OP, modified to add piracy section
DDS stands for digital distribution services
I pirate AAA, I buy indie.
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That garbage is rarely even worth pirating anymore.
Hey, at least the indie games are still good and cheap.
LOL. Yeah it's really more like:
I read gaming critics shit on AAA, I buy indie.
Oh my god.. What have we come to
I've come to a point where I don't even pirate AAA, just buy indie or anything made by Fromsoft and any team that still presents any semblance of passion for their work.
Some AAA games are worth buying. Some indie games are pure garbage. It's a mixed bag. I rarely pirate and most of the time its because shitty DRM or to try expensive game before buying.
I'm generally pretty much in agreement with the idea that online services are crap because you don't really own the things you buy, but honestly I've been buying physical media since the 80s and pirating since the 90s, and the oldest games I currently have easy access to are ones I bought on Steam. I'm not a collector or an archivist or anything. Those just aren't hobbies that interest me, and I move a lot, and don't always take care of my stuff, and freely lend things to unreliable friends, and frequently wipe my drives to try out new Linux distros, so at this point even if Valve probably won't be around forever I still expect my Steam games to last longer than anything else I could get. Steam is really the only reason I ever buy games at all anymore.
I used to almost exclusively pirate because I couldn't afford much of anything. Steam has actually enabled me to purchase most of the games I use since I can wait till they're on special and cheap. There's also a huge amount of indie games that would never have seen the light of day if they could only release on physical media or through their own website or whatever.
no Steam isn't perfect, I would like Valve to take less of a cut but in terms of making games more accessible, I think they've done a decent job.
No shade on my fellow pirates who still exclusively pirate and don't want to feed the corporate beast.
A lot of newer games are also big enough that backing them up reliably actually is a meaningful burden. My Steam library is like 900 games. Even though a lot of them are 500MB, a lot of them aren't.
I can't store that shit.
You can move your home directory to a different drive so that you don't lose everything when you switch distros.
Yeah, I know, but I like starting with fresh dotfiles. It gets rid of all the weird settings changes I've made and makes the install really feel clean and fresh. I do have important stuff backed up. I'm just overly aggressive about removing unimportant stuff.
I'm actually about to do this this weekend. I use Arch on my laptop and Pop on my gaming desktop. I'm going to switch my gaming desktop over to Arch. The only thing I'm going to keep is my docs folder. Everything else is getting nuked.
When I set up mine, I created a separate /data mount point and drive for anything that I expect to keep between distros. The problem with keeping the home directory is that means all your personalized config files which may or may not apply to a new distro you switch to. I keep configs I want to keep in a git repo (like my i3 configs and scripts that I absolutely wouldn't want to redo from scratch), data I want to keep in /data, and everything else can pretty much be wiped for a new distro on a whim without too much hassle.
That's a great idea to use GitHub! I'm going to do that too.
I feel like Steam to GOG would be a better example of owning what you buy, with GOG games being DRM free.
How to convert me to Linux from Windows? Spez. He started it all
Piracy is supposed to be a way for everyone to have access to culture, not a way to never pay for what you play, watch & support the creators lmao
But support the developers if you can.
Devs: please just buy our game, we can't afford to self release so we chose one of these DDSes.
Pirate: *pirates game
Pirate: Ya got a Patreon? No? Oops.
I pirate relentlessly, this is tongue-in-cheek, just to try to dissuade snarky responses, I know where I am.
Linux users always so desperate to get windows users to switch over.
Until the user experience is not "spend hours on forums to find hacky fixes for things that just work on windows" its gonna be a tough sell.
I switched over to Linux about a year ago and personally do not care if you do. But I do agree that some seemingly simple stuff on Linux can be fucking annoying. And that would be fine if you could post on forums without at the very least one douche nozzle implying that you are an idiot.
Yeah, my big issue is the most common suggestion anytime i have an issue is to switch distros instead of an actual solution.
Until the user experience is not "spend hours on forums to find hacky fixes for things that just work on Linux" it's gonna be a tough sell.
Why I personally can't go back to Windows.
I was going to say... being a semi-power-user of Windows, I have to find a LOT of very jank solutions to obscure problems.
I'd say majority of windows users are not power users.
I understand that the threads about the dumb shit microsoft is doing (ads, ai, etc.) are primarily just for venting frustrations; however, I just want to help. People complain about a problem, I know a good solution. Obviously I'm going to tell people about it but in the end it doesn't really matter to me if you switch or not.
1 doesnt make sense for linux or piracy. neither of which involve "buying", but simply downloading.
Some Linux distros needs to be purchased. But that piracy forum should obviously be replaced with gog.com if we're talking about buying stuff
What's the last thing?
Big(gest?) piracy forum
Mostly steam stuff, each game has its specific forum post with info on who cracked the latest versions of a game and whatnot, links to download methods and there's also plenty of piracy related projects (like creamapi, goldberg, etc)
I'm not sure if you're familiar with fitgirl-repacks, but most of her repack pages actually points to the cs.rin website for game updates
I own every d&d item I've ever purchased. But I never buy their digital crap. OG books & dice for me, man.
If you're playing homebrew adventures, I'd say Pathfinder 2E Remastered is superior in every way nowadays.
Eh pathfinder 2e is definetaly better than D&D but 1e is honestly really harsh in terms of character builds.
Yeah but 2e is the newer one, and is default now. Assuming 1e is like assuming 4e for DND, it just doesn't make that much sense.
If the chart was gonna include 1e, it would need to say so explicitly.
Also, I know it's subtle, but they did use the 2e logo in the original post.
1e core rule book
2e core rule book
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Arguably a big part of piracy is about digital distribution services (DDS). Just not the ones the digital rights owner had in mind.
Riiiiiight, Linux community is friendlier. I wouldn't really call them that, though some aspects are. My problem still with the entirety of the Linux community that will always put me off about Linux and rather tolerate Windows more is the elitism. I have used Linux OSes before, I have my fair share of favorites and I see Linux as a go-to whenever I pick up computers too old to bother with Windows 10 and 11 and I just simply want a bare basics machine.
But I cannot in full faith, use Linux as my primary OS. I've tried. I can't do it. There are simply things on Windows that I need and want to use that'll simply just run and that's what I want the most is for things to just run. It isn't because I'm too dumb to use a Linux OS. It's because I don't have the patience or time to be weeding through forum posts, deciphering depositories and repositories, figuring out what obscure and vague message the terminal sends me and spending time on Google.
Besides this whole chart doesn't make a load of sense. Like the whole "you'll own what you buy"? What does that have to do with D&D and Pathfinder? I don't get it.
It's almost incredible that everything listed as tick in Linux is wrong.