For me it's usually about availability. If someone suggests I try out a cool game that came out in the 80s, there's a pretty good chance piracy is the only way to play it. Sure, you can pay way too much on Ebay to get a physical copy, and I have a fair collection of retro games, but it's not like the money from Ebay sales go back to the original creators.

Same with movies. The version of Star Wars I grew up with, the one without all the digitally added stuff since the late 90s, isn't on Disney+. If Disney announced a nice blu-ray Star Wars collection that featured the copies without Jedi Rocks and the extra aliens in the cantina and whatever, I'd go out and get it. But they haven't, so I stick to the fan-made 'despecialized editions'.

I don't pirate from the little guy. I buy albums on Bandcamp and indie games on Steam all the time. I want the small creators to be able to eat. But I'm also fortunate enough to have a little disposable income. I know some people pirate as much as they can, and while I don't entirely agree with it, I don't know their financial situation (or the availability of these things in their country), so it's not really my place to judge them.

Sitting on Clouds is pretty good, especially for newer stuff.

Oh god 100%.

This isn't a matter of life or death, Nicole. This is a Disney Store in a mid-tier mall.

https://cari.institute/aesthetics

Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, it's a neat website showing design trends in advertising, packaging, print, etc throughout the years.

The rest of the house looks pretty cool, and then you've got this bumpy slippery nightmare.

My original plan was to be a smartass and rent a copy of Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection (this was 2009, Blockbuster still existed) but we got very sidetracked with everything going on that day and I wasn't able to do it. Ah well!

I absolutely meant lemmy.fmhy.ml. See what happens when I try to juggle Lemmy and work? I've learned my lesson: focus more on Lemmy.

I started on lemmy.fmhy.net, then jumped to lemm.ee when I heard about the domain issues. But I wasn't aware of just how big lemm.ee really was, and I like the idea of being on a smaller instance to help with decentralization. I looked around and saw leminal.space and I thought that was a pretty good pun. It was really as simple as that.

I haven't tried it on Linux, but a while back I was streaming stuff for my friends on Kosmi. It worked pretty well.

As a stamp collector, I appreciate that they're just using regular stamps as opposed to those digitally metered/print on demand stamps.

According to my father in law: everything's fine, actually. It's hot, sure, but it's been hot before. The actual problem is that The Weather Channel has started to get political/go woke and push an agenda.

So next time it's so hot the power grid can't take it or your house is destroyed in a flood or forest fire, it's just that pesky Weather Channel!