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- Comment on Bloodborne is now on PC natively with online features like massages, bloodstains and co-op 2 days ago:
The battle between those creating AI and it being ethically immoral to support the companies building it by exploiting the public vs using the immoral tool to provide greater access to the public in retaliation to the big evil corporation trying to exploit and extract wealth from the public.
Me:🍿
- Comment on If the legalization of drugs reduces crime, why can't the same be said about the legalization of guns? 1 week ago:
Fully legalizing hard drugs comes with its own minefield, too. Cigarettes are powerfully addictive, and companies have exploited their legal status to make them ubiquitous. They intentionally market them to children and use product placement to ensure that smoking is seen as “cool”. I can only imagine how things would go if companies like that were in the methamphetamine business.
And where are legalized cigarettes now? And this isn’t happening with marijuana with all the “it’s not bad, you can’t OD from it, it’s not addictive” talking points? Take it from someone who it adversely affects and who knows people who have been addicted. It can ruin your life and the withdrawals are a whole different ballgame as they’re more mental than physical and can last for months or even years.
One of the biggest reasons for the decline in ciggarette use, and what is often paired with calls for legalization, is education and treatment. Using taxes from the legalized product, taxed similarly, to invest in education and treatment as well as regulating production so that dosages are consistent and it avoids diluted product that can be cut with other, more dangerous dosed drugs like fentanyl. In so doing, creating a safer market and driving people towards safer practices and understanding, it reduces drug related crimes as a black market no longer needs to exist.
You have the same answer here
I definitely believe that removing the prohibition on drugs is the first place to start if we want to improve the problem. I just also know how fundamentally powerful hard drugs can be, and without an accessible off ramp for addiction as well as available materials to stay safe while you’re addicted, the life problems that come with drug abuse are likely to continue in one form or another.
Drug addiction is almost always a symptom of something else. People take the shortcut of placing all the problems caused by the drug, but if it weren’t one, it would be another. Systemic abuse, undiagnosed mental illness, etc. The off ramp needs to be education and assistance programs, treating people with empathy, using the funding from decriminalization (and the funds clawed back from the wasted efforts on “the war on drugs.”)
But, we live under capitalism. Better to drip feed expensive medications, expensive rehab, and criminalize drug use so that for-profit prisons can have a steady supply of slave labor. Lack of education and support also ties well to reoffense. The point of prisons we weretold is reformation and the indivudual would return to society. Naaahh, private prisons need that slave labor, let’s criminalize homelessness as we push to replace labor with AI!
- Comment on Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees? 1 week ago:
Slavery. That’s the point. You are simply fuel for the exploitation machine. Homelessness is criminalized, so you’ll be put into a for profit prison and forced into manual labor.
Meanwhile, billionaires escape to their tropical island bunkers and ride out the climate collapse in the ultimate “fuck you, got mine’.”
- Eichmann could do nothing but repeat orders. He had nothing but theory and could not speak outside of it because he did no thinking. MAGA and Fox News anyone?www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Careful programmers 2 weeks ago:
Baba is you
- Comment on Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026 4 weeks ago:
Cattle
- Comment on The irony of arguing with someone who read about it in a history book vs. you having lived it 4 weeks ago:
I bet a lot of white people in the south remember segregation as a good thing. They didn’t have to see how “dirty” their communities are.
God, I cringe just typing that, it’s disgusting.
- Comment on Did you know that Steve Bannon was CEO of a WoW gold farming and RMT company? Heard it from this video which was pretty good when comparing two very different people responding to the same world. 4 weeks ago:
I mean, certainlu says something that someone heavily associated with Epstein made a game about sneaking around and force feeding people your meat…
- Comment on Did you know that Steve Bannon was CEO of a WoW gold farming and RMT company? Heard it from this video which was pretty good when comparing two very different people responding to the same world. 5 weeks ago:
I did see that, the creator of /pol/ met with him the day before it was created. And seems like they did quite a bit to foment Gamergate.
- Did you know that Steve Bannon was CEO of a WoW gold farming and RMT company? Heard it from this video which was pretty good when comparing two very different people responding to the same world.www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on SBA #237 Sins and Virtues 5 weeks ago:
What if one’s own pursuits is to lift others? To light the eay for others so that they do not make the same mistakes stumbling in the darkness. Would their pursuits not then be fulfilled?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Too bad Epstein isn’t here to control the narrative with Bannon and make a bunch of ostracized, angry gamers get angry at games journalists and go vote for Trump again ~~
Still wild to me that that was actually a thing. I only recently learned Steve Bannon was the CEO of a WoW gold farming company.
(This video was a decent watch imo www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpHHSFF_CBY )
- Comment on Looks like Cyberleek is selling the full ISO. Any of y'all willing to bite the bullet? 1 month ago:
Feel free to report it if you think so. I’m not really repeatedly asking for anything imo, but if it gets taken down, so be it. I posted about stuff in the news and was curious if anyone would be investigating. If not, that’s cool.
- Comment on Looks like Cyberleek is selling the full ISO. Any of y'all willing to bite the bullet? 1 month ago:
Because its been posted by all the gaming news articles already?
Regardless, I imagine those who are investigating Cyberleek and trying to help Rockstar find him will hop onto this shortly.
- Comment on Looks like Cyberleek is selling the full ISO. Any of y'all willing to bite the bullet? 1 month ago:
I literally say beware and protect yourselves. It’s highly likely it is a scam. There are people that make content off breaking these scams.
Is it shitty to ask an electrician to do electrical work for you?
The real scam is paying $100 for a digital rental. Or worse yet, a pre-order of a digital rental which can’t run out of inventory, but 🤷♂️
- Comment on Looks like Cyberleek is selling the full ISO. Any of y'all willing to bite the bullet? 1 month ago:
Unless it was just dropped 🤷♂️ time will tell. Just curious if anyone, especially those who like to browse TOR deep links and enjoy finding out how bad some malware is by usinv isolated VMs or hardware, would be interested in testing it considering this is “the one” that’s been causing Rockstar and Take2 trouble this last month.
- Comment on Looks like Cyberleek is selling the full ISO. Any of y'all willing to bite the bullet? 1 month ago:
Because I know there are people much more technically savvy than I am that could more properly test it than myself, isolating a VM, verifying the download link should one exist, etc.
And given the amount of essentially verified leaks given the litigative presence from Rockstar and Take2, there’s more credibility than a random forum post somewhere.
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- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 1 month ago:
Education is the best way
Exactly why Reagan defunded higher education and every republican administration has dismantled public education.
“Our biggest fear is an educated proletariat.” Not my words, but those of the Reagan administration.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 month ago:
“Slowly”
Let’s get something straight. The people at the top are all hired by the CEO and want money. They tell the CEO what a special smart boy he is, the biggest dickus around.
This has been the way of things for decades.
CEOs and higher ups give themselves their own “yes man” psychosis and it flows down the higher up you go.
AI is just socializing the yes man sycophancy psychosis our “corporate leaders” have been experiencing by isolating themselves from society and only surrounding themselves with an echo chamber of paid sycophants.
- Comment on mildly infuriating 1 month ago:
- Boobs
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- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 1 month ago:
The only vegetable the FDA has yet to recall.
- Comment on Assmold fans being moldy. 1 month ago:
Asmeinkampf*
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- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 1 month ago:
We’re saying the same things, just I’m saying keep physical as an option too.
- Comment on Pie in the face. 1 month ago:
What happened to the dude who shot syringes of his piss at Ilhan Omar?
Aka a literal biological attack?
- Comment on Pie in the face. 1 month ago:
Creampie your fascist billionaires and politicians.
…wait a moment…
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 month ago:
Don’t forget about the tariffs that we paid for.
The ones that were ruled unconstitutional.
The ones that the companies, who made us pay more to cover the tariffs, got and kept the refunds.
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 1 month ago:
Right… the lack of making informed consumer decisions is the cause of the rise of fascism. Got it.
Are you saying that single issue voters are well informed? Lol. It’s the same mentality. If people informed themselves a little more they’d realize immigrants, trans folk, etc aren’t the problem. But it’s convenient to be told what to think by others.
And I mean physical games will just stop being made, so good luck keeping ownership of those.
Exactly what SKG and many others are/should be doing is pushing legislators for ownership and consumer rights.
I think the solution is to pirate, and start stockpiling memory.
Stockpile physical media too and ensure it’s preserved. And pivot your purchases to open hardware platforms (like PC) and platforms that better respect ownership (like GoG) to support them. Contribute to emulation and the cracking of games for preservation. It’s a yes, and situation.
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 1 month ago:
Well first of all I mostly game on steam, pc and steamdeck. And I don’t even know how that would work with discs.
Disc drives. Usb or otherwise. If you’ve ever activated a game on steam using a keycode, steam supported activating cd keys as well. There would be a CD keycode provided along with the disc. This is similar to BluRay movies that would come with both a disc and a digital download available.
As for the rest, I don’t think you answered my question. I asked for pros and cons and I only see pros with a “I understand the cons” at the end without listing them.
But I do have a switch 2. Switched over from the switch 1, where I could just move my library over.
This one is heavily dependent on the corporation. Because switch 1 and 2 are essentially the same architecture, it’s similar to using your PS5 library on the PS5 Pro. There is no guarantee you will be able to do so in the next generation given digital keys. You actually allude to it yourself.
I even gave away my wiiu to my nephew with mostly digital games and he could just play them.
The Wii online game stores no longer exist similar to the DS game stores. Titles without physical releases simply no longer exist in most of these cases. And for your nephew to play these titles he has to use your hardware with your account. A digital only future with DRM protection would remove access in several ways, via an IP address change prompting a login, license changes or store server closures that would remove DRM auth keys when a title is launched, etc.
But yes, overall, you are correct, the rest of the reasons you list are isolation (not wanting to go to a store or discuss with others what games exist, instead using a storefront algorithm) or are out of laziness/impatience (waiting for a delivery, getting up off the couch, pressing a button.)
I doubt I would be able to convince you, so I will not try, but thank you for explaining. It helps the rest of us to understand the opinions of those who seek convenience over rights and freedom. You understood that you would be downvoted and that is because to us, your apathy and laziness is the same reason we also have a resurgence of fascism.
It’s a lack of empathy and selfishness focused purely on dopamine activation. We see someone empty of life and fulfilment as you’re not enjoying, reflecting, or introspecting on life or the gaming medium, you’re purely focused on self pleasure. That’s what we see and it’s both pity we feel and frustration as these actions and mentalities directly harm the rest of us, be it artists whose works are lost or individuals directly who lose access to art they purchased.
I’m reminded of a quote from Benjamin Franklin.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Liberty would be yours and my rights to ownership, the freedom to experience the medium and share it with others. And temporary safety is convenience.
