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Cake day: October 18th, 2025

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  • Not on purpose, of course. But what if there was a syringe full of estradiol at the bottom of the stairs and a single roller skate at the top of the stairs and I step on the roller skate and go “woah woah woah” while comically flailing my arms before tumbling down the stairs and land right next to the syringe and then decide to pick it up and ironically inject myself with it and then get a prescription for more estradiol that I inject at regular intervals?







  • It was such an insane pricing policy, too. Charging per download opens the door to some extremely hostile manipulation opportunities for bigger companies.

    Imagine you’re an indie dev. You made a really great game and it’s doing well. But uh oh, I’m a wealthy AAA publishing company and I don’t like you cutting into my market share. I can just buy 100 copies of your game and setup 100 virtual machines to constantly download, uninstall, and redownload your game until you’re bankrupt. If that’s not causing enough damage I can get 1000 copies. Hell, I can probably get some of my employees to convince you to give me steam keys so I don’t even have to pay you upfront.