• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    “People acting in their own financial interests frustrates money-hungry company”

    FTFY

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    7 days ago

    They have no money, and they’re going to have to live with the result of choices made long ago by wealthy people who are dead now.

    I wouldn’t be doing a damn thing if I was them, except maybe riot.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    Things get too expensive and people who don’t have the extra cash will find a way to spend less, or not at all. Remember this, all of you shareholders, if you price the customers out of buying your product then you’ve only screwed yourselves and your greed is to blame. What is wrong with a standard, healthy 10% profit?

  • canniest_tod@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Am I supposed to be mad about this? The only jobs available to most of them basically constitute slavery.

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    The second to last time i bought DLC at launch was the assassins creed game in colonial america, which was a waste of money. Then Starfield came out and you could play it a weekend early if you bought DLC, another scam. It is so much more fun to buy an indy game in alpha and get an update every few months from someone isnt a whore for share holders.

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      6 days ago

      Teddy’s Haven (a cozy little shopkeeper game) has received updates almost every week. It’s by one person, and it’s in honor of his pet. It’s been awesome seeing updates, QOL tweaks, and even fishing get added to the game in 7-day stints.

  • tslojr@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    100% still have to keep your seed ratio up. It works out for me, though, because I use it for my home media server, so it’s mostly files I’m holding on to anyway.

    • blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      If I had to guess 90% of people these days can barely figure out how to torrent, at best they could figure out how to get to online streaming sites.

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        “these days”. Man I’m not sure there’s ever been an era where a significant portion of people understood how to torrent.

  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I’m Gen-X, but I don’t play games at all, and I pirate everything I watch (which isn’t much)

    When I hear about people buying a game, and then having to pay for some subscription, or to fully utilise the features, I can totally understand people refusing to buy into the bullshit

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      5 days ago

      Ha, my first reaction to this title was “What, is the other half sailing the seven seas for shows?”

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    7 days ago

    They probably would do those things if they could afford to live comfortably and had a little extra disposable income but in today’s world every time you turn around someone is screwing you out of money. There isn’t anything left for fun stuff. Especially when the fun stuff company is doing some of the screwing lol

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      6 days ago

      “Fun stuff” is going to boil back down to playing an old board game with friends like in the 80s. Pot luck dinner and somebody bring the hooch they fermented in their closet.

  • GhostFace@lemmy.today
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    And these services are mad cause it’s so cheap for us to do that. Subscribe when the full seasons are out, binge watch what you want, leave.

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    Also there’s more than enough quality content that exists already. This week I’m still happy watching Dr who or Star Trek from the 80s and 90s, Alfred Hitchcock films from the 60s and playing pc games from the 90s. There’s more than enough for me to chew through and time does the job of sorting the classic material from the forgettable dross for me.