how did you get here

The Backrooms
Joined July 2021
Robbie retweeted
I see this argument over and over again and it is patently FALSE. No, you aren’t buying a license. You are buying a product. You do not own the IP, you own a copy of it. That copy cannot be taken away from you. You retain ownership and control of the product as long as it does not require any outside input to run it. This is why #NoDiscNoBuy advocates for games that are fully on disc, 100% playable offline, no download required. Over 60% of PS5 games meet this criteria (per @DoesItPlay1). This is why we promote GoG.com which offers DRM-free games. Gamers deserve to own what they purchase. This includes ownership rights for digital media including resell, trading, and refund rights. We have allowed the gaming industry to take advantage of us long enough.
You’re buying a license to use a game. Doesn’t matter if it’s on a disc or digital. You don’t own the software.
2
6
45
597
Robbie retweeted
The most annoying thing about being human right now is knowing we already have the intelligence and resources to end world hunger, fight climate change, and cure cancer, but greed and billionaires keep millions suffering instead. The wasted human potential is heartbreaking.
60
2,001
19
9,457
52,749
Robbie retweeted
Unfortunately, if we riot we’d need a million people to riot, and to make the Government submit. We’ve had many chances, but British media and its propoganda is so thorough we can’t agree on any one principle we know would be better. We had people question kids free-school meals
Rioting in London in 2026 is a bit nuts tho, they’ll surveillance you before you finish saying the word surveillance and arrest you before you put your shoes on
4
176
5
1,309
14,845
Robbie retweeted
Mind you the UK still got their monarchy & announced the initial porn bans in the waves after the Online Safety Act so clearly this isn't about incest or protecting children at all but all twitter anime icons care about is talking about incest
No Patrick, the UK banning your incest porn is not facist
2
135
922
7,235
We hate GTA6 because Rockstar and Sony are using it as the foundation to push the most consumer unfriendly change in gaming history. No more physical games. Which means prices are higher for EVERYONE (digital games will go on sale less often) It's extremely valid to hate it.
People who have made it their entire personality just to hate on GTA 6 are insufferable, bro. You don’t have to like GTA, but pretending its cultural significance is inexplicable makes you look like a larping idiot. These games have always been HUGE on launch for DECADES now.
48
181
1
1,009
11,378
- they're criminalising "hardcore" porn but do fuck all to deal with the actual acts of rape that they claim to be cracking down on nor exploitation in the industry - they want us to have "difficult conversations" about war as if they're anything worth fighting for
7
34
238
There's been a lot of bullshit that the UK government's been up to that I've wanted to comment on but can't find the words so rapid fire: - they put their propaganda machine on youtube and immediately want to add it to the fucking TV license
1
19
95
1,283
We're all born left wing. Ask any kid if homeless people should be fed and housed, if everyone deserves healthcare, if bombing families is wrong, if racism is bad, if air and water should be clean, if trees and nature are good...
How are any young men left wing I genuinely don’t understand
4,947
7,297
996
87,573
2,803,368
Robbie retweeted
This is exactly why I have my concerns about GKCs. Because they aren't a regular install like a standard Blu-ray disc, any technical issues like this are going to occur if there's a problem with the servers.
Hilarious Game Key Card issue with the new Rudolph game
3
30
141
3,264
thank fucking god
The fight against data centers in the US is working. Over $260,000,000,000 worth of data center projects have been cancelled in the US, largely due to pushback from local governments.
10
1,296
1
9,428
53,286
Robbie retweeted
as they say... hang it in the louvre...
This photo is a work of art.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The shared image is AI-generated and does not depict real events from the October 17 protests in Paris, which centered on areas like Place de la République with clashes involving tear gas and fireworks but no matching scene at the Eiffel Tower. cnn.com/2026/10/17/wor… theguardian.com/world/2026/oct… leparisien.fr/societe/direct…
25
10,599
14
130,740
758,730
Another glimpse into the future of every "better than nothing" key card and #PhysicalFraud disc. All bound to become "exactly the same as nothing". Only in this case it happened the other way round. Game wasn't even uploaded to begin with, it seems.
This is exactly what worries me about Game-Key Cards 😕 When the download isn’t available, your “physical game” becomes nothing more than a piece of plastic that can’t even play the game you paid for. I’m sorry, but I just can’t consider that a real physical release. And now we’re seeing a concerning example with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Holiday Play Edition on Switch 2. A physical owner reports being unable to download or play the game after inserting their Game-Key Card. The console displays error 2016-0070, while the eShop lists a download size of just 82 MB, compared to around 2 GB for the Switch 1 version. The cause is still unclear, and we don’t know how widespread the issue is. No download. No game. That’s the risk of a format that depends entirely on external downloads. Hopefully GameMill and Nintendo can get this resolved quickly.
22
166
4
1,041
24,886
This is how it fucking SHOULD BE FOR ALL OF US
French people after the government does something they dont like:
53
8,202
22
68,049
343,814
The simplest solution is a new law so that if conscription is introduced, the children of MPs have to be among the first wave of recruits.
88
393
3
2,219
41,556
The hate for GTA VI is justified considering that: >It's trying to normalize $80/$100 games >No proper physical release >Cost over $1 billion to make >Rockstar frequently busted any attempts at unionization The game will succeed, but gaming as a whole will suffer for it
People who have made it their entire personality just to hate on GTA 6 are insufferable, bro. You don’t have to like GTA, but pretending its cultural significance is inexplicable makes you look like a larping idiot. These games have always been HUGE on launch for DECADES now.
164
1,281
33
8,435
155,710
Unfortunately, we have to defend the disgusting porn. I've played these dang games before.
Choosing porn as the place to start this very obvious campaign to police our online access is so clever. Who wants to be publicly seen as championing incest and choking porn? It’s definitely a slippery slope though, that should worry people a little
45
2,455
31
15,706
178,144
did anyone even fucking want this. we have iplayer. we already pay for a fucking tv license. actual scum
📺 Big news! @BBCNews is now streaming live on YouTube in the UK and U.S. YouTube is the home for high-quality, trusted news: in the first half of 2026 alone, viewers watched over 18 billion hours of news content on the platform. By using @YouTube's live tools, iconic broadcasters like the BBC can build deep, authentic rapport, bringing global communities together to learn, discuss, and follow history as it happens.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This comes as part of a wider move to expand the license fee charter. An upcoming government white paper will recommend Britons be forced to fund the BBC if they use YouTube, Netflix, Amazon or Disney Plus independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
1
15
114
2,112
war with who? what’s going on here - this is the vaguest report I’ve read I awhile
BREAKING: The head of the army says the UK's political leaders are about to start a "frank conversation" with the public about the need to prepare for war, per Sky News. General Sir Roly Walker said every citizen will be asked to make sacrifices and to play their part in the defence of the nation.
15
46
444
21,753
Tim Sweeney is now a provable liability to the future of collaborations in Fortnite He's gotta resign man
theyre already losing potential collabs over this Lololol
23
937
5
8,505
70,775