• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    20 hours ago

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

    FTFY

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    21 hours ago

    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.

    • Final Remix@lemmy.world
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      12 hours 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.

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    22 hours ago

    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?

  • entwine@programming.dev
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    17 hours ago

    The stock market was a mistake. There’s only so much that a single company can grow without resorting to screwing over their own customers, yet these public company CEOs need to deliver constant growth if they wanna keep their jobs. At the same time, so much of the economy is invested in these

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    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.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Funny way of saying “half of Gen Z are not falling for the typical consumer spend spend spend trap”. And as a millennial I say good for them. About time large chunks of people see the consumption driven economy game for what it is.

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    1 day ago

    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.

    • blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world
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      1 day 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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        23 hours ago

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

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    I cannot upvote a paywalled source

    yes, blurring the article if you don’t disable ad blocking is a paywall

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        1 day ago

        People will do just about anything but use Firefox. Whatever, I love Firefox + Ublock Origin. I cannot imagine being a chump and rawdogging the internet will all the ads and bullshit.

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          I haven’t seen an ad in 3 years, and I haven’t wanted to see one once in that timeframe.

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          Go ahead and check out what shows up on the Edge start page when you first launch it on a new profile/fresh Windows install. Pay close attention to specifically which shortcuts and news stories they present to you by default.

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            23 hours ago

            Sir, I’m a dork. I have used neither Windows nor Edge in, well ever. I switched before Edge was even created.

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              I only use windows at work, and only when I really have to. The other day I had to use a new fresh VM and I had some…concerns…over the “default” choices.

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    Turns out saddling a generation with debt, and then telling them the AI is gonna take all the jobs doesn’t do a lot for moral, or our finances.

    Nevermind that there’s a middle East forever war 2.0 going on that’s jacking up the cost of everything right now.

    • Chris Lowles@lemmy.zip
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      Being an elder Gen Z (1998) adds a special layer to this cuz I’m pushing 30, running an open-source OS everywhere I can and I’m indirectly being called an iPad baby lmao

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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.