Physical goods aren’t here for nostalgia, they’re here for media that can’t be remotely recalled the moment the corpos decide for whatever reason you can’t own it anymore.

Its very important in the legal space. On the high seas, a HDD thumb drive or archival mdisc/tape drive are the same.

No, the games are also worse.

Okay so my search wasn’t working, but here’s the full portion:

I turn my body from the sun. What ho, Tashtego! Let me hear thy hammer. Oh! ye three unsurrendered spires of mine; thou uncracked keel; and only god-bullied hull; thou firm deck, and Pole-pointed prow,—death-glorious ship! must he then perish, and without me? Am I cut off from the last fond pride of meanest shipwrecked captains? Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. Ho, ho! from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death! Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hellcs heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! And since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!

There’s a lot of archaic language and nautical terminology there, but its much more about grief and abandon and madness, it shows a weakness, a frenzied hopeless death drive as much or more than the determination and strength implied by the shorter quote the space-nazi shouts.

Good. Enshittification of the panopticon goggles.

The entire rest of that section goes so much harder and is so much gayer.

Well I hate you with a bitter jealousy and so very many of the empty places in my heart. Whoever you are.

Treat your pets better.

Whatever you said, I bet it was hot.

The thing is: I’d give roy batty or r2d2 a hug. Or equivalent. They’re people.

We don’t know how to build those yet.

Not pets yet. Pets are still mostly thinking beings, unless you keep like a leech.

Renting, buying, whichever. Its dumb and you deserve to lose it.

So glad I didn’t indicate what I meant by the words I used and why they might matter.

No I mean giving them money in return for media.

Outliers disprove the trend, its true. I’m glad I used absolute terms with no nuance and didn’t acknowledge this literally first thing in my comment.

Why anyone still does this dumb shit is beyond me.

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You’re right, only stupid people are nice and good.

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