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user-inactivated  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 2, 2015

Me in class last week:

MGSV comes out so I'm going to be here even less often come Thursday. I got the special edition with the prosthetic hand so I'm gonna freak my mom out with it and then put it on my desk and have it hold my PS4 controller or make a peace sign or a middle finger or some shit.

Current mood:





War  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've honestly fallen in love with TPP. My semester just began, but so help me god if it can stop me from playing that game...

user-inactivated  ·  3363 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I played 25ish hours of it last week. It's amazing.

caelum19  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can't wait to err... buy... that game for my PC, just gonna wait until the viruses have been weeded out from TPP. I feel bad pirating games, but most games I've pirated I definitely wouldn't have had without being able to pirate them, and I intend to pay for all of them eventually.

What's your stance on pirating?

user-inactivated  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you're in highschool: whatever

If you have a job: stop it

That's pretty much it. I haven't pirated a game since I got a job. I just don't see the need.

tehstone  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's a bit more complicated than that though, you have to balance convenience in as well. For example, I have Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu but there's still movies and shows that aren't available so I find other ways of getting them (and I don't mean dropping a ton of money buying them on DVD or BluRay). Same goes with music, I have a Spotify account but if I can't find what I'm looking for there I have other ways. Until the more ubiquitous paid options include everything, I'll keep using torrents.

user-inactivated  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There are special cases. I bought a physical copy of Mass Effect 3, came home, and promptly pirated it because fuck EA and fuck Origin but yay to the people who made Mass Effect.

Also I just buy albums physically now.

kleinbl00  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Games are different from music, though. There's a robust secondary market and there's steam.

tehstone  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah for games it's almost always Steam. The secondary market was great for a while but if everything is digital it's a bit more difficult.

WanderingEng  ·  3370 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This was my approach with music/movies/whatever. I have a job. I'll pay for things.