How do you do, fellow kids? You gettin’ indoctrinated on the world wide web? Radical!
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It’s still a pretty big exception since I play a lot of games every year and increasingly less AAA (actually, looking at my legit libraries and Faugus Launcher/pirate folder, it’s been roughly 85% indie the past few years. Jesus. That’s both perfectly fine with me and sad about the state of gaming corps), but my overall consumption rate hasn’t slowed.
idk about everyone else but that was the year 2001 when my family got cable internet. I’ve never paid for anything streaming, I’m against subscriptions more strongly than most people admittedly, so I actively avoid them and it changes my hardware buying habits too if there’s paywalled things like online play for example. Consoles are dead to me now. 360, PS4, then the Switch. Now they get none of my money, I bought used and piracy modded them.
idk about better service. I was never convinced by that idea. I was still going to video and game rental stores until they shut down to my dismay, I don’t really get why everyone decided streaming was better, the quality and selection sure fucking wasn’t good and now it’s all fractured cross a bazillion competitor streaming services with exclusive content. Still would go to a rental shop today. I kinda do, my local library. But they have less selection/carrying capacity than my favourite gigantic Video Headquarters shop did. RIP. I despise shitty streaming bitrates even when I’m pirating I opt for an optical disc rip over a rip from a streaming site whenever possible. With Stremio and a debrid service I can stream 4K HDR bluray rips for $5 a month. Pfffff.
Music I buy vinyl and Bandcamp is convenient. I buy more than I pirate. Was the reverse when I was younger.
Games I often buy from GOG first if they have what I’m looking for, then Steam but I buy from 3rd party key shops…the legit ones like Green Man Gaming and such. For awhile barely pirated new. Then CAD dropped and prices eben in USD went way up with bullshit addons and season passes. Now I pirate more again especially if it’s not multiplayer. I don’t pirate anything indie (not just games) tho, personal rule.
Your penis mites got it rough, dayum.
Pretty brutal life getting scalded, mushed, and drowned in lotion whatever.
There’s no appropriate compensation for creators of manga, and at the same time, all the publishers, they don’t receive income or revenue because of the piracy issues,” Ugaki said. “Then they cannot allocate enough budget to create the next works or next line of work, so this influences the entire ecosystem of this manga industry.
This frames it like pirates hurt their bottom line which isn’t logically sound given they just acknowledged no official English translation exists for the majority of manga.
That’s where Orange aims to make real change with its digital cross-publisher manga app emaqi, scaling official translations of never-before-available titles in a creator-friendly way.
I’m not installing any DRM data harvester ridden app or paying a subscription. I want a Bandcamp equivalent for digital manga and paper books.
Video overview: https://youtu.be/oKK0dgDIxKY
There’s many studies, so here’s two:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025EF007229
Article: https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-elon-musks-dying-satellites-could-hurt-the-ozone-layer
tl;dr: the massively increased rate of rocket launches and re-entry satellite burn-ups is creating a significant amount of pollution that is probably damaging the Ozone layer.
Well not to worry, all these internet swarm satellites might cause another one.
Such a handy channel for me as someone who doesn’t watch much anime. His quarterly recommendations mega videos usually align with my tastes.