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the fact that Gabe said “piracy is a service problem” fifteen fucking years ago, and none of these fuckwits in content distribution have learned this at all is a source of continuous astonishment to me.
I havent pirated a single game since i installed steam 20 years ago
There was a short period of time where netflix was good enough so i didnt pirate movies or tv shows either
It’s 100% a service problem
The last game I pirated was Driver: San Francisco a couple years ago, because you couldn’t (still can’t? maybe?) buy it anywhere except for like, second-hand physical media, and I am not going through that hassle. I can’t even remember the game I last pirated before that (Probably Sims 4, because fuck EA and fuck that laundry list of DLC – but I can’t be sure).
Music, movies, and TV shows, though? Oh yeah, baby, that’s a weekly activity now. Netflix I dumped many years ago when the fracturing of content to twenty different streaming services happened, and Spotify I dumped just this last year for a few different reasons (the CEO donating to AI weapons programs, introducing a fuckass AI DJ, ICE ads, getting fed up with songs I either can’t find or can find but aren’t available in my region, or could listen to and enjoyed and then having them suddenly become unavailable, etc…)
I’m sure, someday, Steam will enshittify. Probably shortly after Gabe dies – and it will be a dark day for me and millions of gamers worldwide. But for now, I’m more than happy to let Gabe empty my wallet with sales and convenience, because the gettin’s been good for a couple decades and will likely remain so for another couple. I can’t say the same for music, movies, and TV; I don’t know if I’ll ever end up paying for them again unless the distributors involved sort their shit out.
Thank god we have Pizzacake to state the blindingly obvious.
Seriously though, every comic I see from her is just the most middle of the road position imaginable.
Still funny. I don’t really get all the hate for her.
Mysogyn is the driving force of some human beings.
This artist’s “subreddit drama” was all about vote manipulation, playing victim, and having people banned for criticizing her low effort crap. She clumsily spun it a bit into mysogyny.
Taste is subjective. It’s not hate.
The artist’s subreddit drama that’s of absolutely zero importance here didn’t come up over night.
Her vote manipulation (par for the course on Reddit), getting people banned for expressing the slightest of critique (par for the course on Reddit), instantly playing the victim in her own comics after les redditeurs got mad (par for the course on Reddit) was pretty good popcorn. If you’re completely ignorant of that, of course you “don’t get it”.
Taste is subjective. It’s not hate.
The artist’s subreddit drama that’s of absolutely zero importance here didn’t come up over night.
Her vote manipulation (par for the course on Reddit), getting people banned for expressing the slightest of critique (par for the course on Reddit), instantly playing the victim in her own comics after les redditeurs got mad (par for the course on Reddit) was pretty good popcorn. If you’re completely ignorant of that, of course you “don’t get it”.
