doodledup
@doodledup@lemmy.world
- Comment on Inflation? 2 months ago:
This is a phenomenon that’s literally thousands of years old. It’s just basic economics. If there was good competition, there wouldn’t be any price gauging. And that’s the regulator’s fault not the company’s.
- Comment on US wants to break up Google, Deepin 23, SteamOS for everyone: Linux & Open Source News 2 months ago:
Wtf is tilvids dot com?!
- Comment on Valve lifts NDA on Deadlock, streaming and talking about the game is now allowed. 2 months ago:
Valve doing their Valve thing.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
It’s beyond me how they can affors all of these free games and exclusive but not a single capable developer to make this platform beyond just the bare minimum.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
I gave Epic’s store a chance but even after all this time it’s still shit and very far from feature parity with Epic. There’s not even proper reviews. No big-picture equivalent. No good out-of-the-box Linux support. No Steam-Deck. The list is very very long. Until Epic starts delivering, the 30% cut Valve takes is more than justified.
- Comment on "This is Extremely Dangerous to our Democracy" 2 months ago:
- Comment on The REAL Problem with "Luxury Housing" 2 months ago:
A lot of people (especially on Reddit and Lemmy too) don’t understand even the basics of economics. They see “luxury” and immediately make their judgement. “The rich”, “up there”, and “elite” are probably the most used words in comments. Not everything is immediately a conspiracy. Most of it is just basic economics. Plain and simple.
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes 2 months ago:
There is accessibility settings for everything. Why not for this?
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
You’re conpletely oblivious to modern day society. It’s basic economics. It’s not difficult to understand that this idealized reality doesn’t exist, merely because every individual depends on it.
- Comment on Trash Icon 🗑 2 months ago:
Who tf designed 2000?!
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
You’ll be the one who runs the movie industry into the ground. It’s not going to be Disney. It’s going to be piracy.
If you don’t vote with your wallet and you don’t support good movies over bad movies, you’re helping nobody except yourself.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
So buying one ticket to Disney world means I get to go back whenever I want right?
This totally depends on the ToS of the ticket issuer. It’s his right to decid that for you because he’s providing the product not you. What is the point you’re trying to make?
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
No. Almost all industries nowadays rely on IP. Nobody is manufacturing in Europe or US anymore. The most lucrative business of scale rely on software, logistics and other IP.
Most people who do piracy don’t understand how their job also depends on IP in one way or the other. Their idealostic world view is incoherent. If you do privacy at least own up to it. You’re copying someone else’s work and there is no moral argument to do that in a non-socialist world.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
The mental gymnastics in this.
Movies are products. Movies are investments in future movies. Yesterdays movie pays the employees that produce todays movie.
Time is money and money is time. So if you invest your time you should also invest your money. If you don’t do that you actively contribute to either artists getting payed less, movies getting worse by being funded less, or streaming services deteriorating even more. You are hurting the people that obtain the movies legally. Basic economics.
Besides, you mention Disney streaming. There are countless other ways to legally enjoy a movie. I don’t understand why everyone here thinks streaming is the only way.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
You can find Blue-rays to buy online of pretty much every movie in existance. 99% of them have all the extras too like documentation and interviews.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
My 300+ discs collection is akready 10 years old. No disc has failed yet. Most modern Blue-ray discs have a lifespan of up to 150 years. You’re probably thinking of writable discs that have a lower lifespan.
A digital backup of my own discs that I’ve purchased is not piracy in many countries. It’s legal to do that for personal use.
- Comment on Mandalorian 2 months ago:
Let’s revolt. Let’s burn down every store in town.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
Enlighten me!
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
By 10 year old blue-ray collection is doing just fine.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
They are not the only place. There are thousands of ways to legally obtain the content you want to enjoy. Blue-ray is one of countless others.
Not paying anything is worse in any case. The content and services will get even worse over time if more people start pirating stuff. The only way to change that is to vote with your wallet. Not paying does not entitle you to have an opinion and complain.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
It’s not about belief. It’s just pure logic in argumentation. There is just no conclusion here.
It’s like robbing a store because you didn’t like its shelf layout.
All of the arguments I read here are justifications. Nobody is actually trying to make a point here. They just want to enjoy free content.
- Comment on The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices 2 months ago:
Better to have competition than relying on the same launcher for every app. Monopolies are convinient but actually really bad for you.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
These are all arguments against the corresponding service. I don’t hear an argument for piracy.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 2 months ago:
There is a ton of arguments against supporting these shitty corps milking their customers. However, there is no argument for piracy.
- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 2 months ago:
You keep repeating the same things that I’ve already invalidated.
- All ads are skippable and with the right player will skip automatically
- You can digitize your movie collection. No need to insert any disc if that’s what you prefer
- Blu-rays have much better video and sound quality. If you do find a Blue-ray rip you’ll quickly run out of storage unless you spend a thousand dollars on harddrives. Each Blue-ray rip takes between 50 and 100 GB of storage. No, don’t even start with shitty compression. I don’t want that.
- Some people want the Blue-ray menu. They are actually really nice sometimes. There are even movies with director commentary, recording functionality or other fun gimmicks. You don’t have to use it. But you have it as sold and intended.
- But all of the points above are irrelevant when you consider that pircary does not support the creators at all and ensures that companies make even shittier content and services. They need the money to produce the content so they will squeeze everyone else even more if they don’t get anything from you. Piracy makes everything worse.
- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 2 months ago:
Certainly not. I just insert the disc and it starts playing. How can it be easier than that? It’s also really hard to get the best possible quality of every movie and all the extras with piracy. It’s not very convenient.
Besides, you don’t support the artists in any way doing that. I want more movies to be produced that I like. The only way to incentivize that is with my wallet. Blue-rays is probably the best way to do it.
- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 2 months ago:
Up to 100MBit/s video. Audio bitrate is usually lossless and has a higher bitrate than the entire video + audio stream of most streaming services.
- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 2 months ago:
You’re talking about writable discs. Normal blue-ray discs have a much longer life expectancy than most other mediums including HDDs. Standards and manufacturing have improved too. Modern discs have a life expectancy for at least 50-150 years. I have a collection of over 300 discs. 100 of them are 10 years or older. None of them have failed on me. And I don’t have a temperature controlled room or anything like that.
- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 2 months ago:
You can always skip the movie trailers if you have the right player. I have 300+ blue-rays and not a single one has unskippable trailers. Besides, you can just rip the disc and remove the ads.