In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.
In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.
Fr, I bought the entire Halo collection once on sale on Steam thinking “great, I’ll finally be able to finish what I started 20 years ago”, and found out you need a M$ account to play, and you can’t even make up a bullshit one, they NEED your phone number
Ran into this with Google docs. Everyone who does any collaboration online uses Google Docs, but I don’t want to give a random internet stranger I met on a creative writing subreddit my google account name, which for employability reasons is my IRL name. So I try making an alt account, but the phone thing rears its ugly head again. Guess I’ll never improve my creative writing then. Yeah it would be nice if someone spun up a NextCloud server, but good luck convincing a bunch of non techies of the virtues of self hosting.
And yet again, I tried setting up a nodeBB instance, but when it came time to get email notifications up and running, I had to choose a bulk email provider, and they required my phone number. Seems companies are getting wise to the fact it’s much easier to create an email account vs a phone number, so in order to pin you down as an
advertising targetactual human they require a phone number.Needless account creation to play a primarily single player game that I already bought through an online store like Steam or Nintendo eShop is also really aggravating. Y’all already know I bought your game fair and square. I’m already playing it on a platform with its own DRM. Why are you punishing me for having a lawful good alignment? Valve figured this out decades ago. Piracy is a service problem.