Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles

• bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, can you survive 1 month without buying anything online?

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Individual purchases, sure, but I’ll just be delaying them for a months so that’s not really hurting them. The bigger issue is canceling dozens of subscriptions for a month (and then having to re-subscribe to everything). That sounds like a hassle.

    And even switching to cash in stores sounds very annoying. I’d have to use a cashier checkout, which means standing in line and then you have to fumble around with cash and wait for change …

    … nope. I can’t do it.

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    • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And that is why credit card companies get to rip off stores on every transaction; which makes them pools of money.

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just don’t use any websites/apps to buy/pay for things unless absolutely necessary.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But what about all my patreon subscriptions? There is people relying on me!

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    • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not much could be done if we did pressure them like that. Sacrifices sometimes need to be made to keep the elite in line.

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• IzzyJ@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not a tech bro saying this, never used it before myself, but crypto seems like a sensible solution to that. Which is good cuz that means they can actually operate as currencies instead of investments

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  • seralth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Crypto is a non viable alterative to standard currency

    Your also beholden to traditional payment processors to actually get real actual useable money in and out of the system

    Crypto is a stock. Not a currency.

    It would be like trying to buy a game with shares in apple. No company that isn’t trying to scam people is stupid enough to touch crypto. It’s a unstable asset with no backing.

    That makes it ENTIRELY unusable as a form of debt for the purpose of exchange.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Most legit websites don’t take crypto, though.

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