TankovayaDiviziya
@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 days ago:
Piracy saves money
Precisely. I don’t see torrenting wrong if you really can’t afford digital streaming or games. Netflix has made piracy less popular when it first came out, but with the proliferation of copy cat rival services, piracy became vogue again.
I prefer not to torrent games unless the game is owned by huge asshole companies like EA or Ubisoft. These big companies could absorb financial losses from torrenting because there are always idiots who will pay for their bog standard games. Small devs should be supported instead (also, small time filmmakers should be supported by paying to see their movies as well).
My friends think I am rich despite circumstances. But no, I just save money by torrenting. I use the money that I don’t buy essentials with, on learning new skills, socialising and developing hobbies. My rule of not buying new games until I clear a portion of my backlog is working on not going on impulse buying that my friends tend to do. A couple of my friends are pretty frivolous and complain when they don’t have savings. A lot of younger folks still think that the environment that allowed boomers to spend money and enjoy their youths, buy a house, get married and then raise a family with couple of kids still applies. Now, we have to sacrifice one over the other and this is what I have been telling people in my generation.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 4 days ago:
Not really. It’s more about what options are there. Of course, the left argue whether through peaceful or a violent revolution. Personally, I see violence only as the last resort. But even so, we argue what the catalyst should be for an open revolution. While Trump’s ICE kidnappings and brazen violation of constitution, it is clear he is provoking people to give him legal grounds to incite the insurrection act, and consolidate his power.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 5 days ago:
You can try to be ethical under capitalism, but it will be almost impossible.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Of course it’s Hank Green who would question it lol. But you’re not the only one!
- Comment on Free PC Game Keys to Give Away (Merry Christmas!) 1 week ago:
Injustice Gods Among Us if it’s still available!
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 1 week ago:
Tech workers is like the majority of fediverse.
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Original Sin 2 I mean
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
I am currently playing Divinity 2, and the game’s humour and lore is indeed dark.
- Comment on We're going backwards 1 week ago:
I’d love to try if weren’t for the fact that you have Trump harassing foreigners.
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 2 weeks ago:
I don’t make fun of gen alpha for 67, but we have to admit that the meme is a random nonsense. Nyan cat, rage comics and vine clips do have a point which makes them funny, but shouting 67 while doing so without any purpose simply because it’s a meme is inherently pointless. Let the kids have fun with 67 but it is just so random.
- Comment on French Anatomy 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. I hear so many “fails” on school books from across the world. I think a lot of the time school books are not getting reviewed enough before being published, and the author will see of his/her prank fails. Sometimes, there is intentional propaganda being peddled.
- Comment on Dude's rock 2 weeks ago:
You just offended my entire gender.
But yes, that’s true and it’s bad that about half are fucking idiots.
- Comment on Pika Pika 2 weeks ago:
Bigger lens is better for wildlife photography and long distance shot. Animals scurry away when you try to get close, so it’s best to take a picture from the distance.
- Comment on Anon is eyemaxxing 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t matter if you’re ripped, if you have no game.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 3 weeks ago:
I just go for the easy ones. I don’t bother with getting 100% achievements.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 3 weeks ago:
I never cheat online multiplayer. I like to be challenged and cheating ruins it.
I hate that modding is considered cheating by some games when all I want is quality of life improvement. Divinity 2 does this by disabling achievements if you installed any mods but thankfully there is another mod that re-enables achievements.
- Comment on To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments 3 weeks ago:
Not so much as ragebait but unpopular opinion. I think most Lemmy users are highly paid middle class, tech workers who are out of touch with the genuine grievances and feelings of the working class, whose previous manufacturing jobs were outsourced and left with no alternative. They are then left to compete with just as poor immigrants for artificially-induced resource scarcity. And then Lemmings call them ignorant redneck hillbillies without listening to their lived experience. Sure, many former manufacturing blue collar workers could re-skill, but it is easier said than done, since most people find it hard to re-adjust and prefer to stick with their trade.
Now that there is huge lay off of tech workers the past year in preference to cheap immigrant labour, and cost-free AI, many Lemmy users are starting to realise and feel the experience of working class who had been left by globalisation.
I am increasingly becoming socialist. At some point we will all need UBI.
- Comment on Be careful with this information 3 weeks ago:
If The Onion is an actually serious journalist website, this will be their type of headline. They’ll fully embrace sensationalist headline without being clickbait.
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 3 weeks ago:
If a person could not handle being monogamous, and the other could not handle polyamory, they should find partners compatible with their desires instead of cheating on one another.
Consent, mate.
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 3 weeks ago:
It does not work for most people because they couldn’t handle the jealousy.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
VICTORIA NULAND!!
- Comment on Assumptions 3 weeks ago:
“Bear hug” is a wrestling move after all.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 3 weeks ago:
70 year old: But I am fast.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you have ADHD.
- Comment on Insulin 3 weeks ago:
There is plenty of propaganda on social media to exalt the billionaires and CEOs. Instagram is especially really bad at it. I don’t know why the algorithm suggest heavily to me about “entrepreneur” pages (maybe my investing platform sold my data), although some of these pages whitewash literal fraudulent and underhanded behaviours from celebrity CEOs and fraudsters as “another way to get rich”. I also think the posts and profiles were written by bots, because the language and syntax used sound almost identical from one another, in spite of these profiles supposedly being independent from one another.
- Comment on Parking police 3 weeks ago:
My guess is that you’re not in the US like I am, but I hear so many ridiculous stories and laws over there which are privacy-invasive, because it is not a secret that corporations and governments want data to surveil and manipulate its citizens, and then train AI.
- Comment on Parking police 3 weeks ago:
They’re not wrong? It’s an open secret in the business world that information is the new gold. M
If something is free, you’re the product.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 4 weeks ago:
K comrade.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 4 weeks ago:
You’re talking about CIA-orchestrated coups and without popular support. Almost all color revolutions tend to be grass roots movement, albeit have soft power influence from outside.
- Comment on It's always about dat math 4 weeks ago:
I almost forgot about dishwashers. I am renting and the landlords are too cheapskate to fix ours.