Doesn't deserve that much money.
Jaegeras
joined 2 weeks ago
One piece of shit dies, another piece of shit comes and takes their place.
PieFed just gives you more tools other instances should have. But arguably PieFed lacks tools other instances have.
We can't win.
I want to see more micro-communities. I want to read about how passionate people are about niche hobbies or interests that appeal them.
I'm tired of the staple stuff like, we always have to have politics, memes, news, games .etc We already have an abundance of those.
Every day, I always see shadows or what I think are bugs or even small critters running about in my home. When I know they aren't there. I think it's because of my poor sleep or something.
Everything that's currently wrong with it today, but amplified.
That's not really the kind of point I was making. You're just tossing word salad and twisting contexts.
Nostalgia kids would have you believe that it was always good. However, I would say it was maybe 15% of the time that it was good. But stretch that 15% across the entirety of time you are in school for and then you'll see the real results. It wasn't like you had a plethora of options as to what to eat. Some of the options did suck for the week and that was all you get, too bad if you are wanting something else.
In High School, it was slightly better with the access of vending machines and the ability to sometimes buy food but then again, that involved money. Whatever provided to you, was marginally better, but still the same odds at the end of the day.
What's the point of pirating if you're going to be morally confused?
You either pirate or don't. Why complicate it?
People pirate for a variety of reasons, but largely it comes down to "cause its free and I can" whether they accept that or not, but it is the truth.
And a lot of the time, people who pirated games, buy them because they wanted to support the developer anyways. They didn't have this stupid worry that you have here as to whether or not it'll be popular, it is because the experience was so great, it was worthwhile to buy it anyways.
It'll only be a waste of money, time and effort pirating the game if the studio or a standout individual involved turns out to be a shitty person. Not because they're popular, if a small game or studio is popular, then great, we all love to see it. It is until big corporation decides to stamp them out via acquiring or law-suiting them to death is when it is a problem.
And then when they buy those things, they are directly telling the companies "yes, we accept this, please do it more".
"But I'm just buying from the store and making uneducated guesstimates about how transactions and business works" What they don't understand is that money moves very fast and around. Whatever you buy from the store, cuts are made and the cuts do reach the corresponding companies (aside from thrift stores, flea markets .etc).
Yeah I get the idea that not enjoying what you used to enjoy sucks and going without it sucks even more. But, it's not you or me that ruined that enjoyment and it's not even the store itself that ruins the enjoyment. It's always the ones making it and it is always the marketing teams involved that push for these prices that ruin it.
So route your anger directly to all and any marketing teams and go through whoever many you have to, until you're bitching directly at the top of the chain about it. Bitching at overworked-Joe working at X shitty store, is doing it wrong. Bitching at the people who obliviously continue buying the shit, is also a good idea, but after awhile, you're wasting time and breath.
I'm getting so tired of the whole "we can't do anything about it" excuse. It should instead be said "we won't do anything about it"
Can you imagine the power the people actually have in themselves collectively? You underestimate that.
If people collectively got their shit in gear, this practice wouldn't happen. Why? Because people decided NOT TO buy it. If they don't buy it for weeks and months, it'll tell the company that "hey we know what you've been up to, this shit isn't working" which will leave the company to decide to pull it or revert back to what it was that made us buy it in the first place. Which is quality.
Don't be coming to me with this defeatist talk of "uhhhh we can't do anything about it" because we WON'T because we're DUMB.
Doesn't deserve that much money.