I mean yeah it’s selfish, but it is definitely righting a huge injustice:

There is literally no customer centric way to watch these shows, or most modern media at all. Where can I literally buy shows that I can then resell. Where can I get a subscription service that’s focused on giving me the best content possible and not trying to squeeze value out of me by influencing what I watch or selling my metrics or up selling me to a bigger plan after killing the previous plan or any number of other dark practices. Where can I buy DRM free offline files of these shows so I can watch them on an airplane on my own hardware without Internet?

It’s fucked up that there is literally no way for people to buy their entertainment and not be fucked over more for trying to do it the legal way and spending money. And piracy needs to exist as a breaking point to stop these companies from getting even worse.

What’s an “official” political debate? The government runs no such thing.

Also in general, many debates on TV are jest talking, no winner is declared. It’s the opposite of a competitive format.

That’s not the WHY. Debate isn’t trying to be like politics, but having formalized competitive rules for arguing is pretty difficult so there are a lot of ways to game the system. It’s not trying to model a broken world.

Can we get this information in any reasonable format? Preferably paragraphs of text, second to that an audio file, third to that a video player that actually works?

“why did my rent go up by 400 dollars?” “Because my favorite bagel spot raised prices by a dollar”

When you buy a ticket to see a movie at a theatre, you don’t own the movie.

Correct and not letting you make up definitions or ignore reality just to support a separate point that you agree with?

Sounds like you’re a bad husband.

According to the law or dictionaries? Yes.

I’m not in that mindset. Doesn’t mean laws and definitions of words don’t exist law. We can say fuck them and that we don’t care, but they still exist.

What does a lack of enforcement, or other bullshit that the government does, have to do with the fact that OPs post made no sense.

Especially when the statement makes no sense

No, that would harm whoever was in possession of the room at the time (owner or guest).

This would be more akin to sneaking into a movie theatre to stand in the back and watch.

But that would still be theft of service.

While I appreciate the sentiment, theft of service is a crime. You don’t have to be able to own something to be able to steal it.

While I appreciate the sentiment, theft of service is a crime. You don’t have to be able to own something to be able to steal it.

What the fuck are you talking about? How does quantity have to relate to quality at all. Find anybody that’s played all Pokemon games that will say the latest installments are best.

The game is garbage carried by nostalgia and people that will buy the games regardless of how shit they are because they love being pokemon fans

Let’s be real though, the pokemon card game always was awful, we were just too young to play it and evaluate it properly. The games are now shit, the franchise is in the toilet because of obsessing over merchandising.

I’m glad I have other good relics like my heroscape pieces or my pog collection.

Any company can be unprofitable if you have 100x the staff you need working on features that make the site worse or are scams

Using a term associated with tragedy and human right abuses for ‘fun’ is a very interesting take.

Words can be used in multiple contexts. When somebody does well and I say “hey you’re killing it” I’m not condoning murder. I don’t cry for all car and plane crash victims when my computer game crashes. Life is better when you don’t look for the most offensive way to interpret everything.

Maybe do your research before you sign up. I didn’t know what federation was before finding about Lemmy either, yet I already knew the basics when I made an account.

I did. But a ton of people are about to come to reddit from here, and despite how much we want them to, and how reasonable we think it is, most of them won’t and don’t care to do even 3 minutes of reading to understand how the basics work. This is just how large populations function.

Last thing and a pet peeve of mine: stop calling yourself a refugee.

No fun allowed, got it.

You’re taking yourself way too seriously. Let people have their fun name, its not hurting anybody.

Of course the average user doesn’t know what federation is, thats a complex topic. Be realistic, live and let live.

No different than when voat went down or when Reddit goes down eventually. The goal is though that by having no big central point of failure it’s not as big of a deal. Not like you’d have to get used to a whole new kind of thing, just move to another instance.