Chris I

Football. F1. Gaming. Books. Whisky. Beer. Ex runner. My thoughts are my own.

[Chris I @cache1337]

@Halfords_uk hi, your site says i can use gift cards for tyres but it wont let me at checkout, help please?

[John Romero 🤘🏽 @romero]

Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. I have appreciated the recent discussions. I do not agree with your framing.

Regarding piracy, DOOM is a complicated example because shareware was the model. DOOM’s first episode was designed to be freely copied, passed around, uploaded, installed, and played. That enormous unpaid audience was not the same thing as piracy. It was part of how DOOM reached the world.

By the mid-90s, DOOM had something like 20 million shareware installs and more than 2 million paid copies sold. Those 20 million people were not “pirates” by default. A huge number of them were playing the free episode exactly as intended.

That doesn’t excuse people pirating the registered game. However, it’s important not to collapse legal shareware distribution, unpaid reach, and actual piracy into one number.

I also don’t think piracy is what “gutted” id - id is still around and still making games. Piracy may have cost money, but it wasn’t the reason Quake was hard or why people eventually went different ways.

So yes: pay developers. Buy the games you love. Support the people who make them.

But history is messier than “pirates killed the companies.” Sometimes the same free distribution that looked like lost sales was also the thing that made the game impossible to ignore.

[Chris I @cache1337]

@valvesoftware Half life 3 plz before I die

[Chris I @cache1337]

@CounterStrike Hello

[Chris I @cache1337]

@geoffkeighley Half life

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

We did it, together.

[Chris I @cache1337]

@CliffRadio any idea when the dvd of last live show goes out?

[Chris I @cache1337]

@LTrossard @MemzAFC I've always been a big fan but these last few games you've been a man possessed. Could have been motm the last 2/3, and whatever you are doing is working. Keep it up you absolute legend! (Hopefully you see this!)

[Chris I @cache1337]

@OctopusEnergy They have now provided this upon request, top quality service :) Thanks

[Chris I @cache1337]

@OctopusEnergy hello. our energy bill has jumped from 87 to 175 from 20/5 without any communication (only found it while logging in) - we have solar and a battery and the next 6 months are going to be very slim in costs to octopus. who can I talk to to have this reduced?

[Chris I @cache1337]

@OctopusEnergy For anyone looking at this for reference, there was no communication, however they sorted it out via DM. (Although no confirmation email on the agreement)

[Chris I @cache1337]

@studentbeans hi, happy Friday to you! Im having login problems and email have stopped replying to me earlier today. Can you help please?

[Chris I @cache1337]

@aldenkroll HL3 plz in my lifetime

[Chris I @cache1337]

@roadpoliceBCH Correct, sorry I was too cryptic! London Road, Old Welwyn by the favoured BP garage. Recently changed from 30 to 20, average speed on the daily around school/ nursery drop off and pick ups feel closer to 40 and plenty of people running too close behind those who obey. THANK YOU!

[Chris I @cache1337]

@welliver_titus 2 legends.

[Chris I @cache1337]

@AJamesMcCarthy Tuesday coming?

[Chris I @cache1337]

@MAstronomers @grok what about in Hertfordshire, uk, where should i look and is the weather good enough

[Chris I @cache1337]

@AmazonHelp @jaydesdiary Is there anywhere i can monitor progress of this being fixed? No order history
Current orders not trackable or receivable at lockerspick up, what the hell is going on and why aren't you communicating to your clients?

[Chris I @cache1337]

@NFLUKIRE @Commanders @NFL @thecheckdown @SpursStadium Falcons plz!