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This post is somewhat inspired by a recent post in this same community called "Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?"

I imagine "Reddit" will be a common answer. (And it's one of my answers.)

Another of my answers is "Hasbro." First Wizards of the Coast (a Hasbro subsidiary) tried to revoke an irrevokable license and screw over basically all 3rd-party publishers of D&D content, then they sent literal mercinaries to threaten one of their customers over an order mixup that wasn't even the customer's fault. D&D: Honor Among Thieves and the latest Transformers look really good, but those are within the scope of my boycott, so I won't be seeing those any time soon.

Third, Microsoft. (Apple too, but then I've never bought any Apple devices in my life, so it hardly qualifies as a boycott.) Just because of their penchant for using devices I own against me in every way they can imagine. And for really predatory business practices.

One boycott that I've ended was a boycott of Nintendo. I was pissed that they started marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though it didn't have a name at the time) before the WiiU came out, prompting me to be an early adopter of the WiiU, and then when they actually released BotW, they dual-released it on WiiU and Switch. I slightly eased my boycott when the unpatchable Fusee Gilee vulnerability for the first batch of Switches was discovered. I wanted to get one of the ones I could hack and run homebrew on before they came out with a model that lacked the vulnerability.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Inkjet printers are pretty much a scam, and HP is particularly shameless about it. I do not buy anything from HP.

Dell sold me a lemon laptop and it took 6 months for them trying to fix it before I demanded a complete replacement, and they replaced it with a different model with fewer features. I wouldn't buy a Dell if civilization depended on it.

I'm avoiding pretty much any large video game studio. Kinda baffles me that anyone anywhere does business with Activision/Blizzard, EA, Bethesda and the like. They treat their creative staff like shit, they treat their customers like shit. Looking down my list of games bought in the last 10 years, I'm not sure if Unknown Worlds Entertainment (developers of Subnautica) or Coffee Stain Studios (Goat Simulator; Satisfactory) are the largest studio I buy from. Valve themselves don't count per "in the last 10 years."

I avoid Microsoft as much as I can. They're just straight-up bad people and have been since before I was born.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you are unaware gaining on Linux for most games super easy these days nice and quick for handling getting windows put of your life

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have been a Linux gamer for a shade under 10 years now.