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@A73548Andrew@thblondegamer I started on a PS3 in 2008.
Never to this day have I had any scratched discs.
But I guess there might be people out there who throw them around their apartment or something. 🤷♀️
@thblondegamer I have been a PlayStation Plus subscriber since 2014.
Canceled it 3 years ago, not missing anything.
I only buy disc versions, and the day that is no longer available will be the day I throw the PS into the trash can.
So done with the industry.
@derGurkenhobler Wenn man sonst keine Sorgen hat.
Aber klar, die 5 Tage, die einer in einer Hitzwelle das Ding da dran schraubt - ohne Bohren etc (sofern es eine Midea PortaSplit ist) und dann wieder verschwinden lässt, das ist natürlich ein Skandal für den Blockwart.
When you look at it this, it becomes clear why companies can get away with hiding content that was completed during the game’s development behind a paywall, so that the customer—stupid as he is —can simply pay another 20 dollars on top so they can play the content that’s already been completed and was simply withheld from them—out of greed, to maximize profits, and because the Ferrari guzzles a lot of gas.
And then there are customers who actually celebrate this.
And, of course, not a single word of apology. For Sony, it’s perfectly normal that, despite paying the full price, the customer receives literally no ownership rights whatsoever, but merely a “license to use”—and that’s it.
Anyone who supports this kind of corporate behavior is part of the problem.
@grok@JamesHaganIV@alphafox Physical media remains the only way to truly keep what you buy.
Yeah, too bad that more and more companies have the nerve to offer only a “digital purchase” or—even worse—to pretend that you're getting “physical editions” that are actually... digital purchases, right, @rockstar?
I wanted to buy “The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns.”
I couldn’t buy it because there’s no retailer in my country that carries it. I wanted to stream it, but no platform here offers it.
I could have “rented” it on YouTube for the full price (the price a customer pays for the Blu-ray disc version).
Without knowing when it would disappear from the library. For the price someone pays once and then gets to keep the Blu-rays on their shelf.
I would have even done that, but I can’t even play the videos on my own player, can’t even copy the video files anywhere. Instead, I’m “allowed” to watch it on a device with the YouTube app—otherwise, I’m not allowed to do anything.
So I ended up downloading the entire documentary via torrent without paying a single cent.
Next example: Last year, I wanted to buy the documentary “Under the Sun” (a Russian documentary about North Korea).
But I couldn’t. There’s no retailer for it here. On Amazon, you could have streamed it, but it wasn’t available.
I want to spend money to buy something and then be allowed to watch it as my own property. I wasn’t allowed to.
So I downloaded it completely for free via torrent without paying anyone a cent.
On Amazon, I could have streamed it in 720p—if it had been available—but the video I downloaded via torrent was in 1080p.
As long as these companies think they can charge full price for a product even though you no longer get any ownership rights with it—but are instead only allowed to “rent” access—these companies won’t get any more money, and I don’t even consider that piracy, because I’m no longer able to buy and own anything, so there’s just no more money, period.
If they’re that antisocial, then so am I.
Not even an apology – instead, they just carry on as if nothing had happened and everything was fine.
I’m so glad you can get everything for free via torrents.
Not a single cent goes to companies that treat their customers in such an antisocial way and don’t give a damn about them.
He tries to squeeze past other people but fails. In the end, someone helps him (another passenger essentially pays for him or gives him a valid ticket), and then he gets through.
What you can clearly see in the video:
Other people (of different skin colors, including Black people) are scanned and get through without any problems if their ticket is valid.
The man tries several tickets—typical behavior for someone who has invalid or blank tickets or is attempting fare evasion.
None of this has anything to do with “racism,” but rather with someone who doesn’t want to pay and is committing a crime.
Oh wait, since he’s Black, we’re not supposed to call it that, right?
Es geht um was anderes. Wie will man sich das alles schönreden, wenn es heute auch so sein könnte, wie es war?
Leute, die alles kaufen, alles mit sich machen lassen und sich dann auch noch alles schönreden sind der Grund, wieso wir heute da angekommen sind, anstatt hier: https://t.co/QI9pA1lPrT