Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive

jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But I can’t pirate salt water aquarium fish and corals.

  yet

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  • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No fishing pole?

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    • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Landlocked state. Best I can do is pond, lake, and river fish, definitrly not corals. I would like to try bryozoans in my freshwater tank.

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• UnGlasierteGurke@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  i thought you wrote “self hosting ads” whuch would be an interesting choice

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  • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, imagine the situation of “I don’t want anyone else’s ads, I’ll host my own and look at them by myself”.

    Probably helped of the common misspelling of “ads” as “adds”.

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Piracy saves money

  Precisely. I don’t see torrenting wrong if you really can’t afford digital streaming or games. Netflix has made piracy less popular when it first came out, but with the proliferation of copy cat rival services, piracy became vogue again.

  I prefer not to torrent games unless the game is owned by huge asshole companies like EA or Ubisoft. These big companies could absorb financial losses from torrenting because there are always idiots who will pay for their bog standard games. Small devs should be supported instead (also, small time filmmakers should be supported by paying to see their movies as well).

  My friends think I am rich despite circumstances. But no, I just save money by torrenting. I use the money that I don’t buy essentials with, on learning new skills, socialising and developing hobbies. My rule of not buying new games until I clear a portion of my backlog is working on not going on impulse buying that my friends tend to do. A couple of my friends are pretty frivolous and complain when they don’t have savings. A lot of younger folks still think that the environment that allowed boomers to spend money and enjoy their youths, buy a house, get married and then raise a family with couple of kids still applies. Now, we have to sacrifice one over the other and this is what I have been telling people in my generation.

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  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I pay for games on steam because if it’s bad, I can get a refund.

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How does one pirate porcelain, a wheel, and oxblood glaze?

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  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    5 finger discount

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not very easy to slip either one of these into your pocket: Image

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      • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This is less of a ADHD episode and more of a business venture that requires a small business loan. I say buy it and expense it on your taxes as equipment.

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