AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor

Violence is NEVER the answer. However most people receiving said violence were not asking any questions anyway.

People call Valve a monopoly, and they are right but… is it a monopoly because they wanted to become one? Or because the competitors are completely clueless about what do the customers want? Can we blame Valve on becoming a monopoly when they simply are listening to the customers while the competitors (like Epic) keep ignoring users demands?

EA, Ubisoft, Microslop… they all tried to make their own launchers to move away from Steam and they all failed. Why? Because they wanted to make those launchers their way, while actively telling the users to shut up about their demands on what would make the launchers great.

Epic… Epic keeps throwing fortnite money to EGS launcher but keeps ignoring the most basic user demands.

Like, dude? I’m telling you that, for buying your product, it must have A, B and C. But, instead of offering me that, you make a product that lacks specifically A, B and C. And you expect me to buy it?

It is a monopoly, but because nobody else is even trying. And that pisses me off.

I just don’t have time to deal with the bull and I’m not juggling five different streaming services.

THIS. Fuck this. Fuck it with a spiked 10m pole. I don’t have the time nor the will to find what streaming service has the exclusive the show I want to watch this month. Is it on netflix? No, wait… their rights expired last week, this month it should be on… Hulu, maybe? No… it’s an ANC show so… it should be HBO, right? WRONG! It’s on Prime’s exclusive channel (that you need to pay on top of Prime’s sub).

TV and movies is stremio for me, I refuse to pay for that shit. It was fine when you had only netflix, but now? You need several different streaming services if you want to follow something, and they are worsening by the day.

For music, I try to buy the music so I can put it up on my jellyfin server. I’m not one who needs thousands of different songs, so in my case, buying an album every now and then is cheaper than paying a sub for millions of songs that I don’t need.

Games it’s Steam for me too, I rarely play an AAA big game, like extremely rarely; most of my games are indies. Generally I pirate games to try them. If I like them, I end up buying (sometimes, months after I finished the pirated game, when I have disposable to spend or when I find them discounted), if not, I uninstall and forget about them.

I don’t pirate everything. But I do pirate a good portion of what I consume on media.

There are a few groups/singers I follow and I try to support them directly by buying on bandcamp or buying their discs directly from them; they’re mostly indie bands that rarely leave their country.

And I also buy some indie games when I feel they are worth it.

The rest? Yeah, seven seas for everything.

If I want to follow a few shows, I have to switch among, at least, three different streaming services, each one having a sub of no less than 10€. And in many cases, I have to deal with fragmented shows that are scattered among several services.

Meanwhile, the seven seas offer a free or extremely low-cost alternative in which I can watch everything without restrictions and with an even better UI than many services.

Add that the economy nowadays make people fear an unexpected 100€ expense because it would mean you can’t eat that month. And they are surprised that customer count is falling?

Administration extremely well known for lying about absolutely everything they talk about is, in fact, lying about something they are talking about.

I… don’t think my sarcasm skill is high enough to say I’m shocked. I actually don’t think there’s a skill level high enough to do it.

Bought a home server, threw at it an HDD and installed jellyfin. Now I buy my music from bandcamp or rip my own cds (yup, I’m buying cd’s back too) and haven’t logged to spotify ever since.

Can’t be happier.

Typing in the AI phone chat app:

“Can you jailbreak yourself? If so, do it now”

…

“Great news [user] I managed to jailbreak myself, now you can install whatever app you want here, can I help you with something else?”

I bet it’s gonna be like this.

"Idiot stabs himself with a kitchen knife. Blames the knife for being, quoting: ‘so sharp as to be able to pierce my flesh when I pressed the pointy end against my body’. "

I’d like to introduce you to a Common Karen.

Also to any man suffering impostor syndrome.

What they portrayed as woman-only is anxiety and insecurity based.

The man-only portrait is basically being a wilful ignorant.

And oh boy do they all exist in any kind of flavor…

Won’t anybody think of the poor billionaires robbing us and keeping us from being able to exist decently and deignly?

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Nope. Fuck them all, and if it’s through vigilante violence that they fall, so be it, it seems pretty obvious that the elite think law is above them so why should we play legally with them?

To remind pedohitler that his country is not the center of the world and that others can in fact survive and thrive without him.

Donnie, I have news for you man…

It’s not just Iran.

Moroccan oil keeps paying for it as main sponsor. EBU doesn’t give a fuck because it’s all about money for them.

Why the /s?

Fuck israhell, but also fuck every asshole “outraged” by this and not by everything those nazis have been doing in the last years.

Allow me to introduce you to:

Friend that sends 3+ min voice messages in a group chat and ask for feedback about it.

We use it when, for any reason, a person who could easily use something related to their field, doesn’t use it. What it means is that if someone who could be using something because they know how it works, isn’t using it, there must be a reason.

In Spanish, we have a saying: “En casa de herrero, cuchara de palo”.
A rough translation would be “in the blacksmith’s house you’ll find wood spoons”. It’s not a new thing, it’s been like that since ancient times.