andrewzah

"most large studios treat their workforce like trash ... It's also funny that you're upset about the guy pirating software ... but not the games publishers themselves who regularly dodge taxes"

Where did I say I support publishers not paying their taxes or treating employees unfairly? Those are separate issues completely unrelated to the one we're discussing. (Obviously, I think everyone should pay taxes fairly and treat their employees fairly.)

Company A doing bad thing B does not mean we morally justify crime C. Either pay for the thing you -want, not need-, or don't if you don't support various actions or stances from the company. This also is based on the premise that all media comes from bad corporations, which is not true. Many artists these days can be supported directly, self publish, etc.

Also, I'm not "upset", nor am I looking at one singular individual. I am looking at this from a societal and long-term perspective of the long-term effects of people pirating media.

Yeah, it wasn't a very good analogy. It's hard to compare duplication like this to real world things like theft.

Regardless, merely desiring something is not a justification to pirate things.

I'm not sure what you've quoted, because that is -not- what I said.

People should be paid for their work. Pirating doesn't pay them for their work. Work includes art and media. I'm not sure how I can state this more simply.

I'm not sure why this is even a complicated topic. With literally everything else, if you want something, you need to pay to acquire it because it took time and resources to make. That doesn't go away just because the end product is digital.

Note: the original comment was akin to "I refuse to pay for media on principle". bserge has shadow-edited several comments in this chain from what they were originally.

That is not what I was discussing at all.

You can justify it to yourself however you want, but normal people, like you and I, work on movies, books, games, etc. Like us, they also need to get paid. It is entitlement to not want to pay for their work yet still consume it, and it's also dismissive of the huge amount of work that actually goes into the production of media.

edit: kindly stop completely changing your comments with shadow-edits.

As an American, most places that I've lived in across the country had a delay before the hot water kicked in. Of course anyone can modify their home to do whatever they want, but we're discussing the average system in place in most residences.

It's not a "gross oversimplification" if it's the typical result.

> If your outside of the US, often a lot of content isn’t even available because of shitty geo licensing

This is one case where I understand people pirating. I watch some shows from other countries that simply are not published in the US or aren't for sale at all. And sometimes if they are available, certain elements are changed due to copyright reasons so it's not exactly the same.

Another reason would be horrible DRM. Again, I wouldn't recommend pirating based on that, but I do understand it. Pirated content doesn't have DRM dictating when, where, or what time(s) I can view the damn thing I paid money for. I also find it fine if someone buys a DRM-locked product, then pirates the same thing to avoid dealing with the DRM.

Then don't buy it.

Right now, I can't afford to buy a classic '60s gibson guitar. That doesn't give me the license to go out and steal one, -because I want one-.

If modern AAA games are too much at $80, then don't buy them. There are significantly cheaper alternatives on PC, as well as the possibility of waiting for deals or buying used. High prices don't justify pirating.

That's just the nature of the game. Pinterest figured out what the google algorithm wants. At least we can easily filter out results with the advanced search operators that google has.

There are cheaper alternatives, such as Affinity Designer, Sketch, etc, depending on your use case. As others have mentioned, even if you pirate adobe, by using their products you reinforce the influence adobe has.

Now as far as I know, there aren't any -good- film editing alternatives that are free. I have tried a fair few open source alternatives and they are pitiful compared to adobe premiere. So while I can't recommend pirating, if you're a film student... I can understand it. It's how the industry is, sadly.

You realize that actual people work on those things that you pirate, right? That those people also need to get paid so they can have food on the table? It's one thing to not buy any media at all, but it's contradictory to enjoy media produced by people and then not want to pay them. Their work isn't less valuable because it's related to media production instead of engineering or whatever.

Then don't buy media. But don't pirate it either.

Media takes money and lots of man-hours of people working in order to produce things. They, too, need to get paid, regardless of whatever principles you hold personally.

edit: kindly stop shadow-editing comments. Your comment is completely different now from the one that I replied to.

No, as decentralization merely complicates onboarding users while not really solving anything and creating new problems. The fediverse will still be nice for an alternative social media/blog sphere.

My guess is something will pop up with good UX and rules, that a critical mass moves to. Something akin to lemmy, but centralized.

This is not really an alternative to reddit. I don't care about online users, and part of the point of using reddit is comment chains. Having a linear chat breaks that.

There have been numerous reddit clones. But the main issue is the lack of a community. People who like reddit... still use reddit for the most part. It'll take something like reddit killing the old ux to finally force enough people to move to an alternative such that a good, sizable community is formed.

I've never had any issues with cargo. I use rustup to manage my rust toolchains and cargo for the most part.

I'm surprised that Joplin hasn't really been mentioned here.

It supports hierarchical or tag based notes + to-do lists, in plaintext/markdown/wysiwyg. It supports syncing to several providers, and I sync with my personal webdav server. It has vi/emacs keybindings and supports external editors. It also has a mobile app.

So I use that for digital notes, and a nice leuchtterm grid journal for physical notes. I generally do language studies in the physical journal and use the digital notes more for references.

You can do "-pinterest.com" to avoid that.

Many of the popular rust cli tools like ripgrep, exa, delta, etc -do- have package manager install options.

How dare people writing cli tools not package them conveniently for my distro. The horror of using cargo instead of cloning the source and praying make/meson/etc works.

Feel free to package and maintain these tools yourself for your distro if you want.

I don't really get the argument here. Various parts of the government have issues (including parts not at all related to finance), so we should throw our lot in with immutable chains that give zero consumer protection?

The U.S. govt, banks, and credit card companies have issues but there are also a lot of protections for the average person. The govt does get involved when it comes to finance, and that's fine. Things like tobacco and alcohol get regulated, and that's fine.

Cryptocurrencies aren't this magical thing that can't (or shouldn't) be touched by government. It was always a matter of time before the slow machine caught up.

> why should - or how could, the government save people from their personal decisions.

Because having a non-trivial amount of citizens losing their life savings on snakeoil, get-rich-quick schemes is a net negative for society. Plenty of laws and regulations exist -precisely- to prevent or save people from their bad decisions. That's what a government and society is -for-, not to say "too bad, kid, you should've known".

There is a considerable gulf between "someone who competed when they were young" and a world champion. Looking at their rankings, Kamath is/was about 2055 and Anand is about -2753-. He is among a handful of players who have managed to peak above 2800. [0]

As to why people cheat, there are a plethora of reasons. Running a brokerage or hedgefund is whatever, nothing really special to anyone. Being able to defeat someone like Anand -is- an incredible feat to have under one's belt. The thrill of dominating and/or getting key victories in a competitive sport far surpasses things like running a successful business or being rich. Money can't get you that. Business acumen can't get you that. Only your personal knowledge and skill can get you that.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_players_by_peak_...

My point is that given enough contortion or reduction, one can apply any real life strategy to almost any strategy game.

In the first example of controlling the middle vs the edges, well, there are chess openings with the strategy of explicitly giving up the center. A reply in a different chain on this post mentions these, known as hypermodern openings.

It does sound like a good book since I'm a fan of history, chess, and go, so I'll give it a read.

I'm not saying that strategy shouldn't be used. Obviously one should have a goal to not act in a way such that in the future their positions will be untenable.

What I'm saying is I don't find it useful to reduce complex real life positions or strategies into specific game terms like "ladder" or "ladder breaker" or "outpost" or whatever.

People don't want to admit it, but cryptocurrencies will absolutely go the way of tulips & beanie babies.

Various -technological aspects- from bitcoin and co's innovations will be lifted and utilized in new ways, but right now we should just be calling them "crypto-hold-forevers" or "crypto-get-rich-quick-schemes" or "crypto-buzzwords-to-sell-contracts" instead of -currencies-.

I would argue that games like go and chess are so vastly different from real life that it's not useful to make comparisons like this. Sometimes similar high-level strategies can be employed, but I'm certainly not thinking in terms of "controlling the middle" as that doesn't really make sense in real life. One can make that phrase as vague as possible to make it apply to real life, but what benefit does that bring?

And some quotes didn’t make sense at the time they were said, either.

Check out Diplomacy. It has no RNG and each player writes their moves for the turn, which all get evaluated at the same time.

It’s a very long game due to the discussion turns and having to evaluate everyone’s moves… but it allows for exciting politics.

Twitch will never ban one of their huge sources of revenue.

Because not everything is about businesses or money. Nor should there be any expectation of monetizing our hobbies / personal time.

There is a modern obsession with monetizing -everything- that one does, turning -everything- into a "hustle". Why can't people just do things in their spare time for fun without being bombarded about monetizing them?

Thanks to inflation and skyrocketing tuition, etc, things are different for this generation. This isn't perpetually blaming each past generation; it's specifically blaming the boomer generation. Our "poisons" are home ownership being out of reach for a significant chunk of the population (therefore tossing money away instead of building wealth like previous generations), and our environment being destroyed with the help of our geriatric politicians. Let me just "reframe" that!

[0]: https://news.yahoo.com/average-cost-college-jumped-incredibl...

[1]: https://archive.curbed.com/2018/4/10/17219786/buying-a-house...

Good! The world will be better off once we're no longer wasting gargantuan amounts of electricity & processing power on a speculative "currency" that people hoard.