Comment on Anon is 23

• NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bread and circuses. An concept thousands of years old.

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  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah but the rich forgot to keep paying for the bread and circuses.

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• staph@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t worry, gaming is quickly becoming unaffordable to anyone without a serious income stream.

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  • kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    im broke and im gaming on a borderline e-waste pc and a steam deck from pre-price hike and buying games off humble bundle and deep discounts on steam

    i also have a ps4 pro (which i bought used for next to nothing) from before i moved to this tiny apartment and could do couch gaming

    it’s possible but you gotta not buy the latest and most expensive games. idk why anyone would do that in the first place tho, theres so many games to play that are just as good and are way cheaper

    but they fund the development of those games tho so i dont mind i guess 🤷

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  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gaming systems are made for the top 10% now. They are fully rejecting regular consumers and focusing entirely on the high end market.

    Basically they want to cater the economy to the top 10% and neglect the bottom 90%. This is one reason why everything is so damn expensive. Budget options aren’t a thing anymore.

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• xav@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hahaha ! “We would start a revolution but we’re too busy gaming on the couch”. What a bunch of losers indeed.

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  • quarkquasar@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you look into it at all, America is a really embarrassing place.

    I mean, we just started an unprovoked war by bombing a school full of schoolgirls.

    If someone has done that to America, there’d already be memorials about it and several brown countries bombed back to the stone age, but since we did it, it’s actually totally cool.

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    • mursejoy@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It always has been. That’s why alternate history is taught.

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  • Tetragrade@leminal.space ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Uhh, yes. Unironically. Revolutions happen when the masses can’t afford to game & jack off any more, so their only source of entertainment is to LARP overthrowing the government, which they do so realistically that it actually happens. Open a history book smh.

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We can’t even get gamers to stop pre-ordering games from even just the shitty companies. They literally can’t simply go play any of the thousands of other amazing games because they’re too busy letting themselves get rat-fucked by companies like EA and Ubisoft who actively hate their customers.

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