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The_Picard_Maneuver, in ♪...𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖒 𝖓𝖚𝖒 𝖎𝖓𝖚𝖒 𝖎𝖓𝖚𝖒𝖒𝖚𝖒 𝖒𝖚𝖓 ♫ (Belzebubs by JP Ahonen)
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Goth parents should be more common. Have more Addams Families around.

balderdash9, in Following instructions like a pro
winterayars, 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, 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.

s_v, in WFH FTW!

As long as he pushes out that report on time I don’t see anything wrong here, moving on.

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

More like Nintendo

Blastasaurus, 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, 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, in Think of who you're hurting before you consider piracy.
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I don’t pirate indie games, small-budget movies, or music from unknown bands. I hurt major corporations specifically.

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

dukk, in I guarantee if they could they would

Actually, they could probably collect a pretty substantial amount of data on you from just analyzing your garbage.

Rin,

yeah, what you buy, how many people live in your household, your gender identity, if you’re pregnant, etc…

etuomaala, in Capitalism

consumerism != capitalism

Capitalism is the allowing of control over companies to be bought and sold without the consent of their workers.

Consumerism is using cheap marketing tactics to sell cheap garbage to people who don’t know any better, and is mostly the result of not requiring companies to pay for the waste they create.

Either of these could easily exist without the other.

Stop defining everything you don’t like about the economy as capitalism.

PatFussy, in Capitalism

This is the main problem I have with the people who call for socialism. If you boil it down to what they really want, it usually gets down to “i want free stuff”. They dont want to socialize means of production… most of the time they dont even know what that even means. People conflate social programs with socialism when thats just not the case.

If you truly hate capitalism so much, you will be willing to reduce your paycheck, willing to purchase less, willing to donate your social wealth for the common good.

joyjoy, in I guarantee if they could they would

Remember that incognito only protects your privacy from people you share your computer with. Your ISP, Google, that shady website, and all the third party cookies know you visited that shady site.

casmael, 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,
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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.

ininewcrow, in Tolerating intolerance
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No one ever gets the point until people start getting beaten, threatened, wounded, maimed or killed. They’ll keep arguing the details until there is an authoritarian government telling you what you can or can’t do or say.

Then everyone stands around wondering how it all happened.

Most regular people I know just want to live life and not really bother with anyone else in a negative way … in fact most people I’ve ever known would do something good for the other person if it meant it would help. Most people are just good and have a very good nature.

It’s the psychotic few billionaires and millionaires out there that want a world with authoritarian fascist government in power because it means those wealthy few get to keep all their money and if they do get their way, they can exponentially grow the wealth they already have. It’s all about money and power.

It’s all about a handful of morons who aren’t aware of their finite life that believe they can become temporary rulers of the world.

match,
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Some number of people are getting maimed, wounded, or killed. Do people have a threshold number at which point they decide it’s too much?

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