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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Excusing crazy people doing crazy things cause they give you free stuff is the shittiest take I've seen on lemmy

[–] imaqtpie 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everybody's crazy. It's 2023.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you really comparing "everyone" to empress?

[–] imaqtpie 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm just saying getting stuff from Empress is no worse than getting it from a corporation. She's going to be equally crazy whether you download her cracks or not, at least she's not exploiting child labor or destroying the environment in the process.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Corporations aren't going to fill their software with crypto mining malware and when exposed go torched earth trying to put the blame on their accusers.

[–] imaqtpie 0 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I'd rather take the unhinged rants and malware than the destruction of the planet and perversion of human society, thank you very much

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Do you download cracked games?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I mean it is not hard, you have only been there for 3 days 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But that's capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I personally believe that, since piracy is already illegal in the developed world, and since I live in a politically divided first world country, that we don't need to bring politics and stuff into this.

Besides, we don't have many better options when it comes to d€nuvo than to accept the people who crack games with modern variations of it. I especially don't since I'm not smart enough to crack it and also since I go for pre-cracked games for the convenience of not having to apply the cracks myself.