I still really miss SYNDICATE, one of the earliest PC games I became obsessed with. If that were suddenly updated and made available on Steam, I’d pay an absurd amount of money for it.

If she feels that alternate Peggy getting killed off was bad, how does she feel about Original Peggy, supposedly being a legendary spy but not noticing that Hydra had infiltrated SHIELD for decades. 

That summarizes it extremely well.

“My cameo appearance was less fulfilling than my starring role.”

When you pirate a game, for one, you’re assuming that whatever dump of the game you got was accurate. You’re trusting that whoever anonymously dumped it got a version that is accurate with no errors, let alone that they did not maliciously alter anything. There is no guarantee that a pirated copy of the game is…

It’s misleading because there are techniques that can mitigate the failures of digital media. Sure, one hard drive can fail. A regularly-monitored RAID of hard drives that also has multiple remote backups, though? It’d take several simultaneous meteor strikes to lose any of that data beyond the point of recovery.

People that regularly drive over the speed limit and roll through stop signs when nobody is around, when those things are about safety and not simply corrupt politicians purchased by corporations protecting said corporations from People: “BUT IT’S ILLEGAL!”

Same with my CDs from the mid 90s. We heard about them degrading but it seems like if you’re not an idiot with how they’re stored, they hold just fine.

Yep, this was common practice in the early TV days. Doctor Who is probably the most famous example, but there are so many lost shows.

Right like the whole “it hurts our bottom line” line has ALWAYS been bullshit. No it doesn’t especially when talking about classic or vintage video games, that are no longer sold by the IP holders in ANY form, and the only legal way to get/play them is to find a used copy and system to play them on, where ZERO of that…

I mean there’s a load of lost Doctor Who episodes from the 1960s and even early 70s..where the originals were wiped and the tape reused . VCRs werent really a thing back then (at least not in the UK, although some programmes were recovered from home tapes ) so a lot of them were recovered from tapes sent to other…

“Which Peter David probably stole from something else.”

Off the top of my head, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Time Machine, and Foundation all have examples of ancient remnants of civilizations living under newer ones.

That’s a pretty easy problem to solve. I’ve got an automatic local file backup every day and a remote backup every week for a few bucks a month.

This argument is decades out of date. Today it is possible to store and distribute virtually every single game ever made digitally. Games are no longer primarily physical media.

There are so many games that I would gladly pay for if I could, and if that money would go to the people who made it. Im not going to pay hundreds of dollars to someone on Amazon for a DS game. And its just really sad when the only options are doing that or getting the game illegally.

Yes yes yes. I am not sheepish in my support of piracy. I won’t go into every point defending it, but suffice it to say that it has never been proven that piracy harms the sale of legitimate media. As such, there is no possible argument against piracy aside from “it’s not right”. It is not theft. It is not…

And judging from the fact that of my literally hundreds of physical games, some dating back to the mid-1970s, and a good 95% of them play with no problem, that shelf life can last quite a while.

This reads like it’s supposed to be some kind of gotcha, but I can’t tell what kind of point you think you’re making or what you think it’s a counterpoint to.

Here’s to piracy. It’s really the only reason why video games from the 80s & 90s are still available to play. Want to play that arcade game you spent way too many quarters on back in the day? Piracy lets you do that. Want to play a beloved Atari or Sega Master System game? Piracy lets you do that. The companies that…

And a large part of silent movies were wiped out due to a 1937 vault fire. London After Midnight, a 1927 movie starring Lon Chaney is symbolic of the films that simply disappeared in that fire. Unless someone digs up a copy that miraculously survived the vagaries of time in some cold, dark location, pictures of stills…