randomthin2332

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[–] randomthin2332@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago (10 children)

There's a few things about this

  1. Many times you don't own the digital good, you subscribe to it. No I'm not joking, that's why services can usually take it away at any time. You normally own "a licence to play it on a single PC" or similar.
  2. This isnt apples to oranges per se. Selling digital goods is fine, it's copying it. Similar to how photocopying a book and selling it would not be okay.
  3. It's important to note there is a narrative push by companies too. They spend lots of money putting videos on every DVD saying "downloading is stealing" because if society thinks piracy and stealing is the same, it helps them litigate and make more money.
  4. Your idea of a lost sale is a hard one, from a media company point of view, it's about making money. So if you can make people believe "a download is a lost sale" or "sharing a digital file is a lot sale" etc, then you can use that to sue individuals, isps, sharing sites, search engines etc and make more and more money while also having more power over your product.
[–] randomthin2332@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Lol I did not expect to see fucking Whyalla on here. Do a beachey! (They literally drive to the beach and back home LOL).

I always recommend connected airline when going through Alice/Whyalla because a fuck load of flights have been removed (rex?) and the Alice run was one of the typical ones Qantas allegedly was selling tickets for when no flight existed (and they'd swap you onto another one).

[–] randomthin2332@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Was in Centrelink, the courses are typically "how to write a resume" or "how to do a job search", typically something quite generic and usually simple as it needs to cover all walks in life.

You typically aren't told that you can sometimes apply for actual courses because it seems like their goal/kpi is based on getting any job asap not on you studying for the next 6 months.

[–] randomthin2332@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I have this habit too, it's like a thought bubble in my head that adds context on top of the original sentence. I wonder if it's a trait for something but never thought it might be programming related.

[–] randomthin2332@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Honestly I feel like that's probably just to save cost from getting multiple takes of the same audio. Make it generic where possible.

But I do feel the pronoun is similar to my character design. Something I chose at the beginning of the game, and hardly noticed ever again.

[–] randomthin2332@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I thought it was hilarious to be honest. The game spent so long telling me about how anything goes in Neon, and how it's such a crazy place and people can do anything like some party planet. And astral lounge to be the Pinacle of that party planet full of possible debauchery.

I legit took my time before going there for an interesting crazy reveal.

And it's just some random place with neon signs and a club that is less risque then walking down the street.

!I couldn't believe Todd got me again!<

[–] randomthin2332@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At some point, all consoles will be retro consoles :p

!Gameboy Advance, just so many great games I'm still to play!<

[–] randomthin2332@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

Eh you spend your whole life getting away with anything because you have the money, you end up starting to believe your own bullshit.

One of the reasons so many people are rich is because they make money off the smart or the hard working. You never do the work yourself because you legitimately aren't the best person for the job.

I think Elon bought in too much during the wave of "I'm a tech genius who put a car in space, make electric cars and spaceships" and I think he actually believes he did that instead of the countless and thankless hours of all the real professionals.

The problem with this thinking, is now he feels like he ^needs to do something. Just like that micromanaging boss who doesn't help at all and just spouts random nonsense thinking it will magically make it go faster. But instead he's just self sabotaging the process.

This is what happens when you start to believe your own bullshit. If he was smart, he should walk away and let the professionals handle it.

[–] randomthin2332@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

You see this issue when one of your core game loop isn't enjoyable. It happens a lot in games, and you notice it if a game gives you and item or ability to play the game less.

This can be okay if this item comes in just as that loop gets boring (like you unlock special flash grab drives part way through the game). But if they let you fast travel from the beginning the likely case is that they found the whole space travel boring and they ended up providing a way around it.

Which leaves people asking "why'd you bother adding it in there"

[–] randomthin2332@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Whoooaa talking about the NES for me it was always "Castlevania" and "legends of Zelda II", gawd damn they were so difficult when I was a child.

Tbf you didn't say video game :p so basketball was another, used to think I was so Kool playing it. But dayumn did I suck at it.

Current day would probably be call of duty, I always think I'm gonna slay, then I get killed an call it bullshit >!but I know it's not bullshit, it was me!<