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without them you would probably still own the games you paid for

I'm gonna go against the current here and say no. Videogames are not a good hobby and a poor investment of your time. If the alternative is deer hunting or anything shady then playing videogames is one of the less harmful things you can do on earth but among the thousand activities you can do and pick up as a hobby videogames are not free of issues.

First of all by specifically getting into video games you are looking at stare at a screen and sit for hours. Not a big deal if you can manage it but don't limit yourself to just videogames, there are board games, social games, mind sports and many other games you can get into.

Videogames industry has become very rotten and has appropriated the whole community. Many of the titles being suggested here are "products" made by evil companies with mechanics built to mess up with people. Steam which many recommended you to download is a proprietary software launcher that belongs to a company that has no problem pushing loot boxes and abduct kids into gambling. That's the sort of business you are getting your hands into.

Which services? isn't it similar to matrix?

Isn't it decentralized?

Nobody can do shit about it anyways so they are going to do it for whatever reason. Red and blue party just won elections and it's going to win again in 4 years, government gonna do whatever they want.

I believe the lack of footage from gaza and the censorship of the press is doing a good job at keeping public opinion controlled. If pictures of dead kids would be on the news daily you will see a public outrage.

because I had my idea from a dream I had last night. Not the most original image, but it was fun to try and reproduce something from a dream.

Amazing man, the image is beautiful

Serious information should also not be spread through memes. Lemmy homes are always filled with shitposts, try to upvote more serious content and less memes.

In the west, you should expect to find the border guard. They are capable of checking databases and patrolling in nature, but aren’t heavily armed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxo0gBM6GM

In this video you can see soldiers patrolling the borders with rifles and dogs and using drones to scan the area, what's your definition of heavily armed? They look heavily armed enough to me.

And tens of thousands of guys have taken leave on their own, despite anything the border guard can do. If one doesn’t like the draft, one hikes out via the Carpathian mountains.

I hope that's true, according to wikipedia half of the people trying to escape are getting caught

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilization_in_Ukraine

"Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, around 650,000 military-aged men have left the country. According to Ukrainian authorities, as of November 2023, around 20,000 people had been caught while trying to cross the border illegally since February 2022, and another 20,000 successful crossings were recorded between February 2022 and 31 August 2023 according to a BBC Eye Investigation."

Malatesta wrote multiple times on the subject.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchists-have-forgotten-their-principles

https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1916/pro-government-anarchists.html