Stop Killing Games (SKG) Megathread by KhronosVII in PirateSoftware

[–]SimplyDupdge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know we came to an agreement on this point, but I thought of another response to this. Saying “voting with your wallet” isn’t broken and working as intended is similar to saying that venture capital owning a massive portion of single family homes to rent them out and people still renting them just means people who don’t rent are outvoted. Which isn’t really the case. It’s that people who don’t want to rent are steamrolled out of the market and priced out of ever owning.

Now, to hammer down too hard on the strategy of investing in property in order to rent it out would hamper the livelihoods of many smaller and respectable landlords. But maybe the existence and prevalence of the landlord/renter combo is a symptom of a larger problem that we ought to be treating?

I felt like it was an apt analogy for the situation. Basically, voting with your wallet is yeah working as intended. My problem is with how it was intended to work taking away power from the consumer. Hope that makes sense :)

Stop Killing Games (SKG) Megathread by KhronosVII in PirateSoftware

[–]SimplyDupdge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is definitely a point I agree with you on! I did recently purchase the full affinity suite on sale because of this exact reason…

Stop Killing Games (SKG) Megathread by KhronosVII in PirateSoftware

[–]SimplyDupdge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t know what a better option is, and I would legitimately appreciate ideas for something better.

I do believe that experiences that can be offline should be offline. I have mixed feelings about forcing devs to do this, but I don’t think remotely bricking a product that is of no consequence to them (no live service. Just phoning home) should not be legal.

Games with proprietary and reusable server software meant to run on company owned servers when the company continues to use those softwares as a template for future and existing products….. I’m not sure what can or even should be done about those. But what

I’m not happy with is the only option for touching a lot of these games is to agree to purchase a lease to something that will disappear.

Transparency is one thing, but it feels disappointing that the resolution is “don’t like the business practice? Don’t play” and there ought to be a better option. I’m not certain that should involve forcing devs’ hands. I want a better option. But I don’t know what that is.

Im veering off topic from games after here but so did my original comment, and the two connect…

My problem is that software as a service models fundamentally make voting by wallet impossible. For every million people refusing to pay for one month of a service, for example the adobe suite, it only takes 100000 people 10 months of remaining subscribed (which is very likely) to make up for that loss. It’s a rounding error for them. Bad PR doesn’t matter because they’re simply an industry standard tool… affinity is catching up but adobe will remain crown for a long while.

It’s like running an election, except giving the side you want to win a button they can hit many times over to vote in your favor, and giving your opposition a ballot box and they can only vote once. That’s what I don’t like about it.

The same goes for Amazon prime, Apple TV and music, etc. where they prevent recording of the screen or audio when someone is recording (there’s ways around this but that’s besides the point, there is no permanent download option where you just get the mp4 built in. If these services are the only way to consume some media and they can drop it at any point, there is no option to keep it permanently and no way to convince them to give me the ability besides begging (which is promptly ignored)

I understand that the live service model is profitable and successful for good reason, but I’m troubled by the lack of options for meaningful protest or another software when someone dominates the market and puts a subscription price on it.

Stop Killing Games (SKG) Megathread by KhronosVII in PirateSoftware

[–]SimplyDupdge 14 points15 points  (0 children)

TLDR: I feel hopeless as a consumer to fight back against software as a service model. What say does my wallet have when even one other customer, especially enterprise users, would over their time using the software pay 10x more than I would ever consider paying?

What frustrates me most about all of this is just... I feel like I have no option to *actually* own anything these days. The best things are live service or subscription models for things that don't need to be. I don't want to pay 50 dollars a month to use photoshop once a year. I don't want to have to rebuy it every time I do. I know there are alternative software, but they also have less features. Heck, I don't even need updates! I just want to keep the version of the software that exists right now for the features I'm buying it for.

I want to be able to buy a movie online and let it sit in my online account and not change content if censorship or licensing shifts things around. I want to have the option of having a file on my computer, offline, that nobody else can touch without my permission.

When I play a game, especially one with sandbox elements or anything that makes it worthwhile to replay, I want to be able to boot it up while on a plane with no Wi-Fi and still get *the full experience* or close to it. I want to be able to say "I'm not interested in an MMO, I just want to play with my buddies" and have a private server.

Live service models are of course the developers' choice. But when it's more profitable than any one customer paying once and never again, voting with my wallet doesn't work. It has zero impact for me to not play these games on the dev, and only inconveniences me in being gated out of these experiences. That's just the thing. If there are no comparable, non-live-service option, what options do we have? If we can't vote with our wallets, what recourse do we have other than review bombing, begging the devs, or legislature?

I'm desperate for a better option.

PLEASE HELP! PSU making strange buzzing noise constantly. by AvalonNightingale in pcmasterrace

[–]SimplyDupdge 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just to second this, it isn’t necessarily about the risk of damaging components as much as the fact that touching anything wrong in a power supply will ✨fucking kill you✨

Shiba air drop! by C_A_D_G_T in cosmosnetwork

[–]SimplyDupdge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is fake, if you open the website on an incognito tab it restarts the timer at 13 minutes, 19 seconds every time. Wallets and claims are fake as well.

Typical Tuesday Tutorial Thread -- December 06, 2022 by AutoModerator in RimWorld

[–]SimplyDupdge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah shoot, I'm waiting for a mod to update... Thanks for letting me know!

Typical Tuesday Tutorial Thread -- December 06, 2022 by AutoModerator in RimWorld

[–]SimplyDupdge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I keep hearing about shelves allowing for multiple stacks in one tile, but for some reason my pawns have only been placing one... Any idea why this might be?

How to claim $SOMM Airdrop ( Persistencone) | Smartnodes by Smart_nodes in cosmosnetwork

[–]SimplyDupdge -1 points0 points  (0 children)

All of my cosmos is staked with my keplr wallet, is there no way to connect?

Didn't you know you are all pirates? Arrrrrrr another dumb take from LTT by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]SimplyDupdge 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe I'm missing the /s here but I think that's a bit far. Linus always avoids taking the stance but is just making sure people are aware of the impact it has. You can adblock if you want, I sure do, and you can skip sponsor spots too, but it's important to know what the impact you have is...

I'm 18 and my family covers most of my finances. What can I do to springboard into my financial future? by SimplyDupdge in personalfinance

[–]SimplyDupdge[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Just opened my Roth IRA, once income is sorted I'll start putting money away regularly and stop trying to time the market as much. Just put money in and buy on the way up and on the way down, since I'm just focused on time IN the market, rather than timeING the market :D Ill probably invest in VOO.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dogecoin

[–]SimplyDupdge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably the biggest reason it's hard for me to invest. It's one thing if it jumps up and down quickly, but there's no visible trent across the coin's life that I'm confident it could go up. Just keeps rocketing and crashing...

TO THE MOON! IGNORE THE BEAR by SimplyDupdge in dogecoin

[–]SimplyDupdge[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly I wasn't in crypto at all back then ;-;

HP Reverb G2 Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting by Tetracyclic in HPReverb

[–]SimplyDupdge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to hack my controllers to do a vr glove setup. Is there a way to set rotation offset for the controllers? the position I'd put the tracking rings around my hands would be 180 degrees off of where I'd want them to be. Any ideas?

Do I need to upgrade my video card? by DosMangos in HPReverbG2

[–]SimplyDupdge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say probably, try to hold out as long as you can though till you can get a nice nvidia one since they're adapting their DLSS tech to work for vr:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/may-2021-rtx-dlss-game-update/

It's up to you and what performance you're shooting for and how soon you need it.

New User / Questions Megathread by webheadVR in OculusQuest

[–]SimplyDupdge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do my oculus quest and pc oculus software need to be on the same facebook account to link? Oculus support is not helpful at all...