Change piracy with any other illegal activity and you’ll see how this argument makes no sense. All crime is inevitable, which is why we have a justice system.

If some people are never going to pay for something, they should move on too, no?

The “intent to purchase” argument is specifically a response to the claim by companies that they lose money and sales to piracy. A claim they use as justification for locking down platforms, implementing DRM, and other horseshit—in turn further necessitating the existence of modchips, custom firmwares, and hacks!—which…

Sorry, I was responding to your original comment about my ‘unjustified sense of entitlement’ to commit piracy. You know, before you edited it?

Oh hell no. But when you buy a console you should be able to run whatever homebrew software or alternate OS (Like Linux on the PS3) or out-of-region games you want. Which is what modchips are supposed to be for. That they enable piracy is a side effect of opening a machine up to do whatever the user wants. Human…

Yeah, but if you pirate it despite having been able to buy it...were you really ever going to buy it? 😏 Either way, no; it’s not the problem they make it out to be. Not in the slightest.

Let me get this straight... You think that feeling entitled to actually do what one wants with a piece of hardware they bought, is unjustified? Are you for fucking real?

Because when it comes down to it, piracy is about this: A person is either willing to buy a game or they’re not. If not, what’s it matter what they do after that? They weren’t going to buy it anyway. Unless they literally shoplift a physical copy of a game, not one single cent is ‘lost’. The entire concept of piracy…

But when you start profiting from “value adds” such as pirated ROM libraries, and selling paid custom firmware that allows access to those ROM libraries, that argument starts to fall apart.

I don’t know what to say here. I know we’ve made light of this whole thing because of the dude’s name, but it sure seems excessive that he’s losing three years of his life due to selling video game modchips.

Are you a student?

I get Amazon Prime for half price because I’m poor. ¯\_(シ)_/¯

Unless they use much higher resolution cameras and a hell of a lot of computing power to process the feed, inside-out tracking is by its nature very environment-dependent.

Ahh! Okay. So, I had some idea how the weapon condition worked. I knew there was a point where you couldn’t do anything about it yourself. I didn’t realize that the scrubbing and the cleaning rod processes represented two different condition levels. 😁 I’ve definitely watched people searching for that magical last…

I thought you could always restore a gun to like-new unless it’s completely busted? I know a lot of times I see an ItR streamer having trouble repairing something and it turns out they’ve missed scrubbing one awkward spot of the gun, or something goofy like that. 🤔 (The dev part of my brain wants to believe it’s a…

I always thought it’d be amazing if they released Ancient Stone Tablets in an ‘offline’ form with all the audio drama pre-recorded and a static backend, but also did a one-time or maybe even yearly live event. I mean, it’s not like Nintendo doesn’t have the resources...though that’s probably asking a bit much.

Yesss! The weapon maintenance in ItR rocks! I’ve watched people stream it, and I am 100% here for it. 😁 And I’ve always had an appreciation for survival games with that almost perverse level of granularity where you have to manage individual magazines and bullets. The only thing missing is a crafting system for…

Yeah, playing games with thumbsticks is still very much an “old dog, new tricks” problem with me. But there’s always drivers for emulating thumbstick loco with things like running in place with foot trackers, or arm-swinger loco...

Well the book ain’t exactly blockbuster material. 🤨 A ‘slog’ is pretty much the correct pace for taking in everything. The determining factor for whether it’s dull or delight is whether the content is your particular jam. This adaptation of Dune is very clearly intended to be pervert-grade material meant almost…

Fuckin’ A yeah. I don’t know a single person who thought anything less than a minimum of two feature-length films would do the book justice.