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Graphic designer in hiatus.

[John Romero 🤘🏽 @romero]

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.

[SciFi Art @retroscifiart]

Some of Steve R Dodd’s beautiful obelisk, pyramid, portal and monument art from 1970s to recent years.

[Texas Steve @TxSteve_Anims]

What if it was real.

[Vinícius Medeiros @VinciusMedeiro6]

I've uploaded a repack Colin McRae Rally, the first game in the series developed by Codemasters and released in 1998. Compatibility fixes have been applied with out-of-the-box modern controller support, just extract and play.

Download link bellow.

[Rogue 🔞 | Revelations hiatus(?) @Rogue245028]

"Please Slayer I need this, my world's kinda dying."

[Putra @Putra23jayaI]

ok this mod is fun. My eyes

[Weird NFS Content @WeirdNFS]

u/RetroSniper_YT via Re**it

[Chris Avellone @ChrisAvellone]

Fun podcast discussing literary influences on the Fallout universe, from Wasteland to Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas. : )

Link:https://t.co/lOLX6Euat2

[Breekio @CheekiBreekio]

'1.6' oil on canvas, circa 1890

[RohanKar @RohanKarMooN]

My repacks of Blackbox era Need for Speed games have been updated with the latest version of ThirteenAG's Widescreen Fix/Fusion Fix. No more editing keybinding via ini file and many more QoL changes. They're tested and verified for Steam Deck as well.
Download link below

[Screenshots taken in Steam Deck]

[Ilya S @Jellysoapy]

I think everyone just forgot that Driver 2 decompilation PC port exists.
So here is a kindly reminder😄

It has graphical and gameplay improvements, lots of bug fixes, even restores some cut content!

And you can even play it in your favourite Web-browser.
https://t.co/ScEAMxH7Os

[Media with 𝐃𝐎𝐎𝐌 Music @FittingDoomIMGs]

Doom edition

[DustinEden @DustinEdenYT]

Route 246 from Gran Turismo

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

That scream had me rolling

[TRexMorgan @TRexMorganLive]

Only OGs will get the reference