I was the other way! I never heard of the first game. Then I see the trailer for number 2 and then played both.

Yes, I still prefer 1 but it’s great. Has ray tracing too.

Fuck yeah! I’m still waiting for Broken Veil (The original devs)

Its wrong they bought it in the first place…

Prices will only go up.

I couldn’t be arsed with this kind of thing and just renewed for 10 years.

“Gentlemen, I don’t know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography”

General Sir Charles Harrington

Just before one of the largest non-nuclear explosions was detonated.

I’ve had a pretty tough time with our kid and our test has always been.

If that happened today, would I wish she wasn’t here. So far the answer is always an unresounding no.

I run unraid that does a monthly parity check will that protect?

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That’s the one I’ve been using, not the most active but seems decent.

Back to the OP. I carry a Rovyvon A8x flashlight and yubikey on my keychain.

VPN because I don’t know enough about all the random arrr services to expose them trustworthily.

Na, you’re being silly now.

There are algorithms working in the background on Reddit to keep you there. Same with pretty much all “social media”. They aren’t on Lemmy. The point of Reddit is to keep you there, and shove as many ads down your throat as possible. Ads don’t exist here, and no one (as far as i can tell) is making money from you being here.

I agree with what you’re saying about the algorithms sucking you in, but disagree that’s the biggest reason. Lemmy just doesn’t have a lot of content, browse HOT or go through your subscriptions and you’re done pretty quick.

Massively. If you can contribute, ask and learn on a discussion then you get WAY more out of it.

Lemmy is perfect for that atm, reddit you’d get immediately drowned out or some dickhead just dismissing your point and that’s it, done.

Agree’d, people aren’t contributing enough so it seems dead after a 30min check per day (might not be a bad thing).

If lemmy is to thrive and survive, post, comment and start discussions. That’s what is addictive and provides value.

I would say 80% of the games I pirate, I put less than 30 mins into it.

Yeah that’s good then.

I get about 60m runtime on my setup and it only cycles 10-20% max.

Already had to change the battery early and wondered if that was why.

IMO all movies and series should be available on any platform and let the streaming service decide if they want to have it in their portfolio. Only the “originals” should be locked to a platform to keep stuff unique.

That’s just cable though. Not sure that’ll be any better. The second a company sees a revenue stream or thinks they’re missing out. They monetise it to the detriment of the customers.

Yeah, the whole piracy crackdown situation is so stupid.

I pirate a lot of media, if you added it all up it would be a lot of money (if I was to buy everything). The difference is, before I pirated I barely bought any of the media.

• I pirate some games that i’d never buy. I buy all games I want to support.
• I pay TV licence, netflix and amazon. I pirate tons of TV series because they aren’t on those services. I literally can’t buy some of them and if I could i’d need about 10 different streaming services.
• Films, I pirate a lot of films. Before I pirated I never bought any films, i’d either wait for netflix/normal TV or just not watch them. I still go to the cinema for big releases.
• I subscribe on patreon, github and donate to LOADS of projects, many of which i’ve pirated first or obtained a copy of (books are a big one here).

If you were to objectively look at the value of the pirated media, it would seem that i’ve “stolen” or studios have missed out on lots of revenue, but the truth is I pirate a lot of media, just because I can.

Wait. Should I be deep draining?