Millennial here.
I grew up with sneakernet through irc-napster-kazaa-limewire-directconnect-bittorrent-oneswarm. I gave all that up when netflix and spotify.
Those subscriptions have been ended a couple of years back and the eye patch is back on.
Netflix’ catalogue has just diminished, as everyone who owns rights to the good stuff want to do their own streaming service.
I wasn’t really listening that much ro spotify, but when they started injecting ads into podcasts I bid adieu. (Yes, injected - I’d listen to an English podcast and get very local ads between segments).
Injected ads in RSS podcasts are common too - they’ll look at the IP address and serve a location-specific episode.
Got any recommendations for where to download music these days?
Bandcamp or rip CDs at the library. Ytdlp if you want to rip audio from YouTube. Picard to fingerprint and tag the files.
Ha; finally realizing we’re a bunch of cheap bastards too? Took em long enough, they will not see the connection to the job market yet.
So you’re saying people without money don’t act like they have disposable income? Fucking science!
Yo, ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me!
I cancelled my YouTube subscription when they increased the price by 50%, and I’m never subscribing again.
I haven’t bought a full price game in decades, unless it’s an indie/under €30.
I’m finally building up my PS4 game collection, for ages I had 2 games - RD2 and FFXV. Yesterday I got this in the mail, I paid less for those 4 used games than what Sony is asking for a digital copy of FFVII Remake in their store…
Is this because they don’t know how to torrent? Or did the “you wouldn’t download a car” ads get into the water supply?
99% of internet users don’t know what a torrent is.
Which is probably a good thing for torrent users
Swim sideways to not get caught in a torrent.
Given how often games go on sale, often at a big discount, why would I pay full price?
Millenial here, I have zero subscriptions, the only thing close to that is that I manually pay for a gift card for Geoguessr once a year.
I do it this way so I don’t forget the cost of the service and should I come onto bad times, it is not something that will automatically renew and keep charging.
I am considering getting a lifetime subscription to Nebula, it is very expensive, but just a single payment that can be budgeted for, and once paid I’ll keep access even through bad times.
Fellow millennial here. I’m in the same boat. Zero subscriptions except for Curiosity Stream, which is like Netflix for educational documentaries, and it’s dirt cheap.
I bought the lifetime subscription to Nebula. It’s been worth it; I have a few channels I follow and I appreciate the extra content and freedom of video producers to say/do whatever they want without platform censorship. YouTube has so many restrictions, no one can post content without bowing to Google censorship.
Parody laws should allow people to actually review or poke fun at other media, but Google will demonetize or block any content that they arbitrarily decide is copyright infringement. Most film review channels I follow have to be extremely creative in how they show clips of movies. Most of them mute music scenes, and some will insert their own public domain (or homemade) music over scenes to avoid a ban. It’s ridiculous how far the MPAA and RIAA have gone in locking down media from public consumption.
Also millennial. The only thing I pay for is Tidal. Music streams, at least for now, are operating as they should. You pay one a month, get all the content and no ads. I’m using it everyday and it costs almost nothing.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that lifetime subscription. Companies already started changing the terms of use while subscribed. Sony’s has been removing movies that have been purchased from people’s librarys.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that lifetime subscription. Companies already started changing the terms of use while subscribed. Sony’s has been removing movies that have been purchased from people’s librarys.
I understand why you’d be worried but comparing a multi-billion multi-national corporation like Sony to Nebula is like comparing CNN or Fox News to 4ZZZ Community Radio, they are worlds apart
The founder and CEO posts on reddit responding to peoples questions
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nebula/comments/1qicazx/comment/o0swr01/
At the risk of sounding cynical. I also wouldn’t trust any company to stay fair forever.
Nice, I also tried nebula and considered a one time pay subscription. I tried it once’s, found some cool videos but then I had to focus on other things.
Won’t, or can’t afford to?
insert small mexican girl
“Why not both?”
Gen Zpeople who aren’t paid enough to liveI used to renew and binge for a single show.
Now I’ve got effectively 0 services. I’m subscribed to like 8 patreons. But I’m just straight downloading what I feel like. I dgaf.
We are all victims of asymmetrical class warfare. Download what you want without guilt, everyone (safely). It’s one very small clapback to the constant attacks and damage done to us and the planet.
Save your money for the independent creators that actually deserve it. The big corporations don’t deserve a single cent.
I’ll pay you to create content, like its always been. I’m not gonna pay a third party to put up barriers. If you don’t want an idea or information to be shared freely, keep it to yourself.
Please freely and openly share the following thought. It is important that everyone hear it
Butts
One money please
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Are you sure? All of our back issues are exactly the same except that one time we had a guest editor. That time it was
Titties
I’ll be honest, that issue was kind of a bust, but you managed to return the other cheek on the next issue so I’m willing to put it in the rearview.
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Streaming? Purchasing? Gen Z needs some PC literacy, lol.
These are iPad kids. They believe that the extent of computing is what Apple allows you to have.
Young used to equate to high PC literacy, sadly no longer for the exact reason you mentioned: walled gardens, non-removable components.
I mean, with the video games point, they’re like… always on sale these days. The only time they’re not on sale is when they first come out.
Buying the game on launch for full price + (usually) issues or buying it a year later, 60+% off, patched and with additional post-launch content? Tough choice!
And considering many games come out totally bugged today and need a few months to be fixed anyway makes the choice even harder.
Some games stay full of bugs until the modders step in and fix it themselves.
Damn you factorío
Then against the Factorio devs publicly said they much prefer that you pirate the game over using a shady grey market key seller…
And when you set up a multiplayer server there’s even a checkbox to choose whether it should validate that players have a user account… Untick that and you can play with anyone who pirated the game.
To me it’s a pretty clear from the devs message: If you want the game, and want to support the developers, and can afford it, you buy it at full price. If you don’t want to support the devs or can’t afford it, but still want to play, you pirate it. And they even have a free demo, so you can try the game before making your purchasing decisions.
When I look at all the paid streaming services they generally only have about 3 titles that appeal to me. It just makes economic sense to watch those titles that appeal to you and cancel afterwards. If you are making 100k a year then who cares about a $500 in streaming services per year. That just means means Gen Z is being smart with their money.
Plus there’re so many old titles you can watch with ads for free on Pluto, YouTube etc. And if you are really poor there’s always the high seas.
I do this now.
There’s too much crap to throw money at it all.
My tastes are different than most gamers. I see creating and feel the game is doing to be a grind. Base building doesn’t particularly interest me as a mechanic. So I don’t know of an overweening overwhelmingly positive game is one I’ll actually enjoy.
