And what if I bought the game and the DRM has rendered it inoperable on my system?

If you want to convince me of something, show me the data.

Yup.

You’ve been on this site long enough to know the arguments against DRM Lozzle, only one of which is “I don’t want to pay.”

Pretty much, yes.

Where’s the unpopular opinion?

Context is a wonderful thing. They bring extra meaning to the preceeding and proceeding sentences, and in some cases can completely change the meaning altogether!

Quotes are wonderful things. They allow you to use a word euphemistically rather than literally, which can change the entire meaning of a sentence!

Great game, good explainer.

You’re making a legal argument in a discussion regarding ethics. It’s a debate that has been played out thousands, if not millions, of times in these kinds of online conversations, and I’m not interested in having it again.  It’s a tired debate.

This is the problem with taking IRL streaming outside the confines of your home. You are roping in innocent bystanders into a situation they may or may not want any part in. You are also amplifying your every action to an outrageous degree by putting yourself in public social situations, which are now not just…

And yet the consequences were largely disproportionate to his “crimes.” Getting doxxed for a crime that almost all of us have done at one point or another is ludicrous. And to say that he and his family getting doxxed was “his fault” is even more so.

They’ve been trying to crack down on these sites for years. It’s just a game of whack-a-mole. There will always be other sites that pop up to host the files, and the more they crack down the more likely it’ll be someone in the Philippines or South America outside of their legal reach.

Consoles (and cartridges for that matter) don’t last forever. Super Mario Bros is 30 years old, and the NES is slightly older. This is ancient by tech standards.

Yup.  Amazing how the classics still hold up to this day, huh?

Pretending everyone is equal is a poor strategy that only serves to aid the oppressors and further victimize the oppressed.

Doubling down on your racism is not a winning strategy here.

The fact that you are referring to Asian artists as “yellow” tells me everything I need to know about you.

Because historically black artists have been exploited and milled for their art whereas this is not the case for white artists?

In terms of whether or not the project would have ever been delivered there’s no way to know that, but given the multitude of different asset rip-offs I have a hard time believing this was the work of one or two rogue agents employed by the company.