“yOu WoUlDnT dOwNlOaD a cUnT.”

You cant pirate pussy, and we all know how gamers feel about subscription models.

Its not just Japan.

Squid game, Money heist, Furies and a few other things Ive watched just on Netflix in the last few years just hit differently. Hollywood just has too many formulas that become obvious once you notice them, too many investors and networks wanting a safe ROI as opposed to pure creativity. Even the brits are a bit more willing to put “unconventionally attractive” people in leading roles and write things a bit dryer and grittier than a lot of American productions.

Something about stuff not coming through that system just feels different.

I asked a friend who plays it and he says its good with randoms, but great if you have a crew you regularly game with.

You’re right on the math front, what I’m saying is that the exporting company/country isnt going to take a loss to sell their goods.

The question is “How do they think it works?”

A lot of them think that the country with the tarrifs levied against them needs to pay the country they are exporting to to sell the goods there like a “If you want to do business here” tax on the country exporting.

But in all honesty even if it did work that way, the exporting country would just jack the prices up to cover it. The end result for US citizens would be the same.

The worst part is that I feel like sometimes in some cases they have a point.

Some cultures have elements that just dont mesh with general western societies values. Take “Halal” slaughter of animals for example, I dont agree with it because it places unnecessary suffering onto the animal. I eat meat but I hope that the animal has a happy healthy life and then have a quick painless death. But I know plenty of people who just rally against halal on the grounds that its for “them” not because they understand what it is at all.

You try talking about elements of some cultures (like forced child marriage or a man being legally allowed to discipline his wife) that you dont agree with being brought to and endorsed in your country and people try to brand you as a bigot or a racist for not accepting their culture, I dont oppose “them” I’m against “that”.

20 million divided by 1.7 is about $11 per person, which isnt really that high.

I also think theres a distinction to be made between microtransactions in f2p titles and microtransactions in AAA premium titles. I logged something like 4000 hours in Mechwarrior online and I bought mech packs because I wanted to support the devs.

I think that theres almost a “you get one pass” way of thinking among conservatives so long as you stick to the talking points, act white and straight. They will accept a black man as long as he isnt gay, they will accept a gay man so long as he is white and not flamboyant and they will accept a woman so long as she is white and straight.

Listen teens, I’m 40. I was a niteclub bouncer in a town popular with backpackers and partying, I also did a lot of traveling and partying. I was shameless, its a miracle it didnt fall off.

When you say you fucked my mom, its childish and stupid. When I say I fucked your mom while its not likely its possible… and thats worse.

First they came for the communists and I didnt complain because I wasnt a communist…

Australia has the best Vegemite.

What did you do with it? Because you sure as fuck havent cooked any of it.

Volunteers are a double edged sword. At some volume of users and content it either needs to be a huge team of like minded volunteers which increases the likelihood of ye power tripping bastards or someone who is paid to do it and spend the time with rules to follow.

Damn right, I’m only on Lemmy because there isnt a better alternative, not because its great.

The sad fact is that for social media to not suck you need moderation, for moderation not to suck they need to be paid mods, which means it has to make money somehow, which either means adds, subscriptions or mining user data…

When I had a volvo periodically when I got into it Id think “My bum is on the Swedish” completely out of nowhere.

As someone who tracks their calories and macros and all that shit, those little single serve packets for kids are a savior.

I still get to have pringles and chips, but theres an element of shame in going for multiple bags.

And Ive been saying this for about a decade but I kept getting told that they are idiots and man-children and couldnt possibly be caipable of something that complex.

And here we are.