOU ABOUT THE TWITCH DATA LEAK THAT TOOK PLACE OVER 2 YEARS AGO? PERSONAL INFORMATION ACCESSED. THAT POSSIBLY INCLUDED PHONE NUMBERS. THAT MEANS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO GOT BREACHED PROBABLY HAD A SHIT-TON OF ROBOCALLS. GODDAMNIT, THE INTERNET IS NOT A FUCKING EXCLUSIVE CLUB, YOU GODDAMN DICKWEEDS. BACK WHEN I WAS AROUND THE INTERNET, YOU DIDN'T NEED TO GIVE OUT JACK SHIT WHEN SIGNING UP FOR WEBSITES OR PARTICIPATING IN CHAT. HOLY FUCK, IRC DIDN'T EVEN NEED THAT SHIT. AIM DIDN'T NEED IT. YOU COULD JUST MAKE A FUCKING ACCOUNT ON THE AOL WEBSITE OR YOUR IRC CLIENT, AND BOOM, YOU COULD TALK TO ANYONE IN YOUR CONTACTS. NO STRINGS OR ANYTHING ELSE ATTACHED. BUT NOWADAYS, YOU HAVE TO GIVE OUT A SHIT-TON OF PERSONAL INFO TO ACCESS NEARLY ALMOST EVERYTHING, AND THAT INCLUDES HAVING A PHONE NUMBER, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE, THEN YOU ARE APPARENTLY JUST FUCKED, BECAUSE EVERYONE EXPECTS YOU TO HAVE ACCESS TO A FUCKING CELLULAR DEVICE. BACK IN THE 2000S, HAVING A FUCKING PHONE WAS A FUCKING NOVELTY. YOU COULD EVEN CONSIDER YOURSELF LUCKY IF YOU HAD ONE. NOW, EVERYONE EXPECTS YOU TO HAVE ONE. LIKE, WHAT THE FUCK? I HATE THE FUCKING FAKE-ASS EXCUSES COMPANIES GIVE BY CLAIMING THAT HAVING A PHONE NUMBER MAKES YOU MORE SECURE. BRO, THAT IS A FUCKING LIE AND A HALF. WHERE'S MY FUCKING LIE DETECTOR? ALL IT DOES IS GIVES DATA-HUNGRY COMPANIES ACCESS TO MORE OF YOUR INFORMATION, AS IF THEY DON'T HAVE FUCKING ENOUGH OF IT ALREADY. I MISSED OUT ON SO MANY GODDAMN COOL THINGS BECAUSE OF THIS SHITTY-ASS FORCED PHONE NUMBER VERIFICATION. I FUCKING MISSED OUT ON MONSTER HUNTER FRONTIER WHEN IT WAS STILL UP AND RUNNING DUE TO THIS BULLSHIT. NOW, IT IS FUCKING SHUT DOWN FOREVER AND I MISSED OUT ON IT ENTIRELY BECAUSE OF OVERZEALOUS VERIFICATION. I TRULY THOUGHT THAT PHONE VERIFICATION WAS GOING TO BE EASY AS THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT WEBSITES WHERE YOU CAN RECIEVE SMS TEXTS WITH EITHER 'REAL' OR 'FAKE' PHONE NUMBERS. NOPE! NOT ONLY DOES THE PHONE NUMBER NOT HAVE TO BE ALREADY USED BY TOO MANY PEOPLE, BUT IT ALSO HAS TO SPECIFICALLY NOT BE A VOIP NUMBER. I MIGHT AS WELL SAY 99% OF THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET DON'T SUPPORT THESE FUCKING NUMBERS. THEY MIGHT AS WELL TELL YOU TO FUCK OFF AND BUY A PHONE PLAN. "DO YOU GUYS NOT HAVE PHONES?" MIGHT AS WELL SUM UP TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION ENTIRELY. DOES IT LOOK LIKE I HAVE A FUCKING PHONE? THEN DO NOT ASK ME FOR A FUCKING PHONE NUMBER OR ASK ME TO USE ANYTHING THAT REQUIRES AN APP! I FUCKING HATE THOSE GODDAMN 'AUTHENTICATOR' APPS BECAUSE OF THIS AS WELL, BECAUSE THEY 'ALSO' REQUIRE YOU TO HAVE ACCESS TO A PHONE. WE ALREADY PAY FOR FOOD, HOUSING, ELECTRICITY, INTERNET, WATER, AND OTHER ESSENTIALS. STOP ASKING ME TO GET A FUCKING PHONE PLAN AND PUT IN MY FUCKING PHONE NUMBER JUST TO ACCESS NEARLY HALF OF THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET. BESIDES, YOU WON'T BE GETTING MY ACTUAL PHONE NUMBER EVEN IF I "DID" HAVE ONE, SO TOUGH FUCKING SHIT. GO ASK OTHER FUCKING PEOPLE TO PUT IN THEIR GODDAMN PHONE NUMBERS, BECAUSE THAT IS OBVIOUSLY YOUR FUCKING DAY-TO-DAY ACTIVITY.

FUCK. YOU. ALL. 🖕

so, it turns out my sibling, after college, they became fearful for their (and our family's) life and started pressuring my family. They are controlling me, my grandmother, and my mom.

Recently, I've seen this manifest in their confrontations.

1. They says something ridiculous (usually about leaving the door unlocked for 10 secconds; not looking behind enough; ).
2. I prove them wrong;
3. They gets mad and insist being right.
4. I slowly get angered when they keeps insisting I'm wrong
5. then I get uncomfortable and angered so I request to end the conversation and they refuse and insist on me "listening to them" (repeat, multiple times)
6. I enforce my boundaries (usually when I get harassed).
7. They harass and try to assult me (they broke the door in my room).

This happened in the past few months…

Well, my mom (a "mental health" therapist, ugh) is basically not doing a thing to fix their problems (anger management therapy); my mom instead just coddles them and blames me for starting them up, when they are pressuring me and our family. (Why am I surprised? Christian liberal-supporters who haven't read the bible, get mad when their children curse (but nor anyone else), and overstock on food; turn out to be garbarge parents and enablers…)

My aunt went on about how "I need to bond with my family and work together" (which really just means "do as they say").

Grandmother cant do a thing about it; because she's weak.

Also, I'm thinking about signing out for good; if I keep posting; I might actually dox myself.

I'm confessing this now, so I can still maintain my accountability (and not become a piece of shit).

I found porn (firstly face sitting and then wetting) when I was 13; I wish I didn't. I was trying (and unsurprisingly failed) to 'get' a girlfriend. (Retrospect, Big mistake was thinking to 'get' one as if they are objects to obtain like game rewards; I learnt that lesson, lol.)

I still watch it 5 years later… that was a mistake (albeit unconcious, but still my fault) as I am aware of what porn addicts become if they don't stop.

I heard that porn was bad through yourbrainonporn, but some of studies had low sample sizes and subjective measures for testing that I jumped to the conclusion that porn wasn't harmful.

Well, I'm realizing that lacking a source doesn't automatically invalidate someone; and that the harm done is through spreading misogynist ideology.

Of course, (usonian) capitalism is part of the problem. The people are heavily isolated by car-centric transportation, isolated through work, the capitalist state (police and psychiatry), etc. Unsurprisingly, as long as those systems exists, I'm likely going to struggle worse with fighting porn addiction; as I have no consistent acquaintances.

I would have told my parents when this first started; but I feared getting abused (this is the reactionary U.S we're talking about).

I wish I was born in the USSR, where they banned porn. It would have been great to never deal with that.

The ban reason:

reason: constant ableism, previously temp banned for it and returned with no change. Pushing a problematic narative that belittles mental illness, very dangerous stuff. There's no place on lemmygrad for this kind of harmful content.

What fucking ableism was there?! I was advocating for patient rights and the proper use of the scientific method!

I stated that mental disorders can't be objectively falsified as they have no assigned mechanism and was formed from assertions; thus they are unscientific. Is that "ableist" to them?!

What "problematic" narrative was I spreading?! I was promoting skepticism of Psychiatric treatments and proper use of the scientific method.

They just can't handle the truth can they? ~~Honestly, fuck them anyway!~~ Ok that was bit rude, but If they don't even know what science is; how could I expect them to fairly analyze my criticisms of psychiatry?

Instead of improving themselves or bothering to explore the anti-psychiatry movement; they just censor me off the platform for criticisms of Psychiatry and falsely claim that I'm ableist.

EDIT: And they do the same bullshit of calling critics of Psychiatry, not even just anti-psychiatry advocates, "dangerous". Straight up calling skepticism of an unscientific field dangerous huh?!

What fucking harm was there?! Barely anyone even listened to me in the first place; and I was posting scientific studies that showed a different conclusion to what the Psychiatric institution propagates. How am I harming anyone?!

My reasoning was that it would "help my microbiome". I'm so stupid; I'm too impulsive. The piece I had was light colored and it was as wide as a fork.

My mouth is dry and I'm peeing clear pee when I didn't have much water, so I think I have food poisoning.

I'm pissed that my mom is just trying to shrug off my worries. It has been 2 hours since I had that piece.

I'm going to fucking hate my life after this. Hope I don't die.

Wow. Just banning me instead of engaging with the topic. lol.

It's purely reactionary and out of emotion. I can tell because people just lose their mind when people criticize Psychiatry; and even worse when telling them that it's a pseudo-scientific field (it is).

To the Admin that banned me.

I do admit that I made some bad choices. I shared an article without reading it and got mislead by the headline; the result is that I missed a pro-psychiatry take in it (that antidepressants "still work" supposedly).

However, it's not a good look to anyone to just ban criticism of Psychiatry without even addressing their concerns.

You being diagnosed with ADHD doesn't mean anything; it doesn't change the material reality that ADHD is not based on science. I also am diagnosed with ADHD and Autism, and at age 3 too; but I don't kneejerk hate on anyone when they express that ADHD and Autism is a psuedoscientific label, because I am willing to look beyond my preconceived notion to see their viewpoint; even if it is difficult to do.

Example: I can deny that I have a hiatal hernia; but the hernia will still exist in material reality in regardless of my thought.

Me being diagnosed with ADHD does not change the material reality of ADHD to make it exist.

It is not a good look to people critical of Psychiatry and especially victims of Psychiatry to just hate the Antipsychiatry movement and impulsively censor them, without even doing in-depth research into it; because of some preconceived biases. A lot of people have been abused by Psychiatry and have experience being abused.

Similar Experience

I, like you, used to believe that I was just lazy and couldn't work because of my "ADHD"; I never looked into that reason for a while.

I then discovered the anti-psychiatry movement; but I didn't impulsively hate on it. I instead explored antipsychiatry; because I think that it's never a bad idea to explore the oppositions' viewpoint.

I was already a Marxist then. I just needed was a different perspective to view Psychiatry. I tried to apply dialectical materialism to Psychiatry; but I noticed that Psychiatry isn't based in science; it just asserts that mental disorders exist. That's why I agree with the Antipsychiatry movement.

Now through a viewpoint without Psychiatry; I see several causes for my past lethargy:

• Suppressed Stomach Acid through Proton Pump Inhibitors. Since stomach acid needs to be acid to extract nutrients;
• The oppressive capitalist system.
• The oppressive U.S school system. U.S schools are known to decrease critical thinking in children.
• U.S foods. U.S foods regularly incorporate unhealthy ingredients, like added sugar, seed oils, and corn syrup. This reduces the ability for me to have good energy.
• Stimulants harm the body. It would be a minor cause.

These explanation are all based on past information built through science and they give a better explanation for my past lethargy than "ADHD".

It's the same stuff with Autism

Autism is the same deal. I didn't really speak until 6 or 7; which is apparently not normal. That doesn't mean I believe in Autism; I just believe that people can differentiate in when they speak.

Conclusion

Yes, I apologize for spreading misleading information; no I don't apologize for being Antipsychiatry and showing that Psychiatry is a pseudoscience. We Marxists must uphold critical thinking; otherwise we fall into the trap of indoctrination.

Regardless of this event, I will continue to try to maintain respect and support the communist revolution the best I can. (Assuming I can survive of course.) Me being banned off a communist platform won't change that.

I had been falsely permanently suspended from Reddit, and not just on my account, but also on all of my sister’s accounts. All of them. They suspended each and every single one of them. I had since deleted my account and decided to make homes on Lemmy and SaidIt. I will explain everything that led up to this point, because quite frankly, this might be the stupidest suspension ever. I am very unhappy with how Reddit handled the situation. Like, very unhappy.

Reddit handled this situation very poorly. Quite frankly, their handling of it was the worst I have ever seen from Reddit. Basically, this nonsense all started because of a certain stalker on Reddit. Destrucity was their name. They were the most butthurt snowflake on all of Reddit. They had been constantly harassing and even stalking me on every single post I created. They kept telling me that dyscalculia, a very much real learning disability, wasn’t real and was fake. The thing is, no matter how many times they got suspended from Reddit, they would make more alt accounts and do the same thing again. They were the worst of the worst. They kept trying to convince me it was fake and I constantly attempted to shut them up, but to no avail as they continued to make more accounts and go right back to harassing me.

The thing is, after the user got butthurt by me for the first time, they reported me to Reddit. Sooner or later, I got hit with a 3-day suspension. They clearly were just butthurt and so, they reported me and I got suspended. Keep in mind this is only the one of two suspensions I had recieved because of them in particular. Destrucity could not be stopped. The user also would have been able to make another account anyway. The thing is, Reddit doesn’t judge fairly. If you are reported, you will probably get a suspension from the site, and for no reason, might I add.

Immediately after I was unsuspended I started to get pissed off with my stalker and plastered them all over Reddit, because they were the most pathetic user I have ever seen on the entire site. I posted everywhere I could to get some form of help, but either barely anyone were willing to help me, or I would just get silenced as enforced by the ‘politically correct’ agenda on Reddit. Finally, some users were able to give me some form of advice, and I got backed up by people who were on my side. For the first time on Reddit, I actually felt like people actually cared about me as a person, which is a very rare sight to see on Reddit.

To no surprise, Destrucity continued their endless harassment and bullying, and eventually, I snapped. I chatted with them and called them ‘pathetic’, because continually making new accounts to harass and stalk a specific user is pathetic. Yet they’re unwilling to accept it because they have absolutely no life outside of Reddit. Once again, the user got butthurt because I called them ‘pathetic’, and once again reported me to Reddit. This time, I did not get a 3-day suspension, I got a 7-day suspension instead. A 7-day suspension for having an appropriate emotional response to someone else’s BS. I even explained it to Reddit, and they wouldn’t even care, because come the next day, Reddit did the unthinkable.

After I woke up, that being today, I had noticed that Reddit had changed their minds and updated my suspension. No, it was not 3-days, 7-days, a month, or even a year. It was a permanent suspension from Reddit for ‘ban evasion’. You know, that right there is BS. And also, they suspended all other accounts that had some tie to it. I got multiple emails from Reddit stating I was suspended. This was an absolute overkill decision from Reddit to permanently suspend me from the entire site over something I did not do. I have never, ever evaded a ban on Reddit, so their blatantly false accusation about me evading my ban was a big bundle of crap. And it all started because a neckbeard keyboard warrior on Reddit was being a dick. And I didn’t even get to be on Reddit for even a year before I got suspended.

I tried to send off an appeal, but I knew it would not be accepted and I would get the usual denied message. So, that was it. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I decided that enough was enough and I was no longer going to use Reddit because of this overkill and very unjust decision they pulled out of their asses. I frankly deleted my account because of Reddit’s false accusation which resulted in me getting suspended. I even told them in the message that they would never see me again. It felt so good to finally break out of Reddit’s grasp. It honestly felt like breaking up and getting out of a bad relationship. As such, I decided to make a Lemmy account. Reddit is history to me and I won’t be making another account to feed their hive mind echo chamber. They lost a valuable user today and they won’t be getting it back.

This is a sign we need to stop using Silicon Valley tech. The big tech giants are controlling of everything and if you say or do something that does not meet their ‘politically correct’ agenda, expect to be banned from the site. The only thing Silicon Valley giants care about are control and money. We need to start migrating to decentralized sites like this one, whose goal is clear: to allow anyone to speak freely without oppression. Reddit is not how it used to be. Over the past 3 years, Reddit has gotten worse and worse. The thing I am saying is: let those sites become the hive mind echo chamber they were designed to be. Let them die. Just move your stuff over to decentralized sites. Like, leave YouTube and switch to Odysee. Leave Twitter and switch to Mastodon. And especially, leave the hive mind echo chamber we call Reddit and switch to Lemmy or SaidIt. If it wasn’t clear enough, Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, and others don’t care about you. Leave the sites and switch to more decentralized alternatives. We can only defeat Big Tech giants if we let them rot as their little echo chambers. That is the only true way we can win.

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