It's really no dumber than the Adobe subscription model that all of their software has already gone to, or the Microsoft planning for "Windows as a service" that is in the works, or the various "cloud" services that store your data somewhere else, on someone else's computer, all for a monthly fee to access that foreign computer.. All of those ideas are equally stupid.
I won't be partaking of any "pay every damned month to continue playing and having access to your own shit" schemes. As far as I can tell, it's all a part of the WEF's "you'll own nothing and be happy" conspiracy. If I can't lay hands on and use my own stuff at will, then it really isn't "my own" stuff - it belongs to someone else, and I have no desire to ransack THEIR stuff or reassign ownership to them of MY stuff.
I'll just go fishing instead.
With my own fishing tackle.
Even if I have to make it myself.
At least it will be mine.
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Always remember this: there is no "cloud" - it's just someone else's computer, one that they've wrangled you into putting YOUR data on, thereby giving them defacto ownership of what YOU created.
That, too, is a dumb idea. If they want MY data, then they need to pay ME for it, not vice-versa.
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I won't be partaking of any "pay every damned month to continue playing and having access to your own shit" schemes. As far as I can tell, it's all a part of the WEF's "you'll own nothing and be happy" conspiracy. If I can't lay hands on and use my own stuff at will, then it really isn't "my own" stuff - it belongs to someone else, and I have no desire to ransack THEIR stuff or reassign ownership to them of MY stuff.
I'll just go fishing instead.
With my own fishing tackle.
Even if I have to make it myself.
At least it will be mine.
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Always remember this: there is no "cloud" - it's just someone else's computer, one that they've wrangled you into putting YOUR data on, thereby giving them defacto ownership of what YOU created.
That, too, is a dumb idea. If they want MY data, then they need to pay ME for it, not vice-versa.
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