Please, monkeys.

How about, "cut ties any time you want, but don't send out a self-fellating press release when you do it."

Who photoshoped Trump's face and hair onto the thermometer, though?

No one here (Dallas) wants him except Jerry. Even the Aggies are tired of his bullshit.

People don’t need video games. That’s ridiculous. Luxuries are not needs. The fact that they are not needs is what defines them as luxuries.

Yeah, it's just you.

They’ll never understand they’re the bad guys. That shouldn’t even be the goal. The goal should be to roundly ignore them.

Bullshit. Video games are not a need. They are a luxury item. If you can’t afford them, too bad. That doesn’t entitle you to steal them.

I mean, yeah....it's an ugly shoe. But as ugly shoes go, I've seen way uglier.

The asshole part comes part and parcel with the thieving part.

Sounds like a bunch of horsehockey to me.

Yes. Are you sure you're not an idiot?

Yes and no. If I’m excited to play a game and want it on day one but just by chance a pirated copy shows up on launch day or even prior then I’ll pirate it and they lose a sale.

No one is saying, “I was going to buy it but it’s free on Kickass so I think I’ll shop there”

If the price is too high, don't play the games. You're not stealing a necessity here. Games are a luxury item. You're not entitled to them.

So you just come here to yell into the echo chamber? To hear the sound of your keyboard clicking? To toss random opinions into the void?

No, I’m looking to compare two opinions to see which comes across as the more logical one. I’ve given you an opportunity to support your opinion in the hopes that I might learn something that could inform my own. That’s how intelligent discussions are supposed to work.

Did I say that? What does that have to do with what I actually said? Also, how does my anecdotal experience work as evidence for the greater population of pirates, especially when I myself am not one of them?

Well, it does, from an objective common sense perspective. The only people who pirate a game are people who are interested in the game. Lacking a piracy option, it makes sense that such an interest would translate to sales for at least a significant portion of those people.

No. So I guess neither of us have any evidence. Lacking evidence, my own opinion still seems to make more sense, though. If they show enough interest to pirate, surely some of those people would have had enough interest to buy it if piracy wasn't an option.