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This is by design; it's difficult to demonize "the others" if you have even a drop of compassion.

I remember MUDs! I played Achaea!

When I was a young teen, I loved collecting MIDIs because I didn't have a good way of getting music in other formats--I still had dial up, and didn't know about other methods. Plus I mostly enjoyed songs from video games. There was one I found that had a very enchanting melody and I loved it to death. Kept it on its own special floppy disk. Inevitably, it got lost and I never could remember the name of the song or what game it came from. I did search but not knowing either of those things, and it being only a melody with no lyrics, made it difficult to find. Then, one day, while listening on Spotify, it just magically appeared.

Sora from Escaflowne :)

Between that, this, and Disney+ cancellation page "accidentally" going down during that fiasco, this is exactly why I've switched to using only virtual cards for subscriptions. Pause/Cancel the virtual card, voila, no more subscription.

Heck I live in a moderately sized town and the library is a 10-15 minute walk away.

Here's a documentary about it! https://youtu.be/H7lWCqbgQnU

Can confirm. On the flip side, I did get an interview once, and I asked them why they reached out to me and it was because of some random part time job I held struck their fancy. All things being equal, there is no reason why you get an interview or not, it's no different than a slot machine.

Didn't IHOP do something similar by claiming that they were going to change their name to IHOB?

"IHOb also issued a press release about the change and still used the original "IHOP" in its footer, suggesting the switch was a temporary promotion."

Seems so. Source.

Right? Bold move threatening a death cult with a good time.

I've tried suggesting Peertube to a creator before, the rebuttal was that it'd be too much work/too hard to uproot and move everything over.

Well, this abstract says it's about 20% effective over not advertising but this is a meta analysis and isn't focused exclusively on internet ads.

The baked in biases being that the authors are "a German chaired professor of marketing at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany" and his research assistant.

Ahh, Manna.