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This is a glimpse at our future under Techno-Feudalism, by the way. Five companies own all the entertainment and charge you extortionate rates to rent it. Please enjoy these last few years of Steam allowing indie games to be published with $20.00 or lower prices - once Gabe Newell goes away, inide devs are going to get "Spotified" out of existence by whatever venture capitalist buys up Steam.

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[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

There are endless options for cheap or even free gaming entertainment. If you can't figure out how not to spend hundreds of dollars on games every month, then it really is just a skill issue.

[-] Fidels_Beard@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

This, I mean how hard is it to fire up L33Tx.to and download a FitGirl torrent?

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Most people don't bother with torrenting anymore, either because they're not tech savvy or they're bootlickers who consider it stealing. I don't understand it either, but that's the way it is these days. Also, there's only one weird transphobe out there cracking Denuvo games.

[-] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Which is funny because it’s faster and easier than ever

Downloaded the fitgirl repack for Silent Hill f yesterday, didn’t even have to use a torrent because they had another download option that was even faster. It took like half an hour, and worked with no fiddling.

[-] Edie@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

They've might also have been told by their parents that it's unsafe and it's how you get viruses.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

That was probably a lot more true back when downloading random .exe files on KaZaa or LimeWire was the thing to do.

I mainly downloaded rips that were divided into 20 different parts of a .rar file. Sure, they were always missing some features, but at least I got my games, dammit.

[-] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Or worries of being caught, and the safer alternative of paying for a VPN just to avoid paying for copyrighted creative works can feel a bit hypocritical and exploitative.

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