People need to understand that not everyone has the disposable budget to buy tons of SSDs/HDDs for storage, the internet speed to download episodes and the time for said downloads.

It has not been a good year for anime streaming sites.

Technically, yes. If you paid for and downloaded an MP3 file. You own that copy so long as you maintain it like making sure hard drives, flashdrives, whatever don’t die on you. You can’t fully bank on the longevity of some services to maintain libraries sometimes and whether or not they’ll still honor some things if we’re 10 - 20 years from now.

As far as buying things off things like Steam? Technically, no.

Do not give up. Do not surrender.

…That’s the point. I’m only saying one bill is dropped than the other.

Everyone should pirate my little pony porn. Wait, there’s Rule-34, I digress.

Also, please stop carting around old and unfunny memes. Learn to know when memes stop being funny.

Who torrents linux isos? Linux OSes aren’t illegal to pirate.

Corporate Businesses treat streaming services like it’s Cable all over again. Content available here, content available there, no content available anywhere for some shows and movies.

Gaming industry pushing hard to default everything to $70 as the norm, while certain editions are in triple digits and even having the gall to ask for another $30 or $40 for battle passes.

Spotify CEO and Joe Rogan both are paid far more than any music artist on the platform.

Once Gabe is done, I just hope he has someone in mind to sell Valve to. With all of the shit soon to fall around us, should Gabe Newell ever pass away or retire, may he find someone competent enough to carry on Steam as it is.

Because all it takes is for one bad deal to torpedo Steam. It could be in EA’s hands. It could be in Microsoft’s hands. Nobody is worthy to handle Steam as is but Valve and Gabe Newell.

Considering the political climate shift, I expect both of these to pass anyways.