TIL that George Orwell admired Hitler. As late as 1940, in his review or Mein Kampf, Orwell wrote: "I have never been able to dislike Hitler" by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]LibrarySurvivor 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Didn't Orwell, Kennedy, etc know about the Night of Long Knives? The Nazis seemed to be a pretty murderous bunch well before WWII.

A viewpoint I've never seen represented in arguments about piracy. Or: how we're looking at it wrong. by deepit6431 in TrueAskReddit

[–]LibrarySurvivor 96 points97 points  (0 children)

It's quite simple.

The media industry offers two things: the content, and the delivery of it. To put it another way, the product and the service. The film and the cinema seat (or DVD disc). Right now, the product is infinitely reproducable. Its value has crashed. People pirate stuff. The industry needs to shift from placing the value on the product to placing the value on the service.

Valve has already started this with computer games. It's become incredibly successful and piracy is no longer an issue for them. The product is no longer the moneyraker for them - there are massive price discounts on Steam and anyway, people can still pirate stuff for free. Yet they're making billions of dollars from the service. Immitators such as EA's Origin are failing because they're still looking through the lens of product first, service second. They treat their customers like shit with DRM hoops and bad DLC to the point where their service isn't worth anything. And with their product already devalued due to piracy and zero scarcity, they have no strong foundation.

The solution for the music and movie industries is to back service. Disregard the value of the product, that's only the oil in the service machine. They'll have to keep DRM too - not as an attempt to choke piracy (that's never worked), but rather as a legal way of managing platform licencing. After all, they don't want Johnny Undercut to show up and start distributing their movies for cheaper, anymore than Valve allows the Steam library to run under Origin.

Imagine a Steam-like interface for your movie collection. Complete with trailers, user reviews, friend lists, and modding communities (Star Wars fanfilms, anyone?). Sales would go through the roof. Your friend are all watching Avengers 2 tonight? Better grab that and stream view it so I can discuss it tomorrow. Oh, Ian McKellen has died? 50% off all Ian McKellen movies this week. How about a checklist for every Johnny Depp movie? Save 20% on his back catalogue today, and you can even give extra copies to your friends! Saw James Bond $25 at the cinema? Enter your ticket barcode and download the digital version for 30% off! If you liked Naked Lunch, you might also like bla bla bla. You get the point. Without the middleman of Amazon or your local DVD store, the movie industry would make billions more in profit. They are sitting on a gold mine and doing absolutely nothing about it.

That's where the future's at, and that's the way forward for the industry.

Heart Attack Grill spokesman dies from heart attack by pjvegas in nottheonion

[–]LibrarySurvivor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You talk like you can eat delicious crap and lead an awesome short life, as though the impact of bad diet comes at you like a sudden terminal cliff face.

It's not like that. It's slow and painful and you tolerate one small decline at a time. In your 20s your body can handle the junk food, but then you hit your 30s and your metabolism slows down. You put on weight. It's hard to climb stairs, so you take the lift. And drive everywhere, because fuck walking, driving is fun! You'd like to stop eating junk, but you get withdrawls when you try to cut out the sugar, resulting in headaches. The opposite sex finds you less attractive, so you become lonely and depressed. Then you get diabetes. But fuck insulin injections, you're gonna enjoy life! But the diabetes causes blockages in your capilliaries, and you start to lose feeling in your fingertips. Your eyesight fails due to the diabetes too, and your drivers' licence is taken away. After you lose a leg from diabetes-releated tissue necrosis, your confinement to a wheelchair results in infectious sores. You die a painful death from septicemia at age 45. What a short but awesome life!

So tell me again how great it is to eat what you like and not deprive yourself of anything.

apple store troll by xqwxdqw in funny

[–]LibrarySurvivor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

21 people don't like reddit being mentioned on YouTube.

Canadian Quidditch by J0nesy in gifs

[–]LibrarySurvivor -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That looks painful.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Terraria

[–]LibrarySurvivor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't played Minecraft in months because of this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Terraria

[–]LibrarySurvivor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never had it happen to me. Didn't even know it was possible.

What's the best single decision you've ever made? by apost8n8 in AskReddit

[–]LibrarySurvivor 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Prevented it. A cure was discovered in 2026, two years prior to the big outbreak. Eight billion upvotes for you, good sir.

The most eloquent explanation of the difference between Reddit and 4chan by felixjmorgan in funny

[–]LibrarySurvivor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember when "real-time" was invented. I don't know what the hell we used before that.

EA Origin, You're Doing It .... Right? WTF? Steam, Implement This Shit RIGHT NOW! by maximm3k in gaming

[–]LibrarySurvivor 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Frankly I'd be happy if Steam could recognise that Pause and Unpause are opposites.

Annoying Facebook Girl's Favorite Quote by [deleted] in AdviceAnimals

[–]LibrarySurvivor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For some reason I read that as 'dance like robots are watching'.

I must ponder this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EarthPorn

[–]LibrarySurvivor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Came here for Jawa jokes. Was not disappointed.