adriaan @ adriaan @sh.itjust.works

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You aren't paying creators, you are paying executives and middlemen.

Happily, not really. I pay for YouTube Premium, but I don't like the monopoly they have and disagree with a lot of their decisions. I'd rather have a different economic system.

But yeah, I'd be willing to pay for the subscription in that case, even if I end up pirating most everything to get a better service.

Does it? Haven't seen that and am in the European Union

That would be cool, but there is no good way to donate directly to the people contributing to the media you consume.

Like I said, subscriptions barely matter for the artists on those projects. Actors and animators generally get no royalties from streaming.

I wish there was a way to support the production, actors, writers, vfx artists, animators, etc. of good shows adequately while getting the piracy experience. This system really just fucking sucks. Even if you pay exorbitant amounts to streaming services, the people that made the art get jack shit.

It's not really an indie game is it? large team, big money, subsidiary of a big publisher

Things stored digitally are sadly anything but everlasting, a lot is lost to time already

What makes you think vigilantilism is a problem with the extreme left?

Just as an example off the top of my head, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery was done by right-wing looneys and defended by the far-right as morally good vigilantilism, leading to the repeal of Georgia's citizens arrest laws (i.e., their laws for legal vigilantilism).

Why change the way you read a clock? year/month/day hour:minute:second

You would never read a clock as minute:second:hour, which is analagous to how Americans phrase dates.

Fried rice is not a cheat meal and a lot of people in the world eat it daily.

Not great for voice actors and not great for an artistic medium tbh

That's just like, their opinion man

Inflexibility is more a stereotype of Americans in general than of American soldiers, also these stereotypes are from quite a while ago so they have shifted

What about loot boxes in your games lol, are you seriously concerned about losing those?

Not aligning with the United States does not socialism nor anti-imperialism make

In the case of GDPR it is not just for simplicity. It's because companies that operate in the EU need to provide those protections to all EU citizens, even those across the pond. You cannot check if someone is an EU citizen so if you operate in the EU you effectively need to treat everyone like an EU citizen.

Just a small note, universal healthcare isn't an EU thing and not really adopted properly across the EU's constituent countries

The good news is that GDPR protects you somewhat regardless of where you're from and who you are. If a company fucks with the privacy of an EU citizen living in the USA they are still on the hook, so companies generally adopt the measures (e.g. the ability to request and delete all your data) globally. You can even just get a VPN and set it to somewhere in the EU.

Accepting cookies is not a GDPR regulation. It's the cookie law, which is a lot older than GDPR.