Frozyre @ Frozyre @kbin.melroy.org

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I might sound a little in the minority of this.

Everyone should sit down and ask themselves - 'Do I Really Need This?'

I can only speak on my behalf. I have over, roughly estimating, 1,500 games both purchased and pirated. Do I really need a subscription such as GamePass right now when I have so much already? No, I really don't.

I've pirated thousands of songs over the years, do I really need Spotify's subscription? No, I do not and I'm glad that I don't.

So on and so forth. I decide what I need or want based on the current lifestyle and quality of life in my current state. I do not need over 40 subscriptions sapping me every month and it's only gotten easier because I combat FOMO, I evaluate what else is out there that serves as an alternative that isn't subscription based.

These days when I look at people paying a subscription model for Microsoft Office, I shake my head and have that kind of chuckle that makes you feel sorry over someone doing that. Because really, I still use older versions of Microsoft Office and LibreOffice to handle whatever modern features that there is to handle. Not a lot has really changed to warrant subscribing to such a model.

A lot of subscription models can be pressy to people who aren't knowledgeable unless they take advantage of what's out there.

_Keeping an eye on Harris' stance on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Sanders made sure to bring that up, saying, “I think, in all fairness to the vice president, she’s been the candidate for all of one month. And it’s been a hell of a month. You have to organize the convention, select a vice presidential campaign, get out on the campaign trail. So, they are still working through their policies.”

At least we have a candidate actively working on their polices currently as they're campaigning.

As opposed to listening to an aging, diaper-shitting, run-a-mouth opponent going on golfing tours and probably bitching about how deer piss would purify reservoirs or something he had a two second thought of before forgetting.

Because just saying X is dumb and will always be dumb. Twitter was so popular at one point, it ingrained itself to where everyone said 'I'm tweeting on twitter'.

Do you see anyone but shills say "I'm X'ing on X?" No, because it's dumb as fuck to be saying that.

And the only way to avoid them at all is to de-centralize and make things invite-only.

Anime - People don't like you when you're into the popular ones.

Video Games - It's everywhere here. If you're into AAA games, you'll never hear the end of it. If you're into Indie games, then you have to be into games like Hollow Knight, Undertale .etc or you just don't know indie.

Metal Music - Fucking hell, you're always going to be snubbed and looked down upon because you're not into Death or Black Metal. Doesn't matter if you're into Iron Maiden or X Nu Metal band here, but you're just not metal until you listen to anything Black/Death. Maybe I don't want to listen to Cookie Monster and Friends.

"The feature will also be off by default, whereas the original plan was to turn it on by default and make users go into Settings to turn it off."

So it can be turned on again whenever another update comes.

Let's see...

The launcher itself ran poorly compared to Steam's. I've had instances of it freezing performance down just downloading 1 game through Epic's launcher.

You've locked down games behind multi-year exclusives, pissing off many people along the way that we're now just seeing their Steam releases.

You've spent years giving free games away, promising not to do anymore, going back to doing it again.

The launcher and storefront are incredibly barebones compared to Steam's. In fact, any launcher not Steam, has incredibly minimal to go with other than just running games through them.

I feel this with Terraria. Yeah the updates are free and they try many ways to freshen the game up. But, I'm almost begging for the game to land itself in a comfortable level of finishing itself and just polish it off. It is a radically different game when I try it than when I first did back in 2015.

I resonate the same way with Anime fans. I used to have seen many people identify themselves back in the 2000s as 'Otakus' and some even wearing the shirts to say so. It got off-putting for a good long while. There are even fans who uncomfortably reveal their favorite characters that all look suggestively underaged or too dolled up which makes associating with them in casual conversation a problem because of the mental gymnastics they'll go through defending them.

The anime fandom has a poor track record of just keeping these weirdos out which doesn't make it good to indulge on the hobby.

Everyone's collections is suddenly worth way more because of the devious amounts of pumping and dumping by heritage auctions and people operating on a pawn broker mindset. That's who ruined an honest hobby.

I wanted my collection so that I can have things to turn to and play, but have physical copies of. There were very few times I got games so I could flip them, but only if it meant more money to have on the bargaining table to get what I truly wanted. I've gotten a copy of Pokemon Stadium 2 sealed in 2010. I tried selling it for $95, but not sure what the final price of it really went for. Might've been a tad lower.

I mean, that's just how you did business if it means getting what you want. These days, everyone is constantly flipping and skyrocketing values to unrealistic levels "for fun" or profit than just caring about what they've got at all.

I didn't know making a personal collection constituted as being an 'investor'. Learn something new everyday. /s

I mean it's in the word - personal. When you're making personal collections, you aren't in it for the money or what ways you can flip what you get for an investment.

Making huge leaps of assumption, you are. Christ.

I can see why even Reddit wouldn't want this posted over there.

So, okay, you've made up a scenario but it has nothing to do with the question you're asking. Why couldn't you have just asked the question and not beat around the bush before doing so?

I was very concerned when it was reported a few months ago that microplastics was discovered even in bloodstreams. That shit just makes me shiver to think about what that could happen to someone overtime.

Webcams should not have mics built into them, they all suck anyways.

Last Podcast on the Left - Three guys that covered true crime, the morbid, the crazy and everything in between while cracking dark humor over it all. I used to listen to this heavily from 2017 through 2021. I believe before I just stopped listening. They lost one of their longtime hosts recently to controversy a while back and I haven't been interested in picking it back up.

The Prancing Pony Podcast - This is an acquired taste because it appeals to fans of Middle-Earth and everything Tolkien. Two hosts offer insight and depth reading of the legendarium, starting from Silmarillion through Hobbit and up to the Lord of the Rings. I think they're close to wrapping up Return of the King soon. Very informational podcast to get into if you're a fan of the lore.

Sequelisers - A group of hosts take bad unnecessary sequels to beloved films and attempt to fix them, while offering insight as to why the sequel in question was a bad idea in the first place.

CUPodcast - Again, another acquired taste because this only has a small following and it involves video games. It's hosted by Pat Contri who is known as PatTheNESPunk on YouTube along with co-host Ian. They basically cover the gossip and general news rounds with gaming.

Depression has gotten massively common because people tend to self-diagnose themselves. They self-diagnose themselves because therapy costs are high.

I've gone through therapy to say that I absolutely do have it. But then again, I knew for certain that I already had it prior to seeing at least two therapists. Because I've had a shitty childhood, I've gotten bullied an awful lot through childhood, I had unsupporting and unloving parents. A lot of my ambitions and dreams weren't realized because I didn't have the necessary tools to go and achieve them. My school career was so embarrassing that I elected not to go to college because I had nothing to show for it.

And while I can say that I've had decent friends and some good relationships. I keep finding myself fighting with whether or not anyone actually cares of me and simply just isn't tolerating me so they can take advantage of my generosity.

So I have plenty to be depressed about.

No. I did my time for the many years I've endured when adblockers weren't really much of a thing. So, that meant that I've put up with ads until 2006 which meant AdBlock Plus first debuted.

Ads are typically trash, they're in your face, they're invasive, they're prone to have malware in them and it's just marketing pollution that adds no value except to figure out ways, mostly in obnoxious fashion, to get you to spend money.

Worry about the future of your stupid failure of a company, not your stupid feelings. Think of the feelings you've hurt over your stupid incompetence.