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I think the two of you are talking about different ideas of consistency. Drag’s idea of consistency is that “drag” as a pronoun stays more or less consistent, never really conjugating. The alternative view is that drag’s pronouns are inconsistent with ~how the rest of English uses pronouns~. The fact that drag’s pronouns are, technically, simpler makes them read inconsistently from the rest of the English pronouns, and that causes confusion such as seeing the first person “drag’s” as talking in the third person.

The pronouns are internally consistent, but not externally, so to say.

Depending on your perspective, the sell/trade/loan aspect of physical can be a huge deal. I outlined in another comment, selling/trading games was never my thing, but it was my cousins. From my perspective, there’s marginal difference, but there IS a difference.

I would ABSOLUTELY argue that you more own a game purchased on gog, with an offline installer, than one purchased on steam. I now see the functional difference between owning a drm-free installer vs owning a physical game, but there’s also a gulf of difference between steam and gog

Just to be entirely fair. The rest of what you said is absolutely spot on.

I can see the functional difference there, with regards to sell/trade/loan. You could of course emulate the functionality, or rely on the honor system for abandon ware stuff, but that’s clunky, inefficient, not worth the energy.

I hadn’t considered the second hand aspect. Even as a kid, I was always more a “build a library” kind of person versus a “cycle my catalog” kind of person. I was considering things from an availability to play the game perspective alone. Thanks for the different perspective!

Seriously not trying to just be contradictory:

What’s the difference? In practical terms, what does this mean for me as the consumer? We don’t own the intellectual property, but may use the software as-is? From a practical, consumer standpoint that feels the same as the days of owning your software on a disc, unable to be taken as long as you have physical control over the device. I’m fine with calling this “owning” personally.

I’m absolutely willing to be wrong on this. I’m by no means an expert. Please, if I have missed something, let me know.

You sound fun.

GTA6 will almost certainly be a multiplayer game. As others have pointed out, at least there’s a logic behind it for a multiplayer game. There is exactly zero reason, other than corporate bs, to have this in a single player game. That’s been the argument in this entire thread, so GTA6 possibly getting praise while also requiring a separate account is entirely irrelevant.

Original Wii is a very capable CFW/piracy device as well.

Scruffy knows, scruffy just don’t care. Only thing it does for me is get me to turn off all notifications for that app, if I need the app, or uninstall it if I don’t. But I’m spiteful.

Because people want to. People like society. There’s no shortage of people who would do whatever needs to be done to keep things running, they just don’t want to be forced to.

The things that end up dying? They’re not important to society, and so we’re wasting energy keeping them running. If it’s important, people will do the work.