Reapren

真女神転生 (Shin Megami Tensei) enthusiast and collector hee/hoo

[Lain on the Blockchain @CryptoCyberia]

My god, Linus Tech Tips is so annoying and lame.
The fact that they're at the forefront of arguing that adblockers are essentially pirates is ridiculous enough, but homie just bought a private jet, while almost all his co-stars quit and are impoverished.

[땅땅공방 @ttang_ttang__]

수영복 치사
#Wutheringwave

[XLR8 @OoXLR8oO]

"Angry gamers" and its people legitimately mad that they won't be able to fully own the games they buy on a $1000 console.

I'm sorry, but if you want frame the people in that way, then you can just fuck off.

[ᑎEOᑎ @neonarcadegrant]

I'm seeing many people having a hard time understanding why Sony would make a number of unpopular "anti-consumer" moves in rapid sequence. You need to realize it's because you are no longer the consumer.

If you are one of the few who doesn't have a completely fried attention span, I can explain a bit of what's actually going on and why technology feels like shit now.

Many of us living through this shift grew up during a time when new tech felt exciting. Gaming consoles, arcade games, computers, and other devices were targeted directly at us, and evolution was rapid. Consumerism was always present, but so was abundant creativity, and companies’ stated goal was to generate profit by providing ways to make life more entertaining and enriching; marketing creative, innovative technology to own, maintain, and use.

With the rise of the Internet, this focus began to shift. Attention became the new commodity, as did the control of information. Engineering machines became less important than social engineering, and we became the product rather than the market. Aesthetic design, reparability, and functionality became pointless; none of that is required to extract information from you on an industrial scale.

The result of this shift is what we're beginning to see openly now: centralization via AI, mass surveillance, and ownership of absolutely nothing. This new model is built on profiling the most efficient ways to lock you into a maze of subscription services and endless debt, while giving you the means to distract yourself just enough to never become a threat to these objectives.

Understand that Sony is not doing anything here other than following the blueprint that many other tech companies and governments have drafted. They know it’s wildly unpopular, which is why the gaslighting is required. It’s why Sony’s short announcement of ending physical media uses the term, "As consumer preferences change..." four times. It’s to convince you that you have no choice, and that all of this is just technological determinism at work.

Technological determinism is a scam. You still have a free will choice. All you need to do is stop investing your time and money into a system that has zero benefit to you, and instead start enjoying older technology and tools that you can use and maintain; or even more importantly, support new stuff built like the old stuff was. Once enough “product” (i.e. you) is removed from the marketplace, it will cease to be useful to the people who built it. The machine will seize, and we can start making a lot of really cool things again. That’s all that is required.

In the words of Ferris Bueller, "The question isn't, 'What are we going to do?' The question is 'What aren't we going to do?'”

So, what aren't you going to do?

[Massimo @Yrouel86]

I think @EU_Commission realized no one was buying the nonsense that customers wouldn't pay those extra 3€ (which actually seems to be 3€ + VAT).

Now they want to sweep that crap under the rug.

Just as a reminder here's an example from Amazon US, same object before and after:

[ｵぢま @zy111222o]

悪い顔のジョーカー描きたい！

[楠 | COMMS CLOSED @rubynnam]

The flowers from The JoJo World
#jojo #JJBA

[🐈‍⬛ @wonder_kawaii0]

主ゆか˙ᴥ˙

[Reapren @Reapren]

@maxx_ex 彼に伝えておきます。ありがとうございます。

[瓜てぃ @uriuritei]

ルシア・逆冠
#パニグレ #パニグレ創作

[外道スプーキーＪ @maxx_ex]

再集計でランキング落ちたかと思ってたら､知らん間に巻き込まれてたみたいだな

2位のあごうさんはスコア高過ぎて弾かれたのに､元々1位の方はそれ以上なのに弾かれなかったんだね
なるほどね
#D2メガテン

[ナギ｜nagi @nagicalm]

おめでとう💛💀
#坂本竜司誕生祭2026

[みさき@お仕事募集中 @seil518]

緋雪
#鳴潮 #WutheringWaves #Hiyuki

[ぺたれもん @petalemom]

ランタンくんと食べるんだホ～❣️🍦🍦

[Takamatu @takamatu_hajime]

#パニグレ #パニグレ創作

[ちせ🍙 @_ll158o]

長尾愛歌🪽
#P5X_art

[スコ研バリオBaryonyx(ガバりおにくす) @Baryonyx_lab0]

集計してコレですか…
もうこのゲームに重課金するの辞めます
倍速だけはまだ買うのでちゃんと行動で示してください
#D2メガテン