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You gotta plan for it, like I do.
We tried me "not" doing that once, when we were going on vacation. I gave her a time we should leave, and she said no, what time do we have to leave. I said, "no later than" and we left 15 minutes after that and we missed our plane by 10 minutes. After she asked why I didn't leave a buffer and I reminded her of our conversation, she doesn't argue with me about leaving a buffer. (Score 1 for me! All I need is another 10k to catch up!!)
I usually say something to the effect of; Cambridge Analytics once again proved the point, if a service is free, you are the product.
On seconds thoughts, I didn't need to post this.
I just thought I'd link this article here. It's from 2016, where Nolan T sheds some light on his experience with online abuse.
Pointing out legitimate shortcomings a product or service in a polite fashion is not online abuse.
Roll20s apparent* handling of any criticism of their product is brutal and anti-customer. We all have a choice how we spend our money, who we choose to give it to. I'm very, very glad that I have never decided to give even one penny of it to the owners of Roll20.
I picked Fantasy Grounds because it is in my direct experience a vastly better VTT. Also, being able to buy a licence outright was a big factor for me. I don't want to drip feed money to a company on an ongoing basis. Won't do it for Microsoft, Adobe, or back in the Day WotC (I cancelled my support when they made the 4th ed char gen online only).
Having picked it, it seems that the management here are way more customer friendly. I'm chuffed.
* I say apparent, I have no direct experience of it, but the impression I get from their commentry and others descriptions of how they've been handled it's abysmally bad.
I just thought it was kind of interesting. Nolan T seems to be the kind of person raised with a certain side of the internet. I'm thinking 4chan-like. I sometimes wonder of this behaviour is what it leads to when they grow up to be adults, in this case with a business. I wonder if the FG community, making an effort to be nice, will have its effect on future adults, if we're part of kids playing DnD trough FG right now.
I don't know if that's a load of psycho-babble, or if we're really making a small difference. I do know that I started playing in my early-twenties, and kind of stuck with this enjoyable community now in my mid thirties. I like to think that in a small way, it formed me in the way that I treat others -- especially online.
A wise man once said (& no, I can't put an actual name to the Wise Man - sorry): "The person you end up as depends upon two things; the books you read and the people you hang out with".