Truscape

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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

FDE? Maybe Coyote Brown depending on saturation/contrast?

Well there's a couple factors at play:

  • Some disgruntled people who are just frustrated with the current ecosystem of software/media gouging (Piracy of Nintendo and Sony ROMs are the first thing that come to mind, along with things like Adobe product cracks). Slogans would be things like "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing", and "It's always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games".
  • Places that ignore Western/International copyright law and don't seriously prosecute their citizens, who are then able to host databases where anyone can download/stream from, with income from ads and donations (Basically China/Russia, and some countries outside like Brazil)
  • Places where the price of purchasing legitimate media is just so insanely high (compared to average income) that having an online distribution network hosted no matter the risk would be the most accessible option (most notably Brazil with their high af import taxes, along with other LATAM nations). This is even seen in places that have no distribution officially period, such as Cuba's "paquete" (Literal HDDs and flash drives being smuggled with foreign data through informal networks)
  • "Software Cracker"/"Aaron Swartz" ideologists who believe information should be free and accessible to anyone, no matter what and who pride themselves on releasing protected media not out of financial gain or hatred for the publisher, but for online street cred and to "Democratize" information. This is most notable through shadow libraries like Anna's Archive.

There are probably other cases I have not mentioned, but these are the big ones.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Laughs in DDG and Wikipedia

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago

Well hey, that's why I report any I see to the moderators :D

(And unlike corporate platforms they'll actually parse it lol)

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Midnight Riders - All I want for Christmas is to kick your ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZc3z21YVU

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I wonder how economical it would be to do a homemade EV conversion once my car's engine is no longer feasible to maintain.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Knowing that maybe I brightened someone's day on the internet :)

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Damn. I usually got around that by having people send things to me to fix at my workbench, and then I mail them back.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Sometimes, I dream about cheese..."

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I plan on getting TF2ENGR on mine some day

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

I don't think the admins mind, so you can just leave the post here. For future reference, head to somewhere like the steam, steamdeck, or steamdeck piracy communities.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't think it really goes here, but here's my advice lol:

Unless you really need steam hardware (the steam deck is amazing for commuters, for example), you probably don't need to buy it. That being said, they are fun to use, so feel free if you'd like to.

You can also get some games that are difficult to play pirated during a steam sale (mainly live service games, I believe). Just wishlist and wait.

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