lazyViking
@lazyViking@lemmy.world
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of fancy words to say nothing
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 3 weeks ago:
You should seek help if reading things online is affecting your mental health
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 3 weeks ago:
Not everyone is as weak willed as you
- Comment on Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages 4 weeks ago:
Yes, because nothing new is ever reduced in price and improved upon after research phase is finished
- Comment on The Witcher III is currently on sale for 3€ until 25th May 1 month ago:
Il not sure you understood my question? Maybe you can explain why you think o e mishap is deserving of shunning?
- Comment on The Witcher III is currently on sale for 3€ until 25th May 1 month ago:
Explain?
- Comment on Eric Barone, the guy who can't stop updating Stardew Valley, says the words "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2" 1 month ago:
Yes, isn’t that what they are saying?
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 2 months ago:
Touché
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 2 months ago:
A preemptive warning of satire kinda breaks the entire thing and makes it fairly lame
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 2 months ago:
That’s literally how your post reads. Maybe you should save up for English classes.
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 2 months ago:
Yes, that is the definition of a factoid
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 2 months ago:
In absolutely no scenario does the gorilla not just obliterate the koala bear. I don’t understand how you think they might even be a little matched in strength?
- Comment on The Last of Us Complete hits PS5 today, physical Collector’s Edition coming July 2 months ago:
Go back to reddit
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 2 months ago:
Y… you want them to headbutt you in the balls? 🥺
- Comment on Tea time 3 months ago:
I like to occasionally post my socials so my FBI agent knows what to follow when they’re axed 🥺
- Comment on What Was the First 3D Platformer? 3 months ago:
Doesn’t really look like you are jumping on platforms, But I could of course be wrong
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 3 months ago:
Please point to where i taste that boot
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 3 months ago:
Life, sure. But not the comment i was originally replying to
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 3 months ago:
It’s not about enshitification at all? It’s all about the point that piracy causes losses. Nothing else. Of course if piracy didn’t cause any losses, no one in the industry would actually be against it. Me, I’m all for it. For all the reasons stated in this thread for some reason. But I’m not sure why anyone keeps bringing it up, as the only talking point is that it fucking causes losses to the producers.
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 3 months ago:
So by your logic, if you pay for a stripper, you should own her for life? Or does paying for a temporary service not suddenly mean ‘ownership’ applies to everything?
Buying digital media means paying for licensed access (and to be fair, I miss buying the physical media because I got to keep it without interference, It doesn’t change anything about lost revenue), just like buying a ticket to a concert or hiring entertainment for a night. That doesn’t mean you ‘own’ the performer or the venue—it means you paid for the experience.
Piracy, meanwhile, is just skipping the payment entirely. Hope that helps!
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 3 months ago:
Just to be clear, I don’t actually care about piracy. Do it or don’t, that’s your business. But saying piracy doesn’t cause losses is just wrong.
You just explained that when piracy was inconvenient, people chose to pay for a better service. That means they had money to spend but were pirating instead—until a better legal option came along. That alone proves piracy takes money away from creators.
And your concert take? Now we’re at ‘stealing is fine as long as nobody makes a big deal about it.’ If sneaking in isn’t theft, does that mean shoplifting is fine too as long as the store doesn’t notice?
Keep going, or don’t—this is an imperfect analogy, I was just trying to help you see why you are so staggeringly wrong
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 3 months ago:
It’s a travesty, really… next thing you know, they’ll be letting them win awards and have opinions…
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 3 months ago:
So you’re admitting that when given an easy, affordable way to access media, people chose to pay rather than pirate? Congratulations, you just proved my point.
The fact that convenience was a key factor doesn’t change the reality that these services turned former pirates into paying customers. If piracy wasn’t causing financial harm, and if people truly ‘weren’t going to buy it anyway,’ then streaming services wouldn’t have reclaimed those users as paying subscribers.
As for your last line—sounds like you cut off mid-thought. You were about to say something profound about why sneaking into a concert isn’t theft? Go on, I could use the laugh
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 3 months ago:
The only thing that could make it even worse for conservative than beeing a successful brown woman Is if she was also dating a successful popular white man… oh wait…
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 3 months ago:
“We were never going to buy it anyway” is a weak argument, considering that the explosion of Netflix, Crunchyroll, and other streaming services (before they turned to shit) proves otherwise.
If piracy didn’t cause financial harm, why did legal streaming platforms dramatically reduce piracy rates when they offered a convenient alternative? The answer is simple: People do pay when given the right option.
And the “it doesn’t destroy stock” excuse? That’s like saying sneaking into a concert isn’t theft because the band still plays for everyone else. It’s still taking something without paying for it.
- Comment on College Student Arrested for Selling Bocchi the Rock! Anime Keychains (She Made Total Profit Of 16$) 3 months ago:
? It is exactly how piracy works? What do you mean?
- Comment on How To Carve An Emperor Philippa Georgiou Pumpkin 8 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 8 months ago:
Explain