I pirate games in two situations
1. As a demo. If I think they're worth the money, I buy them (like Elden Ring and DOOM Eternal recently).
2. As a way of archiving my favorite games. For example, I “own” the original Prince of Persia collection in Steam, but I also downloaded the games and have them stored, in case for whatever reason Steam one day decides to terminate my account.
You mean from a war, an energy crisis, a food crisis, ammonia shortage, neon shortage and post-covid global tension on supply chains around the globe right?
Good! Because the dates match perfectly and the inflation is global, not US centric.
inflation was way overshooting the historic trend line before the war
>an energy crisis, a food crisis, ammonia shortage, neon shortage
Aren't all these just downstream from the war?
>post-covid global tension on supply chains
If that was caused by covid, why was inflation muted during the initial outbreak? Why did inflation only spike starting around mid 2021? It seems more plausible that supply chain tensions were caused by too much money chasing too few goods, not that inflation was caused by "global tension on supply chains".
I think there was a highly advanced cow/pig thing at the restaurant end the universe who very much wanted people to eat him. Ford wouldn't have considered it wrong as he was pragmatic.
And had some alien told Arthur he was a barbarian for eating meat, he would have quipped something back like, "look, it's all shandies and licorice until the locusts arrive and then it's a rather short trip to the butchery to find out whose aunt goes best with brown sauce.'
Zaphod though.. he might have seen it your way, "That pig was a cool cat, man." Trillian was pragmatic like Ford.
Marvin would definitely been sympathetic on the surface, but insufferably narcissistic underneath. " You think you've got it bad? A brain the size of a planet but they wouldnt eat me if I cooked and served myself with mint jelly. Life. Don't talk to me about life".
