I use the presence books or an e-reader in a home as a barometer for how much have in common with the people in it. I’m not a snob about it, either. I don’t care if its Harry Potter or obscure volumes of post-structural literary criticism. Just read, please.

The ludicrously tragic? The tragically ludicrous?

I’m sure Charlie is looking up at them with pride.

The important thing is that you found a way to appear superior to everyone.

Would he prefer “burn out the rich”?

Time to reaquaint myself with physical media. I’ve had enough of this shit. I only signed up to watch the new Unsolved Mysteries, anyways. I’m sure I can sail the seas to find that quite easily.

Games and software for PC where commonly cracked and shared among my friends and I back in those days. We started a 8 person Quake II clan with one legit copy of the game.

It wasn’t common at all for consoles outside of emulation which wasn’t as polished or ubiquitous as it is now. I remember spending hours trying to get a Super Nintendo emulator to run a Chrono Trigger rom correctly. We heard about custom mod chips for Playstation that you let you play Japanese games and copied games but we thought it was elite hacker shit and never bothered.