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It didn't seem condescending to me.

Personally I like having my cds put of nostalgia. I don't spend all that time making multiple cds for large games like horizon zero dawn because I think it'll stand the test of time lol. Most of the cds I had when they were the standard aren't functional anymore, but damn if I don't enjoy it when my little usb disc tray pops out.

It's generally correct to assume the average pc user doesn't make backups of anything. I once had a friend call me to their house in a panic because their work laptop ate shit and they had absolutely nothing saved externally. With a recovery company, he managed to scrape about 10% of his client data, and their bank lost a looooooot of reputation over it. Now their laptops do company-wide backups to a single cloud service twice a day. (I asked what they're gonna do if the cloud service goes down and the answer he gave was "look for a new job" lmao)

I have other backups, I just get nostalgic for the days of Command and Conquer.

I mean, I have an external hdd I keep a backup of important files on, and an ssd I use to transfer things onto a second computer, and it's just a full backup of my primary pc.

I combine the two.

Burn offline drm free installers onto blank cds.

Well... Dvds, I can fit some older games into cds but they don't have the same capacity.

I've been burning cds with my offline installers on every game I can. Finding blank cds in physical stores is hard, I lucked out finding this stack brand new at a thrift store.

I would very much like to have a desktop with cd racks filling the frame around it again.

JOB

There was a bigger turnout for our hastily organized last minute pride in a rural red state town.

It's a sawyer, and both marketing materials and real world testing say otherwise. Personal experience also tells me my filter is keeping me healthy while my neighbors don't even bother listening to boil advisories.

For drinking pure water, we use a brita tap filter, and a sawyer filter straw, and just have it gravity feed into a pitcher. The pitcher usually doesn't last a full day.

For cooking, we just use the tap filter and a cheap gravity filter with a reservoir. No need to go all out when you're boiling the water lol

The Sawyer filter can be cleaned by forcing distilled water through in reverse, it unclogs the straw/membrane filter, but it only works for so long. Luckily the sawyer still works like a charm after thousands of gallons.

Disclaimer: I have not been testing for bacteria or other contaminants, I just go by taste and swap filters when something tastes off. I have no proof this filters everything, but neighbors have gotten sick around times when boil advisories go out, when we've been healthy the whole time. Could just be coincidence.

I've been using a water filter to filter my tap water for years, because tap water tastes nasty.

WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, BITCHES! I mean, not me because things still suck, but at least I'm reasonably sure I won't get a disease after my city reduced funding for water treatment.

Yeah but that's different.

Because..... Something something USA sucks HAHAHA A PWND now let me spam emojis and gifs while pointing out spelling and grammar errors because I have no real argument and just want to feel smugly superior.

/s, obviously.

I mean.... One single country being missing from a defensive pact shouldn't cripple the defensive pact. So that's how it always should have been.

The people I see being the loudest and most visible about how "we need to keep ALL speech allowed in every place ever" are almost always the ones getting removed from places because of the insane, dangerous, or just outright incorrect thing they spout.

The last one was a transphobe who got ejected from an aquarium by cops because he decided to follow some trans people around to yell at everyone with children that "the (slur for trans people) are here to r**e your kids" and was screaming about free speech as three security guards literally dragged him out the doors.

Not sure what he expected to accomplish, but these are the people yelling about how they should be allowed to say things on a platform/in a place because it's not literally illegal to say them.