You go to a random restaurant. The waiter/waitress seems totally checked out with dead eyes. She/he is contemplating their future where they’ll never, ever be able to afford a house. But, you get food and it’s not that bad. Maybe you even have some leftovers you can take home. You pay them freaking money, you get food, transaction concluded.

Now imagine you go to get an oil change on your car. You pull up and expect this to be a less than a one hour affair [cue laugh track]. They do the initial assessment and tell you they’ll do the oil change for $X. They then quote you, and you’re like, umm, so, that’s double what I expected.

And they’re like: Oh yeah, that’s the excess fee that the car company is charging. What? Yeah, you see the car company charges us to change the oil, so we pass the charge on to the customer. But wait. I own the car. Nah, they own it, they do software updates too, so you have to pay them to keep the car running. I even hear if you don’t sign up for a monthly software subscription by next year, they can literally shut the car off. I hear they can even threaten to shut off the car while you’re on the highway so you can die. It’s their marketing method to scare you to pay up. Oh, …

In the video game world, it’s everywhere this week. GTA VI is gonna be the most overrated game since Cyberpunk. You can’t buy a physical disk. Now Sony has said all PS games in the future will be all digital.

Which means they can just delete anything they want without reason. You paid for it, but they own it. It’s on the license agreement written by a bunch of fuck lawyers that is 73 pages long and you don’t read. You gave them your money, but whenever they want, they’re like: Nope. This concept applies to the entire digital world, everything.

This is why any movie I love of any consequence I buy in psychical media. I own it. No matter what random streaming service has the IP, I own the physical disk. They can never take it from me.

Uhhh, [sighs] … just do what I do all the time and buy an actual book. What’s the Giant Octopus gonna do? Burn my residence down? Don’t tell them I said that, I love my books.