Piracy is the competition.

Companies that recognize that and improve their products and services in order to compete, results in better products and services as well as an influx of happy customers. See valve and steam.

Companies that don’t improve and instead seek to stiffle competition through dmca and litigation get their products pirated and services ignored. See how nintendo games are the most pirated on any site that shows stats for such things.

For example, Mario 3 is fucking ancient, how many times does nintendo expect me to buy it? They got my money several times over, and now in order to legally play it on a current platform, it’s locked behind a subscription service. No thank you. Besides, I prefer to play platformers with a keyboard. I’d pay for nintendo games again if they let me download to my pc.

Except, what about all the games I bought online for my wiiu and 3ds? Those storefronts are gone, so anything I didn’t already have downloaded is gone. If anything happens to those consoles, the few games I do have on them are gone. (i personally never actually had a 3ds or wiiu, but lots of people did and are in this exact boat). I cannot trust nintendo to preserve my purchases, like I can with any other modern digital storefront.

yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

and dread wasn’t that good. Before that was nintendos metroid 2 remake, which also wasn’t very good. Neither were bad, but the genre has moved on without nintendo and standards are higher now. I haven’t been blown away by a metroid game since the fan game am2r, and that makes me sad.

It’s a sad time when the onion cannot compete with actual real news.

The solution is to provide housing, and whatever else help they need.

but then people who struggled to own a home would throw a fit about it, without connecting the dots on how they too were screwed over. They should receive help too.

Tax the rich, and there will be more than plenty resources to do this.

Empathy is a skill.

what they can do is burry the setting on the website and make it impossible to find. Or have it error out every time you try to change it.

that would actually be aweful

ivy vs mint, deathbattle rules, who wins?

you could eat the mint

The skill of reading people is different from the skill of feeling their pain. Both are skills, and require practice. Some people are born better at it than others.

As for bearing the burdens of your choices, I agree with you.

you’re right, it’s not a tool to get what you want

it’s a tool to not be a horrible person

Empathy is a skill and he doesn’t have it.

well, i think you’re doing pretty good

this is why I want multis on lemmy, I don’t like needing multiple accounts to keep my interests organized

yes, lewd on main

sounds like i need to get on mastadon

are you the same guy that used to post awesome eclipse photos on reddit?

It’s almost like it’s harder to fix things than it is to break things. Also, fixing things is booooooooooooring, so much so that it’s never covered by news outlets who act like they live and die by viewership counts. The only things that do get covered is “some dem SLAMS some repub over some controversial issue”, so we only hear about utterly meaningless nonsense that portrays the dems as weak incompetent failures. Well, they are failures, after all they did lose to fascists in what should have been the easiest win in history, but let’s not derail this into a debate about the Last Election.

there’s only a couple of companies that run every drug store in the us. both cvs and walgreens each own over a dozen other names that they operate as depending on where in the country you are.

same thing with grocery stores. Kroger and Safeway also both own over a dozen names that they operate under.

I believe rite aid is owned by walgreens.

A long time ago, i woked at a savers (thrift store), which also operated as a dozen other names depending on region. Makes me think that maybe someone could make a bot that could identify a person’s geographic location based on the brands mentioned in their comments.

and it’s funny, so I choose to keep it as part of the canon.