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winterayars, to comicstrips in Think of who you're hurting before you consider piracy.

If it’s EA then “skimmed profits off the top of” is probably more accurate than “made”.

crackajack, to comicstrips in Think of who you're hurting before you consider piracy.

Never pirate from indie developers. But for giant companies, pirating is a drop in the bucket for their revenue.

cryostars,

Obligatory “but does piracy count as lost revenue?”

Anticorp,

Piracy probably generates more revenue than it destroys.

Octopus1348, to comicstrips in Think of who you're hurting before you consider piracy.

More like Nintendo

Blastasaurus, to comicstrips in Think of who you're hurting before you consider piracy.

I just spent the night on my first emulator playing F-Zero Gx. I’m so sorry children :(

HawlSera, to comicstrips in Think of who you're hurting before you consider piracy.

Is it really a victimless crime to go to archive.org and download yourself a copy of the never before released yet still fully completed Thrill Kill for PlayStation? Of course not, you need to think twice about the company that canceled the game and any bonuses the developers were promised, and didn’t even tell them about it, with the developers themselves having to learn about it from IGN.

magnetosphere, to comicstrips in Think of who you're hurting before you consider piracy.
@magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

I don’t pirate indie games, small-budget movies, or music from unknown bands. I hurt major corporations specifically.

bennieandthez,
@bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Indie games are better these days anyways. I just use AAA games as performance benchmarks lmao.

HiddenLayer5, to memes in Madness
@HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml avatar

Abolish tipping. Living wages for all, no exceptions.

merc, to risa in Undercover Boss: The Next Generation

This makes me wish even more for a Star Trek spinoff about the lowest-ranked people on a starship.

Even aside from its cartoonish style and stories, the characters in Lower Decks are too high ranking and too involved. They’re ensigns, and they often interact with the captain. They’re almost never in the dark about what’s happening, and often they’re instigating things.

What I want to see are the non-commissioned people, like Chief O’Brien in his TNG days. It would be really interesting to see things from the PoV of a character who had no say in what was happening, who didn’t really know what was happening except in rumours, and the only time they heard from the top-ranking officers was in ship-wide announcements and so-on.

I’d especially like to see a security team of literal red-shirts beaming down to a hostile planet. Not as part of a standard away team involving the highest ranking officers on the ship. I want a squad of NCOs who are expendable to go down to secure a site so that it’s safe enough that the first officer and doctor can beam down. So many of Star Trek’s episodes are about politics, espionage, secret deals, etc. I’d love to see things from the PoV of a red-shirt security NCO who isn’t cleared to know any of that, but is just told to beam down and secure the landing zone / beam-in zone. Or, better yet, is part of a team that’s sent out in a shuttlecraft weeks ahead, and has to set up a stealthy observation post and camp out, waiting for the Enterprise to arrive. I want NCOs in dirty work gear, not clean uniforms, camping out on a lonely planet not because they’re stranded, just because they have orders to set up the site and wait for the ship.

aeronmelon, to risa in If only they had the voice of John de Lancie

“Your ‘jams’ have come to an end, mon Capitan.”

hydration9806, to memes in Madness

Crazy idea: pay them both more so the public doesn’t have to

reverendsteveii,

The public is going to pay them regardless. The money for wages has to come from what customer’s spend. Being said, I agree with you wholeheartedly because tipping is a leverage point that enables a lot of racism, sexism and sexual harassment.

casmael, to comicstrips in It don't matter if you're green or white

Didn’t it turn out MJ wasn’t actually a sex pest 🤔 ?

MossyFeathers,

Yeah. The kids came out later and talked about how their parents pressured them into making shit up. Iirc they said he was a weird guy, but he never touched them inappropriately. It was too late at that point though. People had already made up their minds and the response was generally, “well, but I’m sure he has. Just 'cause they weren’t molested doesn’t mean he didn’t molest other kids. He seems like a kid molester.”

DharmaCurious,
@DharmaCurious@startrek.website avatar

In the court of public vibe check he was guilty regardless of what actually happened. Poor dude’s life was tragic. I’m not normally one to feel a whole lot of sympathy for the mega rich, but MJ was a good one.

DharmaCurious, to risa in Tensions are escalating
@DharmaCurious@startrek.website avatar

I want to live in this neighborhood so badly. If anyone can get me into a rental in that neighborhood, I will fly the flag of Bajor!

The_Picard_Maneuver,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

You may be in a neighborhood like that already! You just need to be the first to fly the flag.

DharmaCurious,
@DharmaCurious@startrek.website avatar

My nearest neighbor is a km/half a mile away, and she has no interest in star trek. The only flag she flies has MAGA on it :(

WarmSoda, to risa in Undercover Boss: The Next Generation

When he uses the employee bathroom and over hears someone in the stall say “make it so” and then a loud plop

10_0, to memes in The majesty of nature

Least obv ad

Andrew15_5, to memes in The majesty of nature
@Andrew15_5@mander.xyz avatar

Eating from the can is the worst. Eating with your fingers isn’t great too. I use chopsticks and a bowl/container — it’s great.

WhyIDie,

I remember seeing that some asian countries included plastic finger condoms with their chip bags. But that increased 0.0001 cents of added manufacturing cost per bag/can is too much for the rest of the world, best they can do is add more air in them.

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