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.
Totally boycotting micro$oft (except for leeching from github)
boycotting Israel as much as I can (a medication I depend on comes from there, unfortunately)
Fast food, it’s just bad and unhealty
eBay as a buyer, selling stuff there opened my eyes as how much that platform sucks.
AAA game studios, kinda. I just pirate them.
What’s up with ebay?
Where to start
High fees (13/15% if you’re a professional)
It sides ALWAYS with the buyer, even when the buyer admits to scam the seller (happened to me twice)
Bogus fees for stuff like people buying from outside the EU (I’m in the EU)
Bogus rules, I couldn’t sell and old police hat, even if it isn’t in use anymore by the police, Idk why, they straight up removed my listing.
Scummy algorithm, if you don’t pay their mafia boss sponsorship % (like 15% on top of the 15% fee and shipping) they don’t indicize you in the top ~3 pages
And many more
Still researching, but thinking about adding trader joes after reading this: https://jacobin.com/2023/08/trader-joes-workers-independent-unionism-organizing-tju-grocery-store
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Do you have a list of products / companies they own? I would happily make use of that list.
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Blizzard/Activision after all the scandals.
Google music after it changed to youtube music and changed all the music I bought and downloaded to a file format that only could play on YouTube music and you had to be online every day to validate your music. Fuck em
Yeah. Fuck Google for that. That really pisses me off. Fuck them for changing from “buy this and it’s yours” to “rent this from us forever if you want the app to work.”
At least my pruchases are backed up on the high seas.
I’m still on my Blizzard boycott that started with the Blitzchung thing. Family and friends have tried to get me to drop it to play with them a few times, but a boycott doesn’t seem like it has much purpose (or effect) if you just drop it after a while when nothing has changed.
I don’t really consider them boycotts because they are indefinite and I don’t have any demands or don’t see how they could change that would make me receptive to them.
Cars. I’ll personally ride along or carpool with someone but I don’t want to add another car to the world and to the road. Even if we switched over to all electric cars, they still require lots of resources to build and maintain and put a lot of demand on infrastructure and urban design.
Animal products. I am against all animal products and treating animal as commodity. We’ve enslaved animals all the way down to the biological level, it’s unethical.
Nestlé and big chocolate brands such as Hershey. I doubt they’ll stop their human rights violations until they face actual repercussions so I’m probably gonna keep it that way.
It’s surprising how much candy, specifically chocolate candies, are sold every single day. I never knew that people ate so much chocolate!
I still eat chocolate, I just try to limit it to stuff that’s slave free. The biggest brands tend to be shit in comparison to a lot of smaller slave free brands anyway.
Israel and any company operating out of the occupied Palestinian lands that is Israeli operated.
Apartheid states that oppress people’s in another land and treat them like prisoners in an open air prison don’t get my money.
I’m still boycotting Blizzard for the Hong Kong thing. Then they kept piling on more reasons.
I’m boycotting them because they haven’t made a good game in about 20 years.
FAIR
I’m still boycotting Wizards of the Coast over the OGL drama. In addition to being against open and shared content in their game system, I was getting tired of their half baked books with no substance coming so frequently that I just couldn’t keep up with it. When they announced their own Virtual Tabletop software, I knew it was only a matter of time before you couldn’t even play D&D 5e on another platform so I bailed and I’m not looking back.
being against open and shared content
Absolute newb regarding non-video games here. What do you mean by that? How do they stop players from sharing content?
So, part of what it seems like they were doing was setting up their new license to begin restricting smaller creators and groups from being able to create premium content for their game system without paying exorbitant fees to WotC.
Also if they create a “preferred” VTT system or environment that they own, only release official content to this system, they kill other VTTs that their audience is already using, and push them all to their software. Notes from meetings with WotC and Hasbro all began to sound like a big push to add microtransactions to a tabletop game and corner their audience into spaces where they will get a piece of any profit being made related to D&D, which is a far cry from the open and collaborative license that we had all enjoyed up until recently. It is all just scummy corporate bs and I’m not going to give them any more of my money until they stop.Whats VTT, virtual table top? Like a companion app to support playing sessions? Sounds like they were more open regarding custom content than they legally had to in the past and now they are taking these grants away from the community? Like using official content and names in custom adventures and selling them?
Yeah, a virtual tabletop, which due to covid, have exploded in popularity over the last few years. What it really feels like in the community was that between the “Golden Age” of D&D 3-3.5 and even the “Dark Ages” of 4th edition, the publishers at Wizards of the Coast at the time had intended to license most of the ability to make and create content for D&D and share it openly and the original Open Games License at the time was written such that it couldn’t be revoked and that content for D&D would be able to be created and shared openly. The new OGL being pushed by WotC attempts to retract the previous license and includes language that states that WotC owns or has rights to any and all content published for D&D by third party homebrewers, and any profits made up to a ridiculously high number made by third parties was owed to WotC, which is a complete 180 from the previous OGL and many people were rightfully angry about it.
Thank you for explaining!
Besides 3.5 is better /s mostly. Its my preferred system but enjoy what you like
I’ve almost entirely switched to Pathfinder at this point and I’m having a great time.
First end or second edition I have been on first since wotx pulled their bs with 4th edition
Second, I’m looking at the 1e adventures though, I might have to delve into them, even if I’m rewriting them for 2e.
Nestlé, wherever I can. They are a particularly evil multinational corporation.
Also won’t work for companies that profit on human misery.
🤔 So they primarily make chocolate and bottled water, right?
What if someone else came along and set up a company that sold chocolate and bottled water obtained a lot more ethically. How would you all feel about that?
Better. There are plenty of companies that aren’t Nestle that provide both I’m sure.
But Nestle’s tentacles are into many more products than just those two, which makes them challenging to ignore 100%. From Wikipedia:
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I imagine a world where bottled water is sold in chilled aluminum bottles instead of shitty, non-reuseable plastic. That is bottled from desalinated seawater whose excess brine is flash-boiled and the sea salt sold instead of ripped off from innocent cities’ aquifers.
I imagine a world where chocolate is primarily grown either in the southern U.S., like Louisiana and Florida, where workers would have at least some rudimentary labor protection instead of African and South American countries whose people are treated like chattel slaves, or greenhouses.
I imagine a world like this, and the profits it could bear. And I say, yes, internets, let’s do this
I’m boycotting porn
That’s a good one
Is your username a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reference?
Ha! Nope. Or at least if it is, I don’t get the reference.
I first used “TootSweet” when I signed up for Mastodon (where posts were called “toots”, at least at the time – I think there have been moves to stop calling them “toots.”) Aside from that, it’s just a play on “tout suite” which means “immediately” in French.
There’s literally a song in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang about Toot Sweets, a new candy that was also a whistle
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Sony - When the ps3 came out it had the OtherOS feature that allowed users to install Linux. This was the main reason I bought a PS3 instead of other systems. From the beginning, it turned out that Sony crippled the OtherOS by restricting resources that were available to it.
After a few years, they removed the OtherOS feature, because someone hacked it, which could possibly lead to pirating ps3 games.
They sold me a PS3 based on a specific feature and then disabled that feature. I will never knowingly buy a Sony product again.
Wasnt there a class action lawsuit about that?
Probably piddly payouts per customer.
There was, I signed up for it and I never received anything. And then the disk drive on my PS3 went to pot and disabled the whole device. Sony can’t design hardware for shit.
Many things actually. I’m in the process of degoogling and ditching ms office. Ditched reddit. Ditched discord. I’m also ditching android apps and switching to FOSS versions if i can find them. And today i ditched Startpage. I just found this article about them: https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group/
I’m also trying to get rid of plastic and replacing plastic things if i can. So, no more plastic cutting boards, switched them for glass ones. Dental floss in a cardboard box. Things like that.
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True. I failed to mention i also have a wooden cutting board for my more expensive knives.
Everyone should, imho, have a plastic and a wooden cutting board.
Wood for non meats (basically plant stuff and breads), plastic for meats.
Plastic for meats because, like wood, it doesnt murder the knife edge, and can be put n the dish washer to be sanitized, and is cheap enough to throw away after it gets beaten up to the point that you cant clean all the nooks, crannies and gouges anymore.
You can cut meat on wood boards, but its much more difficult to clean them afterwards since you cant throw them in a dishwasher.
But, if you insist on a wood board, bamboo is a good choice since its more resistant than typical wood cutting boards.
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Better than glass.
Handwashing doesnt fully clean a wood cutting board after meat. After you hand wash it you gotta spray it down with a sanitizing agent like dilute bleach solution or a vinegar solution, let it sit for several minutes, and then wash it off.
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No need for a plastic board if you’re boycotting meat.
Right now I’ve completely given up candy and soda for about 3 years now. I hate the business practices of candy companies and how they target children and make their shit as addictive as possible. They use ultra vibrant packaging to get kids eyes to lock to the product and they know kids will beg for it until they get it and they put it on their eye level and on the sides of the checkout lines.
The entire candy thing is just scummy and I hate it so much. I personally see it as legal drugs for children.
