A better question is how many more leopards need to eat faces before ANY Republicans grow either a brain or a spine.

I think it’s an astronomical number. Bigly.

I would never have guessed that WWIII would have started over Greenland.

Punk AF.

Would they release this thing already? I’m salivating.

I agree completely. And I’ve worked in tech for 20+ years.

I find myself doing more and more specifically to get away from using the internet. It has totally become a tracking service for corporations and marketing. It is frustrating, because it was paid for by the people to disseminate information. Yes, you can still get good information (like Wikipedia), but what are the tradeoffs now? Most of what I see are ads or clickbait or just outright AI slop. I’m so tired of the constant barrage of bullshit. Even ad blockers can only do so much.

So for me is isn’t about getting away from tech, per se, but it is about getting away from the internet. In practice this restricts a lot, though some things are fine (I don’t mind playing games, for example, even though I’m technically using the internet).

But definitely: I’ll play local music files or put on a record instead of streaming anything. I’ll read a book. I’ll play a (single player) game. But don’t make me go online.

And before you say it: yes, I also restrict my Lemmy usage.

Subscription services are a scam through and through. It is wild that so many have become complacent enough to pay over and over again for the same content.

I’m happy about the use of “renting” here, because that is what it is. And if you’ve rented it for long enough, you have paid considerably more than the (already inflated) market price to buy it – but still don’t own it.

Not even the tiniest of violins for this one. I hope these bootlickers live in fear for the rest of their lives.

They are a good example that simply being human does not necessarily give you humanity, and they should all be absolutely ashamed.

Black & White was genuinely good. But now it is old. At the time, I’d say it was worth its hype.

This is ironic. Just yesterday I was reading the reviews of this game on Steam, one of which said the game was abandoned and the promised Steam Workshop support had never materialized.

Where are all those fiscal conservatives I keep hearing about?

Why is MAGA OK with sending billions to other countries but not spending billions to fix shit in the US? How is sending money abroad putting “America First”?

Make it make sense.

BuT Why dIdNt you JuSt CoMpLy???

Because when you have a secret police force which covers their faces and answers to no law, complying can be just as dangerous as not complying. And shit like this is possible precisely because of the masks and secrecy. I have no way of knowing who is a criminal (in the carjacking sense) and who is a criminal (in the ICE bootlicker sense).

This this this. Show me a conservative that a) can understand that different people are affected by different things at different times, b) that people in government need to accept (a), and c) that they aren’t the main character, and I’ll show you Half Life 3.

They literally control all the government. And they still couldn’t govern.

If the roles were reversed, I can’t even imagine the right wing media backlash.

And here I’ve just been shutting the power off for years!

(That’s on me, I should have put a /s by my pun above)

I wouldn’t say like, I just don’t know how to quit it.

Most times I listen to records.

For digital music, I have a local collection. I copy chunks of it to my phone periodically for remote listening.

Making people pay over and over again for the same product is the greatest trick businesses ever pulled.

I’ll take cherrypicking for $500, Alex

Yeah, this needs to get regulated away right quick. But it won’t.

Remember when “reaping the rewards” required “taking the risk”?

Clearly he’s saying “Trump stop”, another crazy lefty /s

I agree with you that it’s slow – and yet, it is one of the very few games I actually finished. That’s highly unusual for me. And then I went back and played it again.

It’s a game designed to be sipped, not gulped.