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I'm over 50 and I sail the high seas. I can afford all the streaming services and even used to pay for them... until the price hikes and now the ads, so fuck them. I also never pay full price for my games.
All that money now goes to paying artists on BandCamp and a few Patreon accounts that make me happy.
At around your age I am thinking about going back to my youth: throw the TV out, quit consuming shit and go out and do things. There is more than enough free music for the rest of my lifetime and I havent seen a movie or TV show in years that actually matters.
Video games a bit, but patient gamer. My s OS has been Linux for over 20 years, so even doing things with computers doesn't cost.
I'm in my late 30's and went back to the high seas. I used to sail the seas in my early 20's when i was broke AF and didn't have cable TV. When Netflix came around it sudden became easier and more convenient to just pay $6.99/ month to watch whatever I wanted. For years I got by with Spotify and Netflix and I didn't even look back. Then, all of a sudden there were more streaming services than i knew what to do with and every few months they would all raise their price and reduce their libraries. Then they started putting ads in. Now I'm self hosting all of my media and using Stremio/Torentio for my one off TV shows and movies. I directly support creators wherever I can as well, whether it's Patreon or Kofi or just buying their Merch.
how far things have fallen. I remember 15 years ago, I actually reached out to Netflix directly to tell them how great they were as a product. I was like 17 and stupid. I reached out to their help desk just to say "hey you guys are awesome!" how times change I guess. Yoho and all that.
Netflix and Spotify almost ended Piracy by making it easy to access whatever you wanted for a reasonable fee. Then they got greedy and everyone else wanted a piece of the pie and now we are in a worse position than package bundle Cable TV.