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I remember getting free software this way. I don’t remember what game it was, but I do remember it took like 8 months. They called me one day to tell me that the company they had paid to fulfill the orders had gone out of business, but they were working to get another one, and I would get the game at some point. (I might have sent a letter - this was the early 1990s - asking about the status).
It might have been Marble Madness for the IBM PC. I’m not sure.
Watterson was for real. I remember waiting forever for shit I ordered - comics, magazine subs… and now Calvin could place the order in the morning and get it that afternoon, but I don’t know if it’s worth it.
When in doubt, look at the company’s stance on labour rights and sustainability. Avoid the big companies, they’re already powerful.
Yeah… Things taking weeks to arrive… Crazy to remember things used to be that way. The only time something takes that long to arrive these days is when it’s shipped from China.
I live in a developing country and anything coming from abroad still takes weeks. It’s actually kind of great, I’ll forget about things and then one day somebody hands me a box filled with stuff I like.
If you’re Chinese then it’s the other way round, everything outside China takes forever.
