• Switorik@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    People have the power to shut down bad practices if they had even a modicum of restraint. They don’t, so here we are.

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      29 days ago

      It’s kind of disheartening not having solidarity as consumers. It also feeds this kinda FOMO because you showed restraint and are missing out on something.

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        29 days ago

        I’ve come to terms with this. I view fomo content as disrespectful and I do not support the companies that use it as a tactic.

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      29 days ago

      People are desperate to latch on to any morsel of media that can distract them from our burning planet, our exploitative society, and their resultant miserable life

      Thats why they dont have control, they need this desperately

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      28 days ago

      At some point though you have to accept that if the vast majority are ok with something, it’s probably not an actual issue.

      You don’t have to like it or agree with it, and you have the ability to vote with your wallet. Digital only people have been voting with their wallet for years, and physical copy buyers haven’t.

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        28 days ago

        This is a defeatist mindset.

        Most people accept the enshittification of the world because they do not know better or they just go with the flow. This is why we have so many problems outside of gaming as well.

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          28 days ago

          Most people weighed up the pros and cons of digital vs physical, chose digital, and haven’t looked back. There is no “do not know better”. Hundreds of millions of people think digital is better. Pc has been all digital for an eternity and it’s been going great.

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          28 days ago

          It’s more like “Over 90% of people chose this path by their own free will, and are happy enough with it that they choose to continue doing it rather than stop, so it’s not inherently bad like I think it is”.

          Only someone who is brain dead could not understand that.