Hi. I'm one of the millions of AFGNCAAP users of your browser, and have been since like 2005.
I've stuck with you through memory leaks, and through struggles loading basic sites, and through security issues at my bank because they were idiots and you were safer to use than they wanted you to be.
So... please. Don't start pulling a Chrome about giving my data to advertisers.
Adding tracking in is bad enough. Not opting out by default is worse. Not ASKING ME TO?! That's being petty.
*nods*
I like that the broader hobby is at least trying right now - even with as small of changes as shifting from 'race' to 'ancestry' or 'background' for establishing starting character genotype/phenotype - but it's depressing how much pushback even that gets from folks who want to defend the way it's always been.
The fact that most of the folks looking to defend the racism are *also* the ones who want to insist that incredibly sexist worlds are "historical"... in a fantasy game?
@Shyfer Not gonna lie, I'm surprised this has to be said?
Like... everything I've *ever* heard about Gygax pushed the idea that he was THE prototypical grognard that causes the TTRPG hobby so much trouble.
Dungeons and Dragons, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, all the way up through at least 3rd Ed and with continuing themes past that... it has obvious racist and sexist roots in so much of how things are set up, and that's always the first thing I try to throw out any time I run a game.
And because I know it will come up:
No, I don't like relying on Windows for things either, hence as much of my suite of software being cross-platform as possible.
I'm willing to go Windows more than Apple simply because, while Windows has a bit of a stranglehold, it's one of apathy rather than malice (like I feel much of Apple's exclusivity and control is.) Windows' hold on gaming and productivity markets is dying as Linux gains a stronger foothold, as it should.
Pirating the stuff wouldn't counter a lot of my ethical reasons for not using Adobe (and would arguably undermine them too.)
I don't like the idea of a single-sourced software solution becoming the basis for entire creative and professional industries. Hardware either, for that matter, but that's a different issue.
So I don't use Adobe. I avoid using MS Office.
Probably a silly hill to die on if it comes down to it, but I turned down a 1700 dollar free Macbook on principle.
Pretty much this TBH. Like, complaining that Adobe doesn't want to support Firefox is like complaining because your Norton Antivirus doesn't like your VPN. It's kinda to be expected.
Combining that with all the anti-Microsoft talk in the thread just makes it funnier to me, as a combination Linux and Windows user who uses almost an entire program suite of free or cheap alternatives to the big names (Krita/Blender/etc. instead of Adobe, Firefox, LibreOffice, etc.)
Am I the weirdo?
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