I still have the original install files for Adobe Master Collection CS6 (as in, downloaded from Adobe directly before the older versions all got nuked) saved on my Google Drive for like a decade now, along with tons of USB drives and even on my phone as yet another backup.

also the crack and instructions

10-year old lenovo thinkpad unanimously wins, as expected

In a very simplified answer: China and Russia (as well as Iran) never made any thinly-veiled threats of turning my hometown of Johannesburg into the next Gaza.

Force of Great Might by Ansar Allah Band

Made a pot full of a quick salad with cucumber, tomato, couple of small red onions, chopped up a bag of assorted lettuce salad, a can of tuna and some feta cheese

Ibrahim Traore

I still use it to keep in touch with a local Palestinian solidarity group and to talk to family/friends overseas through Messenger so I don’t get bent over by the service provider for like €0.50/minute.

Even if I get permanently banned on Facebook too, I’ll end up making a new account anyways lmao

Intel Graphics Media

a c c e l e r a t o r

Brave and Firefox

Help myself to around €200,000 worth of now-free iPhones from the warehouse

Bringing even more flags to :estonia-cool: especially in the last 2 years. The flags and colours are bloody everywhere and not one has been removed.

I see the FPS still maxed at 80 through DP connection and the Fallout 4 Script Extender no longer works. The XDI and Be Exceptional mods have ’d

A secondhand Lenovo Thinkpad or Dell Latitude, 2013-2018 models. Get one with a quad-core i7, it will run you €150-€400 depending on the amount of RAM, SSD, screen resolution, condition and possibly an onboard GPU.

If you played old PC games from like 1990s, dip your toes into that. Even if you didn’t, still go check out the old PC gaming scene.

Hit up GZDoom with mods, Duke Nukem 3D, X-Com Apocalypse, SimCity 2000 and 3000 Unlimited, Shadow Warrior, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, OpenTTD, etc.

No idea what the brand of computer it was, but it was beige and had Windows NT on it, complete with one of those legendary loud mechanical keyboards and … the big beige ViewSonic CRT with the 3 birbs logo. It was a computer for work that my pops got some years after the Apartheid ended and there were also loads of 90s PC gaming goodness - SimCity 2000, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, XCom Enemy Unknown and Apoccalypse, Jagged Alliance 2, etc. No internet or graphics to speak of, so no way in hell this computer was going to run Half-Life 1, Unreal Tournament or even Quake.

Oh and good old MS Paint.

Though at times I did get to go to my pops’ workplace and experience the Internet and all these Flash games.

“You’re too much into politics”

Said by people who are unwilling to admit they’re on the wrong side. Or in a more extreme setting (like say, South Africa during apartheid), they’d most likely report you to authorities or outright even kill you.

Literally anything regarding China, especially Xinjiang if you talk to anyone from

I was talking to a mate about Palestine and he immediately went for the “bUt TiAnAm3n SqU@r3 k1LLeD oVeR tEn Th0uSaNd” and the “Ch1n@ cEnOcIde iN UygHuRs Th0” with the swiftness of a 737 flying into the 2nd tower. They will disregard who originally makes these claims and are 100% unfazed by say, World Uyghur Congress being totally in support of the genocide in Gaza, the response being either dismissal or “you’re too much into politics and also ableism”.

€15,000 transferred right now.

Enough to leave back to South Africa for good since quality of life and the political landscape is worsening to the extent where I might even be in some degree of danger. Also work hasn’t allowed me to leave for the Friday prayer, so there’s that. I do get paid on Monday so after bills that leaves me with a little over €5,000 saved. The extra money would pay for the flight, buying a 1BR apartment outright with maybe spending a few grand on renovations and living expenses would be covered for at least 3 years, leeway to find an income.

I suppose the silver lining is that I am able to add an extra €400 a month to my savings, so this goal is at least materializing albeit slower than I’d like.

Something like a mix of Fursan al-Aqsa, Red Faction: Guerilla and Homefront (without the cringe).

I had a setting in an old worldbuilding roleplay akin to it.

Flashbacks of when liberal takes and western propaganda talkibg points were combatted with volumes of “pig poop balls”