Spyke
sh.itjust.works

You own an Xbox and you buy games? Wtf man just get Gamepass. It would have paid for itself already with just those two games and maybe one or two smaller releases.

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TwinTitansreply
lemmy.world

Uh, you can get them for free from the library. Game pass if hella expensive. And yeah, I don’t do digital.

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sh.itjust.works

That’s hell of a nice library that has games available, on launch no less.

I don’t even know if there’s a library in a 3 hour radius from me.

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TwinTitansreply
lemmy.world

It just the city library’s. Have you checked out yours, I know each city will vary but it’s worth a shot.

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canreply
sh.itjust.works

I'm sorry to hear that. Every community should have a library.

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sh.itjust.works

As someone who loves to read and to think I agree but at the same time I know it would be a waste of the town’s finances. People here don’t read, for example my grandfather told me not long ago that “he hates” reading. How can you justify the expense of a library that no one would ever visit?

The schools have OK libraries (by our standards, for someone from a city they probably look like a closet) and when I was a student I was one of the very few that ever used it for actually reading. Everyone else just used it as a social space and to watch YouTube.

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How can you justify the expense of a library that no one would ever visit?

I guess by shifting it to be a resource for things the community could use? Libraries can be so much more than books.

Not that it's cheap or easy.

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TwinTitansreply
lemmy.world

Ah damn. Do you at least have decent internet for those huge files?

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Yikes. Well, at least your able to access games and that’s the important thing.

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TwinTitansreply
lemmy.world

Even if it was considered cheap, why subscribe to a rotating library that you may or may not enjoy when you can buy your own and enjoy they at your own leisure whenever you want. I guess if you want to buy it for a month and play a specific launch title on it it makes sense - Digital renting.

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lemm.ee

I play like 3 long games and a handful of short games per year. I'm not sure how anyone except a teenager would have the time to play most of these. That's not a dig, I just truly don't understand where the time comes from.

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xyzzyreply

Jesus Christ, calm down. I thought that was in one year.

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lemmy.world

I feel your disdain for digital and your fight against it should be more focused on the ownership of digital goods instead of just "digital bad" for a variety of reasons. The most important being the environment.

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I don’t care to own mass consumption media to be honest. Maybe some movies.

In my opinion the only media really worth owning is books and even then not all books are worth the paper they are printed on, so those might be best kept on an ebook.

I rather put my money in silly things like appreciating assets.

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