I know I say thank you every other ask but for real. you scaled that fucking mountain for all of us essentially by yourself (you mentioned getting help once in one of your videos but who care). most people would paywall it, let alone helping any random passerby use it in new strange ways it was never initially conceived for. I'm gonna make so many weird creatures and make sure "manyblinkinglights' anytaur" is hard NOT to find. everyone deserves anytaur, but especially you. congratulations!!!!!!!
Right, like, growing up, I pirated what I couldn't get as free software because I was just a greasy highschooler with parents who didn't let me play the arcade games at the pizza place, and who I could only assume would turn any request for computer stuff money into the same blood-from-stone-squeezing-ordeal as getting them to get me an N64, gameboy, candy at the store, each successive pokemon game, etc had been (basically "suffer understimulated without it until christmas, sucker"). Like I DID get things... that I worked myself up to dying on that hill for. And I did get to go to a real arcade with my dad one time when I was older. But the general vibe I picked up about obtaining frivolities was "Hmm, but we don't want to teach our child to BEG," (let us not get into the fixed conviction I have had since I was maybe two that I and my consciousness are sacrosanct and how dare anyone try to modify my behavior extrinsically e.g. teach me anything,) so of course what got taught wasn't the ability to calmly ask "hey can I have a couple quarters for the crazy taxi machine" but instead pint-sized petty theft of the chocolate by the grocery store register and total war operatics. :p And I was always so, so grateful for the people posting free software online. That you didn't even have to ask for. Because that was the only way I could do anything I wanted, because I couldn't do anything without asking, except what other people ensured I had access to by putting up online.
