There's nothing wrong either with pumping the brakes of a subscription, which I'm seeing and hearing people do now including myself. I just need a good reason to subscribe to say like, Netflix, to get me to watch what I want to watch or catch up on then decide to unsubscribe.
I sincerely hope they don't penalize people in the future for doing this, but I expect at somepoint that they will so mind as well enjoy that while we're able.
Everyone should sit down and ask themselves - 'Do I Really Need This?'
I can only speak on my behalf. I have over, roughly estimating, 1,500 games both purchased and pirated. Do I really need a subscription such as GamePass right now when I have so much already? No, I really don't.
I've pirated thousands of songs over the years, do I really need Spotify's subscription? No, I do not and I'm glad that I don't.
So on and so forth. I decide what I need or want based on the current lifestyle and quality of life in my current state. I do not need over 40 subscriptions sapping me every month and it's only gotten easier because I combat FOMO, I evaluate what else is out there that serves as an alternative that isn't subscription based.
These days when I look at people paying a subscription model for Microsoft Office, I shake my head and have that kind of chuckle that makes you feel sorry over someone doing that. Because really, I still use older versions of Microsoft Office and LibreOffice to handle whatever modern features that there is to handle. Not a lot has really changed to warrant subscribing to such a model.
A lot of subscription models can be pressy to people who aren't knowledgeable unless they take advantage of what's out there.
Anime - People don't like you when you're into the popular ones.
Video Games - It's everywhere here. If you're into AAA games, you'll never hear the end of it. If you're into Indie games, then you have to be into games like Hollow Knight, Undertale .etc or you just don't know indie.
Metal Music - Fucking hell, you're always going to be snubbed and looked down upon because you're not into Death or Black Metal. Doesn't matter if you're into Iron Maiden or X Nu Metal band here, but you're just not metal until you listen to anything Black/Death. Maybe I don't want to listen to Cookie Monster and Friends.
I feel this with Terraria. Yeah the updates are free and they try many ways to freshen the game up. But, I'm almost begging for the game to land itself in a comfortable level of finishing itself and just polish it off. It is a radically different game when I try it than when I first did back in 2015.
I resonate the same way with Anime fans. I used to have seen many people identify themselves back in the 2000s as 'Otakus' and some even wearing the shirts to say so. It got off-putting for a good long while. There are even fans who uncomfortably reveal their favorite characters that all look suggestively underaged or too dolled up which makes associating with them in casual conversation a problem because of the mental gymnastics they'll go through defending them.
The anime fandom has a poor track record of just keeping these weirdos out which doesn't make it good to indulge on the hobby.
Everyone's collections is suddenly worth way more because of the devious amounts of pumping and dumping by heritage auctions and people operating on a pawn broker mindset. That's who ruined an honest hobby.
I wanted my collection so that I can have things to turn to and play, but have physical copies of. There were very few times I got games so I could flip them, but only if it meant more money to have on the bargaining table to get what I truly wanted. I've gotten a copy of Pokemon Stadium 2 sealed in 2010. I tried selling it for $95, but not sure what the final price of it really went for. Might've been a tad lower.
I mean, that's just how you did business if it means getting what you want. These days, everyone is constantly flipping and skyrocketing values to unrealistic levels "for fun" or profit than just caring about what they've got at all.
I didn't know making a personal collection constituted as being an 'investor'. Learn something new everyday. /s
I mean it's in the word - personal. When you're making personal collections, you aren't in it for the money or what ways you can flip what you get for an investment.
I can see why even Reddit wouldn't want this posted over there.
So, okay, you've made up a scenario but it has nothing to do with the question you're asking. Why couldn't you have just asked the question and not beat around the bush before doing so?
Last Podcast on the Left - Three guys that covered true crime, the morbid, the crazy and everything in between while cracking dark humor over it all. I used to listen to this heavily from 2017 through 2021. I believe before I just stopped listening. They lost one of their longtime hosts recently to controversy a while back and I haven't been interested in picking it back up.
The Prancing Pony Podcast - This is an acquired taste because it appeals to fans of Middle-Earth and everything Tolkien. Two hosts offer insight and depth reading of the legendarium, starting from Silmarillion through Hobbit and up to the Lord of the Rings. I think they're close to wrapping up Return of the King soon. Very informational podcast to get into if you're a fan of the lore.
Sequelisers - A group of hosts take bad unnecessary sequels to beloved films and attempt to fix them, while offering insight as to why the sequel in question was a bad idea in the first place.
CUPodcast - Again, another acquired taste because this only has a small following and it involves video games. It's hosted by Pat Contri who is known as PatTheNESPunk on YouTube along with co-host Ian. They basically cover the gossip and general news rounds with gaming.
Depression has gotten massively common because people tend to self-diagnose themselves. They self-diagnose themselves because therapy costs are high.
I've gone through therapy to say that I absolutely do have it. But then again, I knew for certain that I already had it prior to seeing at least two therapists. Because I've had a shitty childhood, I've gotten bullied an awful lot through childhood, I had unsupporting and unloving parents. A lot of my ambitions and dreams weren't realized because I didn't have the necessary tools to go and achieve them. My school career was so embarrassing that I elected not to go to college because I had nothing to show for it.
And while I can say that I've had decent friends and some good relationships. I keep finding myself fighting with whether or not anyone actually cares of me and simply just isn't tolerating me so they can take advantage of my generosity.
No. I did my time for the many years I've endured when adblockers weren't really much of a thing. So, that meant that I've put up with ads until 2006 which meant AdBlock Plus first debuted.
Ads are typically trash, they're in your face, they're invasive, they're prone to have malware in them and it's just marketing pollution that adds no value except to figure out ways, mostly in obnoxious fashion, to get you to spend money.
I started to care about it until I learned and discovered that we aren't dealing with recyclables as well as we should. We've been hampering people for decades to recycle, recycle and recycle. Some good have came from recycling, it has. But damn, we're not really doing enough as people think and it's a damn shame that truth is just shelved so we can keep lying to people about recycling.
I as an individual, realize I can only do so much, but I feel it is still in the responsibility and accountability of big corps and other companies that need to really step up more since they're bigger than me. I just think it's irresponsible of them to have it fall on the shoulders of average joe to clean everything up, when BP barely lifts a finger to fix it's own shit. How is it entirely my fault about how bad climate change has getting?
So you know what, I'll still take some of my own responsibility, yet until I see these corps and companies work double time to fulfill their end of the table, I'm just going to be a little lax on it.
It's because of shit like this, I've had a document containing all passwords and accounts stashed away.
I'm going to copy and paste, fuck anyone thinking I'm going to manually enter their shit.