@ main topic:
Opera might not be the most marketed browser in the world or anything, but I remember back in the day when MSIE and Netscape were duking it out, I found Opera to be much more awesome anyway. They were true innovators. "Hey, HTML 3.x/4.x has all these neat <meta> tags that denote certain pages being next and previous and whatnot... how about we actually
use these and let regular Tom, Dick, and Harriet users have <- and -> buttons
on the browser toolbar for meta-based navigation?" Yaaaaay! Lots of sites used those tags, yet Opera's the only browser I recall even bothering using. Same with start pages and such. (For that matter, wasn't Opera waaay ahead of the curve on letting RSS feeds be read as if they were simple web pages? I'd say the same for news feeds, but WebTV did that even before deja-news iirc.)
Opera might not be a household name because Micro$oft, Apple O$, and Google ..$omething, (with Mozilla somehow keeping a foothold in there, but I've gotta say, I never saw their
Firefox OS go
anywhere,) but I expect to see good
work come from this -- even moreso with
@rmanthorp describing some personal thumbs ups.
@GMWolf:
Yeah, no, $E^ b it wasn't directed
at you; it was more like "speaking loudly toward the room while fake-addressing you" to be funnier about directing
alongside you (that all the panicky pricing speculation isn't helping anyone). Cheers, yo. heheheh
@RefresherTowel:
I'm sorry if I came off as calloused or misunderstanding to you personally. My only real point regarding you was that I saw absurdity (I'm a parodist?) in someone saying 1. I would leave over a [monthly you finally said] subscription model coming and 2. I have influenced others into the already extant (yearly-)subscription model. I wasn't "reducing" the yearly sub model to an equivalent monthly sub model; I was pointing out there's already a yearly sub model; from there, I did eventually show the math estimate as to what the yearly sub model breaks down to as a 12-months-paid-in-advance model -- since both models were subscriptions.
Now, the part that might surprise you, I don't know: I do not use GMS2
because my finances changed some years ago, and GMS2 does not have the old limited-but-free permanent model. Using for one month total does nothing for me, clearly. Paying a $39 yearly subscription (truly $3.25 per month) is beyond me anymore. Paying a one-time $99 fee ($79 during sales) is a luxury I no longer have. I quite literally work for room and board right now. I'm not against your actual point about price barriers. I even said in my first post in this thread,
I find GMS2's freemium change limiting. I hope this calms our qualm. $;^ ]
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Aaaand this is why I practically never parody anything anymore. Too many misgivings and misunderstandings galore. $:^ (
Regards,