@nova_fire7@Sans_Bonefire@pmamtraveller Yes, you buy food so you dont need to farm or hunt.
You do not care for art, because you lack discipline and will. You can't name a single artist you like. You refuse to learn and improve. That's why you steal.
AI cannot make art.
Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. I have appreciated the recent discussions. I do not agree with your framing.
Regarding piracy, DOOM is a complicated example because shareware was the model. DOOM’s first episode was designed to be freely copied, passed around, uploaded, installed, and played. That enormous unpaid audience was not the same thing as piracy. It was part of how DOOM reached the world.
By the mid-90s, DOOM had something like 20 million shareware installs and more than 2 million paid copies sold. Those 20 million people were not “pirates” by default. A huge number of them were playing the free episode exactly as intended.
That doesn’t excuse people pirating the registered game. However, it’s important not to collapse legal shareware distribution, unpaid reach, and actual piracy into one number.
I also don’t think piracy is what “gutted” id - id is still around and still making games. Piracy may have cost money, but it wasn’t the reason Quake was hard or why people eventually went different ways.
So yes: pay developers. Buy the games you love. Support the people who make them.
But history is messier than “pirates killed the companies.” Sometimes the same free distribution that looked like lost sales was also the thing that made the game impossible to ignore.
installed an "ultra realistic ragdoll" mod for rdr2 not expecting anything because they typically over exaggerate every motion but then i shot a guy in the face and he turned off and dropped like a sack of potatoes in a way ive only seen in live leak videos
So i found out my husband has been telling his coworkers that he's lactose intolerant. He's not. He just doesn't want to participate in the office ice cream socials because he thinks they're "forced fun." Been doing this for THREE YEARS. His company just spent $4,000 installing a dedicated dairy-free freezer in the break room. There's a ribbon cutting ceremony next week. The CEO is coming. They're naming it after my husband. "Dave's Inclusive Freezer Initiative" is going to be used as a case study in their diversity training. My husband is spiraling. He's in too deep. I told him to come clean. He's considering just becoming actually lactose intolerant through sheer force of will.
Fatima, a beloved teacher in Luxembourg, was fired for speaking out against the kiIIing of children in Gaza.
Her students and their families organized a peaceful demonstration demanding justice and her immediate return to the classroom. ✊