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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Same here. I just don’t give a fuck. I do whatever is the least friction to me, a lot of times pirating is the best option.

    • Music, can’t easily play it everywhere I want with spotify or youtube music? Pirate
    • Movies, scattered allover with different pricing models? Pirate
    • Film comes out and want to watch with friends? Go to the movie theatre.
    • TV on the BBC I can easily watch, just watch there (pay TV licence).
    • TV that comes to the UK later than the US? Pirate
    • Game is a good price on steam, buy.
    • Game is time locked to the premium edition buyers (Starfield), Pirate.
    • Obscure premium podcast, buy because it’s not elsewhere and has an RSS feed. (Plus I don’t mind supporting some creators)

    Basically, I have plenty of spare cash and will pirate or buy depending on whatever works for me, not what works for them.


  • Most common lies I tell are usually just to stop people focussing on a certain part of a story or anecdote. They’re technically lies but aren’t relevant.

    Lets say i’m talking about my weekend to a friend or colleauge. I mention that on friday night in a certain bar or location something happened. Well if I know that person is going to pick up on the location eg: “Why were you there”.

    I don’t really care they know I just cba with my story being picked apart for something that’s not really that relevant, I was just setting the scene.




  • Subscriptions. Why is everything a sub now?

    I understand the need for some subscriptions and their benefits when there is ongoing content added to a platform.

    However i’m not paying a subscription for software I could just buy and own forever, i’m not paying a £6.99 subscription to get some shitty cloud features in an app that is costing several cents a month to host. I get hundreds of gigabytes a month for less than that with Backblaze.

    I’m not paying a subscription to read every second news website. I’m not paying a sub to access remote features of my car. I’m not paying a subscription to remove ads in an app, just let me pay once.