FPSXpert

Oh look, it's stfu friday!

(posted it already in another comment but felt important enough to post here too :))

I'd also like to take this moment to remind how to handle a police interaction in the USA, in a one minute video described by a few lawyers: STFU Friday!

The only proper response to a door knock is "come back with a warrant".

Rights are rights for a reason, don't let that shit erode any further.

GreenManGaming is a legitimate reseller, in a similar fashion to humble bundle or similar sellers.

I also do not like them because their keys if you are buying on sale for a new launch, their keys are usually UK based as they are UK based and they will not let you play on sooner launch dates, as I learned with Mirrors Edge Catalyst's release when I wanted to play on day 1 and should have bought direct through origin, but instead now I had to wait a week, and they did not offer a refund policy.

So instead I bought the game again on origin and gave away the other key as a free giveaway to spite them 😂

If it's a "trusted" source, as in a popular one, such as a certain link from a certain girl that is fit, yes.

Otherwise another option I've done for a while was buying cheap keys from greymarket type resellers, though for those I only did them from AAA publishers never putting their games on sale and on a second account (idea being you minimize risk and if something did turn out to be a stolen key, which was a problem for a while on those kinds of sites, a chargeback isn't going to hurt a AAA publisher as much as an honest small published in house indie dev team).

Honestly if it's a big setup like Spotify or Netflix or etc, "royalties" don't mean shit to the production team / artists / whoever. Unless they're Mariah Carey levels of replayed every year everywhere to the tune of sitting on millions in checks yearly, they aren't going to get shit. Personally I'd rather support them in other ways such as buying merchandise, going to live shows etc but that's just me.

Remember though this is in minecraft, don't pirate irl because that is very bad and you will personally prevent executives at warn-a-brother from buying another learjet. Remember: "pirating is bad and you should feel bad" 😂

It's not a mobile client sadly, but for desktop I've always liked "4k video downloader" (Softonic). It's something you have to download on there, but I copy the youtube link, open the app have it parse the link and then it's downloaded and ready in .mp4 pretty quickly, with .mp3 as an option too for music.

It's a bit convoluted, but I'll usually download albums and tracks on my PC, have it all saved in a music folder then copy it manually to my phone.

We did do that once as bored teenagers on an off day back in maybe 2006. Though the pizza shop let us know it was going to take about two hours, which we were totally cool with, and tipped the driver like 20 bucks (on top of a $15 order) because we knew it was probably hell getting there.

Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do, I get that. But if you're gonna be doing that, please tip your drivers very generously and give them plenty of time and don't be an asshole to them :)

Gonna likely be Houston about this time tomorrow. Good luck and godspeed to whoever braves the roads.

Delivery really is just much more convenient. I've been getting my groceries delivered like this from a certain big box retailer and it's been very nice. No more bullshit traffic, bullshit parking, bullshit walk in and out, bullshit aisle walking around slow people, bullshit searching, bullshit looking for an employee for 20 minutes to help get a $3 stick of deodorant, bullshit line at checkout, etc etc. Now it's just click add to cart and it shows up at my door the next day.

I'm sure it's partly by design because they charge a subscription for the service, but the convenience and money/time saved not having to drive makes it so worth it.

I view this as a self correction in itself as well. Walgreens is losing money because they skewed so far that they're annoying customers into leaving en masse for other options. Now their options are they can either go back to the old model that worked better, or they can keep playing hardball until more stores go out of business, and someone else can take over that corner and sell better.

That's what I would call a bubble. The same has been said for FAANG stocks because they are success stories, and I do think that TSLA and NVDA are large enough with enough assets that they aren't going belly under overnight.

That said, there were stock advisers, people with degrees and decades of work in early 2001 saying "Buy Enron!" Same goes for dot com stocks, same goes for cypto bros. I've made some pocket change off those two companies "mooning" their share values so I am definitely not complaining, but don't rely solely on those two to go "line go up" forever. When they did my decision was not to buy more, my decision was to very smartly sell off a small portion to "make my money back" per se, and now the rest is house money basically :)