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Everyone is saying Piracy but I say Public LIbraries, which often have CDs/DVDs/BDs/games now (depending on your locale). They're taxpayer funded, so you might as well get your money's worth, and they keep track of how often stuff gets borrowed which determines future financial support.

(And if you are tech-savvy enough to be on Lemmy, you probably know how to make a ... permanent copy ... for yourself to keep)

I lurk the frontpage occasionally and I've already noticed the Reddit atmosphere has gotten ... weird.

Little-known, content-churning subreddits are bubbling to the top because of all the other blackouts and desertions. Fringe viewpoints and wacko opinions that would normally get downvoted to the bottom of a thread are now out in the open because there's no voice of reason to hold them back.

And the kind of people that are still on there, acting as if everything is fine (or, God forbid, better(???) than it was before the revolts) ... it's a very strange place now.

I just like that I can post an honest comment and not worry about being Well-Ackshually'd to death. Sometimes I'd be knee-deep in Wikipedia fact-checking and suddenly realize, "This reddit reply is not worth the personal effort I am putting into it."

LMAO, felt this.

The last time I had to write a Statement of Intent was to get into grad school and I sure as shit ain't doing homework for a free online community.

Invisible Hand is working as intended. Praise Adam Smith!

Just be glad we're actually taking showers.

The people who are still pissy over at reddit don’t actually want to leave unless they’re presented with a reddit clone that has both a fully developed app and a huge userbase.

"Now introducing ... Zuccit, brought to you by Meta"

No, no, letting the VP pick any successor makes it too easy for them to game the system! We should come up with a completely objective, impartial method.

The oldest child of the current President becomes the next President.

I'm kinda shocked they're openly saying "I just don't like [lemmy.world's] vibe" as one of the justifications, as that looks like the slipperiest of slopes.

I mean, when Thomas Paine wrote "What if the British colonies declared independence haha" it was supposed to be a trolly 4chan post, like NO WAY they were actually gonna beat the World's greatest military force in the 18th century ... unless?

"How many vegetables had to die for your stupid salad" kind of beat.

Thank you to all the code monkeys for getting things straightened out!

System appears to be working as intended

So the Circle of Life is really just the Ouroboros of Capitalism...

Hm.

At this point I'm not sure there's enough human left in him to die.

One of the true childhood nostalgia games for me.

Sometimes I'd hear people talk about other games with Descent in the title (I think it was Descent: Freespace?) I'd think "Wait ... that's not the Descent I know of"

I'm gonna hope you mean stuff like Ghost in the Shell and 20th Century Boys and not .... the other kind of manga.