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Yeah, who's with me? Bah.
I vaguely remember a distant time when I could download a file by clicking on a download link. Now I have to battle through an endless amount of confusing, poorly designed, soulless mass-produced pages of flashed advertisement banners and bottomless navigation panels where everything is so full of information and garbage that it's hard to find anything. Then, after I've waded through a few pages, I'm told that I need to register so that the ****ers can shove spam up my ass until I bleed to death. I assume they are also trying to flood me with popups (who the **** even reads them?), but Mozilla is keeping them at bay. At the moment I'm trying to acquire Steam, but I'm out of luck because all the file servers either require registration or are not responding. It's a rule of thumb that the more mirrors you have, the less mirror you have (98% will be broken or useless).
And every gaming site looks the same. You've got your navigation panel on the left, your big-time logo on the top and the compulsonary ad below it. Same goes for corporate sites - they all look like they are coming from an assembly line. But Gayspy really took it to the next level - they streamlined every Planet* site to look, feel and behave exactly the same. The future of gaming! Meanwhile, people are fervently working to make online games an eSport (tm) (r) (c) where people win lots of money by sitting on their ass and developing carpal tunnel syndrome all night long. Shit, I even saw a documentary where this big-time UT23K player lived like an emperor while explaining how he practises twelve hours a day (in other words, he plays a video game and jacks off to porn, thus getting money). Ok, whatever.
Just to make sure that the internet really has no point, people are going apeshit over the prospect of downloading movies from the internet, because, really, it's just too expensive to go to the cinema. And it's so much cooler to watch low-resolution garbage, because you can tell everyone that you saw Return of the King before the premiere! But where do they get the money to maintain a high-speed internet connection and a fast system? Who the **** knows! Probably from mommy and daddy. Corporations are in panic, so they introduce a number of strange legislations and embarrasing copy protections that are bypassed with the shift key. Well, who can blame them, when kids with DSL are getting everything they release for free.
Jesus pissing christ! What the **** is going on here? The internet is one of the most useful inventions ever made, and everyone is hell-bent on ruining it as fast as humanly possible, including the so-called fans of Half-Life 2 who don't see anything wrong with ripping off Valve and telling them to piss off. Afterwards they will get the gold release from some virus-ridden FTP, I'm sure. Meanwhile, people are clogging up the bandwidth with spam, porn and illegal games and movies.
I don't even know who I should fear more: the crackers, virus developers and thiefs or the corporations that try to control everything. And if they can't control it, they will sue, buy or sabotage it. Especially if it's free, like Linux.
Goddamn it.
I vaguely remember a distant time when I could download a file by clicking on a download link. Now I have to battle through an endless amount of confusing, poorly designed, soulless mass-produced pages of flashed advertisement banners and bottomless navigation panels where everything is so full of information and garbage that it's hard to find anything. Then, after I've waded through a few pages, I'm told that I need to register so that the ****ers can shove spam up my ass until I bleed to death. I assume they are also trying to flood me with popups (who the **** even reads them?), but Mozilla is keeping them at bay. At the moment I'm trying to acquire Steam, but I'm out of luck because all the file servers either require registration or are not responding. It's a rule of thumb that the more mirrors you have, the less mirror you have (98% will be broken or useless).
And every gaming site looks the same. You've got your navigation panel on the left, your big-time logo on the top and the compulsonary ad below it. Same goes for corporate sites - they all look like they are coming from an assembly line. But Gayspy really took it to the next level - they streamlined every Planet* site to look, feel and behave exactly the same. The future of gaming! Meanwhile, people are fervently working to make online games an eSport (tm) (r) (c) where people win lots of money by sitting on their ass and developing carpal tunnel syndrome all night long. Shit, I even saw a documentary where this big-time UT23K player lived like an emperor while explaining how he practises twelve hours a day (in other words, he plays a video game and jacks off to porn, thus getting money). Ok, whatever.
Just to make sure that the internet really has no point, people are going apeshit over the prospect of downloading movies from the internet, because, really, it's just too expensive to go to the cinema. And it's so much cooler to watch low-resolution garbage, because you can tell everyone that you saw Return of the King before the premiere! But where do they get the money to maintain a high-speed internet connection and a fast system? Who the **** knows! Probably from mommy and daddy. Corporations are in panic, so they introduce a number of strange legislations and embarrasing copy protections that are bypassed with the shift key. Well, who can blame them, when kids with DSL are getting everything they release for free.
Jesus pissing christ! What the **** is going on here? The internet is one of the most useful inventions ever made, and everyone is hell-bent on ruining it as fast as humanly possible, including the so-called fans of Half-Life 2 who don't see anything wrong with ripping off Valve and telling them to piss off. Afterwards they will get the gold release from some virus-ridden FTP, I'm sure. Meanwhile, people are clogging up the bandwidth with spam, porn and illegal games and movies.
I don't even know who I should fear more: the crackers, virus developers and thiefs or the corporations that try to control everything. And if they can't control it, they will sue, buy or sabotage it. Especially if it's free, like Linux.
Goddamn it.