I was thinking the same thing. Kinda wish the conveyer belts would just fling them off into oblivion or something for me.

:::slaps knee::: ohhh that’s Rich

Best orators?! Yo he got made fun of all the time for that!

We could call the mayor of Springfield and ask

But at least the formulas and constants appear to be correct

I believe the internet archive is under threat as well, some kind of copyright protection thing.

I suppose I worry about the fiction too because sometimes it’s a commentary on real life concerns, and the pearl clutchers will want to erase perceived insults. Anyway, to each their own. I need to be selective about what I keep because there just isn’t enough space to save them all. Digital certainly has the advantage there.

I suppose those exclusives and freebies were the reason. I think they needed to do all the things and blew the opportunity. If it was a company with shit for funding I might have more pity but Epic definitely had the budget to do more.

All Epic had to do was build a good store front with similar features as Steam provides. They didn’t. Their store sucked from the beginning and it also blows now. Relying purely on exclusives and freebies was a losing game - they needed to back it up by making the service worthwhile beyond that, and they utterly failed to do so.

The value in the printed word is that it can’t be easily modified. The knowledge and ideas are preserved in a sense, as long as it remains intact. On the internet things can be changed after the fact easily, and it’s much harder to verify what was changed later. Living in the age of misinformation has given me new reason to hang on to my books and even old dvds and cds etc. I recognize what you’re saying too - if you’re just reading for entertainment and moving on it makes sense to pay a minimum and move on when you’re done. I just also find myself clutching to 1984 where it describes making the changes I’m talking about, and holding on to Fahrenheit 451 as it begins to look like book banning and eventually burning is on the rise.

Edit: Ive even changed this comment. It was just spelling.

Like, she sounds like, so eloquently spoken and with like, well fucking thought out opinions, like fuuuuck! Im totally picking who she is sort of picking but not picking like wow. For real for real.