Don’t you hate it when that game you used to play, vanishes from your library? Or what if you download it, but it doesn’t work anymore because it’s a single-player with an online only DRM. Or you’re waiting for the DENUVO crack, but it never comes and the games goes EOL and forgotten? Well, turns out someone had enough...
Apparently he was an advocate for financial austerity, so his name became connected with cheap or discount things. A silhouette was an affordable type of portrait.