Technology

100% still have to keep your seed ratio up. It works out for me, though, because I use it for my home media server, so it's mostly files I'm holding on to anyway.

"People acting in their own financial interests frustrates money-hungry company"

FTFY

Funny way of saying "half of Gen Z are not falling for the typical consumer spend spend spend trap". And as a millennial I say good for them. About time large chunks of people see the consumption driven economy game for what it is.

Things get too expensive and people who don't have the extra cash will find a way to spend less, or not at all. Remember this, all of you shareholders, if you price the customers out of buying your product then you've only screwed yourselves and your greed is to blame. What is wrong with a standard, healthy 10% profit?

Won't, or can't afford to?

Turns out saddling a generation with debt, and then telling them the AI is gonna take all the jobs doesn't do a lot for moral, or our finances.

Nevermind that there's a middle East forever war 2.0 going on that's jacking up the cost of everything right now.

I'm Gen-X, but I don't play games at all, and I pirate everything I watch (which isn't much)

When I hear about people buying a game, and then having to pay for some subscription, or to fully utilise the features, I can totally understand people refusing to buy into the bullshit

Good. Cancel your streaming services. All of them. Just pirate shit.

They have no money, and they're going to have to live with the result of choices made long ago by wealthy people who are dead now.

I wouldn't be doing a damn thing if I was them, except maybe riot.

The second to last time i bought DLC at launch was the assassins creed game in colonial america, which was a waste of money. Then Starfield came out and you could play it a weekend early if you bought DLC, another scam. It is so much more fun to buy an indy game in alpha and get an update every few months from someone isnt a whore for share holders.

I cannot upvote a paywalled source

yes, blurring the article if you don't disable ad blocking is a paywall

Millenial here, I have zero subscriptions, the only thing close to that is that I manually pay for a gift card for Geoguessr once a year.

I do it this way so I don't forget the cost of the service and should I come onto bad times, it is not something that will automatically renew and keep charging.

I am considering getting a lifetime subscription to Nebula, it is very expensive, but just a single payment that can be budgeted for, and once paid I'll keep access even through bad times.

So you're saying people without money don't act like they have disposable income? Fucking science!

Pfft. I'm in my 40s with an established engineering career and a small home that I've owned for 18 years now.

I am also not paying for any streaming services I can avoid, not buying many games, sailing the high seas, and our cars are like 13/14 years old.

Because shit is crazy, especially being in the US. I am keeping my world small and focusing on my family and my community.

I rotate them every 3 months or so. By that time I've pretty much exhausted any interesting content they have anyway.

Is this because they don’t know how to torrent? Or did the “you wouldn’t download a car” ads get into the water supply?

Looks like my gen X ass is just an gen Z in disguise…

Am I supposed to be mad about this? The only jobs available to most of them basically constitute slavery.

Hell I'm a millennial, and I bounce around music streaming services all the time. They all offer more or less the same thing, and overcharge like hell for it. Spotify will send me a trial for like $5 for 3 months or something, I'll sign up and set a reminder to cancel in 3 months, Amazon music will send me something similar, I'll do that, YouTube premium will send me an offer and I'll go there. Worst case I'll have to deal with shitty ads for a while in between offers, but I'd say 10/12 months a year I've got some kind of premium service going for a fraction of the advertised cost. I know that their goal is to get me hooked and paying monthly for their shit, but I'm on top of it enough to not ever let them. Fuck the shareholders. I'm looking out for me.

Arrrr matey

They should learn how to sail the high seas

People are still buying full price games?

!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

If media companies want a consistent user base, media companies can politically lobby for their users to receive wages high enough to include disposable income. If media companies won't go to bat for their subscribers, why should their subscribers give them anything more than short shrift? (there's your phrase for the day)

Millennial here.

I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.

Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.

Netflix' catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.

I wasn't really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I'd listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).

I used to renew and binge for a single show.

Now I've got effectively 0 services. I'm subscribed to like 8 patreons. But I'm just straight downloading what I feel like. I dgaf.

Surprised it’s not 100% the high seas like myself.

Guys, learn to pirate. If you stick to media and familiarize yourself with filetypes (also enable file extensions, windows users. Chaps my ass that they're hidden by default) then you'll be fine. Nicotine+ for music, qbittorrent+jackett for movies/tv, or the *arr stack if you're fancy, or Usenet if you're paying for it.

Edit: Also use a VPN. I know "but that's a thing to pay for," my dude you should be using one anyway. I recommend Mullvad, maybe Proton.

Proud subscriber of dropout tv and they 100% deserve it. Everything else I mooch off someone else lol. But tbh the majority of stuff I watch are on dropout or Apple TV tbh.

tf you expected we're all broke. you're lucky some of us haven't heard of piracy yet (somehow)

I am honestly surprised, paid video on demand even survived the post-Netflix fragmentation. YouTube is free. uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock make it usable. Illegal streaming sites exist and are trivial to use without any risk.

Why even consider paid video on demand services?