[Id: News Article: "Ubisoft exec says gamers need to get comfortable with "not owning your games"

Ubisoft's director of subscriptions says that gamers need to start "feeling comfortable" with not owning the games they are playing"

Meme: "if purchase isn't ownership; then piracy isnt theft"]

The first time I saw that article, I said that if they're renting me games, I expect to be paying rental prices. But, now I'm thinking that Ubisoft maybe needs to feel comfortable with people not paying them at all.

yeah.

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Trying a Tzeetch playthrough in Total Warhammer and, like-

no idea what the narrator/tutorial dude's deal is, but I do enjoy that he's apparently just textually totally amoral and happy to work with literal demons as much as anyone else

'peck out the eyes of a god to claim his sight for themself' is a great motivation for an oracle-demon.

Tzeetch's strategic level fuckery is real fun.

On the battlefield still adapting to having demons who can throw enough plasma to melt a swarm of charging marauders but will crumple like tissue paper is any of them actually connect.

constantly caught between royalty Heron being a horrible person and also being like… god forbid women do anything.

What I really can't stand today is that people are arguing about whether we should allow queer people to exist or whether some random fiction is immoral while THERE ARE HOMELESS PEOLLE SUFFERING RIGHT NOW. Why do you care about what strangers are doing on the internet? Go the fuck outside and help your community. Give a guy a few bucks so he can EAT. Stop wasting your time on meaningless discourse about fiction and who is less or more human or worthy than someone else and fucking deal with real problems. Either that or shut the hell up because its annoying as shit and I do not see you making any positive, tangible change. You're encouraging censorship policies and genocide by legislation. Yay for you. Now get your head out of your ass and do something not cowardly.

Do something that isn't just a bunch of hypotheticals, what ifs, and strange claims with unreputable or straight up nonexistent sources. Hypothetically, violent video games could inspire a particularly dull kid with particularly poor impulse control to beat up some other kid. However, in reality, what's happening with those kids is they can't afford school lunches. What's happening with one of them is they're getting beat and can't get help because of our shit social services and the other one has to raise 5 siblings because the parents are constantly trying to keep them fed and housed. In theory, a person could go through the hell that is being openly trans to transition to a woman in order to idk look at women in women's bathrooms. But in reality, many people can't even afford to spend money on medical care they need, let alone cosmetic changes they don't. And in reality, people who are really trans are generally a lot less interested in your piss breaks than you think and are probably more afraid of your hate than you are of some perceived wrongness with their existence.

Let's shut the hell up for a second about theories and possibilities and ideas. Let's talk about real, material needs and change. Let's talk about the problems that are actually resulting in widespread suffering and death. Fiction is great. But real life is important too, especially when change is needed. If you want to claim yourself a messiah of morality and ethics; focus on helping other people in real life.

Had a nice heart to heart with my sister that basically summed up that as soon as I stop needing to care for my grandparents we will need to start caring for our parents, and that I have zero mental boundaries set for what my handling threshold is.

sometimes you gotta follow a bunch of artists in fandoms you don't know or care about because you need some diversity, dammit.

crunchyroll fix your service challenge (impossible)

We still have no water ;w!

When the law is the tool by which people are being brutalized, it is immoral to tell them we cannot put an end to that brutalization because of the law.

When the system is the thing depriving people of their life and liberty, it is amoral to insist they can only ask for solutions that are allowed by the system.

Our government does not want what we want. If they did, they would give it to us.

And yes, we know how the system works. It’s literally what’s killing us. The way that it works is the problem. The fact that we have a Senate is the problem. The fact that so much power goes to unelected officials is the problem. The fact that Some voters have so much more power than others is the problem.  The fact that the people we did elect to help us do not have the power to help us is literally the problem.

Vote local. Run for city council. Find out who your DA is. Save your neighbor’s life. The Big Three branches deserve no credit, no sympathy, no understanding as institutions. Give them nothing but warnings, contempt, and the promise that we will use every tool in our grasp to reshape it into the society we deserve.

sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

Hey all, you know how internet searches suck now? When the results are awful, full-of-AI, death-of-the-internet levels of bad?

Start appending date constraints to your searches - "before:2023".

My results have gone from 90% AI bullshit to ~60% usable - which frankly at this point is a huge improvement.

The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there's an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.

no cause some of the shit y'all are saying has me genuinely worried that you don't understand the difference between immigration and SETTLER COLONIALISM. y'all do realize that if jewish people just mass migrated to palestine and lived peacefully among palestinians as neighbors and countrymen, then none of this would be a problem. right? you get that, right? you get that our issue was never "there's too many jews here" but rather "why am i getting kicked out of my house." RIGHT?

New reaction pic for y'all to be used when you get into an argument about trans healthcare and your opponent starts talking about the 0.8% or whatever of trans people who regret transitioning