Not too far off from what actually happened to some people. Christ. The levels the authorities went to protect the pockets of all of those rich executives.

It has had its memories. But, whenever I’m asked if I had any fond memories from my childhood, I leap to teenager years and high school. Because they were infinitely better.

My middle school years was filled with tons of humiliation, tons of setbacks, tons of embarrassing moments and nothing about it I’ve ever looked back on and was proud about. I was so hateful of my middle school years, I shredded all of my report cards. Not that they’d mean anything, but they reflected upon things about myself then and where everything was at the time. Sure I was a kid who did kid things, but I wasn’t considered a normal kid and I didn’t get to live a normal kid life.

Department of Eduduhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Screw your rules

Elon Musk Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Two in One, counts as one) Sundar Pichai

We’re not in the 2000s where the RIAA/MPAA spent hour after hour, individually going after individuals whom they suspect is pirating.

They’ve changed up tactics all throughout the 2010s and into today. Where, they’re holding ISPs accountable and are targeting owners of services and pirating sites instead. They’ve actually got some victories under their belt through this, which is a damn shame, so it’s telling them that it is working. Not to mention we’ve had the misfortune of dealing with ACE, their little treehouse club and lots of copyright trolls that act as copycats who take it upon themselves to operate similarly as to how they did in the 2000s.

You have far greater risk being an owner, being the uploader and being the source of pirating than you are these days, just downloading it. Your ISP decides when they want to take action against whatever files you’ve downloaded.

As people have said, your best tools are with VPNs and figuring out which VPN has your back, most importantly. That’s what pirating has come down to and that is trust.

But blah blah, we get it, the feds will say copyright is a crime and blah blah. We got that decades ago, we just don’t care because consumer rights have been thoroughly fucked over which in turn, causes us to pirate. A lesson these idiots refuse to learn.

If anyone ever tried doing that to me, I would just ruin their video. I would be like “hey yeah, this guy is actually a pedophile” or something then just ruin it. I will not be someone’s object to make money from in that sense. Not unless I’m getting paid.

I would rather be doing a job I don’t like because I know I’m not going to fall in love with it enough to make it my life, than to turn something I’ve fallen in love in doing and making it a job I’ll eventually grow to hate because it is seen as a job.

I do shit on people who continue to buy this because it’s telling the companies that it is an acceptable practice for them to do.

…That you can do through emulation also.

What I’m not understanding, are the boot-lickers who’re praising the publishers for making these ROMs available on the market. Like, pirates are the ones who have been doing the archiving and preserving while video game companies kicked the can down the street for the longest time. And only recently are these compilations released, are some people going like “WOW! THEY ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT PRESERVING! IT MAKES MY DICK HARD NOW!”

Like dude? These ROMs have been available for a long ass time and they weren’t because of these video game companies you’re happily throwing money down to.

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I want you to try and create something. Just something. Be an artist.

The moment you try selling your work and that’s all that you’re trying to sell on the side to make money and make ends meet.

Then you’ll understand.

There had been a couple times where I’d be shopping and Wal-Mart’s alert system at the door couldn’t catch the smaller items. Like, they’re honest mistakes too, not intentional. I would make it out to my vehicle, getting the bags in, until I find one object that went by undetected. Thought about just playing it as a mistake and not paying for it.

Problem was, even if I did that, eventually I’d be confronted about it. I work for the company, they know me, they sure as hell probably seen me on camera throwing in that small object at somepoint and will use that. Just because the guy at the booth by the doors isn’t saying or doing anything or the store isn’t getting a hunch, doesn’t mean they aren’t thinking it.

Anytime this has happened though, I have walked back in and paid for that thing. But sometimes even when I know I scanned everything and paid for them, faulty alarms go off anyways so it’s like they’re bipolar.

Okay, thanks for an unneeded warning because nothing wrong has happened to me all this time. You keep sitting in that corner and being afraid with your little tinfoil hat on.

People are already manipulating historical figures in what they say, to make them aligned with whatever ideals and beliefs one has politically in modern times.

Once AI generation is advanced enough to actually manipulate video from historical periods, people are going to do that too. They’ll probably try making Hitler seem friendlier.

Whatever baffling bullshit scheme people have.

I have yet to ever have this happen to me. I’ve been pirating Windows OSes since Win2000 days.

This is only a risk if you don’t know what you’re getting into and do not take precautions. The best security for your PC and OS is common sense. Anti-virus and that junk just want your money to make you feel secure.

Politics:

• Democrats take back House, Republicans barely cling to Senate.
• Donald Trump dies at somepoint
• Republicans start seeing losses in other fields of political power, but rural counties will still place faith in them.
• Vladimir Putin starts considering nuclear weapons as a last resort to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
• China starts making moves to Taiwan

Celebrity Deaths:

• Rob Halford passes away
• Keith Richards passes away

Sports:

• Jacksonville Jaguars gets their first Super Bowl
• Oklahoma City Thunder are NBA Finals Champions
• Either Seattle Mariners or Toronto Blue Jays finally get the job done for a World Series

If you’re looking for support, that’s breaking Rule 3.

And no, it’s not for “no reason”

This is not Reddit. This is not AITA which Reddit used to be plagued by and people over there treated every subreddit as. This question offers nothing open-ended. This user is just looking for validation and therefore breaks Rule 3.

Cry me a river. Rules exist for a reason. Learn to read or shove off.

I pirate because my money is more important to be spent on necessities. A video game isn’t going to pay my bills. A music track isn’t going to pay my car payment. A book isn’t going to pay my groceries.

Entertainment to me is just a luxury. Not everything I’ve gotten was pirated, if but spent sparingly when sales and deals come around. But if me wanting something such as a game is going to come between that and me needing food for another week or two. The food is going to win out and that game is going to be pirated.

I don’t have all of the time in the world either to keep waiting, waiting, and waiting for deals to be low enough for me to afford whatever it is.

First off, this is not Reddit, so stop trying to turn it into one with these kinds of posts.

Secondly, I reported your post for violating Rule 3 which seems to be the norm I guess. Because you’re looking for support.

Next time know where you are and read the rules.

Not really. I like fireworks. The only problem is, people firing them off in places where they would otherwise get penalized for. Like we’re not allowed to have fireworks/sparklers of any kind on the apartment premises. Yet that didn’t seem to stop a few idiots who fire them off thinking they’re living in homes and the cars that could get hit or be set on fire should things go wrong, exist.