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  • This is the reason I don’t get PS+.

    I see the cheapest option, and think “oh…but I don’t go online much, and thats too little value for that high price.”

    Then for a little more money you get a little more value.

    Then for a little MORE value, you get the retro games from PS1 and PS2.

    And then I realize that’s DOUBLE the cheapest option, to play games that are 20-30 years old.

    So I put 2 and 2 together, and decide this whole thing is pissing me off. Fuck it, I’ll just emulate the damn things…











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    4 days ago

    So you’re saying revolt is about to have a shitton of russian users, which means it’s about to become a pro-russian war hub. You know what they say about nazis. Allow one nazi into your bar, and he’ll invite his friends. Soon enough, your bar isn’t a bar with a few nazis in it. It’s become a nazi bar.

    Same concept, different facists.





  • This is a lesson I teach people at my job. It’s called “people are people”. The basic jist is that YOU this this way, and someone else, who isn’t you, thinks this other way. The things you find important in life, may not be a priority for others.

    Personally, I place a great importance in staying current with events about companies or politicians trying to take away freedoms, or invade their privacy for the sake of making a profit.

    However, my sister is like “oh yeah! Let me just do this 23andme test!”. When I explained what she had just done, she didn’t care. When I explained to my mom that her putting my info into facebook invades my privacy against my consent, she didn’t care. They both think I’m over reacting. They think it’s some silly conspiracy theory that companies would use data of peoples personal info for profit.

    They don’t think like I do. Whatever your most basic common sense fundamental beliefs are, there are people, probably in your life, who don’t give a shit about those things.

    People are people.

    There is no one definition of what a person is. There are currently something like 7-8 billion definitions of what a person is. And it’s always changing. Some die off, others are born. Each individually self defined. And those definitions can change over time. My sister in her 20s was a party animal. Out till 3am. Every weekend. Not doing drugs, but certainly drinking.

    Now she’s in her 50s with a 13 year old daughter, and suddenly the world is full of scary people! She’s in bed by 9pm, sometimes earlier. No partying. Maybe a midevening attendance of a play, with a glass of wine…but certainly not at a club partying till 3am! Her definition of who she is, and her self definition has changed since the 90s. That’s what people do.

    There will be people similar minded to you. There will be others who aren’t. You can disagree with the similar minded people on certain topics, and find common ground on other topics with the people you thought you were nothing like.

    People are people.