"I hate when dictionary definitions are just an unhelpful, vague reference to another word."

You've been in the industry long enough you should know better than this. Atari and Amiga were killed by their owners and the Microsoft+IBM monopoly. Not game piracy. Amiga Inc was not even a games company. Their leading product was hardware. Nobody wanted to own an Amiga computer because the IBM PC had caught up, was already in offices, had way more effective marketing, and the main audience interested in a multimedia computer already had their eyes on Nintendo and Sega. Commodore spent years flailing about, half-developing and throwing away different architectures, and not knowing who to sell Amiga hardware to. This is all VERY well documented.

DOOM's trial was under a shareware license. You got free marketing by being the most copied PC game in existence and benefitted greatly from it. 90% of people illegally copying the full version doesn't change that if you're outdoing Windows in install frequency.

Lastly, this additude is exactly why piracy exists. You need to directly and openly address the needs of people copying or they will not respect your boundaries. Games were always expensive, especially back then, and the internet changed the way distribution worked. People who illegally copy media today are also the biggest spenders. Let me tell you about myself. When I was a kid I didn't have money. I pirated shit all the time because it was the only way I was allowed to participate. Six years ago I pirated Cyberpunk 2077 because I did not want to pay full price for a game that was infamous for not working. I bought it months later because I liked it. I pirated dozens of movies because all of the easily accessible distribution methods are protected by Widevine malware, and the alternative is to spend way too much on a Bluray for my disc collection that I also don't own, and then decrypt it using a pirate program, which is illegal. If they didn't make being a customer so difficult, I wouldn't have done any of that. The story is the same for nearly everyone else you're pointing the finger at. To blame piracy is to completely ignore the factors which encouraged it, which can be tamed by the company who released the software if they have any theory of mind.

If you look up my Steam account today, I've spent thousands of dollars over the past decade on video games alone, and that's only on one store. Pirates are more than happy to pay for things that they want. If your game is being pirated, then that is something you are doing wrong.

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An arctic fox running away from his last crime scene with a banana in his mouth.

First upload :) #dragons #periodicdragons #drawing #art

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Two dragons having a dispute.

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Two small grey and orange island foxes. One is lying down, looks a bit annoyed, the other is nibbling their ear. Nom!

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teto » 🌐 2026-06-26
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@vokainen099 also this confirms it still sold out even if every sloptuber was calling this a DoE

meta-externalagent is the worst offender. Thankfully, it listens to robots.txt unlike some other aggressive bots I've had the displeasure of dealing with.

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A close up photo of a very soft and fluffy looking fox. Could use a bath though. And some cuddles!

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A white and slightly brown red fox morph with black ears dozes on some medium sized rocks. Tail pillow is handy.

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An arctic fox in dark summer fur, photographed from the side. Looks really fluffy despite short fur. You can steal a few very long white hairs.

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*Assortment of configurations of a half-filled water glass* Optipolygrafixs) half-full Pessimist: (it’s) half-emply Realist: it’s a glass of water. Physicist: (water) liquid, (void) gas Surrealist: *the water is split vertically* Relativist: It's both half-empty & half-full Utopist: *the half-glass of water is split with the water on-top* Skepticist: It's not water Artist: *stir water with paintbrush* via: polygrafix

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we should actively resist remote attestation in all its forms

if you develop remote attestation software, please reconsider

if you package software that enables remote attestation, patch out the remote attestation capabilities

i feel systemd may get support for this in the future, and we should patch it out

https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.org/

A sister campaign to Stop Killing Games. Support this!

#StopKillingGames

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A very fluffy arctic fox lying down on a rather tall growing meadow. Some of the plants are higher than the fox.

OTD 1987: #SunMicrosystems announce the SunLink Channel Gateway. One of my favorite projects.

https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fsun%2Fsun-pr-datacommunicationproductline%2Epdf

Not likely to get done today. so here's a WIP

I decided to re-draw this: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61702632/

"I hate when dictionary definitions are just an unhelpful, vague reference to another word."

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A rather soaked looking arctic fox resting on a wet looking ground. It's snow yeah, technically. Looks more like halfway frozen sleet.

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A really fluffy arctic fox almost asleep on the ground. There are tiny snowflakes or water droplets on the very outer edges of their fur.

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An arctic fox lying lazily on a rock. Smirk on their face.

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Zach Weinersmith » 🌐 2026-05-30
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social

The Ai bubble will pop

2026:	388
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@arcanicanis @Checked @HatkeshiatorTND @PurpCat @korgster @caohuak @dav1d @iska @protos @zonk @GD5426 @foxdickfarms @whirly @bara @kirby @bonkmaykr @TheQuQu @shadowferret @Coyote

#drawing #furry #art

@bajax @iska @Checked @Romanji @dav1d @caohuak @ube @paula8 @zonk @arcanicanis @PurpCat @kirby @bonkmaykr @bara @shadowferret @Soy_Magnus @Tony @korgster @Coyote

Since I am kinda stuck art wise atm, I attempted to draw some fanart :>

I only played this game once on a gamecube xD

#mastoart #fediart #digitalart #art #krita #fox #drawings #sketches #furryart #corruptedfox #starfox #foxmccloud

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A bust drawing of Fox McCloud. Digitally drawn.

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@arcanicanis @PurpCat @korgster @Checked @corceeeee @iska @dav1d @zonk @bonkmaykr @Coyote @shadowferret @ube

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A very fluffy and pretty red fox sitting on a surprisingly undisturbed patch of snow. There are some conifers in the background.

this is how competitive pokemon feels to me