They denuvo the shit out of their games, so it’s actually pretty hard to pirate them nowadays.

Lemmy.world is about a year old. It definitely wasn’t two years ago.

Present day with 2005 desktop.

Which of course makes no sense - if you don’t have the money to buy it either way, pirating has no effect on revenue.

The only time I see piracy as unethical is if you would have paid for it otherwise and it’s a small creator who will actually notice the lesser revenue. This covers very, VERY few cases because the vast majority of the time if something is good enough to want to pirate it, it’s popular enough that more than enough people paid for it to adequately compensate the creator.

Basically, are you hurting the creator’s ability to make a living by pirating it? Giving them less money when they already have more than enough doesn’t qualify.

You wouldn’t download a Rick and Morty meme

It may be copyright infringement, but not stealing.

no

No, Denuvo was first used in Sept. 2014 and Fallout 4 came out Nov. 2015.

Not yet, just waiting for it.

“Smoking is bad, m’kay? You shouldn’t smoke. And alcohol…well, drinking alcohol is very bad, m’kay?”

Considering the “Explovid-23” virus we saw in the season teaser, you’ve got at least one more that is.

Worked for me.

Because the company with the servers in Finland is German.

Ruud, the main admin, is in the Netherlands, the server is in Finland.

It’s not useless - they’re not trying to keep you from coming here, they’re trying to avoid liability for themselves.

(more people in California voted for Trump than in almost every other state

Not almost, more did than any other state. More people in California also also voted for Biden than any other state!

you can’t really divide the country up geographically by left or right

Nope, it’s rural vs. urban.

I am Groot!