You speak some truth here. I’ve been meaning hard to try and go out to movie theaters. I just keep ending up not going. Like, I know I’m missing out on the experience of seeing things on a gigantic screen at the comfort of a chair. I know I’m missing out on the latest and greatest. But it’s the expensive concessions and the experience of hearing many sounds coming from people as the movie itself tries drowning out that waters it down for me. Not to mention having to travel to the theater and pay the rising ticket prices just for the negatives.

I’m 35, I still buy toys in toy aisles, I still have cartoons from my past on lists when streaming stuff.

Here’s how I look at it - I’m responsible of an adult to do adult things when I need to. There’s just some things though that I’m allowed to do in my own space, away from everyone. It’s nobody’s fucking business. And I do admire those that are open about this thing. I do understand now why some people say that age is a number, in this context.

Besides, I find adult life pretty damn boring anyways. At my age, I’m expected to be knee-deep into sports, I’m expected to have had retirement savings like 401k, I’m expected to have a career I’m slaving myself to and all that shit. All the while wearing plain-ass clothing and getting into boring-ass conversations with NPCs.

Fuck all of that. You do you, I do me.

If our military is written to win, then yes. Like most movies pitting humanity against races and in situations where they would absolutely lose in but made it through cause plot armor.

Blu-Ray is just overrated. DVD is still around and still has decent quality. The quality contrast between DVD and Blu-Ray is narrow. It’s just the extra storage is there for when, whenever a movie is released, you just cram extra content into it. TV shows and anime shows have easier times for example because in the past, they’d have to release like 5 - 10 discs a season but now they can do it in one or two discs on blu-ray.

And streaming can have it’s strengths but obviously the services have crippled both quality and selection for the viewer.

The tool method seems to be proven true. I’ve heard that you buy the cheapest tool until you get one that does the job for you. Like if the cheapest tool breaks on you, you move a step up above it until you’re comfortable with the value and quality of a tool that both does its job and lasts a long time.

You can apply that to many things.

I have yet to hear a baby cry so loudly that I can hear it through my walls. So far in the 3 years I’ve lived here, not one instance can I recall or know of babies crying that loudly. Kids, who’re able to talk and walk, they can be loud yes but they’re manageable. It’s lazy parenting that lets them be that way. Pets, generally, they’re going to be loud and they’re hard to control because nobody puts in the effort.

Now I have a question back at you - did you read the part where I said that some owners fucking suck at being owners or did you selectively skip that part to make the comment that you’ve made? Learn to read, it’d help you sometime.

Why is my cursor finding ways to delete my Bluesky account?

Why are you pulling strawmen out of your ass?

How is the Discord way anti-consumer? Here, let me walk through to you the steps:

I go to Subscriptions on the app, I see my subscriptions now, I see a button that says Cancel. I click it, a window pops up that says I can Continue or Nevermind. Right now I’d Continue but I don’t want to because I’m on a month trial, but I do imagine that by clicking Continue, it’ll end things with a notification that tells me I’ve unsubscribed.

How is that process anti-consumer? It’s stupid easy to understand. I think you’re just arguing for the sake of arguing.

No, it absolutely does have something to do with people’s intelligence. Because if you can’t seem to follow the prompts there to cancel? Yeah, you’re kind of dumb.

It’s different than in Amazon’s case where sometimes they’ll flip the buttons on you, tricking you to resume. That kind of thing is anti-consumer.

It wasn’t that hard to cancel. People are just dumb.

Now if you want a pain in the ass subscription to get rid of, I’ll say Amazon that requires you 4 - 5 clicks to get rid of it as they’re pleading with you to stay.

No buffering, can rip the disc to have a digital copy, offline viewing .etc

I’m a little on the flipside with this one. I’m figuring it out that some of the best things out there, aren’t usually the ones that cost a premium. It just boils down to what that something is and whether you want it’s best version. Like, some of the brand-names in stores aren’t usually some of the best that’s out there compared to generic brands. I know this from some of the review videos I’ve watched like Project Farm on YouTube.

I’m going to step in and kindly disagree. You’re living one life, your own. When you’ve experienced what you feel that there is to experience and all that, then things stop being personally exciting for you. Everyone’s lives is different from one another with shared generalities.

People and I’ve been beaten over the head with it too, were marketed to believe that to make it successfully in life is to go with tech. The problem is that most of the people didn’t begin with the chops to even understand tech to begin with and yet they try. That’s why you see these people working in tech when they shouldn’t be. Some are in tech because they got the obvious leg-up, word in about them through a friend which is common. And usually they’re managing departments or sectors of tech that they have absolutely no grasp of but they’re there for the gravy train of money because working in tech is where some big money is.

I truly believe that innovating the internet is really running in place. Might be just me but I can’t think of anything we can really do, to ‘evolve’ it. We’re doing everything that we’ve been doing in the past three decades, but it’s only just been more accessible and the speeds faster (depending where you are). But we’re not actually moving the needle when it comes to progressing the internet as a whole.

And I see it this way as to why. We’ve experienced two big booms in Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, with Web 1.0 being what some consider the Wild West of the internet. Web 2.0 is basically the great social media bubble that has blossomed for years. We’re not doing anything new or different now than we did back in 2007. Every new social media platform that comes out is recycling the exact same things as many before it presented. I truly think we stopped evolving the internet the day we managed to get messengers onto phones when phones were developing and it’s only been perfected by the age of the first wave of smartphones.

So I just think with all of this AI stuff, this “Web 3.0” I’ve been hearing about for a few years now, the Metaverse .etc are all just gimmicks. Gimmicks of shitty ideas coming from the wrong people that should be practicing said ideas, all saying that they’re innovating the internet when all that they’re doing is just taking advantage of the internet for themselves. All within political theater of course.

Lemmy wasn’t made with the promise of higher-end discussions or intellectual thought. Rather, the Fediverse wasn’t constructed with that in mind. It was made as an alternative to escape the grand enshittification that has poisoned the wells of Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and other overly-centralized social media platforms.

So I think you’re really aiming too high for what you seek on here. I’ve noted and seen very clear similar behavior on some parts of the Fediverse as I would on Reddit. You really can’t escape it because it’s not strictly a social media platform thing. That’s what many people continue to fail in realizing. It does not matter where you go, because you will find groups of no-life assholes with nothing better to do than to instigate fights and shit on everyone’s parade for their amusement. Along with other bullshit they do like victimizing themselves and crying to mods with made-up stories to get you banned.

It’s an internet thing and the internet in it’s entirety is bigger than any social media platform because those social media platforms are simply just parts of the bigger picture. So my point is, is that anyone can be an asshole, but there are always going to be dedicated assholes who live that kind of lifestyle everywhere you go. Going from Social Media Platform A to Social Media Platform B or to Social Media Platform C will not fix that. To be quite frank with you, I find it easier to stick with one community so that way you don’t have to deal with the chances of dealing with the potential assholes who’re going to be under different names.

And it also depends on how well moderated a community is. Keep this in mind.

Groceries will be affordable. But Nearly all Restaurants will be out of business.

Abortion Rights would be restored and codified, LGBTQ Rights would be codified, Workers Rights would be strengthened and we’ll adopt a newly christened Migrant Rights But getting into certain job fields will be harder

American Politicians will no longer be corrupt But we will enter a World War to make it happen

Your privacy will be stored as an act will pass for companies to no longer mooch data off from you You will have to endure a life of nothing but verification checks

I generally do not care that much about my privacy unless:

I’m confronting an individual who has too much disposable time to themselves to openly dox me down to where I work to threaten it.

Data/Security breaches where the company goes “uhhh…whoopsie!” in response.

Bank accounts suddenly having transactions I know I didn’t authorize.

Other than that, I’m one of the few that aren’t too tied up with shrouding everything I do online. It just seems more like that if I act more suspicious, then it’ll attract people who keenly want to know more about me than I’d like. I just know enough not to do stupid things like making my real name my screen name or shamelessly sharing info and pretend that it won’t be tracked or traced.

If you cover your tracks better, things are fine. It’s just you’re more annoyed with specific ads based on your preferences.

I want to be able to buy out the entirety of my geeky/nerd knick knack store. But I most likely won’t because I’d feel cluttered with so many figurines and other stuff that I’d end up donating it.