Um, I would absolutely let people drive my car if it was guaranteed to be back before I needed it? What?

The difference is that OpenAI isn't offering a benevolent cooperative where they share the value evenly, they're trying to corner the market to extract maximum profit.

"no virtual machine"

look inside:

"A virtual machine boots a guest operating system..."

Who? What did they say?

Refurbished generally means it actually goes through a further round of QC than "new" hardware. And it's usually only "used" because someone bought it and returned it because there was something wrong, which was then fixed by the refurbishing process.

What's your source or inspiration for thinking this way? Are you suggesting that companies are labeling new, or possibly used-but-not-re-tested hardware as "refurbished" to drive sales? Because that's not anything I've heard of.

I don't understand lots of this sort of therapy-speak. Is the suggestion that everyone just loudly insists upon their every whim? Obviously there are extremes of this that cause people to silence and repress serious discomfort that ends up either coming out explosively or slowly eroding one's sense of self-worth, but to some degree this is just living in a society, sweetheart.

/shitpost

Because neither the Gulf of Mexico or Lake Ontario border any other countries?

I'm shocked they had enough of a backbone to refuse this request.

I would love to read about enclosure, can you give me a phrase I can actually search for?

Even then, chromatic aberration is only an artifact in bad lenses. It's been a solved issue for decades. It only makes sense to use if you're modeling a damaged camera. It can also be effective when used intentionally for psychic attacks/shock/etc. but most games just turn it on at the edges of the screen for no reason.

cough cough barriers to entry cough cough

Yeah I think the sheer open-endedness is actually harming you here. I would narrow down to the point where you have some sort of concrete theme or intention beyond "come play any type of game". You might even want to start with one specific game that's somewhat flexible in terms of player count, at least in your promo material; you can always have backups and other options on hand in case more or less people show up than you were planning for.

Once you have a few regulars, you can start expanding. I think this sort of catch-all approach is better when you've already got some regulars and are starting to regularly get new people who express interest in other things.

Kind of unrelated, but are you cross-posting to places like Meetup? That's how I found my old board game group, though that was years ago so it might be less active these days.

I have never heard a convincing argument that any piracy is ethically or morally wrong: no one is being deprived of anything. You have to manually construct a scenario where someone is about to pay an independent artist for their work and then decides to use a copy instead, and even then I think it's hard to argue any actual harms.