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People who proudly boast about how they never spend a dime on Epic Games, in their store, but has hundreds of free games to play with no intent to play them. Like, I don't know who is supposed to be impressed by that. Not to mention, that's not really a good method of protesting if you're someone who hates Epic Games.

You're still spending the time and effort, not to mention even bothering to have an account with them to begin with, to redeem free games that they give away. Who are you seriously trying to impress or what message are you trying to convey? Because all I see are contradictions and ironies.

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[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 8 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

what if your pride and joy is base level hatchback with a manual transmission?

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's a vehicle. It's used for transpiration. Being proud of it is always weird.

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 2 hours ago

I drive a car. Not an extension of my penis.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Whoa, I ran a used 5-speed for about a decade and totally douched out on how much I was not paying for my car.

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

i have a couple of friends who are stupidly addicted to their falling apart 20 year old cars, but they seem to take perverse pride in dropping $5K for a new transmission or other major repair every other year, and going on about how much they are saving buy not buying a new car...

i have one buddy with a 2004 VW and he's spend like 20K on it in the past 4-5 years and like goes on about how new cars are all debt traps and he'll never have a loan again... and i'm over here looking at a used Integra that's like 2 years old and is like 25K... and won't need any major repairs for 15+ years...