Episode 218 - 35 Second Hello

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- Used Item Decency
- The Repair Hole
- r/MandelaEffect
- DRM

Ever seen an episode of Hoarders? It's nasty. People living in muck and filth, with bugs everywhere and god forbid if they have pets. Every episode they finally get to a point where the hoarder lets their family finally get a bunch of crap out of their house. Now, the show usually says they get sent to the dump, but that's another classic Hollywood lie. They actually get sent back to the production office and get put on eBay and Craigslist sight unseen at just below MSRP.

Sticky door? Get some WD-40 for it. But when you go to get the WD-40, the shelf it's on is a little loose. No matter, a quick new L-bracket job will fix that up. Now where did you put those brackets? This drawer? That drawer? Yes! Wait a minute, there's mouse droppings back here. Better go grab some traps then. No bait, though. Well, I'll go grab some cheese from the store. Great! Car won't start. Well, let's pop the hood. What could it be? Hmmmm. Alternator maybe? Nope, it's the battery. Must've left the headlights on all night. Well, you'll call an Uber and get a ride to AutoZone. You bring up the Uber app on your phone, but your phone freezes. Restart it. 1% Charge. Well great. I guess you'll just live life like this now. Congratulations, you're a luddite minimalist.

Ah, the Mandela Effect. A sociological wonder where childhood memories lead to parallel universes! And where does one go to research and discuss this phenomenon with other like-minded individuals? Well it's not the subreddit for it, because that place is filled with trolls and the dumbest people on earth that think every little discrepancy in media is PROOF OF PARALLEL DIMENSIONS. That's right, you remembering some fake movie with Sinbad a s a genie in the 90s definitely counts as quantum mechanics.

DRM. Dumb Richpeople Messing-with-your-stuff. Gotta slap some proprietary anti-piracy code onto our movie or game because we don't want to lose all this money from pirates! Wah wah wah. Piracy is a two-factor system: ease-of-use and relative cost. First, how easy is [Piece of Media] to obtain? Because if the user has to jump through a bunch of hoops to get something, pirates have their back, making it so easy a toddler could do it. So, even before price comes into it, you've possibly hampered your own sales. Then, how much are you willing to pay for [Piece of Media]? Is it exorbitantly expensive? Is it packed in with a bunch of stuff I don't want that I can't get rid of? Then there's the righteous third branch of piracy: the league of "We Stripped the DRM Out of this Game Because It Caused FPS Drops."

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