“I’d rather get banned shit-posting than live long enough to see myself become a janny” = u/ram_ranchh now ShitOnABrick
I’m a libertarian
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” ― Noam Chomsky
Epic games store is honestly quite decent m8 I’ve been using it since 2020. Some of the good things I’ve noticed on epic games is
free games
alot of the sales for games can be cheaper than steam sales
It’s hardly no different to steam gog or any other game launched out there although it lacks official linux support which is a negative in my books when it comes to privacy I’ll argue they’re both as bad as each other if you think your being smart by avoiding epic games because it’s owned by tencent and your concerned for your privacy then you should stop using steam ubisoft ea gog and the many other launchers as well they’re both as invasive when it comes to your privacy as the other plus hear me out… YOUR NOT THAT IMPORTANT I’m not sure the feds are coming after a 32 year old IT tech support worker because he said wrongthink on a tiny social media network
If your still super paranoid first uninstall all your game launchers then maybe pirate and look into foss alternatives or try GOG out you can install games on the Web without a launcher and the games don’t have invasive drm
Prehaps an ayn loki zero might be up your valley as its a full fledged budget steamdeck type pc for the same price as a ps portal this might be perfect for you as you could have playstations desktop streaming app installed and some desktop games that’ll run on the meager loki zeros hardware I hear it does a good job emulating games upto ps2 games
https://www.ayntec.com/products/loki-zero-preorder
Or of course a full fledged steamdeck
Same here og 2020 stadia user here although I wouldn’t necessarily call cloud gaming ideal
pc gaming is the way to go nowadays with
Cheap games on steam and free games on epic games sometimes on gog
plus playing online is free and nowadays you can build yourself a very cheap rx 480/570 miners are trying get rid of there stock
i5 4450/i7 3770 pc for very cheaply pair that with a 60gb ssd and above for a boot drive and a 1tb hdd and your gaming
Depends if you do your research and look for the right deals both used and new you could get an decent pc built with around the same performance as current gen consoles for less than used current gen xbox series x also you don’t have to pay up the ass for online subscriptions fees generally it’s upto you and your personal preferences though some people prefer consoles and some people people prefer pcs
Generally though in my experience computers are always cheaper in the long term and get better support as well not having to pay for online and having storefronts such as gog and epic games which give out free games makes pcs a hell of alot worth it to me
That’s a more ideal way of doing targeting big businesses and fossil fuel execs through peaceful forms of protesting a good example of this is how some people in London and Glasglow are protesting ULEZ by vandalising ULEZ cameras if your going protest make sure it doesn’t affect anyone in the general public
plenty of protests have happened through history. Some have been more successful than examples being Marton Luther Kings rallies woman suffrage movements the salt march singing revolution plus with the world of the Internet if you make a large enough rucus you’ll have eyes and ears on you from across the world
Attempted to destroy art with soup read into it if you want to it’s van goths sunflower painting thankfully the morons didn’t account for the painting being protected by some protective glass
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63254878
Also here’s the video
But disrupting a major event/traffic or attempting to destroy a priced piece of art with soup out of all things makes you and your organisation look like a massive pile of shit there are way way way better ways of protesting such as picketing as you said or rallys if you bring enough people say 200 or 300 you’ll appear on the social media and prehaps local and regional news prehaps if you make a large enough splash you might sway the general public to your cause
Well There’s plenty of ways of protesting and getting the word out that don’t involve getting in the way or destroying/nicking property you can have peaceful demonstrations ideally populated like a city square where you and a massive crowd of people gather and make your voices heard im fairly certain that’s called a rally or you use art as a way of protesting graffiti etc you can also boycott a organisation or government institution and you can do a picket protest as well
Cataclysm dark days ahead