despite everything, it's still matt

• they were poor and it gave them joy
• they lived in a country where it wasn't available
• they saw it had already sold 6+ million copies
• they wanted to see what all the fuss was about
• their grody older brother scratched their disc and it never quite loaded again
• they did so 15 years after its release and heard that its director, the only guy still drawing a paycheck from the publisher, was a real asshole
• they felt like it
• they bought it years ago but the mechanism that allows them to access their legal copy went away
• they won't be born for another 135 years and are accessing it via the DPRNA Global Culture Archive (Silicon Age section)

reason bein': someone already put it on there but it wasn't the latest version and i didn't want people playing the bugged shitty one. so i put a little message on there like "hey if you torrent this and like it i'd appreciate it if you bought it if you can" and a bunch of pirates went and bought it on itch, and some of em even tipped more than the price of the game

then! totalbiscuit had a problem with this so he talked about what an idiot i was in a video and exposed me to even more supportive pirates. pirates rule sometimes

okay so my partner was having vision problems

and instead of going to an optometrist he made up a bunch of calibrated charts to measure his own prescription (which is not a simple one) like "no, I'm an engineer, I know optics, I can figure this out" and just ordered direct from Zennioptical and went around for like a year with these self-calculated glasses while I kept saying will you please go to someone who actually has a degree in this stuff instead of doing this extremely engineer thing

and today he finally went to a real optometrist

who said that he got the prescription right

pokemonth day 13: geodude