Incus better

“Because I don’t want PayPal doing the same”

Honestly they’re both annoying because they take a fee on top of the credit card company fee. Just cut out the middleman and use the credit card option.

No girl ever said “damn he would look really sexy if his lats were like 40 pounds”

I think a lot of people in this community consider it a lifestyle to pirate media.

Do you know what community this is?

No not a scam. You’re just salty. And that’s not how zero sum game works.

Why is this a scam and Gucci isn’t? You just said it, they both have sign value which is just people trying to show off that they have money.

What frustration are you talking about there? We’re talking about cosmetic shit.

Sure acheivements don’t have inherent value, but the skins do. The idea of a captured flag or whatever is how good you are at the game and the fact that you had fun doing it. Skins are the same as clothes. You don’t have to get the best, but people pay obscene amounts of money to get some bullshit they think looks good and shows off status. It’s the same here. But you don’t see people advocating for the shutting down of LV or Gucci or whatever.

Not even the game itself has inherent value. Why would I pay $60 for a Mario game that I don’t like and it lasts like 50 hours when I can play the $20 Binding of Isaac (masterpiece) that could easily last me hundreds of hours. Other people would say the opposite.

Manipulation is when the game gives you the illusion that you can get something if you work hard enough on it without paying. Similar to how battlefront did with their characters when you pretty much can’t unlock the characters without paying unless you grind like a million hours. It’s similar in games where you use real money for stuff that give you an advantage and you can pretty much guarantee a loss if you don’t buy their shit.

There is no illusion here. You just play the game and get everything the others are getting without paying. You only pay for the cosmetic skin. How is that manipulation?

Psychological manipulation because my guy can only be bright green not dark green.

These are just different ways the company would profit from their game. You play the game for the gameplay and that’s all that matters.

Besides, what if you really like the game and just literally want to donate to the company? I know I did for rocket league, and bought a skin for like $20 when I got the game itself for like $15 or some shit. I thought the game was worth way more with how much fun I had with it. Same for games that let you “buy” the OST. Everyone knows this is bullshit just ignore it.

Bro it’s cosmetic who gives a fuck. Just play the game and buy the reasonably priced skins. Better yet, just don’t buy the skins at all. People are so fucking entitled holy shit.

There’s no need for a new internet. Every garbage service has a somewhat viable alternative.

You have peertube instead of youtube Kagi, duckduckgo, marginalia, etc instead of Google search Lemmy instead of reddit Mastodon, polycentric instead of twitter Gitea instead of github Bandcamp instead of spotify There are probably more things but you get the idea. The problem is not the internet itself but that you have to have many people go to objectively less polished or paid services to protect their personal data. I don’t know how that would happen since honestly, the privacy shit doesn’t affect people’s everyday lives, but using different services does affect their lives.